Lance's Mission, Curitiba Brazil Oct 2023-2025

It's been a good week, but a cold week. I am pretty sure winter is starting here and it is a little chilly. We have been hangin around 8-13 degrees Celsius lately. We had a solid Division with the AP's this week, it has been a fat minute since i have done one with them and now the new AP's here are Elder Lizana and Elder Rodríguez. During our Divisions I learned some cool stuff that helped me a lot! but first they pulled up to our house the night before, ordered pizza and it was a litt sleepover at our place. Some comforting words that they told me were, "You are doing your best and giving your best. You are a good missionary Elder Martin." It felt really good to hear that, very sincerely too. All God asks of me is my best. I am always hard on myself about wanting to be better and better at doing everything. But I just need to do my best, because that's enough for God. To do my best and trust God to do the rest. I learned and kinda came to a realization t...

Hey y'all, what's goin on?? This week has wipped by! I think that is a good thing cuz those last couple weeks were slow. We had our Temple trip this week! So that was awesome as always! waking up at 3 in the mornin to bus over to the city. somehow i was feeling more tired at the beginning of the week and after the temple i was feeling better and had more energy to do things! One thing that I learned this week is that I need to chill out and give myself a break. i always am thinking i am doing horrible and I finally realized why I felt that way. I was literally comparing myself to Jesus Christ. I wasn't just trying to become like him, I was trying to do everything the way he would, perfectly. AND I am not perfect, so you can imagine that i got frustrated every time. I learned that I am Human, I need to realize that I am human, be human, try to become like him, not to become him literally cuz that's not possible. I am human and imperfect, I am not Jesus. I am a represe...

Hey Guys!!! Happy Mothers day to all the mothers out there!! To my mom and to all the mothers of my friends!! i love you all and thanks for dealing with and putting up with you sons or daughters attitude and teaching them well to be a light in my life and in the lives of many others! and special shoutout to Jana Ingles and Angie Oliphant yall are awesome and yall are like 2nd moms cuz i was always at your houses eating your food so thanks for being awesome! Love yall! And for my mom, thanks for being cool too;) and thanks for putting up with me and loving me even when I am being a punk haha. U R pretty Great! I am lm and blessed to have you:) love ya! Alright y'all this week has been a lot more chill than last week haha. The Transfers came and I'm staying put with my comp, but the van of new people bringing them to Ponta Grossa has Elder Batista! my old comp! I was super happy to see him and hear about my last area! our friend Everson had apparently requested for me to pers...

I really do be thinkin too much. I just need to stop thinkin sometimes, like the other day I was thinking and trying to figure out what Jesus ate to live during his life and if he had to buy it and work to get money to buy it or if other people bought his food or gave it to him. I got no clue, but I do know that he went fishing. So he ate fish and maybe sold some fish with his Apostles. That's a lot of guessing, but the fact is that he went fishing.... So I followed Jesus' example and went fishing too earlier this week haha. Recent converts and investigators were just off the side of the road fishing so we joined them for a sec. But ya i really do be thinking too much, overthinking everything, doubting myself, and questioning things i have never questioned before. It was really annoying cuz i have never seriously questioned things like stuff that would say I know, but was not solid knowledge. Things that I have always believed, accepted and grown on that. Experiences that stre...