Sept 4, 2021: Questions about the Visa Process... Week 2 at the CTM!

 Olá amigos e amigas! The days are long but the weeks are short! I can say that with certainty now, cause I am 1/3 of the way done with the home MTC and it has shot by like a rocket! Each day is a whirlwind of emotions, spiritual moments, and Portuguese words at this point and I am having a great time through all of it. 


Português (Part 2)

Guys, I have come to realize that Portuguese is just the best language in the world. Each day we are learning more and more in Portuguese. The more I learn, the more I want to keep learning and learning until I know it all. Buuuut then I blasted back to reality and realize I still have a long way to go. But that is ok because I know that with the Lord's help, I will get there!!! It is a hard process, but it is a good one for me.

Ombro Deslocado??

For anyone who bothered to plug that into google translate, yep that just happened!! On Thursday evening I was playing baseball with my little brother and I managed to dislocate my shoulder while playing! Fortunately it popped right back in, but it still hurt pretty bad. 😂 All of Friday I alternated between icing and keeping it up in a sling to use it as little as possible, but this morning a miracle happened. I woke up this morning and all the pain in my shoulder was gone. It still feels a little stiff, but I know that it was a miracle that helped it heal so quickly.

Quarta-feira

Wednesday was a crazy day relating to my future on a mission! As you guys may have noticed, I have been naming my emails after other emails I have received that week, and this week on Tuesday it really kicked into gear. Tuesday I got an important email from the Salt Lake travel office telling me that I was cleared to finish my visa and send it to Salt Lake for processing. So hopefully they can send it on to the Brazil Consulate in Los Angeles soon! Everyone pray for the consulate to fully open soon so that the visas can be processed as quickly as possible! But in the meantime... ALSO on Wednesday I got a call from my stake president, President Bird. He told me that I had received a reassignment from a member of the quorum of the 12 apostles! I am temporarily reassigned to serve in the Manchester, New Hampshire Mission!!! I am beyond excited to serve in New England, and teach of Christ. (I am not however excited for some of the coldest weather in the US. 😂) 

Well that's pretty much it for me this week! I love you all so much and I want you all to know that I love Jesus Christ!! He is my Savior and Redeemer, and I know of a surety that he atoned for me and died for me, and for you too. We are never alone because Christ knows everything!!

Love you all!
Elder Bradshaw

PICTURES!

1) One of the Elders in my district had a birthday this week, and we all decided to celebrate with zoom backgrounds. 😂

2) My District's Reassignments!!

3) Top 15 Coldest states in the US. Background for this picture: My reassigned mission covers all of Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont, a tiny bit of New York, and most of Massachusetts. All 5 are in this top 15 coldest states list. ❄⛄

4) My reassigned and original assignment missions!

5) P-day last week with my family :)

6) District council with the at-home-mtc elders and sister in my stake!!

7) Another nightly tradition for the mtc. Along with cribbage with my mom, this has become another thing I love to do to unwind at night, playing washers with my dad. :)

8) Destroying Isaac in Basketball.😈

240867179_166837175486549_7760671085743005500_n.png
map-of-united-states.jpg
Screen Shot 2021-09-02 at 8.11.38 AM.jpg
Ne Hamp.jpgRio.jpgIMG_3316.jpgIMG_3485.jpgIMG_3334.jpgIMG_3361.jpg

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Jun 26, 2023: The final stand

Image
  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...
Read more

May 8, 2023: Week of exchanges

Image
  Hello my friends! How're you all doing??? Hope you're week cause I'm doing great here in Barreto, RJ! This week we had some great times and saw some awesome miracles that I want to talk about! So let's just get right into the email and talk! PDAY On the Mish whenever I can I like to do hikes for pday. 10/10 would recommend it has been awesome! Thus week we did one called pedra do elefante! And it was super awesome yall should take the time to do it EXCHANGE #1 My first exchange was with Elder Brito we spent 2 days getting on the grind together and it was fun! We found a ton of people, taught some great lessons and taught English class too! The most memorable moment was when we gave a lesson to a group of people about keeping the sabbath day holy! We had one friend of ours leave the room saying under his breath "this has to be the true church there's no other option" and it was really really cool. EXCHANGE #2 I also got to spend a day with one of my best ...
Read more

Apr 24, 2023: Scavenger Hunt 2.0

 So there's a list of names and addresses of members in our ward. But this list is at least 5-10 years old. Our bishop was a bit worried about this, so we offered to help a little bit! And let's just say it's been probably the biggest scavenger Hunt of my life hahahaha.  With a little map and a ton of effort we've been able to find and teach many many inactive members. It has been really awesome not going to lie. We have lots and lots of desire to help these people return to activity in the church and help them continue along the covenant path! Anyway let's highlight some of the best moments! EXCHANGESSS This week I has the opportunity to stay with a brand new missionary Elder de Jesus! It was way fun haha. We actually got our phone stolen on that day too so that was an interesting story, but after that we just went out with paper and pencil and went finding. I helped him learn some new ways to contact and teach and it was a blast! We also went to see a family who h...
Read more