May 9 letter

FELIZ DIA DAS MÃES! Happy Mother´s Day to all! The best of wishes to every mom that is reading. I hope that it was a wonderful day for everyone. It certainly made my day to talk to everyone after quite some time. It´s weird how it seems like I haven´t even been gone while talking on the phone, but it´s actually been quite a while, hahaha. Phone magic! Everyone is doing well too, so that makes me happy. Thanks for everyone being there (including the RM´s, womp) because it means a lot.

Happy 34th Anniversary to mom and dad! Woot woot. Happy Wedding to Leah (if it´s this week) and Happy Graduation to Clayton and Katie (not sure when it is either)! Hope that everything goes well with finals and projects, etc. You can do it! Good luck with graduation pics Sarah!

Elder D. Souza (who changed his name because the new nametag got here) is doing great as my comp! We had lots of people at Church this Sunday, too. We have 2 couples that we´re working with to get married. One is Cassio and Elenir. Cassio is a member´s brother, so they´re getting their money together to get married soon. The other couple are family of some recent converts (Maria Auxiliadora and her son, Jeterson). They are Jaqueline and Hodinei! I love them a lot. 1) They always make us really good food, because I told them that I like cooking now and 2) They´re super interested in the Church, and loved this last Sunday, which was their first time. Now we just have to help them get married. Then, Lucas got confirmed this Sunday along and his mom and grandma came to watch. His mom is an amazing lady. She loved Church and is reading the Book of Mormon. She wants to take things a bit slower because she´s been Catholic for a long time, but she knows that the Church is true. We´re working with her, so that she can get baptized soon. Things are going good! We´re trying to only work with references here and so far so good. Lucas is taking us to teach his cousin this week, and we´re really excited to be here! Yes.

Things are going great here. I don´t want to leave Pedra 90 ever! I love the members and want to stay here for the marriages/baptisms. The pictures of food here are some Brazilian dishes. The first is a soup with strips of chicken and eggs. It kind of reminds me of the soup that we always eat at Golden Canyon, except that it´s not hot (jalapeno style). The other is an awesome dish of rice with chicken, beans, salad, and banana farofa (which is just a flour type thing that we always put on our food here with fried banana in it). Awww... we´re so spoiled.

Good week to everyone! I love you! Give the missionaries a thing of fruit snacks when they´re in the road.

-Elder S. Santos (I changed names for P-Day)