hey family! how are you guys doing? this week is going pretty well. i am pretty happy with everything. we had our district meeting yesterday and everyone is really happy and motivated and i really was surprised by the missionaries that "arent supposed to be the greatest missionaries here." they really are working well and our zone had the most baptisms of all the zones and we will baptize at least 8 more this week too! things are going great. that one missionary was transfered, that one that left his shirt untucked when we got here. so we got a new missionary and one less difficulty. i really am doing good now. i was a little bit frustrated with everything but now it is all good! the missionaries really trust in me now and we have a lot of union. now we just got to keep the excitement and the desire to work with us the whole day!
conference was great! i wasnt in botucatu the whole weekend. that was tough because i wasnt able to help take our investigators to watch conference. that is really crappy. but because i was in Jaú, i was able to watch via satelite instead of through the internet which is way better. haha alright i really did end up watching most of it through the internet because they were watching in portuguese of course and elder nothum wanted to watch in english. so we ended up watchin on the computer. it was really good. they talked a lot about following the prophet and about gratitude. i thought that for sure the prophet would say something extraordinary for us to do. and i was ready to do whatever he said. but turns out he didnt say anything new.
he looked really sad though. that was too bad. i felt like we need to be better people cuz we are making the prophet sad. i really liked that first declaration president monson made about missionary work. haha we actually used that as a lunch message in Jaú. there is a girl there that is dating a guy from my branch. he is at the age to go on a mission but this girl doesnt let him go because she says, if you go i wont wait for you. so we played this part for her and her family and she said, " do you think he heard this too?" hopefully that makes him think about going on a mish! but conference was pretty great. elder holland was pretty powerful as he thanked us for everything. i have got conference to listen o now. so i am really excited. i already put
it on my ipod!
monday, we had a meeting at president tanner's house. it was great as always. we learned tons. and it was decided that we need to give a little bit more responsibility to the district leaders. there were some zone leaders that were trying to do everything. i always gave responsibility to my district leaders. that is what has made all of the zone leaders now too. i have been blessed with some great district leaders in our zones. but the only difference now is that i dont have to teach anything in the district meetings. i just talk about the president's message. it is so great! that took off a lot of stress and now i can study other stuff during the week. monday was tough because we caught the bus at 6 to campinas and then we caught the bus returning to botucatu at 6 that night. that is an 8 hour ride (not quite the distance as IF to Arizona) but it was still pretty rough. then the assistant who has never talked to me in his life called me to ask me how the week was going and to demand results and to ask why i was tired. ha that made me a little upset because we werent able to do any work in our area. but i will just remember to not do something like that with our zone. but overall, things are going well. we found lots of incomplete families that we are teaching right now. it is going to be awesome to reactivate all these families and baptize the rest of the family in the process. we are still trying to get a real good teaching pool together though. that will come though!
well i love you all! thanks for everything you do!
love,
elder long
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