September 30, 2009

well this week has been pretty awesome!! Elder Lima is awesome! he is more like me than any of my other comps by a long ways! its is pretty good and he is one of the only brazillians i have met that are sarcastic haha. and as you know our family is pretty sarcastic ha. we get along pretty well. so thats pretty good! we are also teaching so things are a lot better with just this. we have already taught half the lessons elder garcia and i taught all last transfer ha. that rocks!! but ya we are teaching more people now but none of them are really progressing really fast except for adenilson. we taught him the word of wisdom on saturday i think maybe it was tuesday. he doesnt have any problem with that. and he really liked church on sunday and is going to watch conference this week! pretty awesome1 so he will be baptized on the 10th if things go well. thats awesome! i hope things are good with him still. we had a multi-zone conference this week. i didnt see chad though. i got my package! thanks a lot! i liked it a lot! so it adds up to 100 things!? what will you guys do when i reach day 600 or something ha. that will be a huge package haha. just kidding. but ya at this conference we heard about the importance of the book of mormon and the importance of getting references. so president told a story about a missionary in chile that started a program there. in this program they entered into houses and kneeled down and blessed the house and then they knew who was ready for the gospel by who felt the spirit. haha sound familiar to anyone?!! pretty cool that i am in south america and people are talking about my dad haha. and dads always complaining about how he is always introduced as the dad or the brother of someone. haha people in brazil know stuff about him and he hasnt ever even been here. well that was about all this week. thanks for the packages. nobody is getting letters in brazil. i dunno all of whats going on but i am sure you guys are still sending them! thanks for the support! mom i was thinking that maybe you could send me a couple of shirts. a jazz shirt like for elder lima and either another jazz shirt or a byui shirt for elder garcia. they are having stuff sent here for me too i guess ha. but i would appreciate that a lot. probably like a large for elder lima and medium for elder garcia. thanks! oh and another missionary that i really like, he is awesome, wants peanut butter and i said that i would ask for some haha. thanks alot! love you!!
Love,
Elder Long