Opa fam!

How are you guys doing? Last week was pretty sweet but this weekened wasn't very good because today is Brazil's independence day and everyone was gone on vacation last weekend. It was so hard to find people, I swear we passed 12 peoples houses that we teach and no one was home... but what can you do? We didn't have a baptism last week because Dos Anjos traveled to her daughters house over the weekend and is going to get home tomorrow so it'll be this week. 

Last week I got a package from Kim and it had the crazied things haha! She sent me some sweet socks and these pens that you can use to write on peoples car windows. So me and my comp have been messing with members and writing dumb stuff on their cars haha.  

A funny thing that happened last week. On Wednesday we woke up and left to go to downtown to do something and when we left our house there was about 100 Jehovah witnesses in our neighborhood it was insane! I've never seen so many in my life it was like an army haha but they are scared of us.

I had a really cool experience last week. We were walking and knocked on a door and a lady came out and said she was busy. She said she was helping her daughter that had surgery.  We said if she wanted we could help her and give her comfort.  So this old lady left and entered her house without saying anything, so we were about to leave but then she invited us in. We were talking with this family and then two people came in from a different church and they began to teach but everytime the man said something he always looked at us to see if we agreed with what he said. Then he asked us to join in his prayer so we agreed and it was the craziest thing ever!  He just started screaming and me and my comp just looked at each other like 'what the freak' haha!  His wife was doing this weird thing to the woman who was sick like putting her hands on her. They finally left and we got the chance to listen to her and see what was going on in her life.  She has 5 kids and pretty much told us that she has given up on life because she has sufferd so much. We talked to her about the atonement and gave her a blessing and it was the most spiritual moment in my mission.  She was crying and we were too, it was cool.

 I love you guys- this letter was just something quick.  

Tchau,
Elder Mauter