We had a really fun time visiting everyone and playing at the pumpkin patch!
Monday, October 29, 2012
Elder Farr - João Pessoa Brazil
Here are some of my favorite photos
from the ones Elder Farr has sent from Brazil.
He is working hard and enjoying every minute.
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| Care package from Gpa!! Peanut butter is not sold in Brazil! |
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| He loves working with the youth! This rapaz is Tiagre. |
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| This was the second time this man came to church and they had a great discussion about Christ. |
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| Guava?? |
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| These are such great guys! Don't cha just want to invite them over for dinner?! Go ahead, it won't hurt! |
Happy Birthday Banner
Happy 20th Birthday Elder Farr!
"Laddie" turns 20 in November and since he is far away in Brazil for 2 years, I gathered
photos of his friends and family to send him these birthday wishes from everyone.
Thank you to everyone who participated,
I'm sure this will be a very special birthday surprise for him!
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| The banner hangs in three rows. |
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| Here are some close up's so you can read the message and see who else joined in the fun! |
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| Gmas and Gpas, cousins, teachers, sibings, a former babysitter, our Bishop... |
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| Uncles, aunts, 2 friends who are currently serving missions as well... |
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| people from church, his martial arts instructor... |
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| Bear gives the banner's size some perspective. |
Update: From Elder Farr
"This last week was so so so hard. It was a week of really hard work, but then Sunday happened. Sunday was one of the best days in my life! We had seven people in church, including the children of a family that we had thought lost on account of a pastor of another church "poisoning the well" against us. The father of an all member family, was baptized with his 8 year old son, after two years of receiving the missionaries. Then Sunday night we had a visit from the Counselor of Paraiba, and he and his wife were really nice and brought a great spirit into the home, and they brought letters and I got the package! It was just so thoughtful it overwhelmed me and touched me até amago.
I lost it when I was looking through the picture banners you guys sent me. I am just so amazed how much you all prepared to wish me happy birthday. Photos of family and friends I haven´t seen in what feels like years (and for some it has been!), it was just all so much, and I don´t know how I can thank you all. I have never felt to special or so loved, and have never felt so much caring support and wind at my back as I have last night. I want you to know that that package absolutely changed my life. Those pictures of everyone holding up a letter were entirely overpowering. I want you to know how much I love all of you. I can only imagine the great overflowing love I feel for you being as a fraction and a sliver of the encompassing ardor our Lord and Savior feels for us. What joy will fill our hearts when we will see His face, and His open arms. What I felt last night was an embrace of charity and a pure love that I have never felt so strongly. I thank all of you my friends and relatives who were able to be part of this. And I thank my dear family for the caring that caused you to do something so thoughful. I thank you for your support. I love you all so much, and I hope I can show it, and that you can feel it as I have."
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