Linhares - Week Seven

This week went by pretty well, the last week of my first transfer. I made it through. Haha I can't put an exclamation point because this keyboard is broken, so just pretend I’m more excited about these things than it seems. It was our last week of the transfer, Elder Fischer and I are staying here, but the other two guys here are leaving, and one of them is going home. Transfers are sad, you make friends and then they leave.

Anyway, that family is doing all right, more of them went to church this week, some of them will still be able to get baptized, but we found out this week there are huge word of wisdom problems going on there so we were trying to work with them on that. Some of them still have that desire to change. I really love that family. There's Maurina, she's the mom of the place, she has two daughters that live there with their kids, Juciara, and Poliana. There is another woman that lives there too but I can't remember her name right now. Anyway, there are a ton of kids there and they're all awesome. William, Wallace, Cayeke, Idline, Marina, and Giovanni. That's from oldest to youngest, and they don't all have the same parents but they all live there. William and Cayeke will be baptized first I think, but we want one of the adults there to get baptized with them.

We teach them almost every day, and we found another awesome investigator this week. She was a reference of one of the members, and she had a New Year's goal to find the "truth." She's going to get baptized too. She's really awesome. She's 21, and she is really accepting of the lessons, is already living the commandments, and she was telling us why she needs to go to church. How cool is that? Haha She's had an answer already and she is reading the Book of Mormon every day. She didn't come to church on Sunday because she was in the hospital because her head has been hurting. So we're not too worried about her yet.

We've been trying to find more people to teach, and we're working in more areas than just Interlagos now, so we can't get as many lessons in. I think that's all the big things that happened this week.

If your package is here, I'll get it this week, if not, I'll have to wait until either transfers, or another zone conference or mission conference. And I don't know if I'll have an interview with the mission president every transfer.

Sounds like everyone is having fun at home. And poor Mugsy (insert exclamation point here). Sounds like everyone is doing well and life is going on as normal. From looking at the blog am realizing how funny our family is, and I love it.

Anyway, I love you all, talk to you next week.