Dear Everyone,

Hello! How are you? I am…. OLD!! 21 years old? What the heck? Haha my birthday was pretty sweet. I gave a talk in sacrament meeting about repentance, then worked my butt off all day! What more could I ask for? Candy perhaps… but it was great and thank you mom and Dad for the amazing package!!

Well this week has been good. I had no time to say what happened for transfers so here goes. My comp Elder Wardell finished up his mission and is at home now! My new comp is Elder Tenório from the beautiful city of Recife. He has only been a member for 3 years!! Crazy huh? He is an amazing missionary and I found out in his last area he was baptizing EVERY week! So I am stoked to really get on fire with him.

I finished “A Marvelous Work and a Wonder” the other day, so good!! I recommend it to all who have not yet had the opportunity to read it. It really strengthened my testimony. I am pumping through the old testament, and its really cool. Unfortunately we lose lots of study time because of meetings and what not so I am trying to take advantage of every minute, I love studying!!

So there are these two boys we baptized a few weeks ago, Nei (16) and Flores (15) and they are AMAZING!! They straight up read the Book of Mormon at school, I NEVER did that haha. They are starting to go on lots of divisions with us too which always helps. So when we were teaching them we were going to baptize their dad Pedro. Unfortuantely he is living with his “wife” but is not married to her. So he couldn’t get baptized but we still continued to work with him. He stopped drinking coffee and smoking!! He is truly an elect, sadly his wife is pretty much a witch and is hindering him from receiving so many blessings. Anyways when Pedrio was leaving church he pulled me aside and said he wants us to come over again to help him get his life in order ( I Am assuming marriage wise) and talked about how much he loves our church. Whne he was talking he got very emotional and almost cried!! It was such a sweet experience and I look forward to helping that amazing man. He is one of the best fathers I have ever seen here in Brazil.

Oh yeah on Friday we had a Zone Leader counsel at Curitiba and it was awesome!! President is really pounding us on baptizing EVERY SINGLE WEEK and we are all pushing for it. Our mission keeps breaking records and everything is going well. Paranaguá is getting HOTttttttttttttttttttttt but its all good. People give us really good popsicle things called chup-chup where its like natural fruit blended with milk then frozen… SO GOOD!!

I know this church is true! Joseph Smith really was a prophet of God and restored the church of JESUS CHRIST. The Book of Mormon is the word of God and can bless us all if we read, study, and ponder it.

Have a spectacular week and be a member missionary, why? Because it’s a COMMANDMENT!! Haha

Love,
Elder Boyack