November 11, 2009

well i better tell you all about my week this week. i am trying to hurry cuz i don't have much time and i am playing basketball at 3. well i will quickly tell you about my companion elder paillo. he is from the south. rio grande do sul. it is cold there and even has snow. so he is dying in this 95 degrees with humidity weather as well. he was in the military before the mission. he is pretty cool. he is pretty tall and i guess he used to play basketball for the military team. so should be fun to play today. well the first four or five days here in rio claro weren't that great. i could have sworn this city only had crazy people. i only talked to crazy people or drunks the first two or three days. pretty interesting. but now we are starting to find normal people. we had stake conference this last sunday and we had 11 people there so that was a lot different than in itatiba. that's pretty awesome! there is one 18 year old in our ward and we taught his family. his two sisters really wanna get baptized but the mom is more or less. but we should have at least two baptisms this next saturday. we are also teaching jose dias and his wife and 3 daughters. we were teaching and didn't say anything about baptism but he said he wants to get baptized but isn't sure which church yet. so that's cool. we will see how it goes. also there is a couple that has been waiting for papers for marriage for about 2 months now and will be married during this transfer! there is another man in our ward that is the only member from his family. he has 4 little kids and we know two of them want to be baptized and probably the other two. we just need to find time to teach them. oh and we are teaching another couple named cassio and lucinea. they live and work in a bar. so that could be a problem. but they are getting married so they can be baptized. we will see how they handle some of the commandments. but he is going to play bball today. well that was pretty much my week. it was pretty good and pretty quick. it has been super hot here this week. pretty crappy. luckily it has been raining quite a bit. its cool that it only starts raining at 9:30 when we get home. then we can sleep during the night without dying of the heat! oh and the teenagers here love us. i don't know why. but they would do like anything we asked them. that is pretty good. they are pretty funny too. so it is a pretty sweet area here. except we don't have a bank or a post office in our area. so i will probably only send missionties letters in this area. i cant find a nativity either mom. so i don't know what to send ha. and we don't have anywhere in our area that has cool stuff. only the center of town has that stuff. so we will see. well that was my week haha love ya.
love,
elder long