Hey guys it's been awhile so let me give you a rundown. Corona hit, really messed everything, I came home, didn't do much for 10 weeks, was reassigned to serve in the Orlando, Florida mission until Brazil opens back up and then I might be able to go back but since Brazil is even more messed up because of Corona that could be a while.
So I'm here in Florida in a trio although most of the time it feels like we are actually in a group of 7 because our zone leaders and district leaders spend a lot of time in our house. I don't mind I love them all so much already. My 2 companions are Elder D, who we all call gramps because he's 27, and Elder M who's from Texas and has nice way a sayin y'all that gets me every time. All three of us served in Brazil before all this and we have the honor of being over all Portuguese investigators in our zone so it's super fun to speak in Portuguese together.
Thing is though there isn't a whole lot to do. We spend most of our time searching for people by either going through our records of who the missionaries have taught in the past to see if they would like to meet with us over zoom, trying to meet with members and get to know them, or playing games. And let me tell you we play a lot of games because those first 2 don't take a lot of time before you run out. So we've mainly played, if y'all know them: Hearts the card game, Munchkins (this game gets crazy) and Villainous (imagine Descendants but you're not the children and you're not good so maybe not actually like that all) but we've been having a good time. Luckily we also get 2 hours of sports everyday as well so Elder D and I crushed Spikeball for the first few days until everyone was sick of losing and we played some basketball and some tennis.
Now I know y'all are probably thinking you missionaries do nothing and you're almost correct but not completely. We did find two awesome people to teach, 1 Brazilian lady whose phone died in the middle of a lesson, and another lady who was super excited to start talking with us again. And we have had some awesome lessons with members this week, so yes we don't do much but the stuff we do is darn good quality.
One scripture I love from this week's Come, Follow Me is in Alma 10: 6-12. These verses talk about Amulek, who was a very well known man in the city, and his story. I love his courage and I especially love in verse 12 where it was his testimony that really helped the people understand and believe. Because the wonderful thing is when two people testify of the same story it makes it a lot harder to disbelieve so I challenge all of you to read that little bit if you haven't and share what you believe with someone else. You never know how you might affect someone. Don't be called many times and still not listen because you might change someone's life.
I love all of you guys and I pray for you
-Elder Pettingill
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