hey everyone! how are you all doing?! i hope everything is going great!!! this week was a pretty good week! and sorry, i am pretty tired today! so maybe i will have some mistakes in my english ha. but this week was pretty crazy! i think in the last week i have been in my area 3 days! that is pretty crappy. i really like to teach in my area ha. but oh well i guess. last pday was not the greatest preparation for the week ha. we worked most of the day ha. but i guess we will be blessed for our sacrifice! thursday was a pretty good day. we are teaching a lot of people that our progressing. we are teaching Moisés and lucas. they are two brothers about 17 and 16 years old. moisés looks quite a bit like marc too. it is pretty cool! they are progressing very well! moisés doesnt have any problems and is even asking if he can be a missionary someday! pretty cool! lucas has a little problem with coffee but it really is a question of testimony. he hasnt really gained a strong testimony about the book of mormon. he knows it is true and they will be baptized this week in between the two sessions of conference! on friday i worked in the center with elder tomaz. they had two baptismal interviews there. i am glad that i am in planalto and not in the center. they walk a lot and their teaching group is limited! i interviewed a 23 year old girl that went to church by herself and wanted to be baptized and also another lady...she is 88 years old! she lives with her two sisters too. one that is ninety something and another 85 year old. haha she likes to talk. she told me all about her life haha. but it was pretty cool. it is cool that she has been catholic her whole life and now she moved! then on saturday, we finished up that exchange and i went to jacaré for the interviews there! i interviewed two girls. they are 11 and 14 and have sisters that are members. they are very shy!!! the older one did not even talk!!! she said 8 words throughout the whole interview. she ended up not even being baptized on sunday because she was too embarrassed to be baptized in front of everyone and she didnt want to even enter the water with elder eduardo because she was so embarrassed haha. but it ended up being to late to finish the exchange so i stayed in jacaré. then on sunday we went to go pick up investigators. (i was still in jacaré) there is a van that picks up the investigators that the ward pays for. the van left us so we walked to church and got there in time for sacrament meetinghaha. elder eduardo had a talk to give and didnt even prepare anythin. he still gave a good talk tho! after sacrament, we had the crazy baptism! at this time yara was being baptized in my area...ya i didnt get to see and elder damásio didnt take a picture! i heard it was pretty funny too! but after lunch we went to planalto. we didnt want anyone in the district that didnt reach their goals. so elder eduardo was going to go to itupeva to help them out. but elder damasio and elder tippet were teaching so we couldnt end the exchange. so me and elder eduardo decided to teach. we went to a family and taught there real quick!!! there were 8 people in that house!!!!!!!!!!!! and there are 5 others that live there!!! so we met our goals with just that one family haha. then we decided to just go to itupeva. so we went there to help them out. we found a great couple! they just had a kid and were crying while we explained the plan of salvation!!! it was great! then i was able to teach in my area monday. another one of carlos's friends asked to be baptized!! so we went and marked his and his mom's baptism for the 11th! oh and we taught that huge family and marked their baptisms for the 18th! oh and just to show you how great moisés and lucas are: we were walkin in the street by their house and they asked if could fill out the baptism papers! (what do you call the baptism paper? in portuguese it is a "ficha." do you know dad?) and then yesterday we all went to itupeva! our whole district! i went with Elder de arujo and we marked 6 baptisms. i believe they will all be baptized too! but then i had to sleep there cuz it was to late to go home. and i had to sleep on the tile floor. i slept for about 4 hours maybe! but ya that was pretty much my week! pretty crazy huh?!!!
love you guys!
love,
elder long
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