Awesome, Funny Week!

no packages yet. and ya transfer are in like 2 weeks i think.
we didnt play soccer today but instead we decided to stay home and make our ginger bread house. it turned out cool. we are pretty much pros at it. i think its safer then most of the houses here haha.
so yesterday something way funny/embarassing happened. we were all walking in the road and like there is always water running down the side of the roads so the roads are all mossy so you ahve to be careful. well we were walking and my comp slips and just eats it in the water/moss/mud haha. it was funny. i could NOT stop laughing but he was laughing to so it was all good. they just dried fast and then he could brush all the dirty stuff off.
it was on our way to meet the member for pizza hut. last night a member took us to pizza hut. wow, it wsa the best thing i have eaten in like 1 1/2 years.ahhhh. it was buffet to so all i could eat. haha. i ate LOTS of pizza last night.
so we went to an investigators house and a little boy answered to door and we asked if the investigator was there he said ya so we're like 'can ya go get her'. well he comes back and is like 'she told me to tell you she isnt here'. were like 'go ask when she will be back'. he comes back and is like 'she said she left with her mom to buy groceries', 'well when can we come back', she said 'she is sleeping now'. i was like o wow. it was sooo funny.
but the work this week was good. our recent convert, raquel, took us to her families house and we have been teaching them and one of the visits her 15 yr old bro asked how he could be one of us. so we explained it. there baptism will be the 6th!!! we also gave him some church clothes cause he only had a pair of shorts and a t shirt and felt embarrased to go to chruch like that.
we had a good succesful week lots of baptisms marked and lots of investigators in chruch. i was looking around and relized that about 99% of the members here are converts. like the churhc is sooo new.
how amazing is the missionary work.
our whole ward is converts. it ws just weird to see and think about. like in our ward in the states like everyone was born into the chuch almost. it was cool!
also this week we had a cool FHE with a family. it was funny. johnson and i sang a song, well we tried. haha. it didnt go so well. so everyone was laughing and stuff. but it was good to have some fun.
this week pres. gave us a good tip. he said the spirt told him we would have more success if we talked less and asked more ?´s so we have been doing it this week and it is working great. the investigators are really opening there hearts better and taking out there doubts and stuff.. i love having inspired leaders!!!!
well love ya.

3 Baptisms! Great Week

today we went to the center and on the way there was a dead body on the side of the road. its kinda normal fro me now but it was my comps first. i felt bad for him. he was a little shocked. o i got 3 packages yesterday!!!! 2 from you and one from jatauna!!! the dang rat came back and this time he wasnt my friend. he turned his back on me and got into some of my granola bars amanda sent me :( but he only got into like 3 or 4 so i just through those ones out and put the rest in the frigde. im gonna get violent with him now though haha.
this week we had 3 baptisms. it was good. 2 were kids of a less active family we are helping come back and the other was a family friend. i love that family, ive grown way close to them. they lost a son a month ago to a stabbing and so now they are wanting to come back to church. they are a good family and ive learned to appreciate the plan of salvation TONS these last weeks helping them!!!
o there were also transfers of emergency again and the other two elders left so now its just me and my comp in this area!!! so just a couple of ?s for ya. i got a package a coupld weeks ago with shampoo and soap and stuff and one thing is called shower gel... i dotn know what to use the shower gel for?
i love the family book. so many good storys and memories and lots of trunkiness haha. i decided i have a beautiful family. wow. haha. especially my neices and nephews. just adorable.
so ya, christmas was great. thanks for all the gifts. your a great mom. i liked the trunky tie also, "return with honor"(Grandma bought it). the book was awsome. that white shirt im not even gonna open, ill save it for when i come home so i can have a I really think you should adopt someone. if you really did adopt someone that person would love life. i just cant imagine the smile on her/his face of the huge move and a loving family waiting for him/her. it would be so amazing to see and take part in.
ill prob end up giving everything i own away has presents when i come home cause i just feel bad for these ppl who have nothing.
well i g2g. love ya. have a great week.

Pastor. Jokes, Mango!

so i open my email this week and everyone in the fam has emailed me haha. did someone die??? i hope not. im kinda scared to read the emails.

anyway my week..... i got the paintings for you and amanda sent out today. when you get them be carefull when you open them so you dont cut it ok!!! haha.
i played a little trick on my comp this week haha. its the same old tricks that dads always do to there sons in the mission. i told him when he is full to tell the sister "estou gravida" "im pregnant" so he did it. it was funny. he laughed to after we told him. he is way cool and talking really well already. im madly impressed at his skills.

our rat friend came back to our house. i think he likes us. we made him leave last week but he returned.

so tell liz and sarah and abi and ryan and annie happy bday for me!!!

we had a baptism this last saturday and my comp did it. it was his first one and i surprised him telling him he would do it like the night before so all day the day of the baptism we walked in the streets with him saying the baptism prayer. it was funny. he was practicing lots.

also i got a pastor of a church good this week. i did a street contact and it happend to be a pastor so he was like blah blah blah. and i was like have you already heard of the BOM and he was like ya i have already read it. i was like awesome, what did you think? he was likt its horible, God is our only God and c
Christ is our Savior and if we have anything other then this we learn in the bible that its wrong and so i was like, oh so you havnt read it and he was like ah ah, well i read a little bit. so i was like oh ok, let me share a scripture with ya and i read about Christ's atonement and then i gave him a copy of the book, it was funny!!!

also we are teaching a family thats less active and there kids arent members so we will baptize them saturday now. one of them made a birthday on monday so we did a surprise party cause they didnt have money to do anything. so we invited members and had a cake and everything. it turned out way cool!!! but ya that was more or less my week.

oh one more thing. yesterday i ate a 2 pound mango!!!mmm mmm good. i love mango.

New Comp!

ok so some of the americans that were stuck in the usa with visa problems got visas this week so im training one and my old comp got another comp with 9 months so now us four are in our area!!! i love training. its soo fun and it makes me work and try WAY hard. its funny how little he talks and understands. he is from maryland and he has about 5 days in brazil. he went to the mtc in provo cause of his visa. his name is Elder Johnson. its so funny to see his face and reactions to stuff here. i now remember how it is being new. everything is crazy for ya. I speak mostly port. every once in a while english when i can see he is hating life. haha. but i made a goal with him that half way through the transfer we just speak port.

January 6th Awesome week

but this week for me was AWESOME. yuppers. haha. i got two packages. one from amanda and chris and one from you. i got the calander from you. i freakin love it haha. its like the trunkiest awesome present i have ever gotten haha.
:S Jonh Bytheway´s nephew is in our mission. he is funny haha.
um we have some good investigators. we kinda moved where we were working and were focussing on a different part of the area now, i think it will work out good. im like WAY excited to work now. like im walking extra fast and just talking to everyone and just like YAAAA. haha.
i was studing a little in the gospel priciples book and i was studying about how were all children of God which makes us brothers and sisters and then there was a ?, " knowint that were all children of God, how does that make you act, talk, and do" or something like that, and i aplied it to my mission of course and i thought how sad it would be to get to heaven and see lots of my family not entering into there cause i didnt talk to them when i had the chance. like Christ said the only way to enter into the kingdom of God is being re born with water and spirit (transilating from port to english so its not excatly right). so its my job to help ppl be baptized and continue until the end!!!!

so new year night also was, well, the worst of the mission. haha. we get home the 3st from working and were all sweaty right, well we didnt have water to shower, haha. so we were like ok nothing we can do lets just go to sleep so we lay down and turn our fans on and the the electricity goes out so we have no fans, and then the fireworks and stuff just added more noise to an imposible noite to sleep. it was AWESOME. haha. well there is some of the stuff from the week!!!!