Grayson and Mom on a Mission

MOMMA! Seriously it was pretty great to talk to you guys. It was definitely a happy day for me. It honestly wasnt that hard for me. Like seriously Im just happy here mom. Obviously, a mission is a hard thing whether you have 2 months or 23, but I love this work and I love seeing how happy these people become with the Gospel of Jesus Christ in their lives. Idk mom its hard to say how ive changed for myself. I know my testimony is unshakeable now, Im much better with people that arent exactly like me, im more patient, and ive got a whole different perspective on life. I know what makes me most happy now and I know how I want to live my life better when i get home. These are a few of the things i can think of, but I feel like there is much more that is just hard to explain and see in myself.  I know I feel like its gone by so fast. I feel like i was being trained yesterday! and now...7 months! Holy moly! Im gonna be in my last 6 months in a second and then it will start to feel re...

Hi my love!   What a great day Christmas was!  I loved being able to see you and talk to you face to face.  Even though we talked for a long time, I still wish I could have talked to you alone because I think there was so much more that I wanted to tell you.  I just want you to know how proud I am of you and how much I love you.  You talked about how much you've changed and it would be hard for us to know exactly how much.  I want you to tell me... how do you think youve changed?  I can see a huge change in you but I want to hear what you think. We've talked so much about you this week.  Just reliving our convo.  You look GREAT!  Happy, healthy and gorgeous!  It was so fun to watch you and Parker chat too.  I can't believe you have less than 8 months left.  It seems like we were just talking about you having a trainer that was going home so that felt kinda hard because you had 2 years... The time has been slo...

yo yo momma!!! YES 1 WEEK MY NIG!! Im pretty pumped. Although it doesnt feel like Christmas haha its all good. I think thats honestly a good thing. Im staying focused and i dont wanna get out of my groove. I still dont know where im gonna do it from. But dont worry there are plenty of options. I think we can do it a little later. Perigolo is talking with his mom about it now too. yeah that will be cool to talk with everyone too! im way pumped! Alfredo is good! Hes been really praying, reading, and thinking lots about this. This week we are planning to go all out on him. We want to bring a really good recent convert guy who is one of my best buds in this ward named Andrei. He actually played college soccer in Arkansas! Then we are gonna talk about baptism by immersion. Its funny cause the actual word baptism is a greek word that means IMERSION hahah im gonna show that to him this week and show that if he really wants to be baptized, it has to be by imersion. But hes been to church 5...

What's up young man??  We are going to freaking talk to you in a week plus 1 day!!!!!!  Can you tell I'm excited?  We need to work out some details!  I think we are 4 hours behind you.  But we should double check when we talk today.  Also, where will you be skyping from?  How much time do you think you'll have?  It's helpful if we can do it a little later like last year so we can at least get through breakfast/stockings.  Everyone will be at our house so they are excited to talk to you too.   Tell me about your week.  How is Alfredo?  Ive been praying for him.  I talked all about the Core 4 in seminary this week.  I shared some of your letters and I think the kids loved it.  I could tell they were really listening and some got motivated to serve.  Speaking of seminary, although this is my fourth year, I think they want me to teach again next year.  I'm not sure how I feel about it.  On th...

yo yo momma! Our week was good. We still didnt baptize Alfredo which is a bummer but he is still progressing a lot so im not worried. The kid is really really good. We taught a super powerful lesson to him on Saturday. We thought he was maybe ignoring us a little during the week, but we talked with him on saturday and it was amazing. We explained why he needed to be baptized again. THen he said he thought he had already received his answer. I got scared cause it seemed like he was gonna say that his "answer" was not to be baptized again. But then he started to talk about the Plan of Salvation and how he had such a strong testimony of that. He started crying and it was such a cool cool moment. I was way proud of him. He still wants to have more certainty thats why he wasnt baptized but we will continue to help him this week. We also had success talking with that one couple we are gonna marry this saturday. This is the family that bishop said a bunch of crap to. But the husband...

Good morning my love!  We have most of the decorations up for Christmas and that gets me so excited because I'm just that much closer to talking with you! How was your week? Were you able to have those baptisms this week?  Did  you make it to the office for transfers?  Did you get your package????!!!!  I really hope so.   How is that rash?  Did you talk to anyone about it?   How is your zone doing?  Do you have any leadership trainings coming up? Do you think you need more than $100 for gifts for people there?  We can definitely do more if you need it. Well this week was a busy one for me.  I was put in charge of the food for the live Nativity that we were going to put on at Frontier park on Saturday.  The forecast was looking pretty bad... very likely it would rain all day, so Saturday morning we met as a committee at the church at 7am and decided to move it to the church and set it up that day....

Yo yo momma! Im staying here in Parada Pinto!! With Elder Perigolo. Im excited. Honestly I was gonna be good with whatever happened. I could have left or stayed i was fine. But im pumped to continue to work here one more transfer. Its going better with Perigolo. President put in a new rule in our mission that we HAVE TO talk to 10 people per missionary (20 per companionship) every day. Thats been helping a lot and i know we will be blessed in our work here in sao paulo north bc of that.  This week we baptized Sara and Cristina! Wow it was a dope baptism. They are both super super awesome and are loving the church. Sara is 19. Her 2 sisters are members and her sister who is 13 is super firm so im way excited that she will have this support. She should stay way firm. Cristina also is awesome. she is like 30 years old. She was way excited for her baptism and we are gonna work with her brother and sister this week. It was a dope week. Alfredo also went to church for the 3rd straigh...

Hello my son!  How is my boy?  I have so many questions for you this week.  First of all, what do you know about transfers???  I'm anxious to hear.  Did you have some baptisms on Sunday?  Did they go through?  So here are some things on my mind/questions: 1. I'm not sure if you heard but a man walked into an lds church congregation on Sunday in Goiana Brazil and stabbed four people.  I think they are all alive, but i was so terrified when I saw the headline.  I quickly looked up the city on my map to see how close it was to you.  Do you know anything about this?  Please be so cautious.  Another missionary died this week in the South Africa MTC.  My heart breaks for that family.  I'm reminded that you are in another country that isn't always safe.  Please don't get casual about your safety just because you are so used to living there.  Follow the spirit and do not go anywhere if you feel the slig...