Bom Dia!

Saturday March 11, 2017

This week was great! I can't believe how fast it went by! 

I'ts been raining lately here in Fortaleza. I'ts almost rained everyday 

for about a month now. I'm really enjoying it... it's been so nice. 

The only diffrence here is that you don't get the fresh rain smell.

I don't know why it just smells different here. One thing for sure 

is that it rains hard. It's not the little wimpy Utah rain. It's 

tropical rain. If it starts you better hide because you'll be swimming 

in the street before you know it. Alot of people have been sick 

because of the rain. Everyone thinks it's cold when it rains here... but 

I'm like WHAT ARE YOU CRAZY ITS STILL 90 DEGREES!.  

This week was really great! We found a family. A mom and a daughter.

Their names are Adilia and Heiloisa.This week my testimony has even

gotten stronger in trusting Him. Everything really is the timing of 

the Lord. Sometimes He tests your patience but there is a time for 

everything. That's why i'ts so great that it's His work, because He is 

always there guiding the work. He always guides you were you need

to be and gives you the words to speak. This family is great. They already 

have accepted to be baptized so we are working on getting them ready. 

What a blessing it is in our lifes, I dont know if I could say that enough.

I know I feel like I always say the same thing, but I just can't help it. 

THE GOSPEL IS AWESOME! It changes lives. I love it. 

Really love you guys! 

HAve a great week!!! 

Elder Orton

Marco ja?

Saturday March 4, 2017

HEY FAM! 

Hope everybody had a fabulous week and things didn't get to 

crazy during carnaval up there in America. This week was 

great it wasn't the most productive but it was good. Carnaval 

was this week so we basically didn't get to do almost any 

teaching. We had to be home by 7:00 everyday. We 

basically would just go to the office leave at around 5:00 

in the afternoon run to our area and do something and then 

run home. Carnaval also closed basically everything. 

Nothing was open this week. Looked like the city was 

abandoned during the day. 

I'm still a little confused what carnaval is all about..

It literally makes no sense. There would be people 

in random costumes or people drinking or just weird 

random stuff. Looked like halloween with a twist.

Monday Elder Soper and I were in the road and 

at the corner. A car passed by blasting music with

some dude riding on the hood with a cardboard 

cutout of a pirate head while people followed behind 

dancing weird. We were just like..... WHAT???

I've been studying this week. I've thought alot about 

how perfect Gods plan for us is. It was nothing thrown

together. It was planned perfectly and everything evolves

around the plan. This is why we are here! We are here to learn!

It's a step in the plan! I just really see the love God  has for us in 

everything. Everyday I have a new experience or something happens 

and it just lets me know more and more He is there. God is so real!

He is in everything that we do. Makes me so happy everyday to be here

because I get to serve him. 

Really love you guys all so much!!! 

HAve a great WEEK!!!!

LOve Elder Orton!

Carnaval

Saturday Feb. 25, 2017

Hey everyone!! Happy Carnaval!!! 

Yesterday the biggest holiday of the year started here in lovely Brasil. 

It's called Carnaval and i'ts crazy!! Just think about crazy and you'll

think about carnaval! 

This week was great! We had transfers this week which was an 

adventure! Nothing to crazy happened. I didn't change areas and I'm here 

with the one and only Elder Soper, so life is good. It was a lot of

work this week getting everyone home and all the new missionarys here. 

I'm actually getting really good at translating which is cool! When new 

missionarys get here they basically don't understand anything so when

President and the assistents give there training somebodys got to help them out. 

I just sit behind them and traslate everything they are saying. I'ts pretty hard,

but I'm pretty much a Jedi at it.

This week we found a new investigator named Gabriel. He lives at the very end of our area

so me and Elder Soper have to walk so far to teach him. His whole family are less actives and some want to return to church and he wants to get baptized! YAY! 

I really love everyday here in the mission! I hope everyone loves life too! 

Always remember to do what is right!! 

Love you ALL!!! 

Elder Orton

:)

Saturday February 18, 2017

Hi everyone!

This week was great! Can't say it was anything less. 

Nothing to crazy happened this week... was a pretty 

normal week. Also want to wish everyone a Happy 

Valentines day. Nobody celebrates it here in Brasil.

It's called dia das namoradas, and it's in June or

something... not even cool. I hope everyone had a 

great week too! 

This week we have been getting ready for the 

transfer. It's coming up on Tuesday. The week 

before is always really busy in the mission 

office. There will be a lot of people leaving 

the mission and a lot of people coming in.

The mission should have some changes so we will

see what will happen. 

I've continued studing Jesus The Christ 

this week which has been really interesting.

I'm studing in English because that book

is pretty complicated in parts. Sometimes

i'll be reading and i'll feel like I just got 

to Brasil again and I have no idea what 

it just said. I really love studing about the 

Savior and his life. I always think about 

him in all that iIdo. I'm so grateful for Him. 

That's why I'm here. So others can know Him too.

Love you all! 

Always do what is right! 

Do what He would do! 

Love Elder Orton

Rain

Saturday February 11, 2017

Hey everyone! Happy Saturday! 

Elder Soper and I had a wish come true today! Last night when we were going to bed 

Elder Soper said, Wow...it would be so cool if it rained tomorrow. We woke up this morning

and it was pouring and it hasn't stopped all day. I told him next time he wishes for 

something it better be a Ferrari to pick up our investigator Sunday morning. 

This week was really great. There is always alot happening her'e but I love it.

I always like being on the move doing something diffrent. Weve been 

having success with some of our investigators too. We've been teaching 

a young women named Marcia. She's talked to the missionarys before 

but now it really clicked with her. Now she just has to get married. 

She's been working hard this week to figure that out. Here in Brasil

it's seriuosly so hard to get people married because you need paper work

and money and that's one thing nobody has. One thing she said after 

we taught her one night was that everything would work out for marriage 

so she could have the chance to be baptized. 

This week I also started reading the book " Jesus The Christ" I've 

always wanted to read it but I;ve never got around to it. I'm only on the fourth chapter 

now but it is so interesting. I love reading about Christ and what he has done for us. 

Really without him we would be lost. Love all he has done for me. I want to be 

more and more like him every day in my life. I hope you guys do too. 

He lived perfectly so we need to give it our all. Really love the mission. 

This really is the best thing I've ever done! 

Love you all! 

Elder Orton

Happy Saturday!

February 4, 2017

Happy Saturday. 

Looks like it's Saturday again. This week was great of course.

Filled with new adventures every day. Sometimes here in

the mission you lay in bed and think about things you did that

morning and it almost feels like it was a different day. It's 

crazy how many things you can get done in one day here!

I think if everyone planned like missionarys we would end

with world hunger, be without war, and everyone would

hold the door open for that little old lady that walks really slow. 

Just goes to show maybe if we were a little more proactive

we could make the world an even better place. 

We had a lot of adventures this week. I think I was out 

of the mission office for most of the week. I was with 

Elder J. Flores and Elder da Rocha fixing things.

It's pretty cool here in Brasil because everything is really

simple how they build it so you can really learn how to fix

anything. We also helped some more Elders move this 

week.

Me and Elder Soper also had some cool experiences 

with some of our recent converts too.

We printed photos of their baptisms and made 

a lesson out of it. When we gave them the photos we asked

them to think a little bit and tell us how they felt that day. 

Auxiliadora, Eduarda and Livia (Mom And Daughters)

Told us that they felt something very different. They felt so 

happy, so clean ,so pure. They said like they never had done

 anything wrong again. It's the best to here the testimonys 

of recent converts. You can see the change. They understand,

there happy, they are a different person. They want to do better 

every day because they know the difference. Something we lack

as people that have known the gospel for so long. We need 

that testimony that "fire". Think about how you felt that day!

What changed in your life? And where are you now? 

The coolest thing is we can pray everyday to recieve a 

testimony to feel that truthfulness again, and God will respond

to our prayers. 

Love you all so much, thanks for all the love and emails!

Love Elder Orton 

A Revolution

January 28, 2017

Hey fam! 

Looks like its snowing lots and lots! Feel free to stick some in a box

and send it to Brasil, they could use it. 

This week was a pretty crazy week. We had a mission conference! 

It was awesome. President Bonini gave a really good training, 

I loved it. He talked about proactivity and how we can help 

others even more. The thing that's so cool about the mission

is it's really a training for life. There's so many things you learn 

here about helping people and working hard and being proactive. 

Scripture study prayer etc. etc. but really it doesn't stop here in the field. Everything 

you learn here goes on after. It doesn't stop here. That's why 

we have to continue every day. Just because we've had 

spiritual experiences in the past or we've learned a lot, we 

have to continue. We need these experiences every day for spiritual

health. How can you eat a buffet one day and then not eat until 

a year later. Just doesn't work. We need to eat everyday, and that's 

the same way spiritually too. So we have do work everyday to

have that power, that light of Christ. We need to read ,we need to pray, 

we have to be our bests everyday to be spiritually strong.

Sorry the emails so short this week but that doesn't mean 

I don't love you guys.

LOVE YOU GUYS!

Elder Orton