I'm Gonna Be A Missionary For Halloween

October 29, 2016

Hey everyone

Hope your week has been great!!! I also hope all of you 

have allready picked out your halloween costumes because it's coming up quick!

This week was awesome. We have been so busy this week too. So we actually had 

another kid come into the office too to be trained so I'm not with 3 companions any more.

It's just me and Elder Wade. This week was so crazy though, here in the office we never stop,

it's just go go go. I've been learning so much though from Elder Wade. He's such a good 

missionary. I'm the one in charge of anything with health or passports and visas so it's alot

of reponsability. If you thought getting a passport or visa in America was hard you should

come here and try to do this stuff in Brasil! The goverment is so strict it's crazy! Not to mention 

in a diffrent language too. The best part is we still get to teach every day. Every day we stay in

the office until 5 o'clock and then we leave to our area and go to work! Being with Elder Wade 

is so fun. We teach so good together we just click and in all the lessons it's just awesome. This 

week I'm so excited we have 7 people to go to church. We are praying everything works out.

I didn't take a ton of pictures this week but I will next week for sure so you guys can see our beautiful brasilian home. 

I love being out here and it's crazy how fast time is passing! 

Love the work of the Lord!

Love you guys!

Love Elder O

 sweet ride!

I wasn't ready.

Saturday?

October 22, 2016

Hey everyone!! Hope life is great!! 

This week has been so crazy and we have been doing so many things! 

So I'm now living in Aldeota. It's like in the center of the city and it's crazy! 

There are so many big big buildings here it's like I'm in New York again, it's just

a little more ghetto and everyone speaks portugese...but you could say it's 

the same thing. My new companions are Elder Wade and Elder Davies 

they are really cool kids! Elder Wade is from Oklahoma and he is probably the 

most cowboy you can get, Elder Davies is from Texas and oh man he couldn't like

nascar more than anything else. haha! Our house here is so cool too! We live on the 7th 

floor of this apartment building and we have a gym here so we've started working out:)

I didn't take any pictures this week but i'll make sure to send plenty next week!

This week I have been learning how to do alot of stuff. Elder Wade is training me 

how to do everything I need to know how to do before he leaves in 6 weeks.

We don't get a lot of time to teach everyday, we leave the office at 5 oclock 

to teach. We had a really good lesson yesterday though. We have to really 

work with the members here to have success! 

So gratfull for the chance I have to serve a mission and be here! 

Love you alll!!! 

Elder Orton

Another Day Another Dollar

October 17, 2016

Hey everyone!! Hope everyone is doing great!! 

Hope everyone is loving life!! 

This week was great... obviously! I didn't get the chance to email last week 

but this week I have time so wooohooo! This week has flown by. I feel

like I haven't even had time to think! We have transfers in the morning!

I got a new assignment!!! I'm going to be the Executive Secretary of the mission!! haha!!

 I'll be moving areas in the morning to the rich part of Fortaleza called Aldeota. 

So for now i'll have two American Companions!! YA America!! I was I little nervous 

when I first saw my assignment but I know the lord doesn't do anything unplanned so

i'll be blessed! 

Me and Elder Grossi have been working so hard here! This past week we have been 

really going at it! He's such a cool kid though and we get along so well, I dont think i've ever met 

a funnier Brazilian in my life! I've learned so much here in Granja Portugal about everything!

So much about myself ,so much about people, so much about the gospel. I don't think I could ever

replace the experiences i've had here with anything else! I LOVE MY LIFE! 

Love ya all!!!!!

Elder Orton

POP ITS

October 3, 2016

Hey Everyone!! Hope life is glorious! 

This week was Great, and it really passed by fast!  What the heck

it's like halloween already! General Conference was this week! Having general conference on the mission is the best thing ever! It"s like Christmas! So many treasures to discover! 

Saturday and Sunday we met with our zone in the stake center and got to watch conference! 

The cool think is I got to watch 2 sessions in English too! Sunday the secratary of the stake set up a t.v. in a class room and all the Americans had a little English conference party which was fun. Watching in portugese is great be I prefere the voice of the prophet:)

One thing I really loved was Elder Neilson's talk about JOY! It was a great reminder for me!

Sometimes I feel like we forget why we are here and what we are doing, but this life is meant to be enjoyed too. Life isn't just homework and work a 80 year period to slave your life away, but we are here to enjoy it! SO DO IT! ENJOY LIFE PEOPLE!! LOVE LIFE!! If your not enjoying it, change something! We find true joy in the savior and his sacrifice for us. This is the true source of lasting joy! We cannot find this anywere else! He's my Joy! I know that! Love you All!!

Elder Orton

Our district and some random kid!

:) I also found a place to buy pop its so all the sleeping dogs in the road don't like us! We always scare them!:)