Elder Tanner Bollar New Hampshire, Manchester/Brazil, Florianopolis

Hey yall?? This week I had a scary story!! We were driving home from zone conference that is about two hours away. And when we were driving home, I was passed out because zone conference took out all my strength. (Remember that I'm not super tall but here in brazil I'm relatively large). So I woke up to our driver jerking the whole car and thus my head getting sent into the roof! It turns out he was swerving to avoid a big street dog which he didnt and the whole front of the car got destroyed. And I walked away with a good headache for two days haha But I learned a lesson! When we were leaving our meeting I heard a voice say "put on your seatbelt" and i said back "this is brazil, they dont use them here" later I learned that I should've put on my seatbelt!!! Listen to those little promptings!! I got to do a super fun interview this week! It was a little 10 year old girl and why it was so fun is the following! I would ask this little girl some hard questi...

Hey Y'all! How are you?? This week I wanted to talk about our friend Alexandre! This guy is so cool! We got to teach him the Gospel of Jesus Christ!! I think one of my favorite parts was when my companion had just finished teaching his portion of faith and then it transitioned to my turn, and I immediately started teaching. But then he said the following "Elder Bollar, can you wait a second so I can write down what elder Ribeiro said?" I was like "yes please!" if you're actually taking notes, I'll give you all the time you need hahaha then later we talked about enduring to the end, and he really liked that point. He talked about how after we do big things in our lives, if we don't keep doing the little things, those big things dont even matter! And I could see how true it was! We always need to be doing the little things to keep us on the path! 2 Nephi 33:6 I glory in plainness; I glory in truth; I glory in my Jesus, for he hath redeemed my soul from...

Hello Everyone! This week we had some good experiences so we can just hop right in!  We found that some earlier sisters had worked in a smaller city outside the main city and we decided that we we're gonna go out there and give it a go! I'll just say that was the best decision ever haha we basically got to knock doors for 5 hours straight to a bunch of people that were super willing to hear about Jesus. At one point we got to a house where this lady was washing clothes so we went up, introduced ourselves and asked if we could come back another day because she was busy and she goes, no no! Please sit down! I could never turn away representatives of Christ. My mind was blown!!! So we got to have a super amazing lesson with her right there At another door that we clapped, this older man of probably 80 years old life in him opened his window and we introduced ourselves and then he opened the front door and his son hurried to the door and was like "hey who are you guys!" S...

Hey Everyone!! This week was a little slow haha we had some medical problems haha My companion ate some wrong food and starting to have a reaction, so we went to the hospital where they proceeded to give him medice he is allergic to. So his face swole up like a ballon hahaha so we had to wait most of the week out, waiting for him to get back to normal. So this week I'm excited to catch some miracles! Last night I had a little miracle! I was doing some random calls and I called this one lady and she answered. But then she hung up Haha But i wasn't taking no for an answer! So I found her number on WhatsApp and called her again! This time she seemed a lot happier because she answered and let me talk! Haha When we got talking she said she didn't have a whole lot of time because she was going through a rough time. I said a prayer right there thanking Heavenly Father for helping me call her! So I said Sister, can we call you on tuesday and say a prayer and share a message about J...

Hey y'all?? How was your week? We gonna start out with a story: We had just gotten done with some service so we were pretty beat. We got in the elevator and pushed the level 4 button. So we get there and we walk to our door, but the key wasn't working. And I was kinda freaking out cuz that's the only way in. So I started pushing the door and pulling the handle a little to try and get it to unlock and my comp was like "oh no" so he started getting even more aggressive with the door and I was just like "man I'm never gonna get to shower" when I looked at the door number and realized we had somehow pushed the level three button and we were on the wrong floor hahahaha we just looked at each other and walked to the elevator laughing so hard hahaha whoever lives there definitely thought we were trying to break in hahaha But on with missionary stuff hahah this week we did exchanges with a member and it was so fun!! Sadly it was raining but as two veteran co...

Hellooo Everyone!! This week was so much fun! We were able to stay so busy! We had one lesson with a friend where we got done teaching the Plan of Salvation and I asked her where she wanted to go after this life. And she happily replied with, living with Heavenly Father and Jesus! And then I said, we for us to get there, they ask a little bit of us. And one of those things is that we get baptized. So we gave her an invite to be baptized and she said that is what she wanted!! There are definitely some elect people in Curitibanos At one point we had a little bit of free time and we didn't know what to do, but out of the blue we both felt like we needed to call one of our friends and just check up on her and see how she was. And when we called she gave us the news that her husband had just asked for a divorce... that was one of the harder things to hear. But I know that we were guided by the Lord to be there in that exact moment. We were able to say a prayer and read a scripture and s...

Howdy Everyone! This week we have done a lot a lot a lot of walking haha Our ward sent us to find a lot of members and I think I put out 10% of my shoes from all the walking Haha But it was super fun! We got to see a ton of members and be able to help them get back to a place where they feel they can come back to church! A little christlike love is usually all it takes! We were teaching one of our friends this week about the Gospel of Jesus Christ! Which very simply is the 4th article of faith! It was so much fun to teach her about this! We told her what each point is, then we went her to a scripture that talked about that point, then after that we asked her to tell us what she thought each point meant from the scriptures and she did so good!! She's already learning how to understand them!! Great steps forward! Other than it a few small lessons it was a ton of walking haha But every minute of every week teaches me a lesson! Missions are worth every sacrifice! 3 Nephi 9:20 And ye sh...