Hey guys how's everyone doing? Sorry it's been a bit since my last email!! So quick updates I'm still in a Portuguese area but I'm training my third missionary!! It's super hype. His name is Elder C and we are just starting out second transfer together! He's going to Mozambique Africa speaking Portuguese so I get to help him out with that!!
The area is literally so fun and we are popping off in the work. As a zone we found about 550 people this past transfer with 18 missionaries in our zone. We were averaging about 10 new people a week so it's been hyyype and super busy here. It's been a complete blast.
It's kind of crazy how fast the mission has gone! It feels like it was a month ago I got back in the mission and about a week ago I got here. It hasn't been since I'm on my 4th transfer here. We've got some dope stuff coming up including zone conference around Thanksgiving and a Christmas conference where our zone will be singing!! Oh fun fact my zone only has Elders in it so it's gonna be a dope Elders only musical number.
With transfers hitting tomorrow, our zone is staying almost exactly the same except three companionship are training and we lost 2 elders. But all in all we are gonna have 5 trainees in the zone which is super hype. Basically we bouta pop off. I'm still district leader so it's been super fun to get so close as a district and I'm happy we get to pretty much stay exactly the same.
Guys the mission is the best. I'm so grateful for the time I've gotten. It's weird thinking about how close I am to finishing because I've seen how fast 3 months goes but I'm so grateful for the opportunity I get to serve here.
So some of the dopest things that have been happening is we are teaching our friend N. She is literally soooo amazing. She is easily the most golden investigator I've taught and she is so willing to place God over everything. Her faith is super inspiring. She wants to get baptized sooo badly. We are working on getting her married and she is super dedicated to be marrying on the day her fiance agrees to it. She also really wants her two sons to get baptized so we are working on that as soon as they get here from Brazil!
We also found a family this week which was super awesome. We dropped off a Book of Mormon and then they came to church! The 11 year old son ended up having a friend from School and the 10 year old daughter ended up loving it!! It was super awesome!
I want to end with my testimony! Something I've definitely learned since being on a mission is how incredibly true the church is. Living the gospel is how you come to know the church is true. If you have doubts, try it, and I promise you'll come to know the principals are true. Something an elder shared with me, is that in most churches as education increases attendance to that church decreases. Whereas in our church the more educated someone gets, the more active they become. I think that's such a cool little thing that's strengthened my testimony. And the thing is there are so many little things that really show "by small and simple things, great things come to pass"
Love y'all and hope you are doing great.
-Elder Pettingill
-The temple!
-My mission child and grandchildren
-Halloween courtesy of my mom
-A's baptism!!!
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