Week Fifteen

Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2010 9:20 AM


Hi Mom!

I´m still in Prudentópolis with Elder Barbosa, so we´ve got the same routine as before for a little longer. That means Thanksgiving and Christmas will be here, which is cool. They don´t celebrate Thanksgiving but I think I´ll do something.


We´re working on having 10 people baptized on Christmas Day, so that´s what we´ve been thinking about this week. We´ve got some lofty goals, but we´re working hard to achieve them. We lost 12 leaders this week; 10 zone leaders, one AP, and a district leader I think. I´m not sure who goes next but I think big changes have come and will keep coming. We´ll have to see what happens, I guess.


I´m getting pretty good at making lasagna; I made it for one of our investigators today. She´s really great, and she´s actually come to church, which is awesome. We´re really working hard now to make things happen.


I love you tons!
Love, Eric





Hi Dad!

It sounds like winter´s already there, which is so weird because it´s been getting hotter and hotter here! And it rains super hard too, which I guess is a sign of Spring. I´m not sure what to think, but I´m going to roll with it and work nonetheless. I can already tell I´m gonna be a pansy when I get back; it hasn´t even been close to freezing and I´m getting cold.

But a little more about Prudentópolis: It´s pretty big, and there´s a lot of cobblestone streets. But the cobblestone´s more like brick that was laid all crazy, and there´s slightly jagged points sticking up in the road. Not enough to pop a tire, but painful when you walk sometimes. There´s a ton of trees, and some are a lot like pine (if you look up tree and Paraná on google, you´ll probably find a weird looking tree that kinda looks like a pine, and there are a lot of those. They´re actually part of the pine family, which is cool. Abucaria I think.) so it looks like the Northwest every now and then. One spot looked just like Pullman, because of the wheat fields. There are two huge churches, both Catholic, and on the weekends everyone goes to mass, then hits the streets to go get drunk. Interesting, huh?

I gave a talk this weekend! I dunno if they understood it, but I felt good about it. I think I´ll give the same one again my last Sunday in the field, if I can; just to see how far I´ve come.

You can buy filtered water, so I´ve been fine. I´m starting to get less and less worried about things, which is nice, and I´m excited to keep working in Prudentópolis and give you guys more good updates!


I love you dad, and have a great week!


Love, Eric