"Quem Acabou De Peidar, Então?" -Me
I do not have time to write an email, but these photos (if my math is right) make this email worth 9,000 words! God is Good! Love you all! Thanks for the emails! Keep 'em coming! Tchau!
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"Paulo Ricardo Needs A New Pair Of Shoes!" -Irmã Domingas
Bom dia pessoal, Como estão indo as coisas com vocês? What another incredibly quick week! I feel like just yesterday I was sending one of these out for y'all! Another week of miracles here in the group of Tutóia, Maranhão! I've got to start off with the highlight: OS BATISMOS! This week we were able to help baptize 3 folks - Domingas, her son Paulo Vitor, and Francisco (father of João Otávio who was baptized last week) - enter the waters of baptism and make their first covenant with Heavenly Father! Along these three folks was Irmão Francisco. The man is a 78-year-old stud (the Tom Cruise "Maverick" look-alike standing next to me below). Shows that we are never too old to make a life change! Thaylon (the youngest of the people that we baptized last week) and his brothers Max and Joelison helped us teach some lessons 3 or 4 days this week. I kick myself for not having taken a picture, but when he went out with us Thursday he went with dress pants, a collared white shir...
A Quick Trip To Switzerland
Well howdy there friends and family, How's life treating you all? Man, a lot has happened in the past couple of weeks and I totally left you all hanging last Monday. I've got some extra free time this P-Day so I'm hoping I can make up for it! Starting off with the highlights, we had the incredible opportunity to baptize 4 people this week! João Otávio, Francisco "Olávio" (his nome de guerra), Max, and Thaylon were all able to be baptized yesterday in the Atlantic Ocean (you know, I had gotten used to the fact that the ocean's so close until I wrote that). Shortly after their baptisms, I had the opportunity to confirm each one of them and give them the Gift of the Holy Ghost during our record-setting sacrament meeting of 20 people (my first time confirming somebody, nevermind doing it in a different language). Last week was also a record setter with 19. While the difference may seem small, there were about ten people who weren't able who weren't able ma...