so this last sunday we had 3 baptisms!!! foi muito bom!! they were pedro, nita, and maria luiza. the son and daughter of maria luiza want to be baptized this next sunday too which is really good! unfourtanately we werent here to teach for two days because of transfers. it will most likely be hard to get joão rosamea and christiani baptized this next sunday. i really hope we will have some baptisms though!! it will be tough but we can do it!
so i will tell you all about transfers now! after the leadership meeting i went home with elder hillam(IF), elder Greener(burley) and elder griffen (california). it was different being with americans ha. so you guys thought it was crazy that i will do contacts to the entire bus? wait till you hear this haha. us three idaho boys sang hymns the whole way home!!! ha bet you didnt expect that! but it was pretty good. oh ya sidenote: i was doing a contact on the bus and my voice squeaked. i just hurried and sat down haha. it was funny cuz earlier that day i was thinking, i am a man now, i have to shave every single day! turns out i am just a child haha. but back to transfers...all these american missionaries were very good examples for me! especially e.hillam and e. greener! they love the work so much and are so animado! i dont know the word in english ha. so excited i guess. but they are always so excited about everything they do. the time with them just flew because i was trying to have fun like them hah it was awesome! they work pretty hard too. i went with elder griffen to teach (we didnt teach anyone just contacts cuz no one was home) and the other two went together. they ran home after they finished the lesson. how the crap do they do that!? i am pooped at the end of the day! but that night i didnt have a pillow! it was hard to sleep! but wouldnt you know that right when i woke up and went into the other room, there were 3 pillows not being used haha. that was dissapointing! but transfers were good. my new companion is named elder gomez. he is a native as well. native to Bagio, the same state as elder miranda. but he speaks english really well!!! what a blessing! he never speaks it except when we study the language in the morning or to help me. he is probably better at english than i am at portuguese! i am excited for this transfer. i am going to learn so much from him! he is the new district leader but only has 7 months in the mission. i have done like all the plannin so far and am kinda like the senior comp. it is kinda cool. but there are two, not really experienced 19-year-olds in itatiba teaching the gospel. pretty awesome. he is just a little guy ha. when we had lunch yesterday he couldnt finish one plate. i HAD to eat it all so i had 3 plates. i am not ever going to complain about that!! i am excited though. my goal is to be more animado like e hillam and e greener! luckily E. Gomez is like that as well. oh ya in case you were wondering, we missed the bus back from campinas yesterday by about 3 minutes again!! o we had to wait for 2 hours extra again. i swear they just wait til they see us coming then take off! but ya that was my week. did i tell you the son and daughter of maria luiza want to be baptized? i hope they will be!
well this week has been pretty good. we are gonna go to mcdonalds soon. i am excited for a hamburger. and really excited for my package haha. thanks for everything. love you guys! the church is true! families can be forever! Amo vocês!
Com amor,
Elder Long
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