So its been a great week...

so this week was so great. start off by saying yesterday was a perfect day for us. we had 2 baptisms. one of a girl with 16 years and she is great and loves the church. the other was samira, which we were so stoked to baptize her. weve been working a bunch with her and was so fun to have the privelage of baptising her. she was my first baptism of someone we found knocking doors so we really grew to love her, shes gonna be so solid. 

Elder Cezar, 16 year girl, Samira and her son, and Elder Taylor

and at the baptism, we had 7 of our investigators there watching! it was just perfect so we were so stoked about that. i sent some pictures of that so you guys can see. truly they were so happy after and was so fun to see their big smiles and just purity. i was thinking how lucky we are to have the opportunity to be that was constantly thanks to the sacrament and repentance. its #1 to see the difference and true joy/happyness that the gospel brings into peoples lives. there is nothing that can beat that feeling, not even if my room here had AC.

and to finish off the day we had dinner at a recent converts house, the man we baptized 3 weeks ago (standing next to me in the picture, and hopefuly well baptize the rest of the fam there soon). his wife is a strong evangelic who at first wouldnt even talk to us but now she loves our company so we are making progress with her. but anyways, at dinner i ate another food i never thought id be eating. last week was pig intestine and this week was goat brain!! haha it was the nastiest looking thing ever, they literally cacked open the skull in front of us and said enjoy. haha its one of those times where i remember that i love brazil!

 i wound up eating half of the brain and it wasnt terrible, cezar didnt put down one bite haha. but you can see the skull after i ate everything inside. and yes, i do feel so much smarter now. 

and yes stoked about the lakers, better believe i rep the lakers socks here ever once and a while.

at church yesterday had a person that spoke english perfectly and it was the weirdest thing talking in english but i love english so much. and youl like this story. so during sacrament, i was sitting with samiras son whos 6 years old and some other investigators, and samira was on the other side of the chapel. anyways during the first talk, all the sudden Vitor (the son) just rips a fart super loud! and obviously everyone close to us heard it. the little genius plugs his nose real quick, stands up and points to me and says, QUE ISSO?! (meaning like are you serious?) haha gosh i didnt know what to do besides just start laughing! at this time about half the people are looking over at us and hes just standing there looking at me, with one hand plugging his nose. ah i had nothing to do but just laugh. what a freaking smart 6 year old right?! haha i love him hes hilarious. but yea i hope youll enjoy that story. hope i dont get a reputation for farting in sacrament. 

but hey i love you all a ton and until next week!
tchau tchau

Elder Taylor

Just lovin' life!!