February 3, 2010

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hey everyone howis it going? everything is going pretty good here. this week wasnt quite as good as the last couple. unfortunately we didnt have as much success. probably because we didnt start out very well. but this week will be better. but this week was pretty slow. unfortunately not very many people went to church this sunday. there were only three investigators there but it was the highest attendence rate in the history of the ward (211 people). sunday was the only day that was very exciting. on sunday we had the 4 confirmations of the baptisms last week. i preformed the confirmation of alex, samantha, and jackson. it was pretty cool but i would like to know how to speak a little bit better still haha. but after church we ate lunch with a family that i really like. they are really cool. we ate lasagna. then we went to a city call jacaré to help them out. they needed 10 new investigators to reach the best reward of the week in the mission. it is called My Offer to Christ. we have to have good numbers in everything to earn it. we earned it last week with our four baptisms and this week jacaré had the baptisms and everything to earn it just not the new investigators. so we went there and helped them out. we finally found people to teach and ended up staying there. ha it is pretty tough to sleep without a pillow but thats alright ha. this week has started out a little bit better than the last week though. elder mendes has a leadership meeting today so he went back to jacaré wioth our district leader and elder tippett came here to my area. we had a pretty good day yesterday. we found a man that should progress well. elder tippett isfrom georgia. he is cool but pday hasnt been quite as good as it was when elder schroeder came. i dont know howelder schroeder is doing. he was transfered to an area close to the hospital but he had started working again before the transfers. i think he willbe alright though! but this morning i made some weights out of cement. haha hopefully they turn out well. i think they should! but ya that was pretty much my week. unfortunately we wont have baptisms again this week but on the 14th we should have at least 2.so that will be pretty good! but how are you all doing?! hopefully great! but love you all!
Love,
Elder Long