January 5th

Hey pessoal!

I cant believe the buckeyes made it so far! I thought they would lose to alabama! How did they pull that off? It sucks that the year that they begin to do so well, Im not there to see it. Hopefully they win the championship. Anyways, I hope new years eve was enjoyable. There were lots of fireworks here and lots of bombs all over the place. Or at least it sounded like bombs. We spent our new years eve at home. We had to be home at 8 bc it gets a bit dangerous at night. the next day we spent the entire morning cleaning our house. Good stuff. Well we got a new year. I know each year people talk about goals. And it never works out. I encourage you guys to make realistic goals for this next year that you really want to accomplish. When you make these goals you gotta begin with a Vision. Where do you want to be by the end of the year? Then you make the Goals to achieve it. Then you make the Plans to make the goals happen. Plans that will help you get to the end step by step. The last thing is Action. You gotta do the things that will get you to your Vision. Just some good thoughts. I was never good at goals so I will be trying too. Other than that we are returning to normal work. We have transfers tomorrow and my comp elder Madeux is leaving and Im staying. Im excited to see who will come. Hopefully someone good! Haha. I hope that everyone has a great 2015 and looks to the front.

December 29th

Hey everyone!

So I hope christmas was good for you guys. Excuse the font that i´m using. The computer is a little crazy. I just wanted to leave a few words with you guys. First things first. Did any of you see the movie Meet The Mormons? Well at our christmas party for the mission we watched a lot of videos and at the end we got to watch this movie. In portuguese. We were the first people in the world to see it in portugeuse. Our president was able to get a copy and his daughter brought it when she came down to visit. I loved the movie and I thought it was very inspirational. I hope that we are all able to be examples to our non-member friends like that. Another thing I´ve been learning on the mission is something interesting. Sometimes on the mission(or in life) we get into the habit of arriving to a level in life where we feel comfortable and we just kinda sit back and watch things pass by. One thing to realize is that we should always be working to change our lives and improve our lives. Seeing as we are not perfect there is always much more to change and to improve. Even after we die and we recieve exaltation, we still can learn and rise to new levels of exaltation. We need to look at our lives and see where do we want to improve and where we need to improve. And we must begin the process of changing. It´s a hard things, and being huaman we don´t want to change. I know though, that if I can do this, you all for sure can do it. Lets use this time at the end of the year to reflect on what was good and bad, and how we can use this new year to achieve a new level of happiness. I love you all and I´m so greatful for your support. Stay safe.

Love Elder Shannon

December 23rd, with pictures!

Hey everyone!

So sorry for not responding yesterday. It was 100% the fault of my president. We had an acitivity with the entire mission yesterday and we had to get up early to get there and we didn´t get back home until 11 at night. Anyways christmas. So I´ll be eating lunch at 12 and so I think we´ll be able to get online at about 2ish. When we get to the house where we´ll do skype, I´ll send ya guys an email. And when I say 2ish that means like between 2 and 3. I´m just gonna need the name of whoever i´ll be calling. i miss you all and I can´t wait to talk to you guys. Oh and yeah erin i haven´t gotten your package yet....but i´ll wait for it. Much love

Elder Shannon

Elder Massagardi of the seventy visited our misison. Can ya find me?

These are pics from a small small town that we went to visit on p-day and part of  a trail that we walked