Ware, Josh P

Merry Christmas everyone! I'm sure you all have so many other better things to do today, so I'll keep this email nice and short.  It's my last Christmas in Brasil and my last Christmas as a representative of Jesus Christ. I know that Christ lives! He was born in Bethlehem and gave his life as the greatest gift of all. His love is encompassing. His spirit is influencing. And His Atonement is infinate!  My love for Jesus Christ has grown so much this week leading up to Christmas, and I am so grateful for the priveldge that I had to share Christ's love, spirit, and atoning sacrifrice with so many of God's children this past week!  This week, the staff and I had the opportunity to make cookies for those in need, sing karols, and dress up as santa and spread the holiday cheer (and gospel). We were also beyond blessed to received gifts from our ward! I seriously love all of the member here! So many other cool things and miracles happened this week, but I'll keep this ...

What's is going on everyone? I hope you are all having the best week! Pdays are moving like crazy, and now I'm back to pdays on Mondays! And you already know that means soccer! We work up early and hit up the indoor soccer fields today. I'm going to keep this email short. This week was full of miracles and so much Christmas joy! We had the baptisms of Mikael and Analycie this week! They were super special! Analycie is part of a family that is preparing to get married and baptized. And Mikael was a member referral that overcame a ton of opposition and a change in mindset to get baptized. He truly used the Atonement of Jesus Christ to create a great change in his life! Since I've arrived here in the office, if been using a keyboard piano in our apartment to learn piano. I'm still really bad, but I was able to play at Analycie's baptism! It was a so special moment for her, and I was insanely nervous.  Mikael is a senior in high-school, and we teach him everyday wit...

Good morning everyone! I hope you all are doing well! This week I was able to see God's hand and His timing more than ever! I truly felt like an instrument in his hands, and we had a couple of really cool and powerful experiences.  I honestly love being a missionary! Even on the hardest days, in the blazing hot sun (which I don't even see anymore), when no one seems to listen to our message, we are still spreading light and joy. I often overlook the simple things that are always done as missionaries. For example, helping someone pray for the first time.  On one of our lessons this week, we helped this mother say her first prayer. We do this a million times as missionaries, but this time I stopped to reflect on what she actually did. Imagine how long her Heavenly Father was waiting to hear from her. It was a simple and sincere prayer, but the smile on her face and the spirit that was present told the whole story. Stop and look for the hand of God in your life! This week, we rec...

Good afternoon! How are you all doing? Not gonna lie, this wasn't the most exciting week ever, so I'm probably going to keep this one pretty short, but there isn't really a lot to expect being stuck in the mission office all day.  Let's start off by giving you all a run down of what I currently am spending my days doing. Wake up at 6:30am. Exercise, get ready, study, and plan until 9:30am. Go to the office at 10am. Make expense reports, budget mission money, pay bills, keep President's card from getting blocked, talk to the bank, fix missionary problems, make payments (services, rent, and food), and do reembursements. Then at 5pm, we leave the office and work normally on the street. I promise it's more interesting than it sounds.  However, this week was super busy, and I'm still learning the ropes, so we left late from the office almost everyday. So we had like no time in the road. But what I saw was that as we we magnified our duties in the office, the Lord...