Dear Person reading this letter,

This week was pretty good. Luckily I am not freezing my butt off which always is a good thing. Things here at the office are starting to slow down. I get things done pretty quickly so I pretty much did 6 weeks of work done in about 4, usually that takes a person a couple of transfers to get used to! Guess I am just amazingly talented..  HA!

This week we had zone conference. It was really cool. We learned a lot and at the end Presidente Araujo gave a talk about the 3 kingdoms of glory, so awesome. We got some really good ideas to help missionary work move along, for example this chapel is probably the coolest one in Curitiba, it even has a huge soccer court (not a field). So you know brazillians and their soccer, we are going to get the three wards here to work together to get a weekly soccer thing going, should work out great!! Tonight we are going to have a gincana, not sure the word in English but there will be tons of fun games and stuff!

We also had a training this week for all the District leaders in Curitiba because they never get trained! President just calls them and they do what they think they are supposed to haha. So they set some rules and I got to give a training on baptismal forms (I got to show them some pretty ridiculous ones I get from them, pretty hilarious).

Today for p-day we went with President to a cool Japanese Immigrant Expo at some huge park. So there was some cool booths and reaaalllly good food. I am pretty tired though so I was definitely ready to take a nap!

Because the work has been slowing down, I will read an Ensign or some talk from and apostle to pass the time. I am really concerned with the “after(mission)life” haha. So what I am doing is establishing rules that I will do when I am back home. For example on the mish, you have a set hour every day to read the scriptures. There is nothing else to do so you do it anyways then eventually learn to love it. Out in the world you don’t have that set hour. Our schedule always changes and it’s hard to keep things programmed. Then people stop reading and start to give excuses and what not. I will not let that happen.

Also I was thinking the other day about what President said about the 3 kingdoms of glory. I became horribly frightened with the thought of just going to the Terrestrial kingdom… I can’t even imagine how terrible that would be to not be able to live in the presence of God and Jesus Christ. I became really scared! Some people just don’t ever think about it and live life normally. My view of this life and our purpose really has changed dramastically. Some people get so caught up in the present the completely forget about the past and future. I hope this week you can all try to broaden your thought perspective and remember the true purpose of life. Remember that our thoughts and actions are what determine who we are, and that is how we will be judged in the final judgment.

This weekend is a very special one. They don’t celebrate it here in Brazil but happy father’s day!! I would like to congratulate all of the Fathers reading this, especially my brother Connor. I also would like to publicly thank my own Father for all he has done for me. He has always been there to listen and I have seen him sacrifice much of what he has, especially his own time, for his wife and sons. Thank you Dad for all you have done for me, especially here on the mission. You are a big example in my life and I look forward to walking in your footsteps raising my own family. There is an amazing short film (Mormon Message) that the church put out about Fathers, here is the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhqRMP9meMc

I love you all, be strong and keep the faith!!
ELDER Boyack

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