Dear Family and Friends,

Sorry I couldnt get a letter out on time, we had a lesson marked that we COULD NOT miss. There is a family in our ward who was baptized a few years ago and they wanted us to teach the grandson. It went very well, he is a really smart kid and is gunna be baptized next week!

This week was pretty insane. So we had transfers, pretty much everything went smoothly. As secretaries we expect nothing to happen. But, President decided to change things up a little bit. This past transfer the Missionary Couple that was working in the office went home. So President decided to put two missionaries in that ward. There are three wards that meet in this chapel, it was the ward of the secretaries, the assistants, and the missionary couple. So these two missionaries are living with us. Here is the crazy part. Technically we are supposed to leave the office at around 6 o’clock. Elder Hiar was having trouble leaving on time, and I complained a little about it to President. So now these other two Elders do a division with us at 6. So basically Elder Hiar is my comp here in the office and Elder Sales is my comp out in the field. Elder Sales is a brazillian from the state of Rio Grande do Norte (Big River of the North). He is a way cool dude, he is even engaged already! Pretty intense stuff.

We are trying to work in a part of our area that has never been worked much, the only problem is its pretty far away. So yesterday we were walking back to the chapel after the lesson at 6, and I decided to take another road. So we were walking along, cold and wet, then all of a sudden I see a pizza place. Now, those of you who know me, know I love food, especially pizza, ESPECIALLY brazillian pizza. I am an experimenter so I decided to pop in and grab a menu to look at. I didn´t go in to buy anything, just to get a menu to have at home. It was a pretty nice pizza place, but there was only the young couple who owned it, no one else. Then when the guy saw who we were he got REALLY happy. He started telling us about how he was really good friends with some American Elders about 4 years ago and all his friends got baptized and even went through the temple and how much he loves the church. It was amazing. He is the coolest guy ever, and better, he owns a pizzaria!! So we marked to teach him on Monday night (when all the pizza places are closed). After I got home it hit me that was totally the Holy Ghost guiding me. I had no intention whatsoever to go that way. Then we found this young couple, who obviously the Lord wants in his church. I have always heard those stories of missionaries being led to some random door, I however, was led to a pizza place! HA! Anyways I am really stoked, I will let you know how the visit goes.

Oh! One more story. So the other day we were knocking on doors, in the rain. This one house seemed to have no one, then right before we were about to leave some really tall old guy comes out with his umbrella. It was a really long driveway so it took a minute for him to reach us. Then finally he came up and said “Diga” (What is it?). So I started to tell him we are missionaries with a very special message, the moment I said missionaries he said, (translated to English) “MISSIONARIES! You brought me out of my nice comfortable house for this!? I don’t believe it! Missionaires, you have got to be kidding me (throw in mumbling and possibly swear words). Then I proceeded to say “Yes! Missionaires! Can we share our message with your family?” And he said to “come another day.” I said “Great! What day would be good for you guys.” Then he said “Come back in a month!” HAHAHA I was like umm ok? Then he stormed back up his driveway, cranky and mad. So you know what I did? I got out my planner and in a month I am going to visit that man. Its going to be pretty hilarious. Anyways I thought that was funny.

Well, I got to get going. Have a good week I will talk to you all next Saturday.

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