February 24, 2010

Thomas, Douglas, Camilla, ?, and Elder Mendes

hey everyone how are you guys doing? i am doing pretty good. i am not the happiest right now but thats alright. the week was pretty good. right now i am in an exchange with elder tippett. we stayed in my area and our comps had a meeting in campinas. well, elder tippett's comp called at like 6:40 to tell us that he marked an appointment at 11 in the other area that is an hour and a half away. so we caught a bus to this area. walked about 20 minutes and guess what?! he wasnt even home. so we have nothing to do. luckily they have free internet cuz we are 5 cents short of the money we need to catch a bus to jundiai again. so after this i will probably have to start searching for money on the ground so we can go home. i am not to happy with the district leader but alright oh well.
so the girls lost by two? that is no good! second is terrible!!!!!!!!!!! haha i didnt like getting second. but at least you guys got to go to boise this week. so time is going pretty quick and i cant even believe that it is time to write again. pretty crazy!!!
i guess i will tell you all about my week real quick. well this week was pretty good. we had more success this last week than the rest of the weeks in this transfer. thursday was a pretty good day. we found a bunch of new investigators and at least two the will be baptized a week from this sunday! really we have been teaching their dad and grandma and these two kids finally stopped to listen a little bit ha. it is funny cuz they both have the name carlos and their dad's name is carlos too. at least i dont ever call anyone by the wrong name. their dad is excited about his baptism this week. conseição will be baptized this week too. but this week i was given our area. we are in exchanges almost everyday!!!! i have been on 4 in the last 5 days. so i am learning a lot about being a senior comp. so thats cool i guess. and it is good thing that i didnt completely ruin everything haha. on friday, i was able to interview a girl for her baptism this last sunday. it was a good spiritual experience and she was excited. she is 14 years old and her name is genilda. but that was pretty cool. on sunday, we had two baptisms and a confirmation. Douglas and Camilla were baptized this last sunday. on saturday i told elder mendes that they were the easiest two baptism in my mission, because every lesson was at the church so they came to us to be taught. they keep all the commandments without any problems. so i was thinking it was pretty lucky and not very stressful. but on sunday she got sick!!! they didnt show up until about 11. we were praying just about the whole meeting. she had a baked potato and got sick. so of course she blamed it on me because i am from idaho. i dunno why but everyone said it was my fault haha. but then after lunch, we had to make some contacts. we are supposed to do 140 and we had 74 hah. so on sunday elder mendes and i each made 30+ contacts haha. it would be good if we didnt procrastinate haha. but on monday i was in exchange with elder nothum. he has been in brazil for two weeks now. it wsa pretty good. we found one ELECT lady!!! she is an older lady, probably about 65-70. she started crying before i even started the first vision!! she cried during the invite to be baptized and said, "i cant refuse an invite from christ. yes, i will be baptized!! i havent ever felt the spirit so strong during any lesson. it is cool because everything i planned, fell through!! so i found a man that lived kind of close. we went there to this house but he ddidnt really live there. but nina did. she already talked to missionaries ten years ago but didnt know how to get into contact with them again. BUT, i havent got to the best part!!!........... she had a dream the night before that two men in white would came to her house to help her find the truth!!! that is probably the coolest and most memorable thing that has happened in my mission huh?! it was pretty cool. but last night i was in exchange with elder tippett. we taught carlos and conseição about the word of wisdom. they will obey. then we used an awesome finalizor. i marked the baptismal interview with them and then called for our district leader that will interview them so he could tell them how excited he is to visit them! it worked great and they are super excited. they are studying the gospel principles book alread and are in chapter 10 already haha! and carlos asked if he could go with us to do visits after his baptism!! prtetty awesome!! we also had another man that would have been baptized but probbly not now. his fiance is a member and a returned missionary. they dont live together or anything. he actually lives in campinas but is driving here like here every weekend. but he was working on the roof of his fiance's house and fell and broke his leg. and since he has no one to help him there in campinas, he is staying there in his fiance's house. they arent breaking the law of chastity but he cant be baptized until he isnt staying there. so probably wont happen this sunday unfortunately! but he will be baptized eventually!! but ya it was a pretty good week except this trip i made to this city called jacaré for no reason today. haha but everything is good! hope everything is good with you guys!!!
love,
elder long