Dear Famìlia,
This week has been great, My companion is from
Springville Utah and he plays football and basketball. He is the only member of
his family that has ever served a mission besides his dad. He has 10 months here
and he is a great missionary he knows how to help people and how to teach
really really well.
Yeah we don’t even really have a ward, I think we are
constructing a chapel right now but we meet in this small building haha. This
last week we went to the stake center in Macieo and Elder Holland spoke from
São Paulo, haha he tried to speak Portuguese at the beginning it was pretty
funny.
As for food, we eat two eggs and some chicken for breakfast,
for lunch members always feed us noodles, beans, rice, beef, chicken, or fish.
The juice here is unbelievable and a lot of the fruits here don’t even exist in
the states. For dinner we eat two eggs and drink water haha.
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| Endelly's baptism |
This week we had a baptism, her name is Endelly and she is
23. Her story is unbelievable. We found her trying to contact her cousin
actually and we shared the word of wisdom and let her borrow a Book of Mormon.
We invited her to read the introduction and then we would check with her the
next day. The next day she told us she read the intro and then started reading
a little bit of First Nephi and started weeping and she didn’t know why, in
that moment she gave up drinking, coffee, and everything in one day. She has a
daughter and was living with this guy since she was 16 so 7 years together.
This was the only thing holding her back from baptism but finally she decided
to leave him because he wasn’t agreeing with the church and she wanted to be
baptized, so we finally baptized her this Sunday, I’ve never met anybody so
dedicated, that was kind of the highlight of my week.
Overall good week we were busy Tuesday making our Christmas video
lol. I think we might have some baptisms this week but it’s hard because people
always work here on Sundays.
Miss you guys, tell everyone I said hi.
It’s really hot here every day haha. But being next to the
beach gives us a little bit of a breeze. Sounds like the stake changed a lot
(our family’s home stake split this past week). Haha i miss my ward and good
singing! the people here are soooo BAD lol and I just miss everything about
church at home, but I’m adjusting the church here is really good just different
haha. Cant wait for Chrismas!
Até mais
Elder Toma
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