Photo: Hudson Shaye Scott (Elder Hauck's new nephew.)
Dia de
gratidão
What a studly addition to the family!
Hudson Shaye Scott will be such a beast out on the football and mission field
here in a few years! :) Ha-ha....I am so grateful for Heavenly Father blessing
us with another angel from heaven. Amanda and Shaye you deserve the best
blessings because of your love, worthiness, and obedience to the Lord…add
others.
So...here in Brazil they don´t have
Thanksgiving so unfortunately it will be a normal Thursday for us. Also, with
me being the only American I don’t think I well have much of a celebration at
home either. Maybe I will make a little turkey and mashed potatoes! ; )
This week was a pretty crazy week! A
new chapel was dedicated and we got to help out throughout the week. We passed
out hundreds of invitations, gave tours of the chapel, and posted up in a busy
road with big picture frames on stands and talked with a bunch of people. It
was very hot and I got fried with there being no shade where we put up the
picture stands. But blessings! :) Ha-ha!
Another crazy thing and a blessing is
that I don’t work in the area were the new chapel was opened because 2 of the 3
days we were there 2 people were murdered in the near by neighborhood...one was
a knife fight and another was a 12 gauge in the stomach.
So on a better note...or a more
spiritual note. Monday we had a lesson with Tiago and Patricia and we taught
the law of chastity and eternal marriage to them. The spirit was so strong and
they are progressing awesomely! We are even starting to organize some wedding
plans in the chapel. Pray for them that everything will go well! They truly are
a family very special!
Another awesome experience was with
Rute and Gabriel. So Rute is Gabriel’s Mom and they live alone and have been
investigating the church for a good 4 months now. We went there Saturday night
and had a great lesson with them. We asked them how they felt about the church,
the things we have taught and about baptism and Rute replied like this, “Alright,
I will be honest with you guys.... (At this moment hearts stopped beating and
wind left our lungs)... I don’t have any doubts about the church. I want to be
baptized!”
Woohoooo!! The spirit testified to
all four of us and Gabriel said, “I think baptism is cool!” Ha-ha...So we
marked the 6th of December for their baptism! :) Looks like Christmas arrived
early here in Brazil!
With it being Thanksgiving week I
want to talk about the many things that I am grateful for! So here is a list
with no specific order! :)
-My Heavenly Father
-My Savior, Jesus Christ, His plan
and His Gospel
-The Atonement
-My Mom
-My Dad
-My brother and sisters
-My whole awesome family
-The Book of Mormon
-My mission and the people I have met
-The true and living church of Jesus
Christ (the restoration)
- Opportunities to learn and grow
-My friends
-Food and sleeping
-Comfortable shoes
-The US and the English language…Ha-ha!
-Sports
-Rain when it is super hot here in Brazil
-Churrasco
Well there are some things! :)
Mom, I want to tell you how much I
love you and how thankful I am for you! Also, thanks for the pretty pictures! :)
Dad, I am thankful for you too man! Ha-ha…just playing! I love you! I didn’t
know that Brother Reber served here in my mission!! Great to hear about Dixie High
taking state but sad to hear about University of Utah’s loss.
Have a great Thanksgiving! :)
Love,
Elder Hauck
