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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!!

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 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

Semana Santa

Saturday April 15,2017

Hey ya´ll!
 Hope everyone is having a great Saturday and making lots of boiled eggs for Easter! haha

This week was great! Just another normal week here in Brasil. Easter is so weird here.

It's so much different. Everybody celebrates Easter here. It's more of like a Christmas. 

It's not just kids and candy. Everybody buys presents for one another. Presents for 

mom, dad, grandpa, grandma, kids, neighbor , dog. This week is called Semana Santa 

or in other words(Holy Week). Easter is a thing that lasts a week. Yesterday was a 

Holiday called Paixão de Cristo. Nobody was out. It's weird on Holidays everyone just 

disappears. The roads were empty everything was closed.  The only thing was all 

the Catholic churches were full of people. They go to church like 2 times a year week 

of Easter and Christmas. 

Easter really is such a great holiday. It's not about easter eggs or presents but it's about 

Christ and the life He lived. One thing I love so much talking about. Our Savior and the 

love He has for every one of us. A week we have to focus on HIm. We should always be 

living in a way that Christ is the center of our lifes but a great week to reflect on him. 

When all the people here focus on his cruxifiction and death we talk about how He lives.

What a great thing! A great victory! He has already won it. We just need to follow Him. 

He suffered and died for us and rose again. And now we can rise again too! I'm so 

grateful for Him for this. We can become clean through Him. That's why I'm here ...

because of Him and what He's done for me. Now I need to help others experience the same 

joy. Hope you guys have a great Easter. Take a minute and think about Him and what he 

has done for you! 

Love you all!!! 

Have a great week! 

Elder Orton 

Conferencia Geral meu chapa

April 8, 2017

Hey everyone!
 This week was great! We had transfers again but I'll be staying here! 

This will be my 5th transfer in this area already... Crazy! 

I really like this area, i'ts a little different and people are a little more closed off

but I've learned alot here. I've had to rely on the Lord for lots of help and guidence.

I'm excited to stay here and see what more I can do to help the people in this area. 

The week was pretty crazy as far as the transfers went! We had 13 missionaries 

leaving and 13 new ones coming in, so lots of stuff to do. It was great and 

everything worked out. I'm just glad it's Saturday and I have a little time to breath...

it was so nonestop this week. 

Last week was General Confrence which was awesome! It's really so cool how 

every 6 months we get to here from our prophet and liders of the church. 

Messages that are meant for us, modern day revelation. I really loved listening

to the messages and I need to listen to them again. One thing I really loved 

was when President Monson talked about the importance of the Book Of Mormon.

Something so simple but so important. It's something the liders of the church always talk about.

but why?? Maybe because it's so important! I've come to learn that here in the mission. 

Before I always read the Book of Mormon and I knew it was important but never really 

understood why. Now I can see how key the daily scripture study is in life. I have 

came to know my Lord and Savior so much through simple study everyday. I've 

seen it change lifes. I've seen people change every aspect of the way they live 

through one simple book. There is really a battle between good and evil ever so clear, 

but the adversary doesn't want you to believe that. The Book of Mormon gives us that strength 

to overcome the adversary to resist sin and it helps us learn more about our Savior. 

I'm so greatful for the Book Of Mormon. The chance I have had to discover this for myself 

I know it can change any life. Love being out here and teaching people about the Gospel.

It's so perfect! 

Love you all!!!!

Have a great week and always remember to read! :) 

Love Elder Orton