well how are you all doing? i hope you are all doing great. everything is going great here. my companion and i are having lots of success now. we are going to have a lot of miracles now. the ward and stake are so ready to work right now since the stake just got divided. the 1st counselor in the stake is probably the best local leader i have ever seen for missionary work! his name is president molina. he has so many great ideas and everyone trusts him so much, especially the people from our ward! this last week we had tons of investigators at church and the members went crazy. they were like running around and telling people to sit by the investigators and help them with their questions. there were two members for every family of investigators. there wasnt an investigator that wont progress very well. they are all elect. we also had a family of five (that is actually married by the way) that couldnt go to church because the grandpa got really sick and had to go to the hospital. they are set to be baptized here in a couple weeks too. but i am really happy now. we have a great zone. it is small and full of northeastern brazillians. there are 5 americans and 7 brazillians that are all from the northeastern part of brazil. they all get along very well and everyone is always laughing and having a great time. our zone has a bunch of baptisms for this week. i believe all of the areas will baptize so we are all excited about that! our goal for the zone in the next 3 weeks is 30 and i am pretty sure we are going to make it! everything is going great and i love my mission!
we have a family of 5 that went to church and they are referrels from our past ward mission leader. they are progressing so well and actually bore testimony of the church to us this last visit. unfortunately, yesterday was probably the worst day of my mission. i ate something and was sick when i woke up. luckily we had a split with the members the whole day so we could still work. i worked almost the whole day but had to stop every once in a while to sit down. i am back to normal now! this ward is great though. there were members that called to see if i was doing better this morning. i am great now. it passed really quick.
that was pretty much our week. everything is going good here in brazil! i am super happy and wouldnt want to be anywhere else at this time in my life! i guess that most of my friends are home now. jay dee will get home tomorrow and then there is only a few of us left. tell jay dee and james hi for me and let me know what there plans are now. i love you all and i hope you all have a great week!
love,
elder long
oh and to answer you questions dad. i dont have a car or a bike here. the only car that we have is the hi lux that president tanner has. we just ride the bus and walk. there have been lots of time when the bus is really jam packed! i think there was only one time though that i was pretty much outside the door though.
well i gotta get going. i will talk to you all next week! catch ya later! love ya
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