June 17, 2012

Hey Family!

Dad. Happy Father´s Day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This week was pretty crazy. We had 2 baptisms that were very spiritual (Daia and Elianadra). We also had 9 investigators in church which was awesome. With the other companionship in our branch we had 17 investigators total in our branch. The work is really starting to move forward in Santa Rosa.....but I'm not there anymore! Saturday night I got a phone call from President Ribeiro that I would be transferred to Cruz Alta. I´m the new district leader here. Sunday night I travelled to Santa Maria to get my companion Elder Andersen. We just got here in Cruz Alta a hour ago. I really liked the old area I was in, but i´m sure i´ll like this new one. (I have pics of the baptisms and families from Santa Rosa that i´ll send next week)

Elder Andersen is from Alaska and is my first American companion. He seems to be cool. (Dad, he wants to be a dentist)

I got the package today! I was way happy to get the letters inside. That's always the best part. Also the food the food was (is) great too.  

Hows Mitt Romney doing in the election?

Well I´m super tired from traveling. I´m going to go unpack my stuff :)

Com Amor,

Elder Rollins 

June 11, 2012

Ola Familia!!

Happy Bday Tess! 16 is a awesome year full of awesome stuff. 

Dallin! Usted esta no CTM! 

Sounds like alot is happening back home. 

This week we started teaching a super awesome family. The parents are Luciane and Renato. They really well off. (Their house is the nicest house I´ve entered here in Brazil) Luciane is already a member but Renato isn´t yet. They knew some people that recently died in a car accident and it opened their eyes. After 10 years of investigating the church, Renato accepted baptism, and Luciane wants to return! 

I don´t know what´s happening with Elton. It looks like he doesn´t want to continue. But lets keep praying for him one more week!

Daia and Eliandra will be baptized and it will be awesome! (pictures to come) 

Right now I´m studying in the book of Jacob in the Book of Mormon. It´s really good. This morning I calculated the number of nephites and laminates there was when Jacob dies (about 180 after lehi left Jerusalem) And I came up with about 48,086. That´s plenty enough people to have a civilization like they had in that time. (Don´t worry I usually study worthwhile stuff) haha

I love you guys! Até mais!
Elder Rollins

June 4, 2012

Hi family!!!!!!!!!

This week was every awesome. We still haven´t baptized Elton. He still doesn´t feel ready "ready" even though he is. If you guys could pray for him that would be great. 

DALLIN IS GOING ON HIS MISSION! WHOOOO


That´s awesome. I´m thinking a satchel would be better (at least in brasil we´re not allowed to use backpacks to work). He is going to have some great experiences. I remember waiting to leave on the mission as if it were yesterday. It´s totally different than you could imagine.

This week we marked 2 baptismal dates. The first was a girl named Diana. This baptism kind of fell out of the sky. She´s the girlfriend of a member named Marvan. Luckily she has a testimony that the church is true. She wasn´t baptised yet because her parents didn´t let her. She just turned 18 so after 2 years of waiting she´s going to go swimming. Her baptism will be in 2 weeks.

The other is Aliandra. (that girl that went to church last week). She accepted baptism for the same week. She said that while she was praying about the message she felt a joy and happiness. So she knows the church is true. YEA!!!


Next Sunday we get to watch the dedication of the temple in Manaus. We´ll watch it by transmission. I´m super excited to see it.

I love you guys!
Até mais!
Elder Rollins

Plan of Salvation missionary activity

May 28, 2012

Hey family!

This week was really cool. Unfortunately the baptism of Elton didn´t happen yet. He felt like he needed a little more time to get to know the church. We will be baptized in the next couple weeks. I´ll keep you posted on how he´s progressing.

This week we had our activity of the Plan of Salvation. It was awesome! everyone liked it. I was in charge of the Tellestial Kingdom. It was hilarious. The room we used for this kingdom was upstairs and we flipped the breaker so nowone could turn on the lights. It was completely dark when they came upstairs. They had to go into a tiny room and wait until the end of the activity. There was some great scaring opportunities. We found a good investigator named sergio from this activity. 

One more investigator we found is aliandra. She is the Sister of a inactive member. She wanted to learn more about the church. We left a pamphlet about the Restoration with her and we came back a couple days later and she read and understood everything. She went to church and made some good Friends. It looks like she will be baptized. :)


It sounds like there is alot of stuff happening at home. Be safe and have fun!

Com amor, Elder Rollins

May 21, 2012

Hey Rollins family!

This week was pretty crazy. There were 3 members from Santa Maria coming to Santa Rosa to visit some freinds and family. They were traveling on the freeway just outside of the city and a semi truck. During the week 2 of the members died and one is not doing too well in the hospital. It was a big eye opener for me. One of the ones that died was a returned missionary of 7 months. The members here in Santa Rosa came together to help the victims of the crash and their loved ones. When things like this happen we can realize the importance of the plan of Salvation. It can give us a security of our future that nothing else could give. 

This week we worked alot with a investigator named Elton. He will be baptized this sunday :) He was an elect. 3 Months ago he stoped drinking because he wanted to change and he wanted to have a family again. About 3 weeks ago his firend ,Fabio, invited him to church. Fabio tolds him that the gospel was the thing missing in his life, and he was right. He then came to church.

Thats crazy that Dallin is leaving on his mission. It seems like yesterday he was writing about high school in the emails. Did you guys buy CTR stuff for his mission?

I´m doing good and im eating well. :)

I have a zone conference this week and i´m very excited for that (president is going to talk about the first resurection)

com amor,
Elder Rollins