Jardim Ipe- Week Three

Hello World!!!

Officially I have three more weeks until I get home. I am really sad that I am on my way home. I have had an incredibly experience here in the mission and I have learned so much. This past week I went to the leadership counsel on Thursday. It was really good and we took a lot of good pictures. 

I had my last interview with President Cuvelier on Wednesday. It was really sad because this Friday President Cuvelier is going home. It was the last time that I was going to see him and I had a great conversation about my plans for after the mission. It was a great moment that we had together to counsel. 

All in all, everything is going well. I am having a great experience and I am excited to see you all soon.

Elder Pinkney

Jardim Ipe- Week Two

Hello World,

This last week was really physically demanding. We had our zone conference this last week. It was the last zone conference of President and Sister Cuvelier. It was really sad to see them beare there lestimony and say how much they are going to miss being here with us. I am going to miss them so much. This zone conference, I boure my last testemony, which is a traditon we have in our mission. I had an incredebly experience and I felt the Holy Ghost really strong. I am so gratefull for my mission and everything that I have learned while I have been serving here in Brazil. 

All in all, everything is going well and I am working a ton. 

Com amor,

Elder Pinkney

Jardim Ipe- Week One

Hello World,

These week was crazy. The new area I am in is called Jardim Ipê in São José dos Pinhais. It is close to Bom Pastor and Afonso Pena which are booth areas I already served. The area is really good. The people that live here are really humble. However, we have been able to teach a lot this week because of this. The people are really open, loving, and receptive. In the short time I have been here, I have already made some friends. The members here are really hard working and actively help us. 

On Thursday, we had a ward mission activity, where we played Pictionary and ate hot dogs. There were over sixty people at the activity and 20 ish were not members of the church. It was really cool to see so many people come out. A big challenge we have here is that the chapel is about two hours walking from the neighborhood where everyone lives. It makes it hard for a lot of people to be at church because a lot of people do not have cars. On Sunday, it is harder because our sacrament meeting starts at 8:00 in the morning. It is a big sacrifice for a lot of people to get up that early to walk or get the bus to come to church. Despite that, the sacrament meeting was filled with people. 

On Saturday, I learned how to build a house. We had a service project where we were helping a single Mom with five kids to build her house. We spent the morning carrying brinks and mixing cement. It was really cool.

All in all, everything is going really well. Hope you all have a great week.

Com amor,

Elder Pinkney 

Jardim Ipe- Day One

Hello World,

I got transfered today to my last and final area. It is called Jardim Ipê. It is near Afonso Pena and Bom Pastor, which are two areas that I have already served before. I am pretty familar with the region and the missionaries that are serving in my zone, so it will be a good transfer. My companion´s name is Elder Capistrano. He is from Forteleza and he has six months left in the mission. I have enjoyed that last four hours that I have been with him. 

I am doing well and I am excited for these last couple weeks. Just to let everyone know, my P-day is going back to Monday so if anyone needs to get in contact, usually on Monday afternoon I will be here.

Love and miss you all lots,

Elder Pinkney

Mission Office- Week 33

Hello world,

This week was incredibly rainy. On Thursday, my companion and I woke up in the middle of the night to the sound of thunder and hail knocking against our window. It was pretty scary. I got up and rain to the living room to make sure all the windows were closed. We usually leave the windows open a little at night to let the wind pass in the apartment. Lucky, all the windows were close. However, the next day we found out that there was a lot of flooding in the city and lots of homes were completely destroyed. Really sad. 

Basically, I got soaking wet every single day this week because of the rain. My shoe were extremely grateful....... With all the rain, the chapel also lost power three times this week. It was really horrible actually because we had a ton of things to do to get ready for the transfers tomorrow, but lucky we got it all done last night. 

To make the week a little bit better. I grabbed a pancake recipe from online and we made pancakes at night. A member in our ward also hand given us so homemade Maple syrup that went along perfectly with our pancakes (It was not really maple because they don´t have it here. It was made from maple extract).

On Tuesday, we had a special breakfast with all the missionaries that have district meeting at our chapel. It was really fun and ended out saving us because the Sister that was suppose to give lunch couldn't´t so we just went on gas from the big lunch we ate. 

Anyway, the week was good. Lots of good memories. I have lots of photos this week so I hope you all enjoy. 

Com amor,

Elder Pinkney