30 May 2011

Hey Family,

This was an amazing week for us! We saw so many miracles in our zone, it was awesome. We had two baptisms yesterday, Leticia and Eduarda, they are awesome and their families are amazing! We have been working on the same street here in one of the places called Milho Branco, which means white corn, and we have been having a lot of success there. A lot of humble people.

Yesterday we had Stake Conference and they had a bus that was going around picking people up and we were able to get 28 people on the bus and fill it up pretty well, it was pretty crazy. There were a lot of kids and their parents were trying to settle them down, it seemed like a field trip in school, everyone going wild and looking out the windows the whole time on the way to the center. The Zone did really great this week, it´s been awhile since we´ve had that much success in one week; we have really great missionaries that got transferred here. The Lord really put some awesome people in our path. We had one man that the Elders made a contact with and he accepted to go to the first session of stake conference with them and he loved it. Then they invited him to get baptized the next day, and he accepted. He had stopped smoking and drinking a few weeks before, what a coincidence, right? :) The Lord prepared him to be baptized! That was so cool.

The other man that was baptized here had been frequenting church for a long time as well and was in a different area. The Bishop of that ward called me and told me that they had a man there that wanted to be baptized. I called the Zone leaders and they interviewed him and he was baptized as well. He was a member of just about every other church that exists and he finally found the right one. He had some really cool dreams about him getting baptized in a church, and then in the dream he ended up outside of the church and looked at the plaque and it was the name of our church, how crazy is that? We also had a inactive member who found us on the bus one day that the Lord put into our path and she has been inactive for about 20 years and we visited her and her husband on Saturday and they are the coolest people ever. She is an artist and they have been all over the world. We are going to help them get back to church.

It is starting to get pretty stinking cold here; in the morning it stinks getting out of bed because it is freezing. I don´t have good clothes for this weather either, so that stinks.

Did you guys hear anything from Dylan yet? Did he write anything back to you, Mom, when you sent that to him? Do you guys know if Tanner gets back this week? He should be getting back here pretty soon.

I am really excited for this transfer. It already started out really great! I am excited to see what will happen. I am getting really sad that President only has four more weeks here with us. We will see him soon though, I think. He said he is going to give everyone a blessing, so hopefully that comes up soon. I can´t believe that I have a year and 5 months as of today and that Cory and Megan have been married for two years as of yesterday, that is so weird.

I do remember a Jake, that is funny? Does he have black hair, do you know? If it is the same one, he graduated the same year that I did. That´s pretty funny. Well, tell Jason and Susan hi and bye for me and tell Grandma and Grandpa hi for me as well. Hope that you are all doing great! Time just keeps flying out here, I can´t really believe it. Tell Ron Joyce and Kadi hi for me the next time that you see them and also tell Jacob hi for me and congratulations for their weddings. July is coming up quick! It´s already June! That is crazy that Kens is already going to be done with 8th grade this week! What is this?

Well, I love you all! Hope that you are all doing great! Have an amazing week and a nice day off today! Hope that you liked the new movie, tell me how it is.

Love, Elder McDonald