Dear Family and Friends,

Hello! Everything is going good here. Today for p-day we went to the temple. SO AWESOME! I love the Curitiba temple. After we did a session we went and helped out in the baptistry. Really cool stuff. I bought a couple cool movies too. Church movies are awesome. We watch the Restoration, The Testaments, and Joseph Smith, the Prophet of the Restoration. They always help our investigators to feel the spirit, and it´s nice cuz we don´t have to explain it

So this past Sunday I had my first baptism!!!!!!!!! I baptized Marilda and it was awesome. The water was really low though so I had to do it twice. She was really happy though and LOVED it. We went to her house yesterday and talked about the temple, she set a goal for Nov. 30, 2009 to go through She is so awesome. She is feeling kind of lonely because there are tons of big families and she is a single mom. Hopefully she finds a good guy in the church! This next week we are FINALLY marrying Ezequiel and Jandira. It has taken FOUR months. Hopefully this weekend we can baptize them. They have been having some problems but I think everything will work out fine.

Elder Boswells parents sent him some pie mix so we made banana cream pie for thanksgiving. Honestly it couldn´t have turned out any better! It was huge and we ate it for like three days straight haha.

So one day we were finishing up a lesson with a family we are teaching and it started to rain a teeny bit. I forgot my umbrella so they lent me theirs. The teeny bit of rain turned into a freak tropical storm in about 5 minutes So me and Elder Boswell stood under a bustop for about 45 minutes waiting for it to pass over. It was actually pretty cool, but scary at the same time. The state just south of us (Santa Catarina) has been having rain for a month straight and over 100 people have died from flooding. Thousands of people are without food clothing or shelter. So this week we gathered tons of stuff and put it all in sorted big boxes to ship down to them. It was a really cool service project.

So the weather has been amazing the past couple of days. BEAUTIFUL sunsets and of course I never have my camera with me.. ugh. The other day we were walking and saw a huge field, FULL of fireflys. It looked like a stadium with camera flashes everywhere. SO COOL! I have really gained a big appreciation for this planet and how amazing it is. Sometimes I take it for granted..

Well that´s about it on my end. Send me a letter and keep my happy I am so grateful for everyones help and prayers, and keep up the good work! ALWAYS remember we are children of our Heavenly Father and remember how much he loves each one of us. He wants us to return to live with him SO BAD but we need to do our part. Read the scriptures daily, go to church, and say your prayers. My favorite scripture is 2 Nephi 32:20. ALL we need to do is that, and we can have eternal life. EASY!

Love,
Elder Boyack

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