Hi Mom!
Sorry I couldn´t write last week; I was called as a trainer and I had a meeting in Curitiba all day. In the last 15 days I´ve travelled from Paranaguá to Curitiba 5 times. Ridiculous, but now I can settle down, because I´m in São José dos Pinhais for the last transfer, with Elder Barros who´s been out for one transfer already. I´m finishing his training up, but he´s already awesome so I don´t think I´ll have to do much. He loves the people so much and it makes me really want to work hard. He´s great. He invited me to sit in while he got his Patriarchal Blessing too, which was really special, and I know he had some personal questions answered, which made it even better. We didn´t have anyone at church, but this week I´ll be here the whole time (I got here Wednesday, and their teaching group kinda ran out) and I know we´ll find some great people.
Last week was the Manaus temple dedication, which was really cool, and we had 3 baptisms! The water was FRIGID, and I felt really bad for them, but we did everything we could- the propane had run out and the guy who said he´d be there in an hour to refill it took almost 4 hours to get there. I started boiling water in the pans they had in the chapel but it was just too cold. In the end though, it all worked out fine. Hopefully they were confirmed this week and another investigator we had was baptized! He read the whole book of mormon, prayed and received the answer that he had to be baptized again! It was so cool.
I´m really glad I´m here now, and I know that we´re going to have a lot of success. We´re working hard to serve the members, and you´d be proud of me- I made chocolate cake and it turned out pretty good! The bishopric said they liked it, anyway. This week I´m going to try out uma torta de banana I think, we´ll see how the relief society likes it. I´m still working really hard and I know that we´re going to be really blessed, so just wait a little and you´ll be hearing about it soon! Love you Mom and have a great week and safe travels!!!! Love you!!!!!!
Love, Eric
Hey Dad!
Yeah so sorry about last week, transfers made everything a little crazy. News: I´m training again! This time I´m finishing the training of a brasilian missionary that was trained by one of the assistants to the president. His name´s Elder Barros and he´s awesome. I´m so glad he´ll be my last companion, because he wants so badly to help the people and he loves everybody, which is great. He really wants to learn English too, so I´ve been helping him out and I wanted to see if you guys could send him a quad like you did for Elder De Jesus. If it´ll be too expensive, don´t worry about it, if anything I can leave mine with him. It´s been about 2 years since I´ve read my quad in English and I can get one when I get back.
We had three baptisms last week! it was really special, even though the water was FREEZING. One little girl started crying when she got in the water and I felt so bad, but I´d spend 3 hours boiling water on the stove to get it hot and it did nothing. The heater in the Paranaguá chapel was out of propane, and we waited as long as we could for it to get there but we couldn´t wait anymore. Either way, it was a good experience and nobody died. So I´m grateful. Now I´m in São José dos Pinhais, a city close to Curitiba in the Colônia Rio Grande ward, which has been open for exactly 7 weeks now. It´s been about a year since there have been missionaries in the area, so we´re working to win the members over. I made chocolate cake for the bishopric this week, and this sunday I´m going to see what I can do for the Elders´ Quorum and Relief Society. I´m going all out until the finish now!
Now that I´m a district leader, I have a little less time, so I´ve gotta write mom really fast, but I love you dad and have a great week! Love you!!!!!!!!!
Love, Eric
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