Elder Z Kye Bradshaw Mission 2021-2023

  Hello friends and family this week was a good week! We worked a lot, like a lot, and it was awesome! I'll give just a quick rundown today! PDAY  Last pday was zone pday and we made tacos with the zone. It was fun and I learned how to make tortillas so when I get home I'll have a new trick up my sleeve hehe. We also got to play some fun games like scum and skull King. HARD AT WORK This week we had the opportunity to find and teach some amazing new people. We found Edson through a media referral and he is reading the book of Mórmon a lot, so please pray for him. We found Hildebrando through his mom who stopped us on the street, and he is super shy but is willing to come unto christ. Please pray for them all. BATISMO Not ours, but the other companionship in our branch baptized a man names Sergio, he's really awesome, we are excited to have him in our branch! ZONECONF We also had zone conference this week with President and sister Dutson! It was really good about diligence. W...

 Bom dia friends and family I hope that everyone is doing well! This week was a pretty dang good one, and as each week winds down, we're doing our best to grind every day! I don't have a ton of stuff to wrote about this week, but I'll give a few highlights!! MEMBERS This week we have tried to work a lot more with the members of our branch to help them to bring friends and family to church! We worked with a couple who recently moved in, a few less active families, and a couple really active families also! It's been awesome to get to know them and work with them! Really the members here in Brazil are awesome and I will miss them a lot. This week we also had a trade of branch presidents! It was a great meeting and I'm sure that the new branch president will help us a ton in the work! TIKTOK As part of this working with members, one member from our branch works editing videos. Last Sunday they came up to us with the idea to make a social media page of the branch, where ...

  Hello friends and family, hope you're all doing well! Sorry. about not getting an e-mail out last week, but these last weeks I'll probably send out a little bit less just cause I've got less time and I want to make the most of every moment! But know that I still love you guys a lot hehe. Anyways let's go ahead and get into the week! This week we had a lot of fun and a lot of success in the work! CHURCH! These last weeks we have had a big emphasis on helping people have the experience of coming to church and being welcomed, and it has made a huge difference. Really is true that when we go to church we Learn a lot and we have the amazing opportunity to become one with the saints. EXCHANGE! This week I had an exchange with the amazing Elder Swain from Washington State! He is truly one of the best missionaries that I know, he is super focused and very guided by the spirit. I learned a lot with him and together we taught, walked, laughed, ministered, and really we had a gr...

  Hello friends and family happy Monday! I hope you're all doing super well. Sorry about not getting an email out last week, but I'll try to recapitulate what I missed. Also a fair warning that the emails might be a bit shorter than they have been but I promise to send a monster when I get home. These last two weeks have been full of miracles and some good times, so ima just give a lightning round! LIGHTNING ROUND We had 2 of the best lunches of my mission last week. The first was a churrasco with some members from the south that was delicious. The second was humongous beef filets with mashed potatoes. It was amazing I'm staying here in saquarema for my last transfer with my comp Elder Donato, we're excited to keep pushing it We got a new housemate, Elder Lima, and he's freaking cool, he's 26 and served in the armed forces for 8 years.  We did a monster hike this pday of about 10 miles round trip. We have been working a ton! We found lots of people who are inter...

  Hey yall! Happy Monday all yall. This week I've got just a few minutes cause we've got pday with President and we don't want to be late! It's been a great week and basically everything has been improving a lot! We found lots of new people to teach, some great new families who are all progressing a lot! It's been a great experience just seeing the blessings of missionary work pouring into our lives! Some of the best experiences have been with families. This transfer we have focused a lot on finding and teaching whole families that can progress to the ultimate goal of a temple sealing and an eternal family. We have found so many who are interested especially a family of Guilherme and the family of Sidiney, we are so excited to work with them and we ask your prayers for each of them! Anyways, hope yall have a good week! The spiritual thought this week is simple! I want you all to think of what blessings have come into your life because of your eternal family? I have ...

  Hello friends and family how are you all doing? This week was a quick one and I don't have too much to write but I just wanted to shoot out a quick email! The title this week is due to a person we were teaching about the word of wisdom and they became convinced that alcohol and coffee were OK with the word of wisdom and that Soda wasn't. I tried to tell her that it was actually a commandment of faith and that as we exercise our faith keeping the word of wisdom we are blessed, but she wasn't having any of it haha. I think we have now started her on a life long anti-soda campaign, cause almost every day she posts stuff about how bad soda is for you. But what can you do... Other cool things that happened this week were a zone council in Cabo Frio, a light flood in the chapel, and lots of walking. It was a good week and we managed to help reactivate some YSA in our ward too which was fun. Other than that, today were going to my old area Maricà to do some hikes! I'm excite...