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October 14, 2017

This week was super great! 

I keep thinking it is Tuesday or Wendsday but it is already Saturday. What the heck! Yesterday I was thinking... wow I'm not going to have enough money for food the rest of the week because it is only Tuesday but then I remembered it was Friday!! haha This week went by so fast! I would say the highlight of the week was a visit we had in the mission. This week Elder Marcos A. Aidukaitis from the 70 visited our mission. It was a great experience to be and learn with him. Being here in the office was also cool because we had about an hour and a half to just sit down with him and talk about the mission, what was happening and what we can do better. One of the things I learned the most was about Faith. Something I always love learning and talking about. We can not do anything without faith. We need faith to do anything. Miracles have never happened without first by faith. If you want to study a great chapter I recommend reading Ether 12 in the Book of Mormon. 

Other than that we are just working really hard. I always love the chance to get out and work, there is nothing better!! 

Love you all! Hope everyone is loving life! Always remember to be happy and just love life!! 

Have a
​ ótimo week!! :) 

Elder Orton 

Here is a pic... a little blury but hey itll do. 

WEEK

October 7, 2017

This week was great!! 

Passed by super duper fast but it was great!! 

The highlight of the week for me was probably conference!! 

I thought it was just awesome!! Was so cool to be able to hear from 

all the apostles. Something I really loved that talked about a lot was 

our eternal home. We are here to learn and grown on journey through life 

to return home to live with our Father in heaven. I feel like sometimes in life we get 

so caught up in everything that we do, that we forget the important things in life 

for little unimportant things. Things that in reality, don't even matter. 

This week was great other wise just wanted to leave a thought because I

don't have much time but love you all!! 

Have a great week!! 

Elder Orton 

Pics

Sept 30, 2017

 A pic for the employment of the soul

Conferencia Geral

Sept 30, 2017

Hello good morning! 

Today is a new Saturday! Wow Crazy!! Oh and its 11:11 right now so make a wish! 

Today and tomorrow will be super cool I am really excited! It will be conference! I hope everyone will be watching to learn a little more. I always love this time of year and this chance that we have. I feel it is such a proof of the great love God has for each and one of his children. The chance that we have to hear from his Prophets and apostles. God literally speaks through them and gives us the chance to receive revaluation and answers to question that we might be seeking. Hope all you guys can watch because it will be awesome!! 

This week sure was great! It passed by super quick holy cow! In the morning is October with is a little weird to me, but oh well I am excited! It was a pretty normal week in the mission office with not any huge surprises but my comp is doing great! Elder Kroon is really cool I like him a lot. He is learning everything that he needs to know so I will be headed back in to the field here shortly!! 

Hope everyone has a great week!! 

Love Elder Orton 

Pics

 This is our soccer player pose HAHA!

 Pics of Crateus e Caninde

The Lima family and 2 little recent converts

It's Spring!!

September 23, 2017

Well it isn't a lie. 

Yesterday was the first day of spring. I feel like it is just kind of wrong to have spring in September but I guess that's how they like to do that down here. 

This week was a super adventure. It started off on Monday and Tuesday with a little trip. 

I got to go to Canindé and Crateús with Elder L. Santos the housing Secretary. We had to move some stuff from a house that we had to close in Canindé to a new place in Crateús. We woke up super early Monday morning and headed out. It was really fun being the first road trip that I done in almost 2 years. Crateús is a really cool place. They only have a little group there, but it is growing really fast. We had the chance to meet some of the members there. It was an awesome experience.

Yesterday was also insane, we had to stay in the office until 12:00 at night! I have never had to be at the office that late. It was so weird! Today we also got to go to the airport again so we´have driven around Fortaleza quite a bit today. 

The best part about this week is that we have a Baptism today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YAYYAYAYAY 

We are so excited! Her name is Fabula but I think it would be cooler if her name was FABULOUS. 

It has been such a cool experience getting to teach her this last week. I am pretty sure she has been the person most ready to join the church that I have ever met. We have known her for a long time because of the fact that she comes to church every Sunday. The reason she couldn't get Baptized is because she lived a long ways away but only passed here on the weekends. We were just sitting in church last week and her and her husband came up to us and where like "guess what"?? I started throwing wild guesses at what she wanted me to say but just couldn't get it. Then they told us they moved here so that was so cool. She was like I WANT TO GET BAPTIZED NEXT SATURDAY! 

This week sure was great!! Love you guys so much!!!! Have a good one! 

Elder Orton 

Mais uma

Saturday Sept. 16, 2017

Hey folks! 

This week has been great we have been so busy!!! 

We started a new transfer this week which was crazy! There were lots 

and lots of stuff going on in the mission office. We had 11 new missionarys get here 

which is pretty exciting. I always love seeing the new missionarys come in. 

Now I am companions with Elder Kroon and Elder Hulme. We are in a trio again.

This is the third time I have been in a trio in the mission. I was already comps. with Elder Hulme 

but now that Elder Soper left Elder Kroon is here with us. I will be training him here in the mission 

office! That means I will only have about 5 more weeks here in the office then I will go back to the field! He is a really cool kid. A good old Idaho boy. He is pretty short but he is pretty strong. I'm pretty sure he could break sombody in two if we ever got into a bad situation. This week we didn't have very much time in the field because of the transfer. We were in the office alot. I am pretty excited for this next Monday because I will be doing something different! I have never had the chance to get out of the city of Fortaleza my whole mission but me and one of the secretarys have to do a move from one city to another and they are super far away from here. I will go to canindé and Crateús. Look them up they are a ways out. 

Super grateful for every moment I have to be here in Brasil. It really has been the best experience ever!! Love you all Thanks for all the support!!!! 

Love Elder Orton