Celebraceo (Celebration)

This week I was very loved! Two little surprise parties from members here in the ward, a package with souvenirs from Campo Grande (where my companion is from), plus a tie and a bunch of cupcakes from our baptism Andressa! All because of my birthday. Neat.

I went to Cachoeiro yesterday. Again. We got back at 11:00 at night. That meant we had to wake up early to make all of the phone calls we missed to our missionaries last night. Things are wild this week.

We had interviews with President Araújo. He is happy with the work that we are doing and gave some new tips for us to confront the challenges we are facing. We have to help one companionship in our zone move houses. President gave us a ride from our chapel to the mission office to pick up the keys of the new house. We got to ride in his pickup in the air conditioning. I didn´t want to get out.

I did a division with Elder Anderson. Funny that we have had a lot of opportunities to see each other and work with each other on the mission, even serve in the same ward for a few weeks. They had two miraculous baptisms in their area this Saturday. A couple that they are teaching, after weeks of indecision, called them and said they wanted to be baptised that very day, Saturday. They were interviewed, and baptised that night! Always fun to remember the good old days with Elder Anderson.

I ran into Alvino the ward mission leader from Serra, and my good friend while on the divison with Elder Anderson. He gave me some updates and we took a picture together. Neat to see that at least a few people remembered my name! Alvino was there by chance, visiting his relatives and saw me passing from the window of the house and called my name. Way funny.

We were not blessed with a very spiritual week this week. This week was just blood, sweat, and tears, and a LOT of sweat. My feet have fungus and are splitting open. My companion was hit by a car- low speed, he rolled over the hood of the car. His leg is aching. We walked a lot, had almost 85% of our appointments fall through.

On the good end, Andressa opted to miss the wedding of her cousin to go to church. She is really focusing on the right things and we are happy with her progress.

That was the week.

Hope EAster was great for all.

Abraço (hugs)