Highlights from March emails...

March 4, 2013

Nightly sweat on the pillow....S I C K

it was rediculously hot this week (and specifically yesterday) haha seriously its ridiculous! im just waiting for my hair to catch fire. it was more than 40 degrees celsius, and 37 in our house. dont know how much that is in farenhite but it felt way hotter than the river in the summer. now its cooling off a little, back down to like 37.

  

we have an investigator namedOsias (40+ years) hes a little dificult to teach and we were a little stumped on what wecould do more to help him. so as kinda a last straw thing we had him watch the baptisms last week. then this week i think wednesday, we got to talk to him and it was totally different. he said the prayer and in his prayer he just out of nowhere said, "please help me that i can go to church every week and that i can be baptised and be a member of this church.." me and Cezar just looked at each other like uhhh what did he just say?? haha we couldnt believe that happened. but something touched him at the baptism and now he will be getting baptised 17th this month. so rad, that was a fun experience.

this week i finished with the New Testament. i never really though that the bible was too special to be honest. but gosh, it is so powerful. i learned so much from it and my testimony that Jesus really is our savior grew so much. it is truly a sacred book too, and combined with the Book of Mormon, we really do have the fullness of the gospel of Jesus Cristo here on the earth. we have such great tools to learn and grow. there are so many parts that are related in the book of mormon and the bible. i love realizing them and then sharing some of the knowledge and examples with our investigators. im so grateful that we have prophets here on the earth to lead and guide us in this crazy world. all we have to do is rely on the words of prophets, old and modern prophets,and we will turn out alright.

Baptism of Ana

Baptism of Victor

March 18, 2013

just another awesome week on this mish is about all i can say to sum this week up. the weekend we had another 2 baptisms. one of Victor, hes a stud and the other Ana, the mom of alixandre who had the tumor in his head. the place were at will shut in faster than usual so sorry about the briefe email. but just a little story about victor. we were just clapping doors and then we talked to someone who was like, "oh yea i used to be super good friends with a mormon but he passed away. he lived over there if you wanna talk to the family" so for sure after we went over there. the mom was inactive after the husband who died 12 years ago and hasnt been to church for 12 years. shes super rad, but while we were there we talked to the son and ya the rest is history. hes such a stud. like all the people here, theyre addicted to soccer its just a part of life. but he showed so much faith to keep the sabath day holy and gave up soccer on sundays. was a great example to us.

last night while i was sleeping i woke up to something like crawling on me, and half asleep i just swatted it. then it kept on moving. haha sure enough it was a big old cock roach! the freaking thing was crawling down my shirt too so yea that was a rude awakaning. 

this week to went to Samiras house (whos so firm now in the church) and she let us know how her and her son (7 years old) have kneeling prayers everynight together. what a feeling of joy that was to hear. and the little 7 year old was the one who always says, mom we need to pray! such studs. and in his prayer with us he asked for a japanese car. we asked him why japanese and he said because they have air conditioning haha love it!

March 25, 2013

this week was super solid. but before i talk a little about it ill tsak about some of the funny stuff that happend. its the part of the email thats random. just like the part of Veggie Tails, "Singing silly songs with Larry".  so i wokeup in the morming and elder Cezar said that i was sleep talking like crazy last night. but wanna know the cool part? was in portguese! haha so rad. at lunch the other day had a person singing adele with all her heart while she as wearing head phones. we all know how funny it is when people sing lound with headpones in but imagine when they dont understand the words of the music and there just mimicking the words. was the funniest thing.

My watch tan line...

Thought this was a funny motel name!

so this week was great on the teaching part. we are teaching some people who are seriously super inteligent right now which is a little change and it has been so fun teaching them. the qustions they have and everything is so awesome. we had 3 people who when we went to check up on how there prayers were about reading and praying about the Book of Mormon just say how they totaly recieved answers and know its true. thats the best feling ever when the people say that. you kinda just have to prossess the words a little then just have the biggest smile. its so fun to see the Holy Ghost and the promise of the Book of Mormon in action. and ready for the best news?! weve been teaching a family of 5 that we found, married and everything which is a miracle, and theyve been progressing. and this week they accepted a baptismal date!! 7th of april!! ah seriously the coolest thing every. but heres a little sad news. haha transfers are the 3rd of april and i think for sure ill be transfered. haha i would cry if i ot transfered and then somebody else got to baptize them! id be a little sad, but would be so stoked because whether by me or another missionary they will b able to enter the waters of baptism and recieve all the amazing blessings that Heavenly Father is just waiting to poor out on them, the blessings that he is just dying for us, and everyone here on the earth to recieve.

love you all a ton! lets all do the right things this week so we can recieve the blessings of Heavenly Father that we need in our life.