Serra - Week Five

 The mission office.

Our new hammocks!

Well, this week was really hot. Really hot. Like 100 hot. But that's just part of the work here. But today its raining again. haha

The Christmas tree is in a member's house. And I am PRO and made a BALLER Christmas card. I hope you liked it. And I did pay more money to get that box there before Christmas. =)

Brazilian food. Well, if you just make rice, beans, and some chicken, along with some coke and a salad, that's your basic Brazilian lunch. haha. But to make something a little better, get some dough to make tortillas, and you put basically whatever inside (ground beef, ham and cheese, pepperoni), fold it over (almost like a taco) and fry it in oil. Its called pastel and it's really common here. I don't know...
basically beans, rice, pasta (some kind of noodles) a kind of meat and a salad is the basic food here.

This week we didn't have that much success, but we tried hard. We ended up knocking a lot of doors this week, but we did find some really great people. The problem is going to be Christmas because a lot of the good people that we are finding will travel. Lame.

So I don't know if I told you about Marlete already. She is a great investigator, she says that it's her dream to be baptized like Christ was baptized and she really wants to see a baptism. She has so much potential. The only problem is that she isn't legally married. That's something that is really annoying about the people here. They live together 20 years and aren't married. Her daughter-in-law was there when we taught the Book of Mormon, and she really liked it. She said that she wanted to read the whole book to know more about it. So I don't know how much that they will progress, but I really like them.

Our best investigator, Angela, is going to travel and won't come back until the new year. =( But she is going to take her book of Mormon and her notebook to take notes/write down questions. I won't be surprised if she read the whole thing by the time she gets back. She said that she'll have a lot of questions for us when she gets back.

We found a really awesome family this week knocking doors. We talked to a girl named Deborah and she said that we could come back when her family was home. So we did. She lives with her mom and we taught them. Ilza, the mom, lived in CAMPOS for 7 years, in the area I was, so we got along well, talking. We gave a really spiritual lesson there, and we marked to go back. They also have a lot of potential and I am excited to keep teaching them.

One of the inactives that we have been visiting went to church today and it made me really happy. His name is Tierlies, and he's 22. He prepared his mission papers 3 times, but didn't go because of dental issues, but he came to church for the first time in a while, and it was great. One is his problems is that he plays League of Legends a lot, the same that Cam and Zack play, and he keeps saying that he wants to play with them. haha

Well, that's basically my week. Oh and I bought a hammock, and slept there two nights in a row. It's pretty sweet.

Thanks for everything mom, dad and the rest of the family. I love you all.

We went to the mission office last Monday, but they said that they can only give the letters and packages on transfer day now. =(

I bought a harmonica, and I am learning to play some hymns. Pretty sweet. Do we have our trombone still? I'll want that when I  get back.

I think that's it. Love you all. =)