opa fam!! 

This week was kinda crazy i lost my hearing in my right ear.  I used that candle thing to pull the junk out. I've never seen so much wax come out, freak!  But even after that i couldn't hear.  I used another candle and a ton came out again.  I waited a couple of days and on saturday i had to go to the hospital because i still couldnt hear. It sucked because there was a huge line so i stayed there all night with my comp and a sister from our ward that drove us there. Hospitals are the real deal here in Brazil.  When i was waiting i saw people who were shot, beat up, people who were hit by cars.  When i got in the line for all the people who have ear problems.. some lil kid had a bean in his ear, another a popcorn seed and then some old dude that was straight up bleeding out of his ear... It turned out that i had a bacteria in my ear so I'm going to take medicine this whole week and then get my ear cleaned out next week. I know when i was there at the hospital everyone was just looking at me like "that white kid is fine" hahha while everyone else was half dead! ill get better so don't worry(:

Last week we have been working with those two families a ton and its going well so pray for them. One lady that we are teaching is Amanda.  She is 19 and has 2 baby girls.  She's pretty cool, her sister is a member in the church so we have been teaching with her a lot.  She has some doubts because what we teach is different than what her church teachs which i dont understand because of course our church teaches different things or i wouldn't be here trying to tell her about the restored gospel? Its been good, she tried to Bible bash us this week but before she even got to the scripture we told her what scripture she was looking for and she was shocked a lil because we already knew what she was looking for. We told her its because everyone uses it against us. We explained it to her. Her and her husband really like our church so we are going to either baptize them this Sunday or the next we just have to work with them some more.

We also have one girl whose 17 and a kid 13 that we will baptize this week and maybe his mom too. We are hoping but shes a lil harder to get her to commit.  But yesterday the members rounded up a bunch of clothes and toys that they don't use and we brought them to her house so that was really cool. Then we have a girl named Julie who read the BoM before she went to church.  She really wants to be baptized.  she knows the church is true but her dad is like the 1 counselor at his church and in their church they have a book just about the mormons that teach about us so he doesn't want to let her get baptized.  We need his authorization because she is 17 so pray for her. We have a member that is visiting them and teaching them. Who is actually her aunt so i think that will help a ton. 

But ya that was my week. I didn't get transferred and everything stayed the same, my comp stayed to. Tomorrow we have conference with the mission so we will see how that goes.

Love you guys, I hope everything is going well. The Moab bike trip sounded sweet thanks for the pics dad. I bet you'll have tons of fun up there in Idaho mom.  Tell Gav and everyone hi and that i miss everyone. 
com amor 
Elder Mauter
ill send some pics of this week. We went to lunch at a members house that has a ton of turkeys and turtles and stuff.  Then, beaner packing a car with 13 people on the way to church with our investigators and some members.