Ceara meu chapa

May 20, 2017

Hey Fam! Happy Saturday! 

This week was great! Just one more hot week here in Ceará. (The best state of Brazil)

It's a beautiful morning here but sure is hot. The rainy season is starting to come to an 

end and I think I've forgotten how hot it gets when the suns out. I went to the airport 

again today! Feels like almost every p-day I have to go there. I think I've been to 

this airport here in Brasil more than I ever did in the U.S. 

We have been teaching a few people this week in our area. One is named Gilvete.

She is really Catholic and never stops reading the Bible. She is really searching for 

the truth and wants to know which path to take. 

Yesterday we had a mission conference with President Grahl. He is the President 

of the MTC here is Brasil. President Bonini knows him pretty well for a long time 

so he came to our mission. I got to talk to them a litttle when they came to the 

mission office on Thursday which was really cool. Such great people. When they

walked in they said.. "Oh I remeber you!" I was super suprised because it's been 

a year and a half since I was in the MTC. Can really see the love they have for the 

work of the Lord. One thing that I really liked that he talked about was the path that 

we take in life. If we don't really care where we are going it doesn't matter what path 

we take. If we want to be happy feel peace and return to our home in heaven we 

need to have goals we need to know excatly were we need to go. Rules aren't here 

to stop us but are there as a path we have to follow the rules/ commandments

to return home again. 

Brasils great! Always learning something new here! 

Love you Guys!! 

Elder Orton 

Transferencia #6

May 13, 2017

Hey family! 

You might be wondering why I titled my message Transferência #6 because I 

obviously have more than six transfers in my mission. It's because I'll be staying 

in the area!!!! WHOOO HOO! This will all ready be my sixth transfer in this area! 

I cant believe I have all ready been in this area this long. It feels like I just got here

yesterday. At the end of this transfer I'll have the same amount of time in this 

area than all my other areas combined. It really has been a crazy experience here 

and I still have a lot of experiences to have. 

These next 6 weeks should be pretty crazy. Presidente will be leaving and President 

Chamberlain will be getting here in 7 weeks. That will be a crazy change and will

be interesting to see what will happen.

I'm still here with Elder Soper. This will be our 6th transfer together too! I don't think anybody

else has probaly had a comp. for that long. It's great though because Elder Soper 

is really cool and easy going. He also likes to work when it's time to work too which is great.

We have been really doing alot to find people we haven't talked to yet. We have been here for a long time so we really have to plan and rely on the spirit to tell us were we need to go. 

I have seen a lot of miracles in this area... it's so cool what the gospel does in the lives of others. 

Love you guys so much!!

Elder Orton

New Pics...

Hangin'

 Easter Play

 Scary Little dude

 Easter Play

 Missionaries

 Lunch

 Ordering Missionary Name Tags

 At the Airport

Doing a little office work

Tauape

May 6, 2017

Hey guys! Hope everyone is having a great day! I hear it's heating 

up in Utah! Hope everyone is enjoying the sun before it decides to

snow again next week! :) 

This week was great! It passed by so fast! AHH It is already the 

last week of the transfer! We will be having a transfer on Monday! 

We will see what happens... 

This week was good. Lots of stuff that happened as normal. We 

have found a few new investigators this week and we have been 

focusing on working with the members alot! I think it is 100 times 

more affective when you use members. People naturally feel more 

comfortable when you have a normal person with you. It's funny because 

people hide from the missionarys. You'll be walking down the street and 

people will cross just to not walk by you or people will see you coming

 and go inside their house real quick. You have to be smart as a missionary. 

One lady we are teaching is Tina. She is 22 years old but has allready had 

a lot of crazy things happen in her life. We are hoping she'll come to church

 tommorow.

Time is passing by fast! I'ts crazy! 

Really love the mission and the opportunities I have here!! 

Love you all! 

Elder Orton 

As a side note, I asked Ben what some of his tricks were to talk to people... This is what he told me.

I have some good tricks though... you just have to be cool with people here because they won't like you if your boring. A good thing is to just ask them some random name. 

Be like.. Hey does John live here? They'll be like noo, but then you are already talking to them so it's like... haha to late for you! 

Mission Pics

 Go Brazil!!

 No one answered

 Elder O. for President

 Holiday so no traffic

 Shout Out To Miss Summer Orton

 The Office

At Presidents Home

Saturday

April 28, 2017

Hope everyone is having a great Saturday! 

I can't believe another week has already gone by! It's going to be May 

in two days! What the heck! This week has been great. Today we 

actually had a Mission conference with Sister Marriot of the young 

womens presidency! It's been crazy this month because we haven't 

really had p-day for about 3 weeks. Every Saturday something new happens.

It's really great just lots of running around. 

Today we woke up at 5:20 got ready and walked to the Chapel were we met with

our zone. After we got on a bus and drove to the other side of Fortaleza to 

the conference. It was with both missions! Sister Marriot talked about 

her conversion Experience when she was 22 years old and how the 

gospel changed her life. It was pretty special.. both mission Presidents also 

gave their testimony because President Bonini our president and 

President Leite are converts also. What a blessing the gospel is in our lives.

IM really so grateful to be here in the mission. It's crazy how you gain such 

a different prospective in life. The gospel is so simple and so happy. 

Love you guys so much!! 

Elder Orton

Dia 22 de Abril

April 22, 2017

Hello! 

Hope everybody is having a great day! 

This week was just another great week in the mission. We have been working 

as hard as ever. The mission is so cool because you are always learning

new things everyday. Everyday I feel like I learn so much.

Nothing to special to report this week. Yesterday was a holiday named 

tirar dentes but nobody really knows why they celebrate it. I asked 

a couple people but they say it's really just an excuse to not go to work. 

It's been pretty hot this week. It hasn't been raining as much as it has 

been and now it's just super hot. You seriously never stop sweating 

it's crazy. 

Don't have much time to write this week but I hope everyone is doing great! 

Always remember to read your scriptures and pray every day! 

It's so important! And you'll be so happy! 

Love you all! 

Elder Orton