Nov 19, 2022: Bright and early

 Whats up yall, you got an early one coming at ya from RJ Brazil! This morning we're headed to the temple so we got up at 4AM to get a ride with the bishop, so good stuff! This week was a long one but a good one!


LESSONS
This week we had the great opportunity to have lots of lessons and to grow our teaching pool, its been very good for us and we have some people progressing to baptism, and we are excited to keep working with all of these people! We're hoping that we continue to teach all these people and that we can find more and more elects of the Lord each day! 

EXCHANGE
This week we had exchanges, I stayed in Niterói with Elder Peterson, our ZL. It was pretty fun, we did a loooooooot of walking haha. Like 20 kilometers, but it was actually really good cause we found some cool people. Also we walked up a ton of hills haha. The day after we were both really sore. 

SUNDAY
This Sunday was pretty dang lit cause we had church and then we also had the group that we are taking care of and it was super fun. We got to talk to and help strengthen our bonds with loooots of members, which we can already see is paying off in our work! Also we got to have some churrasco for lunch which is always good! We're hoping to see some.good improvement in our group before we head out! 

SPIRITUAL THOUGHT
This week it struck me a bit how important the sacrament is. The church is always making it possible that everyone who has desire can partake of the sacrament and renew their covenants every week. It is so important that we pass the time necessary to take the sacrament and remember the Lords sacrifice for each of us!

Love you all have a great week!
Elder Bradshaw

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