Parabéns Robbi!!!!!!
Last week sounded pretty awesome for you guys up in Idaho/Oregon. But then again i wish i could have been there to see Robbi's sealing in the temple now that i can enter, i think that would have been sweet. We will have to go up there when i get back and also see if Kimber can convince me to go to BYU-i (; 

But last week has been raining a lot here. I hope my wife is getting hotter because I took a lot of rain this week-haha.  We had another baptism last week. Lucas who is 16 years old. But let me tell you his story. Before Lucas lived here in Nova Natal he lived in a different city that is really ghetto and hard for a kid to grow up in. He didn't have much there and to get money he started selling drugs at a young age. He and ended up getting so much money that he bought his own house, for you to understand. But, he also got addicted to alot of drugs. One day when he was doing a drug run it went wrong and someone pulled a gun and shot someone he was with. He ran and hid himself and prayed to God to give him another chance to live. Nothing happened to him that day and he ended up leaving there and comeing to Nova Natal to live with his grandma and to change his life. 

Baptismal Belt

We found Lucas one day when we were on divisions with his 11yr old cousin, who doesnt know him much. When we started teaching him, he accepted everything we had been teaching him. Even before we started teaching him about the word of wisdom or anything on the first contact lesson he made a goal with himself to stop smoking. Which he had been smoking 2 boxes a day. He was having difficulty with stopping before. He then was able to cut it to one a day and the week before his baptism he stopped completely. He knew and recognized that this was God working miracles in his life. I'm so thankful for the Lord trusting me and my comp to be instruments in his hands to help these miracles happen. I know that God prepares paths for everyone to change their life if you are willing to humble yourself before him and to let him work on you! 

Me and my comp are doing good here, we have more baptisms planned for next week. Egor, he's a pretty big boy so me and my comp have both started working out again so that we are prepared so whomever he picks haha.

But love you guys!

Elder Mauter