Elder Tanner Bollar New Hampshire, Manchester/Brazil, Florianopolis

Hey Everyone!! Start us right off, this week we had a lesson with the family of our recent convert!! It was so cool to have a member at the lesson and that member was someone we baptized!! We taught them the Restoration and they loved it! It's always fun when people have questions and this family had questions me tell ya. The one that called most attention was asking if we pray to Joseph Smith. Which we promptly told them we dont haha We explained it a little more and they grasped the concept that we can be so grateful for everything he did, but in the end we always pray to Heavenly Father! It was so fun to teach them! They also had a cat that liked me a lot so that was cool haha We got to teach the Restoration to another new family this week!! Their question that stands out the most was: is Mormon our god? Hahaha which we addressed faster than praying to Joseph haha We explained that the reason the church is called the church of Jesus Christ, is because He is our God. And that...

Hey Everyone! Boy did we have a sick week haha Last pday i was sick and then it got worse until Thursday and I slowlyyyy started to get better, but my companion started getting worse on Thursday and is pretty sick right now haha But we still had some miracles!! Since I dont have a whole ton of time left, our goal has been to get all of our friends as ready as possible! So we started with one of our old friends! Hes been struggling with getting over word of wisdom stuff, but hes come so far!! We were able to sit down and ask him what kind of goals he wants to make. He said that he wants to be baptized before I go (which I was okay with haha) so we marked his baptism for the 4th of June! We were able to read some scriptures with him and show him that today is his day to decide. Because how bold we would have to be to assume we have tomorrow. He completely understood and said he was gonna be ready!! Send him some prayers! Then we went to the couple's house and had a real nice sit down...

Olááá Everyone!! We had some miracles this week!! First and foremost, our convert who got baptized two weeks ago, brought his whole family to church!! We were so proud of him!! We immediately went over and talked with them all and our convert goes "so let's mark some lessons right now, and let's have at least two lessons a week." I was so excited!! Not one but two lessons this week!! Then the coolest thing, we got to give him the priesthood :') It really made me remember of when I got it back at 12 and I had so many feelings!! This church is so true!! With the couple that's always so apt to change, we had a stressful week!! So we needed to take them into the city building with like 20 documents for EACH of them so we can get them married! Some how, by a miracle from God, they didnt have any problems!! It all went very smooth:) but then when they asked for my ID I whipped out my Utah Drivers license and they said that wasnt valid and I was like "are you ki...

E ai everyone, we got some miracles!! This week we were able to teach the couple and have a super good lesson! We were tasked to teaching the Law of Chastity! Which has super importance to God as we know. I I that the best way to go about it would be to read a few verses on eternal marriage and just show to them that God has God tthings waiting for them and all they need to do is take them! So after we read the few verses, my companion explained a little bit more specifically teaching them about it! And at the end we asked them if they had any questions. And the boyfriend said "I dont really have any questions just more of some thoughts" and I was like please share!! haha he said "I feel like we need to get married as soon as possible to not be living in sin". I was stunned. He totally grasped the idea of how important this is to God and wants to start making changes right now!!! The spirit honestly works so strong with the couple and I know its because they are mak...

Olá tudo mundo!! This week we taught a few more reinforcement lessons to our friends who are struggling with the word of wisdom, but these lessons were so good!! For one of our friends we talked about the vision of the tree of life. And when I shared what I thought, I talked about the verse that says: "And after they had tasted of the fruit they were ashamed, because of those that were scoffing at them; and they fell away into forbidden paths and were lost." So from that i talked about how it is the same with us! When we start to get a testimony of something, we learn that not following through with that thing is going down a forbidden path! And then that line "were lost". So SCARY! Basically I told him that now that he is gaining a testimony, he gets to have more blessings but live at a higher standard! And he said he is ready to stay off the Forbidden paths!! Then this week we started teaching a new couple!! Yall. I have never ever had anyone in my mission, pay at...

Hey Everyone!! This week was so good! To start us off, this past week we started teaching a new friend!! Hes super interested in the church which has been so cool because we have been able to teach him 3 times already!! Yesterday we were able to teach the Gospel of Jesus Christ, which is the third lesson we usually teach. So we got through it and we could tell he was grasping the parts we were teaching (as much as anyone new can haha) and at the end we asked him if he wanted to be baptized!! He looked us both in the eyes for like 30 seconds and just said "that is something I want". It was so cool!! So we're gonna hopefully get him taught everything else this week!! Next is our other friend that we have been teaching for a little now! He has received all the normal lessons so now it's more focused on smaller ones to help them get ready to be baptized so this week we taught the word of wisdom. It was fun to teach cuz we could tell he had a problem with it, buttttt we as...