Grayson and Mom on a Mission

yo yo yo momma!!! well im not gonna lie to you i became really really happy. So i ended up sending sally a short email last week and i just saw what she responded to me. It made me pretty happy. If youd like you can go read the emails. Im still gonna not talk to her until i think Christmas at least. Theres just no point right now ive still got almost a year. But at Christmas ill feel a little closer and maybe like we can talk about some things.  WOW ELDER BALLARD AND ELDER SOARES WERE SOOO GOOD. And holy crap i forgot to take pics of my notes. During my study time this morning I translated all my notes into english for you but then forgot to take pics. ughhh...But I can tell you a little about it. So I thought maybe the coolest thing of the whole day was when Elder Soares first walked into the room. Mom I felt the spirit so strongly. It was crazy. He literally said nothing but just the presence of him in the room was a testimony to me that he was sent from God to be an apostle ...

Hi Elder G!!!!  How is my son???  I'm so excited to hear about your conference with Elders Ballard and Soares.  Tell me all about it! What did they talk about?  I hope you took good notes and can send me pics of them:) Did you see anyone you knew from the other mission?  How did your week go?  Who are you teaching now? How are things with your comp? I hope they are going well. I had a really great week in Utah at Education Week!  Wow! I came home so on fire.  It's like EFY for grown ups.  I really learned so much.  Of course I listened to several classes that were about Joseph Smith and the D&C because that is what I'm teaching this year in seminary and I learned so much.  I also went to several classes about revelation and how to gain more access to it.  It was so good.  I wish I could just sit down and tell you all about it.  Here is one of my favorite thoughts from the week: "The Lord works from the...

yoyo momma! so this week was honestly really really good. the highlights are that we baptized AMANDA (!!!!), I got to go back and do splits in Freguesia and see how some old friends are doing, and today we finally climbed Pico de Jaraguá and it was soooo dope. We got to feed WILD MONKEYS MOM! it was like a dream come true. lol ive got tons of videos and pics. Im sure education week will be awesome. im not completely sure what it entails but it seems cool and like you will learnd a lot. But yeah that sucks about your team teacher. Now youll have an excuse to put a little more of the load on her later in the year. lol. That is a huge class. hopefully they will be obedient and easy to keep under control. Thats fun about noelles ward! Who all will you do education week with?? with ama and noelle?? WHAT?!?!!? im so sad that i wont be with parker. That sucks, i cant believe that there will now be 6 wards from that original prosper ward. holy moly. so im a little confused. they alread...

Hi my sweet son!! How is my favorite Zone Leader???  I am in Utah! I arrived yesterday. I came out to go to Education Week which I love so much!  Seminary starts tomorrow so Im missing the first week but I'll be doing such great preparation this week.  I'm going to be studying about Joseph Smith a lot and the Doctrine and Covenants.  Last year I left education week to come home and get you ready to leave!  So crazy that you've been out almost 1 year now.   Speaking of seminary, so I asked for a team teacher this year and the whole stake actually moved to having team teachers for every class now... however, the woman they called to be my partner has a concussion and won't be able to teach for a month or two at least!  UGH!  So thats kinda hard.  I feel bad for her because she pretty much doesn't leave the house. But I was really looking forward to cutting my work load in half.  But that won't happen for a while now. ...

yo yo momma G! Well yes, ive gotten in a little bit better of a groove here. Its a good area, im just getting used to it all and memorizing the streets and the important places. With my comp its been alright. being honest, i just dont like too much the way he does things. But it honestly hasnt been a problem. I was upset one night this week, but we always talk it out. sometimes i think he is just a little controlling and selfish. he teaches in a way that is sometimes forceful or a little too strong for people to handle. But im working with him and its working out right. It seems for right now we have 2 baptismal dates set that are pretty firm. Amanda, this girl from our english class seems to be firm for sunday! She is an awesome girl. Said that ever since we came to her house for the first time, she has felt the impact of the spirit in her life. She really liked church on sunday! Also we have a friend of a member who is firm as well for September 1st! This is honestly awesome for me, ...

Hello sweet boy!  How did your week go?  I have been really praying that you would get into a groove here in your new area and with your new companion.  So.... how did it go?  Have you been able to teach a lot this week?   How did the Zone conf go?  Was it for your zone or for all zone leaders? I'm hoping you got your package.  I had the delivery service track your package and they said it should have arrived by August 3rd.  Please let me know.  I sent you another package through regular mail.  I'm hoping it will clear customs fairly quickly.  I'm seeing a lot of people complaining that more packages are being held in customs and taxed excessively.  So, I'm a little worried about this package.  It seems Brazil has ramped up their taxing on packages. This week was a busy one.  I've been staging the flip house.  I looked at renting furniture (worked out to be $850 for just the living room), staging...

soooooo ya boy is a ZONE LEADER!!! hahah i was pretty pumped. Im in an area called Parada Pinto in the capital. Its in the same zone as Freguesia so i should be able to do a division and see my old area and check up on things. Im with Elder Hequer. He is 26 years old! He only has this transfer and one more on the mission left. He joined the church 1 year before his mission started, but has lots of good knowledge about the scriptures and about the church. He is a cool guy, we get along pretty well. If we argue its not like a mad argument jus a working through things. He is really obedient which is good haha. I just cant stand to leave on pday with shirt and tie, but whatever. But it should be a good transfer and we are super excited to see what we can do. This area is baptizing a tonnnnn so its big shoes to fill haha but im just gonna put my trust in God and let it all work out. My meeting with President was with 3 other guys who were being called as zone leaders. it was cool because to...

Ok baby.  What happened last tuesday?!!!!  Where are you?  How is your new comp?  I've been sooooo anxious to hear about it all!  How was your meeting with President?  How was saying good bye to everyone in Sorocaba? Did you get my package? Well we had a good week at home.  It seems like the weeks are going by so quickly now.  It is starting to hit me how hard it will be when Abby leaves and all of you guys are gone.  I miss my kids soooooo much!  Abby is such a great friend to me.  So I'm not just losing my daughter, I'm losing one of my sweetest friends too.  The struggle is real my sweet son!   AND Happy 11 months!  Can't believe it!  This month went so quickly!   On Saturday I had a seminary training all day.  I wasn't excited to go but it turned out to be really good with some great reminders that will help me teach this year.  We talked a lot about setting higher expecta...