My dearest family and friends,

Oh what a joyous wonderful spectacular week. Do you know why? TRANSFERS!!! And guess what? I AM LEAVING THE OFFICE!!!!!!!! Hooray!!! Haha you have no idea how happy I am. Don’t get me wrong, the office is great, but being out in the field 24/7 is waaaayy better. So I am training Elder Alendes from São Paulo to take my place. He is really cool, by far the best brazillian comp I have had. We get along really great and are working hard in the area. Its hard though because he isn´t to proficient with computers so things that take me 5 mins take him 30 haha but he is really applying himself which is awesome. He wants to get better at typing so when I have to do something he goes over to the other computer and just sits there typing (he says he is typing a book about his mission haha).

Elder Richards, the Assistant went home. He was the best missionary I have ever met in my life. It was so awesome to be in the same house. I really miss him, especially because the new assistant is a jerk! Haha I but in a new milk box and the next morning I go to get some and it was HALF EMPTY! I was like uhhh, WHO DRANK MY MILK? Haha then he was like oh.. I did. Sorry about that. I was not very happy. Then he kept asking me for food and this and that, then took some more without asking… uhhh its terrible. So I gave him and egg this morning and said it’s the LAST thing I am giving him and he is no longer permitted to eat anything of mine. Hopefully he actually buys his OWN food today.. haha.

WOW! So yesterday we had a meeting with president about this next transfer and whats going to happen. So we are working with the temple presidency to do some sort of temple/missionary work project. So we brainstormed for an hour and came up with some really cool ideas!! Bascially what will happen is every Tuesday and Thursday night there will be a specially trained missionary companionship at the temple to do tours and teach lessons about the temple. We came up with a little tour route and then it ends with a really spiritual lesson in the temple reception room (they let us teach people in there). It should be awesome. So that will get started sometime soon. Its ideally for the members to be able to have an easy way to present the gospel to their friends. All the member needs to do is take his friend there, and the missionaries do the rest!!

So this week I had an awesome experience.  An RM from our ward called us up and told us he has a friend we need to visit. So he went with us and we taught this kid (19) and his sister (16). It was a really strong and spiritual lesson and they understood EVERYthing and loved it! They accepted every commitment and even a baptismal date! So we are very happy and we should go there tonight to teach them the plan of salvation. Its really amazing to see how much better it is when we teach people the members introduced to us. That is by far the biggest number of baptisms in our mission is member referrals.

Have an awesome week, and share this wonderful gospel! Only good can come from it. I love you all! Write me letters and emails!! Send me packages!!

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