February 4 2013

Hey everyone!

This week was great! I think the most interesting thing that happened was lunch on Friday. We ate lunch with one of the coolest members of the ward here in Carazinho. He served us pig heart and pig kidney. The pig heart was really good, but the kidney was strange. I thought it tasted like pig urine, but as I don´t know what pig urine tastes like, my suspiscions remain unconfirmed. The next day we ate an animal called capivara. They say it´s the biggest rodent in the world. It looks like a huge beaver, and it tastes really weird. We ate it at the Bishop´s house. He said, "Elders, have you ever eaten this type of meat before?" "No Bishop, what is it?" "Just eat it, and I´ll tell you what it is after you finish." It was pretty funny.

Transfers tomorrow! I´m staying in Carazinho with my companion Elder R. Santos, so that´s good. 

Thanks for the support everyone!

Sincerely,

Elder Day

January 28 2013

Hey everyone!

This past week was really great! Today makes 10 months since I started my mission, so that´s pretty cool. Time is flying really fast.

Today something really cool happened. This week, we received a reference from a member. They are family of four. João Vitor is the dad, and Noeli is the mom. We contacted them on Friday. We taught them the first lesson, and it went really well. They told us that they had just moved here from the North east of Brasil, and they don´t have very much money. We invited them to church on Sunday, and offered to arrange a ride with member. They excepted. Yesterday, we got a member, and picked them up and brought them to church. During Elders quorum, the father of the family spoke with the President of the Quorum, and said they were struggling finanicially. Last night, the President of the quorum called us and we arranged to visit João e Noeli. This morning, when we showed up at the members house, he and some other members had gathered about 150 pounds of food and clothing to give to the family. We delivered it to them this morning, and it was awesome. It was really amazing to see how fast members church can unite to help people in need. João and his family were really greatful, and they are doing really well.

Transfers in eight days! I will let you know next week what happens! Thanks for your support everyone!

Sincerely,

Elder Day

January 7th 2013

Hey everyone!

Sorry for not writing the past couple of weeks! This week was really great. The new year was a ton of fun. People here in Brasil go nuts and throw huge parties. At midnight, the whole city was launching fireworks. It was awesome and really, really loud. 

We´re teaching somebody really interesting right now. She's really great, and is keeping all of her comittments. She has read part of the Book of Mormon, prayed about it, and received a response. The only problems are she is super evangelical, and she takes up at least 2 hours of our time every time we visit her. We teach a principle, and she tells a 20 minute story. We teach another principle, and she tells another story. It´s really funny, but it ends up wasting a lot of our time. We´ll see what happens.

Thanks everybody, have a great week!

Sincerely,

Elder Day