01-06-10 Email

Hey everyone!!
This past couple of weeks have been pretty good really. We have had a lot of trials but we ended up helping out 2 people (Guilherme, Claudia) this week and we hope to have the other one (Rojerio) this Sunday. A lot of things were going wrong but we ended up coming out of it good. Saturday was supposed to be the 3 baptisms and ended up only having 1. Rojerio didn’t talk to his parents so we have to wait for him to talk to them and Guilherme´s grandpa got called into work Saturday so we had to move the baptism to Sunday. But it was still good.
For the New Years we spent the night in Wevington and Isis´s house. It was fun. Had 4 families there and we ended up playing monopoly lol. It was a crazy game and we ended up leaving before it was too late because of the time. Idk if its really different here than there. A big fest until midnight and they just have fireworks. I guess the difference here is anyone can buy fireworks and they are super cheap so everyone has them and everyone is shooting them off. And most of the people are dumb lol they shoot them off and they end up hitting houses and stuff. But whatever lol.
Its been raining the last 4 days and its not very fun walking in it. But this week we helped paint a member’s house. A month ago she fell of her roof or something and hit her head and so now we are trying to brighten everything up in her house so she isn’t scared. We painted it light green and white. It was only 4 of us and they was a lot of weight to move. It sucked lol. But its okay, its for a good cause.
Today we went to Autodromo and played soccer with Elder B Fernandes and Cox and they are doing great in their area nowadays. Its awesome to see. But it was fun, they had a lot of guys there to play. There was 3 teams. And then afterwards we played a game called monopoly deal. It’s a cool game. Its monopoly but with cards, its actually hard to explain but take my word for it. It’s good :)
Well that's all for me this week. I have a lot of letters to send out but still haven't gone downtown yet to send them. But thanks for everything!! Have a great new year and a great week!

Elder Mitchell