hey guys! how are you guys doing? everything here is going great! we are starting to have tons of success in this area that everyone thought was crappy! we have at least 10 people that will be baptized in the next few weeks! that is pretty good since there were only 3 baptisms in 2009! we are seeing tons of miracles though. every single day! this week we had a baptism! his name is jose rubens. he was very elect! he went to church by himself and asked how he could be baptized. that is basically every missionary's dream! we really are being blessed. i decided that God likes me for some reason haha. on last thursday we had a multi-zone conference and guess which elder had to conduct the meeting! that was pretty tough ahah. i didnt even know what to say! ha it was pretty tough. but the meeting was pretty trunky. president only talked about marriage and living with a spouse forever. and how we need to learn how to live with someone right now while we are in the mission. he said that most of us wont be able to have a meeting with him right before going home so he wanted to give it to us now. he just talked about how we have to share everything with our comps and that we always need to look for our faults and not in others. so that was pretty trunky. oh well though. i got a bunch of letters. thanks! oh by the way Missy, thanks for that card that you sent for my bday. it probably wasnt very easy to get all my friends to write and to make the card. this week was pretty tough once again. we didnt teach as much as we would like. we are teaching great people that are progressing and everything but didnt quite reach our goal of 25 lessons. at least we met all our other goals! This week we will probably have two baptisms. a member has been taking is niece and nephew to church for the last 2 months. i dont know why they havent been baptized yet! we went there yesterday and taught their family. their parents were so surprised at how much they have learned at church. we gave the baptismal invite for their parents and then they said "i accept" without even being invited yet. even the 5 year old accepted haha. so this week we will probably have two baptisms and the next week will be about 8 or 9!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! we are teaching a very special family!!! Manoel, Norma, Vanderlei, vanderlan and taiz. they are keeping all the commandments that we have taugth until now and the will for sure be baptized on the ninth!!! that will be a great day!! i am looking forward to that day!
yesterday we had our first district meeting of the transfer! it was very effective but i didnt really do very much! elder mendes gave the message. next week is my turn and i have no idea what to do haha. so if anyone has any ideas of scriptures that i can use to get the other missionaries excited about the work, i will gratefully accept ha. but i think they will start working harder. this next month is going to be great! it will probably be the best month the mission has had. and our zone will probably have the most baptisms! i am pretty excited! unfortunately i am still learning tons and dont know how to help the other elders very much! but hopefully i grow from this!
well sorry i dont have much time to write this week! i had to go to campinas! but i hope everything is going well back in idaho! i hope dad and trey had good birthdays! tell them happy birthday for me! sorry that it was late! oh and maybe someone could tell colby happy birthday too haha. and grandpa will have a birthday tomorrow so happy birthday grandpa!
well i hope everything is going great! oh also thanks for the letters from my friends mom! sounds like they are all doing great and having lots of success and spiritual experiences in their missions too!!!
Love,
Elder Long
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