July 25, 2016

It's the begining of a new transfer again!! Crazy!!

 I'll be staying here with my comp. Elder Rocha, and I'm so excited! 

This area we are in is so good and we have so much success here!!

We have been working so hard latley and it's been great!

This week we had the baptizm of Ivonete. She is such a nice person! 

She is awesome, she went to church 3 months with her friend 

when we found her, but she never talked to missionaries!

 Crazy! I think all the other missionarys thought she was a

 member but baptizing her was awesome this week!

This week we also found a new investigator named Yuri. 

He's 20 years old. It turnes out we were talking to him and he speaks fluent english too! 

It was pretty fun talking to a Brazilian in english. 

But we marked a date for 2 weeks! 

This week was good other wise!

 I also ate liver this week... it was so nasty i almost threw up.

I also got to go on splits with Elder Soper this week a kid from Indiana! 

He's pretty funny and it's always fun to go on splits with other Americans!

I hope everyone is loving life!

Love You all!!

Elder Orton

Ivonete is the one next to me! Also Bruno on the other side of me is probably the coolest guy in the world, he is blind but can navigate the streets of brazil better than anyone else! 

Agua

July 11, 2016
Hey my friends! Hope your week was great! 

All of our hard work is starting to pay off! This week we had two baptisms!

 Heck Ya! 

We have been working with our investigators for about

 3 weeks now and yesterday was their baptisms. Soccorro and Leida!

 Leida is a wife to a recent convert Ceazar. He is awesome!

 He works for a bakery so he always has cake! 

We eat cake almost every day in this area it's awesome!

 But back to the story, so we have been teaching Leida for about 3 weeks 

preparing her for baptism and 2 days before she changed her mind.

 So Saturday we went and talked with her and had an awesome talk

 about baptism and why it is important.

 It's awsome what you can do when you have the spirit.

So this week another family was completed in the gospel, 

so excited for when they can enter the temple!

Soccorro was our other investigator we found just 2 weeks ago. 

She was so ready for the gospel.

We just contacted her in the street one day and made an appoitment to visit her house.

 When we arrived at her house she was waiting for us. 

Every lesson we taught she just understood everything and was so excited for baptism. 

It's so awsome to find people that are waiting for the gospel, 

and even better to see the change in them after they accept it!

 There are always people to share the gospel with so don't be afraid to share!

Here we get to baptize in a pool so that pretty sweet!

My son baptizing for the first time! 

Ceazer got to baptize his wife too! 

July 4 2016

Hello everyone,

 And Happy Birthday America! Hope everyone is loving life!

Man it's weird being down here in Brasil because they don't have the best holiday on earth. 

4th of July. I guess i'll just have to celebrate with myself!

This week was great! Me and Elder Rocha have been working so hard! 

 We want to change this Branch into a ward! 

Time really flys when you work hard! 

This week we found a new investigator named Socorro. 

She prayed and recieved and answer! Always the best thing ever! 

She also came to church with us this week and liked it a lot.

 So next week we have two baptizms! Yay!!

Nothing to crazy happened this week, just a normal week in Brasil! 

Life is good right now! Love you all!

Elder Orton 

Monday June 27, 2016

Hey everyone! 

Things down here in South America have been crazy lately!

 These past two weeks have been so crazy I haven't had a chance to 

stop and think for a little bit. 

I'm here in an area called Granja Portugal! 

It's probably 10 times more ghetto than my old area but I love it! 

I also am training a new compaion Elder Rocha which is crazy. 

He's from são paulo. 

This past week we have been working non stop to find 

investigators because this area was closed a couple months ago so we get to open it again! 

The Ramo here is tiny but the members are awesome! 

They want to help us wiith everything they can.

 Me and Elder Rocha also had to give talkes yesterday in sacrament meeting. 

1st time in mission! I thought I was going to be super nervous but when

 I got up to talk I just talked and it wasnt even hard! 

Yesterday we were talking to some lady in the street 

and asked her if she had a few min. for us to share a message.

 So we walked to her house with her. We taught the restoration and when we

 talked about the first vision she started crying, so that was pretty cool! 

We will return next saturday and we marked a baptism date for 2 weeks so pretty excited! 

Lots has happened here and time really flys its crazy! Love You all!

Elder O

Heres a pic a me and my comp. We bought cake and icecream for my b-day

Monday June 13, 2016

A little late in posting and its pretty short....

Hey guys I hope everyone is having the best day of their lives! 

Big things are happening down here in Brazil!

 Today is transfers and I will be going to a new area and training!

 Life is about to get crazy! I only have 4 months out in the field and I don't speak 

Portuguese  perfectly but I know the lord will qualify those who he calls.

 Super excited to get to train though! 

This week we had a conference with Elder Christansen of the 70! 

It was awesome!

He talked about so many things that where so simple yet so profound. 

One of the things he says he does every day when he wakes up is say 

(What will he teach me today that will help me tommorow?) 

I thought this was awesome! The lord will always teach us something everday of our lives.

 No matter how smart we are or how long we have lived we will always have something to learn,

 we just have to take the time to see God in our lives! 

This week will be busy but excited for what is to come! 

Pray for me! 

Love you all!!!

Elder Orton
​A Pic of me and my father and a beutiful Church!

Monday June 5 2016

Hey everyone it's Monday!! Hope everyone is doing well! I love hearing from you guys!

 Today I hit 5 months out in the mission! So crazy! 

Where does time go? I felt like I just left yesterday! 

This week was good! Nothing to much happened but we've been teaching a family this week,

 Viviane Fransisco, and Ana Clara. They are awesome! 

We marked a date for them this coming Sunday so pretty excited!

 Fransisco and Ana Clara are pretty funny. 

They're 9 and 11 years old and really smart.  

They love to read so everything we give them they'll read it before our next visit. 

Fransisco has read like half a first Nephi this week! 

Pretty impresive for a 9 year old! 

They are are great family, so keep them in your prayers! 

Always great here in brazil! Love the work!
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We also had a little bbq last p-day at the church,

 also played a little basketball also! 

The brazilians are pretty funny when it comes to cooking they love to eat! haha!

Love You All!

Elder Orton  

May 30, 2016

Hey Everyone!!! 

This week was great and we had two baptizms! YAAA!

It's the best when you get to see the change in people lives after they are baptized.

You can see it in their eyes. The gospel really does bring a happiness

 that is found know where else.

This week we baptized Tatiane e Lutiane, a mom and daughter.

 The dad has been less active for many years but they started

 coming to church again and that is where we met them.

 I talked a little about them in the last email I think but Tatiane

 had a cool expierence she shared with us this week. 

So last week they came to church, she talked about how she really wanted to know 

if this church was true so she prayed. 

The night she prayed she had a dream. 

She said she was in a forest and a bright light started to appear above her

 and a voice told her that this was the church to follow. 

She said she woke up and couldn't sleep the rest of the night. 

It was the next day when we taught her the Restoration.

 When we showed her the picure of the first vision she new exactly what it was.

 It was just like her dream.

I see miracles everyday out here in the mission field. 

Grateful to be part of the work!

Love
Elder Orton