Well hey everyone! how you all doing? i am hope you are all doing great! I guess my package has gotten here. i dont know why dad decided to send me another one but thanks! i will get it next week. well i guess i will tell you about my week now.So this week went pretty well. our zone is pretty great. i love everyone here. we have a small zone with just 6 areas, 2 of which are sisters. so we have four sisters in our zone. that is a large number of sisters for any zone. it usually isnt a problem but they have got plenty of mood swings. they are great sisters though. we had another zone activity last week. so this is the first pday i atutally can talk to you guys and maybe i will be able to take a nap. last week we just hung out at the church talking and playing games like uno. the brazillian rules are pretty fun. we also played a little bit of soccer. our zone has worked so hard this transfer. we were supposed to have at least 9 baptisms this last week and every single one fell through. our baptism didnt happen because of the word of wisdom problems. but this week we should be able to get her baptized! the great downfall of our zone is sacrament meeting. we cant get lost of people to sacrament meeting unfortunately! we need to figure out how to help the missionaries to get people to church. then we would baptize tons. i guess i cant complain though. we have had a couple mission meetings the last couple weeks and the leaders seem to like talking about our zone. so i guess i dont have anything to really complain about in our zone. we just need to finalize our baptisms. on saturday we were able to pull off a sweet exchange with the members and missionaries so that i could go to jau to do interviews without needing to close any areas of the zone for the day. we were able to pull that off. unfortunately the baptism didnt happen because there were some difficulties with some members. sunday was great though. there was a family of three that went to church that we have never talked too. but they will be baptized very soon! we also were needing one more lesson with member to reach our goal and we had a miracle. some teenage girl called out "mormons." we usually wouldnt stop to talk to a girl though but this time we felt we should. we returned and there was a huge family in front of the house. they were just messing with us but then her dad got home and he asked us to leave a blessing in their house. he is a member that hasnt gone to church for a long time. his kids havent been baptized yet. i believe we will be able to help that whole family go back to church. we have had some pretty good experiences though. this week started out slow because of trips to campinas. but it will turn out great still!
thanks for everything you guys do for me! you are the best. i hope you all have a great christmas! speaking of christmas...that will be the next time i talk to you. our pday was moved to the 25th. next week we will have transfers and on wednesday we will have our mission christmas conference. i will write you an email on thursday next week to tell you what time you need to call and which number. it will probably be in the morning though. i cant believe i am talking about the christmas call already! time flies to quick!
love you guys a lot!
love,
elder long
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