Olá Família,
Obrigado pela parabén por meu aniversário! Imma be 21! We were all gonna go out and get a drink to celebrate since I´ll be 21 and all, but then I realized that you only have to be 18 to drink in Brazil! So we are going bump the party up to tonight. But, happy birthday to Sarah! Use the birthday bear for me.
What an upside-down confusing week that we´ve had. We´ve been teaching this guy named Carlos all week. He came to Church and is in the process of moving to another state, but is staying in a hotel waiting for his giant Diesel to get registered so he can hit the road to Goias! But, Carlos is great because he gives us free food and does nothing all day so he would read the Book of Mormon. Carlos is REALLY smart and I felt like I was teaching somebody normal for a change! When he found out that he would be staying for the weekend during his long wait, we invited him to get interviewed and baptized, so he was interviewed on Saturday but REFUSED to be baptized this week. He´s convinced that he needs to do it in Goias, but by that time the devil will have already taken his soul down to the pit of misery and endless woe! Gah. We got sad, but not given up.
On Sunday, we had our first meetings of the Ala Pioneiros and a whopping 8 investigators! The members are awesome and brought their friends that we´ve been teaching to Church! Yes. One is a cool family that we started teaching. The grandma is a haircutter and pretty Catholic but willing to change ("I believe a lot in Saint Mary... blah blah blah."), but Eva is awesome because she let her granddaughters come to Church even though she couldn´t. They are 13, 12 and 9 and they watched the baptisms of Elder Ertel and Stipanich and almost cried! Wow. The little one who´s 9 said, "If I could I would get baptized right now!" That´s what I´m talking about. Guilherme´s sister came to Church to watch his confirmation and she´s all BFF with another young women in the ward and is getting baptized on Sunday! There is gonna be a line to get in the water this Sunday! We´re working with other people and making the best of the excitement in the ward. I´m so happy!
And (drumroll)... Elder Bednar is coming to visit Cuiabá this month! He´s probably gonna get things straight and tell the members and missionaries to work so that President Oliveira can divide this stake before he leaves. Sadly, I don´t think I´ll be there but he´s gonna do a training thing with the missionaries and all of us in the south get to watch it via satelite. He´s gonna do an open-air question time, but I haven´t thought of anything yet. Help me out!
Best week to everyone! Until we meet again!
-Elder Carp.
Brazilian Fact: The Brazilian Flag looks awesome on a pumpkin!
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