Do you love your neighbor?

Hello Family,


This week was a pretty good week. I´m doing well and everything is fine. This week I did a division with our district leader, Painted our house a little bit more, and went on splits with members.


On Friday we taught a man named Messias, He had already talked with the missionaries and that his life has changed a lot because of them. He had a lot of problems but after he meet the missionaries, he´s a new person because of it. We are teaching a lot of people it seems, but none of them are really progressing. We are trying to focus on finding people that are ready, and that have desire, and that want to be baptized.


I had a funny experience on Saturday. Every month we have a ward activity with a message by us the missionaries, a game or activity by us , and then we sing Happy b-day to all the people that had a b-day that month, and then we eat cake, tuna-fish sandwiches, and Pop(A strange mix of food choices). So I gave the message, and then we played a game called ´Do you love your neighbor?´ You start by having everyone sit in chairs in a big circle, and there’s one person who stands within the circle. Then the person who is standing asks someone who is sitting,``Do you love your neighbor? ‘and then the person will say yes or no. If they say ``No`` then the person standing will ask, ``Then who do you love?``, and then the person seated will say something like this``I love everyone that has a white shirt.``, and then everyone that has a white shirt on will change seats, and the person standing will try and sit down in one of the empty seats. So we had been playing for about 20 minutes and I was sitting in one of the seats in the circle when one member (Who was the person standing the circle) asked another member, ``Do you love your neighbor?``, the member seated said no. Then the member standing said``Then who do you love?``, then I thought he said(The member seated) ``I love everyone that has clothes on.``. So I jumped up ready to run to a open seat, but when I stood up, only a couple of women stood up to change seats. When the members saw that I stood up everybody started to laugh. I had understood wrong, when the member said who he loved he said ``I love everybody that has ´a dress´ on.``. The word ´Dressed´ in Portuguese sometimes also means ``a dress``(like a womens dress). Everyone got a good laugh, and I did to when I understood what happened.


I know that what we do is important and that the Lord loves us all.

Sorry that It has taken so long to get this e-mail to you guys. Love you all, and don´t worry I am doing well.

Elder Stephen Larson