2 May 2016
This has been another fantastic week! The last week of
thetransfer and we wanted to go out hard (if one of us were to go out).
let me sum up our week with the aid of photos:
Alot of the week, we’ve been helping a member, Juliano,
build his house. There’s a favela built on top of a lake so sometimes
water decides to come up out of nowhere. But João, our baptism from last
week, works building houses, so he’s also been helping out.
There was a cool activity with all the young women (which is
now huge in our ward) that we helped with. We’ve been teaching a lot of
youth, baptizing, reactavating, etc, so theyouth is currently the biggest part
of the ward. All the young women recieved a bandana, and we all had a
cool idea.
Anyways, remember Lila from 2 weeks ago? Well we just baptized 2 of her cousins, Isreal and Isaias. Isreal did not wantANYTHING to do with us the first time we met, and Isaias didnt take anything we said seriously. Anyways, they went to church to watch Lila’s baptism,and loved it. Now Isreal (17 years old) wants to serve a mission, and the rest of the family is excited for church this week. It’s also really cool because they’re really good friends with João now. So everyone’s helping each other.
In other news, yesterday we recieved a call from the
assistants about transfers. And there were only 2 people in our zone
being transfered, and Camargo and I weren't one of them! So yeah! I’m
gonna kill my 4th companion! I think I’ll make a photo of 4 cross bones
and put the names of all my comps that have ended their mission with me.
Young, Rodrigues, Belbin, and now Camargo! Unfortunatly, Elder Rasmussen,
one of our District Leaders was transfered. We gotto know eachother in Castelão
and he’s super cool. He also makes movies and we’re planning on combining
forces afterwords. It’ll be pretty cool.
Also, Elder Bellon is going home. Which is crazy
because when I had arrived in Trindade he was still really new. With 6 week
transfers, I only have 4 more 0.0
But there you go. That was my week. I love you guys so
much and am really excited for this Sunday!
Elder Biggs
PS: I should be able to call the day before as usual, 4;30pm
for you guys is 8:30 for me, which might be a little dificult. But I’ll
talk to President Fusco, and on Saturday will probably beableto call and sort
it out with you guys.
11 May,2016
Skype Calls & Some Pictures
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| "Time Flies" next week I'll hit the one year and a half mark! |
Christmas-2014:
This photo is a lost to the ages of time and the fact that
the MTC didn’t allow us to take photos... and why would you even want a
picture? It would’ve just been me with a headset with a billion other
missionaries...
Mother's Day-2015:
Little Tayte and Hayden's hair is still normal
Christmas-2015:
Tayte got bigger and Hayden got dorkier
Mother's Day-2016:
Tayte is a zitty gorrilla, Hayden has more hair than Ellie,
and Dad turned into Tom Hanks... And Mom, Reygan and Ellie are a pretty
as ever :)
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| My Study Desk |
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| A box of cigarettes |
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16 May 2016
River Baptisms
This was a very cool week. First of all, Elder Kusuda
and I are really getting along. Our companionship is very different from
others that Ive had. We talk and joke a lot less than my past companions,
but we like eachother a lot. He’s a quarterback from Utah and is half
Japanese, and super rich. So, I’m already to eat a whole lot of pizza and
Burger King!
So, let’s just skip to the cool stuff. This weekend
the ward had been planning a huge activity at a cabin outside of
Fortaleza. The church owns a patch of land in a tiny town (a lot like
Pine) and calls it “Camp Desert,” but being from the church, is super
nice! Anyway, Bishop wanted us to go really bad. But it would be on
Saturday (our busiest day) and we knew that President Fusco wouldn’t like the
idea. On Friday night I called President and asked and he said that he
didn’t really want us to go, but it was our decision in the end.
We had invited a TON of youth outside of the church and so
we felt like it would be productive to go, also, there were 2 kids who would be
baptized that week who would be going too. We called bishop and told him
that we weren’t sure and he hung up, and called us back after about 2 minutes
saying, “I just off the phone with President Fusco and told him everything that
you guys are doing in the ward and he said that you guys could
come! So we went and it was really cool! Almost everyone we
invited went and we decided to baptize the 2 kids there!
I baptized Mariany (Israel, and Isaias’ sister) and Felipe
(a neighbor of theirs and a cousin of some less actives that we’re working
with) in a river! Finally! I’ve always wanted to baptize someone in the
river! So know I can check that one off my bucket list!

Afterwards I called President and told him how we had been
able to do a whole lot of good there, we contacted a lot of friends that the
members had brought and were able to meet all of our goals that day.
President trusts me to work hard and asked me if it was worth it to go and I
said yes. He said alright then, and then thanked me for the
respect.
This week our zone (which has been the worst zone in the
mission), which usually just baptizes 1-3/week was able to baptize 6.
With just 5 companionships too, so its definitely getting better here!
I love you guys very much and I’m learning a lot here everyday!
Elder Biggs
PS: This guys walks around selling candy as a clown.
And he doesn’t sell it in a normal way. This guy walks around the favela
yelling at people to buy it. “Get your butts out here and buy my
candy!!!!” or “Quit blaming the president for not having money!
Quit being lazy, work for a change so you can buy my candy!” etc…
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23 May 2016
1 Year and 6 Months
This week was pretty uneventful. So lets go to some
pictures!
Seminary has started up again here, so the teacher organized
a huge visit where they would get everyone of seminary age and visit every
single person that wasnt going to seminary. Ususally there are only about
3-5 people who go regularly. But with the help of some of the newer
members (Isreal and Gabriel), they were able to completely fill the classroom.
There was a few transfers this last week, so we had to take
a new zone picture... so: The Sul Zone!

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| I hit my 1 year and a half mark on Thursday |
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| I wann see if you can read this... |
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| Our new 5 year old bishop. This kid, Wilker (Wilkey) is hilarious! I'll film him one of these days so I can show you. |
But that was my week. I love you guys so much and
am really excited to see you guys again. But in the mean
time, Ive got so much stuff to do, so I’ll sure have a lot of stuff
to worry about.
Elder Biggs
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30 May 2016
Pizza, Cake, and Miracles
This week passed by really fast. On Tuesday the
Stake President called us, and the other zone leaders (thereare 2 zones in this
stake) in to ameeting. He told us of 2 wards that will probably devidein
December and basically told us of the plans of the stake. It was very
interesting to see what goes on “behind the scenes” in wards and stakes and
stuff. Then afterwords, hebought 8 pizzas and a bunch of Coke! So, it
went pretty well!
Here’s a picture of some weird dude on the side of a bus
looking at me funny
And last night was Isaias’ birthday, to which we were
invited
Ok, now a pretty cool story. Never in the history of
the Brazil Fortaleza East Mission has it been able to baptize 300 people in one
month. So this month, being the last full month of President Fusco, we
had all decided to baptize 300! This last week we had a long way to
go. We had to baptize a lot of people. For Elder Kusuda and I, we
had 3 people to baptize. Everything was certain too. Then out of
nowhere, one mom didnt want her daughter to be baptized. One didnt pass
the baptismal interveiw and the other didnt show up to church. We were
totally out. But we knew that we needed to baptize someone, we just didnt
know where. So we started looking looking looking until we found a family
of recent converts. Leticia, the mom of this family told us of a 10 year
old girl named Rosimeire, who had been going to church for a long time now but
whose mom had never allowed her to be baptized. We then called her and
her mom in and talked with them. With Leticia there, the spirit was
verystrong and the mom decided that it was ok, and she let her get baptized.
Leticia’s husband, Ivanildo baptized her on yesterday (which
was his first baptism). Its very interesting to see how the Lord asks us
to do things and maybe it doesnt work out too well. But like Nephi with the
brass plates, we cant give up and the Lord will prepare a way.
I love you guys and I’ll talk to you guys next week
Elder Biggs
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