haha when members tell me i speak very well my comp chimes in saying ‘its cuz hes been here for 2 years already..’ technically ‘ year 11 months and 1 week but i swear im not counting, i just noticed that this morning lol. Things are going great here, im healthy again! Sorry last week i TOTALLY forgot to send an email, dont know how but i was recuperating from a nasty virus. You never really appiciate your health till you lose it for a little bit. The weather has been great, warmin up a little bit. Today we went to the temple, it was awesome (as always). Today President Araujo goes home… and now President Cordon is here! Im glad cuz before he left Prez had a special lunch with all the missionaires going home. He bascially did with our group what he does on the last day, but we still had 2 weeks left. It was very cool and I ate the most out of everybody I LOVE BRAZILLIAN FOOD!!!

As for the work its going…. slow. When i got sick i had to stay home (it was the first time i had barfed in like 6 years!!!) so that really made things harder. Things are picking up but we had something really sad happen with Fabio. He was doing SO great and we were going to mark a baptismal date with him but our bishop totally blew it… I wont go into details but to all those reading, a bishop has NO authority to interview investigators. Unfortuantely ours didnt know that and said some things that Fabio didnt like too much in the interview and now he wants nothing to do with the church…. i almost cried and poor Kelly (his future wife) was crying all week. Needless to say the bishop of this ward is famous for being an idiot… im just trying to have patience for two more weeks

The world cup here is CRAZY. Our bairro (neighborhood) is the worst. If brazil wins, im staying inside lol. I was totally rooting for usa but they dont play soccer very well and didnt make it too far. The bishops son came up to me after USA lost and said “Elder, seeing as how you are going home soon you might as well hitch a ride with the USA soccer team!” haha I almost punched him. Please pray for me… i need it. Satan really works hard on you at the end and its annoying. I love you all and appriciate your support. Have a great week!! Be a missionary!!

Elder Boyack

ps next week i write my last email…. HOLY COW.

Sorry I took so long to write, today was CRAZY. Normally President takes all the missionaries to the Chapel in Portão to have our LZ counsel but today we went to Park Barigui and played games all day haha. I am totally dead and my comp is worse, he has about 102 degrees of fever right now lol. But it went very well and we had a great time.

Yesterday Brazil had their first world cup game. It was insane, these people are nuts haha. I am going to try to send video of the chaos that was going down here in Curitiba. Our “bairro (naighborhood)” is one of the most dangerous so I was not too excited about goin out in the street after they won. Imagine how it will be if Brazil wins the world cup… absolute craziness. But all of you americans, you better support the best team, USA!! Haha everyonemakes fun of me here but I am postive we will win. For those who dont know, we tied with England 1-1 our first game and we will be playing a few these next few days. So turn on your tvs and root for them!!

I gave a talk this past Sunday on love. IT was really good and Fabio really liked it. He is doing good but he is working a TON. We are trying to keep going strong with him but its being difficult.

On Sunday the whole mission choir took a bus to a city in the interior called Ponta Grossa. We did our last performance there and it was funny cuz the assistants forgot our music folders, but by then we had everything memorized. It went very well and afterwards president gave us a cool cd/dvd set of the performances.

Well sorry its so short this week but we gotta run. I love you all and cant wait to see you! I have less than a month!!! How crazy is that.. time is flyng by and I am so excited. Have a great week!!!

No idea who said that, but I TOTALLY understand what he meant. So many people are asking me how much time I have and my comp always starts laughing. Haha its so weird! I was doing really good and working hard till about yesterday. I started getting really stressed out and would come home EXHAUSTED. It was really weird. I think its cuz my brain is knowing that all this is slowly coming to an end… I talked with Prez and he helped me out and gave me some ideas. Everyone who REALLY knows me knows I have trouble finishing things lol. So this is being a HUGE test. But theres really only 1 solution which would be WORK!! Thats what we are doing. We are still going strong with Fabio, who went to church on Sunday. When he can come, he is ALWAYS there on time in his suit. Its really embarassing when the Elders quorum pres comes in late in a jacket and jeans to give one of the worst trainings ever… haha. But fabio knows that the church and its doctrines are true. He never disagrees with anything. He always has questions but then when we answer them he is fine. Also we are teaching that one girl that stopped us on the street the other day and she REALLY wants to be baptized but she needs to get married first. BUT, she shoed us some of her friends who are ELECTS and will be baptized next week. COOL HUH?!?! MAn I want to baptize as many people as possible before I go, I think thats why I am going so crazy.

Other than that things are going fine. Thanks for all the emails and I hope you all have a great week. I love you all!

Elder Boyack

ps i promise next week I will write more and send pictures!! hooray!

Hello everyone!

I am here in COLD, RAINY Curitiba! Do you know what today is? Thats right its the first day of my last transfer!! (At this moment Im sure my parents are jumping with joy lol). Haha Elder Coats will board a plane in 4 hours to the good ol USA. I am going to miss that guy. I sure learned a lot with him and look forward to seeing him again after the mission. He is at Presidents house right now eating his last lunch.

Fabio gave us a ride to the chapel in his SWEET civic and took me and my new comp back home. Fabio is doing great, President went up to him after the transfers meeting and asked “Are you baptized yet?!” then when he found out no he said “Well when are you going to get baptized?” Fabio replied saying, “Very soon”. So we are just going to keep going firm with him and I am positive in these next few weeks you will get to hear about how amazing it was

My new comp is Elder Gomes (Pronouced GOH-mez) from FORTALEZA, CEARÀ! Thats right Ryan, I got me a nordestino lol. He is a really cool guy that I sang with in the Choir. He Turned ZL so I am excited to train him. We are going to have an amazing transfer. This transfer will FLY by, we have so many things happening, especially getting the new president. All missionaries (especially the RM´s) will know what I mean when I say its an unreal feeling to know I am going home. I have 6 weeks, which is still a TON of time, dá para batizar MUITAS pessoas But it sure is weird being the OLDEST zone leader and the OLDEST missionary… crazy stuff.

Well aside from all that not much has been going on… lol. The work was slowing down but now its going to EXPLODE!! I am so stoked, my goal is to baptize EVERY week this transfer.. its gunna be hard but it is defeinitely possible. SPEAKING of baptisms, our mission hit a record this past month! 201PEOPLE were baptized in May! Our record before was 170 something people in one month, so things are going well. President is going out with a bang.

Well thats about it for now. I hope you all have a good week a look forward to hearing from you all soon. I love you!

Elder BOYACK