December 8, 2010

hey everyone! i will have to tell you about my week really quick today. it was a great day and our zone is going great! i love this zone so much. just about everyone had baptisms this week and the area that didnt will have three baptisms this week! i am really happy with the work that they are doing. everyone is so happy to work and the union in the zone is great! in my area, everything is going well. we are working pretty hard and we are having success. we havent had enough time lately to find new investigators so we have only been getting investigators that arent really progressing that quickly. tomorrow is going to have to be a great day because we have gotten a really slow start this week. we had a meeting in campinas on monday. it was a great meeting. all the leaders said we need to be like the botucatu zone. man our missionaries rock! we had 9 baptisms in our zone with 6 areas and we met about all our other goals too! it was pretty great! this week we have even more baptisms too. it is nice we people think you are a good leader just cuz the missionaries in your zone are so good. we just got to get better at taking people to church. our zone has had a hard time with that!

this last week we had a baptism. we baptized patricia. she is celia's daughter. celia and mayara were baptized about a month ago. of all my baptisms, patricia has probably had the biggest change in her life. she has done a lot of bad stuff in her life and is overcoming a lot of stuff right now. it was nice to help her to enter the church as well. it was also nice to be able to help out the whole family. she wanted me to baptize her. when she was baptized she threw her self back and i hadnt even have time to get my arm under her ha. everyone was giving her a hard time that she had a lot of sins to be washed away so she had to stay under longer. but everything worked out. i have almost killed two baptisms in a row. i am the worst in the whole world.

i got to catch the bus though like right now. i will be back on in about 40 minutes probably. so i will try to talk to you more afterwards. love you guys!

love,

elder long