"IT'S SOOOO GOOD!"

so this will be fast. long story but basically we dont have a full hour to do email...

um... so this past week... um, the work is moving along... slowly but surely. this is our last week of the transfers and i donno if im staying or going... duh. i will be fine with either. um... this past week was zone conference so i got a TON of letters thank you everyone that sent me stuff!!!! youre awesome i LOVE getting letters and updates about your lives :) keep em coming. i am working on writing back... it will take a while, but dont worry i WILL.

um...this week we marked a guy for baptism for this coming friday. im pretty excited other than the fact that hes kinda a jumpy fidgety guy, so im praying and hoping that he wont be like that with the baptism. um... weve just been working. nothing super exciting or interesting. sorry this email is lame... partically because we dont have much time and because i hate the keyboard because its really hard to type.

anyways, zone conference was AMAZING i learned so much and the spirit was so strong!!! i love zone conferences its like general conference but just for us! its SOOOOO GOOD!!!

this week i have been studying about desires... (sounds weird i know) but how when we desire something and we exercise our faith and work to make our desires reality thats exactly what will happen. it sounds really weird, but it is so awesome. i have been evaluating my desires and making sure they are in line with the Lord and His work here and then this week i am studying faith in accordance with this whole topic... its really weird to explain and doesnt make much sense when i try to explain it but ITS SO GOOD. i am learning so much and i can feel it changing the way im working. it is also strengthening my testimony so much! right now as im sitting here typing there are just so manything s that i want to write you about! cool things that i learned ways that i have grown and ways that my testimony has grown and been strengthened! I know that Heavenly Father loves us, really honestly this tiny fact makes such a difference in my life and the lives of others. Because He loves us so much He sent His Son to DIE for us. What a sacrifice... what an act of love. This week I have also thought a ton about the atonement as well... I am so grateful for the atonement. I am understanding just how important it is to use the atonement in everything in our lives especially the small and simple things. As a mission we are reading the BOM in portuguese in 60 days. it is amazing. i was reading in 2 nephi 4 just a couple days ago... where Nephi is talking about how he is a sinner and everything and his gratitude for the Savior and atonement... i LOVE that part in the book of mormon. its amazing! anyways, have to go. I know that this church is the church of Jesus Christ. I know that He is our Savior, our Brother. I know that Heavenly Father knows and loves us and wants us to return to live with HIm.

thank you for everything. i love you all so much.

irmã graf