Congratulations!!

Hello Crew!

Elder Carpenter here from Pedra 90! Pavilhão 90, cara! Somos os perigosos! My new area here in Pedra 90 is awesome demais! It´s just one gigantic neighborhood with a billion people packed inside. I love it here. There is a ward here with TONS of inactives. We are just working on visiting people to bring back to Church and then baptizing the rest of their families! Yes! The members here love the missionaries too. Everyone wants to give us food and make sure that we´re happy. The people here are more humble and loving, which is the bomb. The Bishop is super cool and the Ward Mission Leader is the best guy ever.

Every week here they do a thing that´s called Noite de Integração (Integration Night), and it´s getting everyone in the ward excited and coming back to Church. This last week we had 92 people at Church which hasn´t happened in all the time that Elder França has been here. Opa! There is a member here named Ciliana that Elder Santana (old comp) baptized when he started his mission off here in Pedra 90. She was inactive, but came back and had her 2 kids get baptized and is now bringing ALL of her friends to Church. One of them is named Brito, who is an older guy that came to Church. He used to drink and smoke but has recently stopped. He´s marked to get baptized this Sunday! He´s a super elect guy that the Lord has definately been preparing for us to baptize. Other than him, we´ve been teaching one of the member´s little nephew who just wants to get baptized. Way cool.

Things are going good though. I´m here with Elder França who is from Recife. He´s a good kid and really teaches well. I´m glad to be his comp because he knows the area well and has good ideas to help with the work. He´s 23 and was born in the Church, but when inactive later on. He came back to Church and came on his mission not too long after. He´s got 9 months on the mish.

PARABÉNS TO SETH AND JAIMEE!!! You are officially newlyweds. Woo! That makes me happy for you two. I loved the pictures of the reception! It makes me really hungry to see all of that food... So good... I especially liked the labels on all of the food. That made things turn out snazzy. Congrats to everyone that helped out because I´m sure that it was a LOT of work. But Seth and Jaimee are worth it.

Happy Birthday to Andrew and Quinton too! 6 and 2! Woot! Kiss and a hug to both of ya. Well, that´s it for this week. Love you and get some rest!

-Elder Carpenter