Germany and Africa

September 26, 2016

Hey everyone! I hope life is great!

This week was fantastic down here in Brazil! The only thing is that everyone thinks I'm

German and my companion is African. People will yell at me when I walk down the street..

"Hey Germany!!" This week I also went on two divisions which was cool. I was with Elder Latão 

for one and Elder Lambert on the other. Elder Latão is from the North of Brazil. It's funny how fast he talks, he's faster than a formula one racer! 

This week Katia was baptized!!! I'm so happy for her! She drank so much coffee everyday but ever since we taught The Word Of Wisdom she put an end to that! She was excited for baptizm! 

It's great to see peoples lives change! 

Next week is conference  too!! I'm so excited! What a cool thing it is to have the chance to hear from prophets of God that receive revalation for our days! The prophet today is no different as in times of old. It's so cool to teach this everyday, to tell people we have a prophet today that lives, and can recieve revalation to help us and guide us!

 Selfie!!

Baptism of Katia.

This week was good and we are having a good time here in Brazil!

 Love you all!

Elder O.

Taller

September 19, 2016

Heyyya people!

Hope everyone is great! This week was definitely an adventure! 

It seems like Monday is just a lucky day, around 4 oclock the phone always seems 

to ring with news on the other side. Last Monday it was an emergency transfer! 

So now I have a new companion named Elder Grossi here in the same area. Elder Rocha my child 

was transfered to the mission office, he will now be a secretary there! haha. The only weird thing is Elder Grossi is taller than I am... weird and he's Brazilian too. So now I am no longer the tallest person in Brazil. 

This week we have been working alot with our investigator Katia. She has been working really hard this week to not drink coffe. She has been doing so good and is preparing for baptizm! Her baptizm is marked for this Saturday which is so exciting! 

We also talked to some funny people this week. We knocked on a door and some young adult/ kid answered the door. I said "Hey Brother, how are you?" He than responded fastly "FIRST DONT CALL ME BROTHER! ITS A FAULT OF RESPECT, AND SECONDLY MY NAME IS RAFIELE!" He then tried to be all intimidating cracking his knuckles and I said " Are you happy today?" he said he wasn't happy... big suprise! But we invited him to church so it's all good! People here are funny.

I've been reading in Alma this week and it's awesome! The love they have for their brothers and sisters that are lost, and how much Alma and his brothers trust in the Lord! Always rememeber to trust the Lord, he will always help you and you will be happy!! 

Love you all

Elder Orton

View from the Mission office

Lukes turtle

September 12, 2016

Hey Everyone!!!

Hope everyone is doing fantabulous!!

This week Me and Elder Rocha got to see a couple miracles! 

We have been working so hard

to find new investigators and fasting and it really paid off!!

This week we have been teaching a women named Katia! 

She is a middle aged women we found making a contact with in the road. She takes care of her mom that has parkinson disease. She is Catholic but was really open to our message! We taught her a lot this week. She feels what she is doing is right but still has doubts. We have focused a lot on the Book of Mormon with her. As I have been reading the Book of Mormon lately  the stories have really came to life, and I have been able to feel the power too. So we have been really focusing on the Book of Mormon. I know through the Book Of Mormon people lives can change and people can come to know God! 

This week we also taught alot with Bruno a member in our Branch. He is seriously the coolest person I have ever taked to! He's blind but that doesn't stop him from anything. He knows how to do more stuff than normal people. haha!!  But I love bringing him with us because people really listen when he talkes and we can really enter any house with him. 

We also got to do a little march thing in the street with our branch as a service project on Wednesday telling people about the danger of misquitos. The only bummer was one of the members got his car stolen when we were out doing it... Brazil.

This week was awesome i love being out here! Love you all!!

Elder Orton

September 5, 2-16

Setembro

Hey fam!! And friends!!!

It's already September! What the heck, where has time gone???

This week is the week of transfers!! I'll be staying here in

 Granja Portugal with my companion Elder Rocha!

 If you want to see my house look up Rua Jose Abilio 

1449 Granja Portugal Fortaleza Ceara Brasil! 

Our house is pretty beautiful! Also got a envelope with 

like a million letters from all the cousins this week! 

Thanks guys I feel loved! 

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

It was pretty awesome. He gave a really good talk!

 One thing that I really liked is he talked about how we are the lords angels,

 and since we are, we need to live like angels too. 

We need to be the angels in the lives of others. 

He talked about the importance of obedience too! 

Let us be 100% obedient!

I've been reading in Alma lately  and I love the story Amon, 

and how he was able to teach so many people. 

The important thing is he didn't just show up and start preaching 

but he was an example and friend to everyone.

 I thought about this latley. I need to be as better friend.

 Let us all be better friends in this world, examples,

 let people see the light of Christ in your eyes! 

The light of Christ needs to be shared with this 

world so don't be afraid to step out of your confort zone!! 

Love you guys so much and love life!!! 

Elder Orton

August 29,2016

Hey everyone!!! 

This week was gggreat!! It's fun to finally speak Portuguese

 and know what everyone is saying! 

This week I got to go on splits with Elder Soper. 

I always like to go on splits and learn new things with other missionaries.

 It's also funny when your with other Americans because people 

will just talk about you right in front of your face and they 

don't think we can understand them. 

The funny thing is.. we know what they are saying, so that just makes it awkward. 

Also just about everybody here thinks I am German... 

What the heck people I'm AMERICAN and I sure am proud to be one.

 When I was on splits with Elder Soper we just rolled 

with it so I was german for a day which was pretty fun. 

This week was a little hard as far as the teaching goes.

 We haven't found any new investigators for a while now, 

so this week we will do alot of searching!

 But the good news is Caiu was baptized this week!

 I think as adults we could have a couple things we could learn from children. 

They are always so ready to listen and will ponder and think about whatever you say. 

I think lots of times in our lives we get so caught up in

 the grove of things we never take time to stop and listen.

 We all just need to take time in our lives to pause 

for a moment and think about what we are doing. 

When we do this God can speak to us through the Holy spirit.

 Never forget that. So take time every day, stop read your scriptures 

and say your prayers and God will talk to you. It's so cool being here everyday 

its different but awesome!!!

We have transfers next week so I'm

excited to see what will happen!!

I LOVE YOU ALL!! 

August 22, 2016

Hello It's Me.....

Hey everyone!! I hope everyone had a magical
 week because mine was pretty good!

This week lots of things happened! 

First Brazil won against Germany in soccer so I'm happy!

I think if they would of lost I would be dead! 

Everyone here thinks I'm from Germany so it's kind of weird

 but hey I'll just learn to live with it!

 I think our house is a zoo! It's pretty awesome!! 

Every day we come home we find a new animal or some giant bug

 in our house, and hey admission is free! 

This week Felipe was baptized!!! YAYYYY!!!

 Felipe was just a person waiting to find the missionaries!

 He's only know the church for one week and he goes to seminary every day!

The only bad news was that they drained the pool:( 

We don't get to baptize there anymore.

 So this week we baptized in a giant bucket. It only took 4 tries!!! 

Me and Elder Rocha are working hard here, 

I think we learned a little patience this week. 

This week we got alot of no´s,

 but it's okay we only baptize the people that say YES! 

Always working hard here and learning new things.

Love it!

Love you all! 

August 15, 2016

   Hey everyone!!! How's things up there in America?

 I hear America is getting richer and richer every day! 

All people talk about here is how many gold medals America has.

 I also hope all the children are enjoying their last days 

of freedom before school starts again!

This week was quite the adventure! Lots has happened! 

To start off last Monday me and Elder Rocha were just enjoying our p-day

 and then the phone rang... So it ended up there was an emergency transfer 

so now I am the District leader. So this week was lots of work! 

I have more things to do now than I have ever had in my life,

 but I think it's pretty fun! 

Monday night after we got home from a little work

 there was a cat in our house.

 We chased it out, but I later found out it peed on my bag.. I was so mad. So I think it be best that, 

that cat doesn't make another visit to our house. haha!

This week we also had the baptism of Angela! 

She is the cousin to our other investigator Paloma that we baptized last week!

 She is awesome! We have been teaching her for a little while 

now and her baptizm was Sunday! She is really shy and an easy going person, 

but what a blessing this gospel is in our lifes! It's so cool being out here every day 

and helping people. It's definitely  not the easiest thing I've ever done but it's so worth it!  

I love it here! 

Lots of things happening in Brasil, always busy here!

The Lord is in the work!

Love you all!

Elder Orton