Dear Everyone,

Yo, whats up. How are the states?? Man people her bag so much on America its kind of annoying. But its all good, I bag on Brasil a lot The weather here has been nice. I have been caught a few times by the rain without an umbrella, but I enjoy a shower once in a while. The heat has yet to come! The next transfer is Dec. 23 so we will see if i escape the Paranaguá heat.. probably not.

Things are going great. This past week we had a baptism, its a guy named Jefferson. He is 19 and truly an elect. He plays VERY good soccer and was going to our chapel to play on Wednesdays then we started teaching him the lessons. He is doing very well and I got to baptize him! (see attached picture). This next week we are hoping to baptize Pedro, he is the dad of Nei and flores, two recent converts. I had a good talk with him yesterday and he said he is not happy in his life. I told him that we have what he needs, and the only way he can find tru happiness in this life and in the next is by being baptized and following the gospel of Jesus Christ. Unfortunately he has not been able to completely let go of cigarettes… but we are working with him on that.

SPEAKING OF CIGARETTES… hbaha so we are helping these two sisters (both a little older and with a couple kids) to stop smoking. They both really like the church and want to stop smoking, drinking, etc. And find a nice husband who wont betray them. So we  bought a butt load of oranges, vitamen C pills, and then plastered their house wiht 3×5 cards with little do not smoke messages.. its awesome! One stopped smoking AND drinking coffee and the other is having some difficulties… its quite a challenge!!

Today we went to a rest home to spend some time with the older persons of Paranaguá. It was awesome! We sang to them and talked with them. To be honest, i am not so much scared to get old.. I am more worried about getting my life all in order so I can be old and be happy. These poor people are a mess. One guy kept crying when I talked about his family and other things.. I felt it was better to let him just watch TV then make him remember his home and start crying!! So I have decided I am going to start preparing myself so when I am old everything will be all figured out and I can just rest and not have any worries. I asked my friend missionary Elder C. Williams if he thought old people or children required more patience.. we decdided old people haha.

Well not much more to write about… life is good! Next week we will have the mission christmas conference, I CANT WAIT!! It will be amazing. I have really been working on being appriciative for every day I have on the mission. I am going to think back about if only I could just have one more day…. SO I am focusing on taking advantage of EACH day. This could also be applied to our lives. We have so few days here on the earth. This is a time of preparation. We need to use each day for GOOD and not waste time.

Have a grrrrreat week! I love you all and appriciate so much the support and prayers. Keep it up!!

Elder Parker Boyack

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