Friday, April 22, 2011

Brazilians!!!! I need some help with translation on this one!

Para meus amigos brasilaidos nos estados Unidos:
Eu quero contar voces uma experiencia que eu tive ontem a noite, nos fomos para a casa de alguiem chama se Marta, ella tem uma familia com dois filhas e um esposo, um das filhas dela tem necessidades especiais, e eu contei ella que a familia dela pode ficar juntos, para sempre, depois desta vida tambem, e eu tetifique sobre meu irmao, Gregory e ella disse que a familia dela vai ser batisada com autoridade de Deus. E ella me contou que a filha que tem necessidades especiais tem uma buneca e quando nos entramos ella comecou a adorar esa buneca e Marta disse que eso e´ porque ella teve grande amor para nos mas ella coloqou amor della nesa buneca.
E´ muita maravilhosa porque eu pensei que eu ajudei esa familia, mas em verdade enquanto eu estava ensinando esa familia Deus estava me ensinando. Eu so´ quero contar voces que eu sou muito grato pelo todo seu ajuda antes da missao para que eu pudesse ter experiencias a mesma desa. Eu sei que Deus coloqou voces em minha vida para me preparar, muito Obrigado!

Thursday, April 21, 2011

letter 4/20/2011, Gregory experience, some English, some Portuguese



Hey Ma, I love you so much, thanks for everything and I am so glad that the family is doing so great, and that is awesome, Alex is going to Baptise Shawnee!!!!! He is o carra! haha
How is Blake doing? Iv been thinking about him with the whole Autism Spaeaks thing.
I don´t have much time today, but just so you know, you quessed exactly how life for me here is about 90 percent of the time, but 10 percent of the time I have amazing experiences. And I want to share one of them with you today,
So, last night the Elders from Antares told my companion that they were having difficulties with motivating this family to be baptised, the Mom had a great desire and she is ready, but her husband is not and she wants to have their baptism all be at the same time, so my companion felt strongly that all 4 of us go there together and he felt stronly that I shoul lead on this one.
When we went there I saw something that I have only dreamed of, one of Marta and Milton´s daughters Mareana is special needs and cannot speak, she has a sister named Janaena who helps watch her, I was amazed, I could not have imagined a more perfect scenario, so my companion entered, and after the opening prayer left me to speak. As I looked at this family I cannot describe the love that I felt for them, and so, after a moment of taking everything in I felt strongly to say That I know that my Heavenly Father will help me to say exactly what I need to say, Then I told them about Gregory and my life and how the knowledge that I chose him to be my brother in the pre-earth life made everything ok. And then, with all of the love and power that I could muster I told them all of my dreams for Gregory and me after this life and that I know that my family can be together forever, then I took out a picture of my family.
And I turned to the mother and I told her that sometimes life is hard but I told her that there have been times in my life when my mother has been a light for our family and then I testified to her about the spirit and I asked her if she would be baptised so that she could be a light for her family, the way my mother has been a light for mine. After I asked her this question she said with all of the strength she had "Vou!!!" Shortly after I had testified to the family as individuals and as a group, Marta told me something I also did not expect, Mareana had a little pink doll that she had been adoring while we were there. Marta said that she knew that she could trust what I said because Marta takes her love for others and puts it into that doll and when we entered she felt great love for the doll, then I realized, why Gregory likes cars.
She finished by telling me how greatful she was for the sacrifice of my family and that she feels like while my family was going through that her family was as well, and she told me that even though our families are a half a world apart we now have this connection, and she knows that while I was being prepared in my family, their family was being prepared for us.
I want to finish by testifying of that which she spoke, I know that my Heavenly Father loves me and that he loves that family, and before I entered that house there were pieces of me that were rough and broken because of the experiences of my life, but when I left that house I felt clean and purified. It amazes me that Heavenly Father chose someone with the imperfections and brokeness that I have to that family that together we were made whole. Even when I was going through some of my hardest times with Gregory and my family as a whole I now see that I was being prepared, the good and the bad sides of me to help that family, and when I helped them, they helped me. I want to testify that the work of the Lord truly is a marvelous work, and a wonder. And I say these thing in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen
-Elder McOmber
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Para meus amigos brasilaidos nos estados Unidos:
Eu quero contar voces uma experiencia que eu tive ontem a noite, nos fomos para a casa de alguiem chama se Marta, ella tem uma familia com dois filhas e um esposo, um das filhas dela tem necessidades especiais, e eu contei ella que a familia dela pode ficar juntos, para sempre, depois desta vida tambem, e eu tetifique sobre meu irmao, Gregory e ella disse que a familia dela vai ser batisada com autoridade de Deus. E ella me contou que a filha que tem necessidades especiais tem uma buneca e quando nos entramos ella comecou a adorar esa buneca e Marta disse que eso e´ porque ella teve grande amor para nos mas ella coloqou amor della nesa buneca.
E´ muita maravilhosa porque eu pensei que eu ajudei esa familia, mas em verdade enquanto eu estava ensinando esa familia deas estave me ensinando, eu sei que esto fazendo a trabalho do Senhor!

Saturday, April 16, 2011

Here is his address if you want to write Christian... 4/2011

Elder Christian McOmber
Av. Dom Avenio Branoao 333 sala 402
Ed. Work Center-Farol
Maceio-AL
57001-190

First letter from Macieo, dated March 30, 2011

Dear Family and Friends,

That is awesome Ma, it is great to hear that everything is going well back home. I am loving life in Brasil, everyday is an adventure! I love my companion, my pai is the man! And Today I met my avo, (pai de meu pai). Working with Elder Eggett has been way chill, it is fun to work with him because we both listen to eachother´s ideas, and Dad, bringing the parachute was a great idea, we have already used it once at a ward party, it was a hit! This next month my companion and I are organizing a ward talent show and we are going to invite everyone that we talk to. We are also going to make little handouts for General Conference, we want people to know that they have the oppurtunity to hear from a real life prohet, today!!!!

Finally, I want to tell a little story, one day my companion and I went to this house, the mother let us in and we taught her the first lesson, when I was done telling her the Joseph Smith story she told us something amazing. About the same time that I came to Brasil she saw a pastor on TV that told everyone to find their church, and so she prayed that she could find the right church. She told us that she knew in her heart that our church is true. Then I told her that I have been preparing my whole life to teach someone like her, and she said "And I have been waiting,hoping, and working, and doing the best I can for my children, so that I could hear these things." Today she is being married so that she can be baptised this saturday with her children.

I want everyone to know that I know that this church is true. I want you all to know that there are people waiting everywhere in the world for missionaries to teach them, I know that Marenilda was being prepared, and in reality she was hoping, and waiting for this message, and those of us who have the truth must share it! I am so proud to hear what my family is doing to share the gospel, and I know that they will always share it. I love this work, and I am so happy to be able to serve here, in Brasil. And to be able to help the people of Brasil to know of our Heavenly Father and our Savior, Jesus Christ, and that families can be together forever. I know with my whole heart that these things are true, and I say them in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Much love to everyone, thanx for all of the support!!
-Elder McOmber