Linhares - Week Thirteen

Anyway, yeah I got a Brazilian companion!! wooo! How exciting! His name is Elder Pithan! He's super cool, I like working with him, and we are getting along really well already. I’m going to learn so much faster now! We hardly ever speak English, but he's learning and isn't too bad, so I could talk to him in English a little if I wanted. More good news, we got another companionship in our district! So we're not living alone now! More fun like that.

Riley and outgoing companion, Elder Fischer

Riley and new companion, Elder Pithan

So we lost Interlagos, I’m not working there anymore, but in other areas. So now we don't have any baptism dates marked. We are teaching a few people, we're still struggling to find new people who can actually progress. It seems like everyone here has a marriage problem. They're all just living together. We are teaching a woman named Aline, who has a lot of interest, and already believes that it's true, but she, and her sister-in-law, who also has lots of interest, aren't married to their boyfriends. LAME. Our other good investigator Maria, moved out with her boyfriend, so, we can't teach her any more. Also lame. But my companion and I are working hard and are determined to find good news in this area. We are also going to invite people to be baptized the very first lesson too, which was something that Elder Fischer and I weren't doing very well.

Anyway, the work here is going good. We are still working with less actives, and Elder Pithan is really good at getting them animated. We washed a whole lot of dishes this week for a less active =) which is good, and now she's giving us lunch this week and she went to church! Woo! We are going to have two family home evenings with members this week, and have two more marked. Yay! So hopefully we can keep working hard have tons of success this transfer!

Anyway, that's about it for this week, it was pretty short because of transfers and stuff. I'm happy, excited to have a Brazilian companion, (next transfer I might be training, yikes!) and working hard. I like being a missionary, and today marks five months on the mission! Wow time has been flying by, but I still have lots of time left to work. =) Next week I'll make sure to write more about what's going on, who I’m teaching and stuff. I just need to note things better.

I love you all! Thanks for everything! Thanks mom for the pictures, and the Ferrari video. haha The two things I miss the most is my family (much much more than the next thing) because I think you're flippin hilarious, and car news.

Blake, you're a stud! Keep it up! Dominate the sax, and boy scouts!

Darcy, its okay to want to be a professional soccer star! =)

Drew, don't crash, burn and die. xD keep up on all the good music for me while I’m gone. Do good in school bro, and go to BYU...Idaho =)

Some of the members here wonder why Zack isn't married yet when I show them pictures. And apparently, we could be twins.

It’s super cool that Cam is finally going to graduate! And then move to New York! I’m totally going to road trip out there after the mission.

Anyway, thanks for everything fam!

Until next week!