Thursday, December 27, 2012

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!

This week was great except for I don´t remember anything that happened--hah--it´s so easy for everything to kind of blend into one big ball.
 
Hey--I finally got a computer to work to send some pictures--they downloaded reeeeeally slow so here are only a few--I´ve got a bunch!

          I hope you are all have a great Christmas season bundled around the fire with Christmas trees and all---here in Brasil everyone is sweating and there´s only fires to cook some delicious meat--churrascaria--we cooked the meat yesterday after church at a member´s home and then our church clothes smelt like campfire---I LOVE THAT SMELL---it made me feel like I was fishing in the Uintahs or in the ampitheater or on a camping trip with the scouts or something---it was a good memory moment!
 
         This week---not a single one of our families came to church again---HOW CAN YOU BE BAPTIZED IF YOU DON´T COME TO CHURCH?? How can your testimony improve if you don´t come to church? For those of you that think church is boring, say a prayer, ask for a change of attitude and realize that there has never been a boring three hours of church in the history of the church as long as the sacrament is present and you partake worthily. You are there at church to 1) Take the sacrament 2) Help, strengthen and support others 3) Be edified and strengthened yourself through the Spirit and the words and examples of others 4) Strengthen the great ward family that your are a part of (or branch that is)! 
         This week Elder Santos and Elder Correia batized a 73 year old woman named Carmosina and her daughter--}Sonia!! I am pretty good friends with the both of them and had the great opportunity to share with them how the Holy Ghost works and that they are greatly blessed to be baptized and receive the Gift of Fire and congratulated them for their great achievement. We even bought them a delicious box of chocolates!! 
        Before the baptism I cleaned the font and the upstairs of the church with a boatload of water, soap and a broom in my barefeet and my church clothes--it was a blast and I was sweating a bunch! 
         Ahh--what--the owner of the store says that we have to leave--okay I guess we´re going to another computer store. Tchau. Love you.

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