You Can't Expect Different Results By Doing the Same Thing

Bom Dia! 

Hope everyone enjoyed their spring break! They week was pretty eventful.

First off we had a meeting with President Genaro which turned out ot be super awesome! While we were there, 4 Americans that got their VISAS arrived. It was super cool to talk to them. And one them had my package that you sent me Family! Man it was so tasty, Thanks guys! Haha, I gave some members and investigators warheads, haha I got a good laugh out of it. I even gave one to Sister Genaro, haha! I sure hope that she doesn´t tell President Genaro. ;)

On our way back from the meeting with President Genaro, we got a phone call. It was Tiago, the member who´s family we are teaching. He told us that his mom was going to let Vitoria be baptized, which was the biggest thing stopping her. Man that totally made our day. Vitoria really wanted to be baptized, but here mom didn´t want to let her yet. But after Mirian (her mom) decided to let her, Vitoria decided that she wanted to wait a bit longer. It looks like she´s a bit nervous and scared to be baptized. But we´re just going to do our best to help her out. Pray for her and her family please!

Feliz Páscoa! Be Deeply Rooted in the Gospel!

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Feliz Páscoa! (Happy Easter!)

Conference was flippin awesome! I watched it in Portuguese so I didn´t get AS much out of it as I would in English, but I sure learned a lot. We brought an investigator to the last session of conference. She enjoyed it, but here 8 month baby was like crying the whole time. 

This week was a little disappointing with the work and all. We didn´t get to work as much as we wanted with conference and all and so we didn´t have as much success as we wanted. But we´re not going to let our faith falter. We´re going to keep working hard this week. Tonight we´re traveling to Londrina to a meeting with Pres. Genaro. I´m going to sleep in Elder Coelho´s (ex comp.) house tonight! It´ll bee good catching up with him and all. Then on Thursday we have zone meeting so it´s going to be super busy this week. We´re going to have to take advantage of the time we have to work in our area. Pray for us that it goes well. 

Grateful for Everyone Who is Supporting Me on My Mission...Love Getting Mail!

Bom dia!

This week has been super great and my companion is super awesome!

Elder Nascimento, which would be Elder Birth in English, haha. It´s pretty cool here in Brazil that lots of last names mean something. For example, my last companion, Elder Coelho, would be Elder Rabbit or Bunny in English. Bahaha! pretty cool!

But yeah Elder Nascimento is a pretty cool guy! He´s from Maceió, a city in the Northeast. He´s a bit guy with a big heart. This is his last transfer on the mission! He´s going home in 5 weeks! He´s working super hard though, as if he was just starting out on the mission. He came with lots of great ideas. He super experienced and I´m excited to learn tons from him.

God Loves You... He is Your Heavenly Father

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Transfer! I´m staying in Morangueira! I´m super excited about that. I was really hoping to stay here for at least one more transfer. Elder Coelho (my comp) was transferred though. He´s going to Londrina, and my new companion is going to be Elder Nascimento. I don't know him personally but I heard that he's  a super good missionary. There are a few other super good missionaries that are coming the the zone. One of them is Elder Antonio. Super awesome missionary! He´s the missionary from Mozambique that I lived with for about 2 months.

The Spiders are Big in Brazil!

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Holy cow a ton has happened this week and i hope i have enough time to tell you about it. First off, we got home on Monday night pretty tired. We started planning when all of a sudden my comp screamed "HUGE SPIDER!". I laughed at first thinking that he was just messing with me but when i looked, i totally freaked out. It was probably the biggest spider that i have seen in real life. Holy cow! Haha it took about 15 minutes to kill it. It looked just like a turantula but I think it was some other kind. but i can tell you one thing, I didn´t sleep very well that night. I´ll try and send a pic of it to you guys. It was about the size of my camera if not bigger. Crazy!

The Atonement of Jesus Christ is REAL!

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It´s finally starting to cool down. it´s still hot! but it´s cooling down a bit more. I think I´ve forgotten what it´s like to have air conditioning...and a car. Everything is like super high tech to me now.

This week went pretty well, and went by really fast too. We only worked in our area for like two days this week! We went on splits a few times and went to the Sister´s area to help them out. They´re in a pretty hard area, and the´re all completely new to the area. I went with Elder Abernathy to help them out on Thursday. We found a super great family of  people! and 4 of them went to church on Sunday! It was super cool to see them there.

But we found a few really great people this week, and a few of them came to church on sunday. We brought one girl to church named Grazielle. She totally loved church and is super interested! We also started teaching a member´s sister this week. She´s doing really well too!

This Friday is zone conference! Man i´m totally stoked for it. Zone conference is always a blast and we learn so much from President Genaro.

God Gives Us Trials So We Can Learn and Grow....

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Man the weeks are going by faster and faster! it´s starting to scare me a bit, haha!

I can´t believe it´s snowing that much in NC! It´s been so hot here that i´ve forgetten what it´s like to feel cold. Luckily it´s finally starting to cool down a bit.

Things are going pretty good down here. Patricia was confirmed yesterday! She was baptized a few weeks ago but it took her a while to be confirmed because her dad´s been in the hospital and she hasn´t been able to come to church. She´s doing pretty well though, and even brought a friend to church with her yesterday. 

This week went pretty well, but definitely could have been better. Elder Coelho and I have been working a lot, but it feels like with hit a barrier that we haven´t been able to climb over. Actually the whole zone is like that right now. But we´re working to improve and have more success.