Monday, February 11, 2013 Without a Fridge, a Bathroom and a Microwave

Without a Fridge, a Bathroom, and a Microwave, could it be possible to live in the 21st Century thus?

Well I dont care if you believe that it is impossible. I am here to tell you that it is actually possible! This week our bathroom started leaking water into the store that we live ontop of and so the maintenance guy arranged for us to shower in another apartment and so atleast we could take showers and use the bathroom but it sucks having to leave your house to do your daily necessities. Not having a fridge is terrible as well so cold milk is not even an option and having fruits or vegatables is more difficult. We basically just eat eggs and bread and oreo type cookies and split a liter of milk between the two of us per day. It is great! hopefully it is for us to recieve a fridge and a microwave soon and our bathroom is almost done. Also all the electricity is 220V here but almost all of your household appliances are made to use 110V so it is fun to jerry rig almost eerything we do. I cleaned the kitchen today and it went from being an odd brown color to being a nice beige which was the original. :)

This week we did a lot of working but didnt get anyone of our self forces to go and visit because they dont live close enough so we just worked with a few of the neighbors of members who accepted to be baptised here in two weeks and the great part is that it is a family! Also we had a family night and it turned out really great and we gave a message about not procrastinating to repent by following God´s commandments and striving to follow and not be stuck in the trap of  Satan´s famous phrases of "I´ll do it tomorrow" or "All is well."

I hope that all of you are well and have a great Valentines Day week and treat your loved ones with respect and tell them that you love them!

Love you guys and keep up the good work!

Elder Hendrixson 

Monday, February 4, 2013 The Change Up

Well it just so happened that I will not be training this transfer but I will be the companion of an Elder Gustavo Silveira who will be going home at the end of this transfer! He is a really great guy and we are getting along very well. It might because he has a military attitude because he served in the Brazilian army and will return to doing what he did. He works with armored transport which is cool and we get along great and like he says all the time, "Only happeness and joy!" We work a lot but what I am liking is that we are working smarter and not harder!

My new area is a city in the municipality of São Paulo called Piedade. The town has about 40,000 habitants and it is a little back country town where most people live on small farms and such which is great and then they have a city section as well. We only work in the city because the other houses are really spread out and it is not very conducive to the best missionary work that we could be doing nor the most effective so only if it is a strong impression to we head out to the houses by there and such.

We had an activity this week that was called the end of the world that my companion made up and it worked out super great! We set up a bunch of fun things to do and printed out a fake money so that they had to pay money to dance or just play video games or other games or to get food or they could come and see the missionaries and do a task or answer a question to recieve a little money in return. Then we ended it and the lights went off and which kingdom of glory you were sent to depended on how many monies you had. It was very effective to see how people arrived in their individual kingdoms to see that not all there family was there or it wasnt where they wanted to go and who they wanted to be with so we explained about each individual kingdom and how to get there and what it would be like which was very interesting because they people saw that it is not possible to be of the world and do the things of god at the same time. That we need to do what we have been commanded and instructed so that we can have exactly what our heavenly father has promised each one of us individually and as families!

I love you all and hope that you are well and that you will continue to choose the things of god that we all may have a happy reunion and conjointing when the creator comes for the second time!

Love,

Elder Kyle Hendrixson

Monday, January 28, 2013 Pigs in the City?

{To see Elder Hendrixson's pictures that he discusses below, go the picture page...you can't miss them!}

Well this is us having a birthday party in our very straight kitchen and well lets just say we enjoyed our brownies!!! :) 

Oh and so my companion were out walking along and having a great sunday walking along and lo and behold in the worlds 4th largest city we found a pig ruttin around in the cities flowerbed!!! :P What a pig sty! Anyways I just had to take a picture with him so I did and I petted her for a little fun! The idea came accross my mind about the missionaries having free lunch for a month cause I had my leading stick with me to walk her all the way home for nice 2 hour walk from where we were! 

We met Edna this week and she was a contact I made while on a split. She tried to tell me that she was Catholic and I didnt buy in so I told her we could come by and present a Book of Mormon to her and she could have one as a present. She really liked the idea so we marked and faulted because of some difficulties and well we happened to be passing by and I really had a strong urg to visit her so we did and she listened very attently and had a true and pure desire to know and read and pray and I am stoked!! :)

Monday, January 21, 2013 Fruit Sack?

Alright so just for all of you I thought I might include the amount of fruit that we recieve for a week! I basically only eat fruit for breakfast now as a drink and on a plate because this was the haul for one week of fruit and it is a lot. I mean I went to pick up the decievingly heavy bag and found out that it was loaded with about 25 kilos or 55lbs of fruit! I mean that is about like eating 2 to 3 pounds of fruit a day and all the stuff here is farely fibrous if you catch my flow. In the picture is 2 melons a pineappe two types of mangos. Green oranges that are actually ripe on the inside. Goiaba, apples, cherries, grapes, and foot-long bananas and plumbs!! Yay!! Stone fruit! One of the things I miss the most!

Yeah so the work is going alright but if we just continue with faith the Lord will bless our efforts. This is the hard thing about being a laborer in the vineyard of the lord, but he has promised that for all of His servants that if  they will work with all the heat might mind and strenght that the same layeth up in store that he perisheth not and that when the bridegroom comes we will have sufficient oil within our lamps to keep us safely within reach of entering in with our Lord to recieve what he has ultimately promised us and that is Eternal Life! :)

The Gospel of Christ is for each one of us and that is directly linked with the Church that he organized and gave to us as men to take care of. It was taken away and we were without the sustinance of which we needed but that has been fully restored and brought to the light that we need not perish or dwindle in unbelief but believe and act that we may assure our mansion in the heavens.

May your prayers be answered and our families be blessed. 

Love you all and pray for your well-being, 

Elder Hendrixson