Boa tarde fam!!!
We had transfers last week and i really thought that i was going to leave Natal but i stayed in my area. I'm going to train another new missionary in the mission!!! idk what president was thinking but it'll be good haha alot more work for me though. So now i have two sons in the mission.(if you train a missionary - missionary's call them their sons) His name is elder t. silva, he's from são paulo. He is a pretty nerdy kid but its fun. We played some soccer and made breakfast with our whole zone today. I made my son get out there and play to loosen up those legs hahha.


Last week we really got to work, contacting alot of people to have a bigger group to teach and more people attend church. Last week we were able to baptize Derrick, who is a members brother that was never baptized. We didn't think it was going to work out because when we were teaching him his dad didn't like it. I could tell in his face but he never said anything to us and it turned out great.  My son got to baptized his first of many! Also last week we were able to find alot of people but not a lot of people who would commit to come to church. Saturday night when we were leaving a members home he saw a bunch of his friends outside of their homes so we stopped by and talked to them and were able to invite all of them to church.  We were blessed because when we went over to talk their crazy grandpa came out to stop us from talking with his grandkids. He started saying a bunch of negative stuff about our church but we were able to break him so it was pretty funny.  He told us that he was born catholic and will die catholic even if it takes him to heaven or hell it didn't matter. 


We ended up explaining to him if he wants to be catholic he actually has to start going to his church. But he didn't want to do that either. There's a lot of people that are scared of what they don't  know or understand. Thats one of the biggest problems that I have seen here on my mission. If anyone on the street says something about a religion or an person they believe it and dont what anything to do with it. This is the biggest tool that satan has in some peoples lives. These lies make people scared of what they dont know. This is why we are counseled to study and to live the gospel because if we aren't practicing it in our lives our faith wont be strong enought to carry us when temptation comes. 

Thinking about you guys going to trek this week I remembered about the pioneers that knew this when they were going to Utah.  They could have stayed in their own countries or nice homes and most likely would have had an easier life. But they were willing to sacrifice to start from nothing. They did this for those that would come after them. Most of them would never see churches, temples everything that we have. They gave up so much for the principles they believed so strongly in and to not be persecuted. Good luck this week on trek, I'm sure it will be hard especially in the heat but it'll be a good experience for you guys and Gavin! 


But ya i was going to tell you to go to Elder Phillips homecoming talk.  But I knew you were going to still be  up in Utah. Elder Phillips went to William's field H.S.  I didn't know him before but me and him know a lot of people in common. He's super cool and he was a good missionary!


But love you guys.  Ill send some pics. My memory card got a virus from the computers.  But I got it fixed so now i can send some 

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