Hey Mom and Dad,
Sounds like you guys had an alright week. Wow, the new James Bond movie is already out? I hope Tanner is making
that list for me.... lol. We are starting to hear christmas songs in the stores
and sing christmas songs in the hymnbook every day. It's weird cuz it's so
hot..... But still a litle bit of homesickness.
This week took away the homesickness though, cuz we worked our butts
off. The President of the relief society for the stake is also the owner of a
school in the area. She had an activity in the chapel with her school, and me
and Elder L. Alves went around asking people if they would like us to deliver
the Joy to the World DVD to people's houses. We had about 18 people sign for the
DVD. We already started contacting these people and it is giving us lots of
results. This week we had 18 lessons, 15 new investigators, 16 references
contacted, 5 people at church, and 4 baptismal dates marked. We marked a
baptismal date with a family who came yesterday and felt the spirit so strong
they began weeping. It's an older couple who we have been teaching and they
finally came yesterday. They both agreed to be baptized on the ninth! We are
very excited. Also, some members brought some of their friends to church. Two
boys named Matheus and Lucas. Both young men. They really liked church and
asked us how they could be baptized. They came to us and asked! We marked with
them on the 16th because they were new and we still hadn't taught them anything
yet. But It's really starting to pick up here in Madureira, after a litle bit of
a calm. If you want you can pray for the family who will be baptized this week,
Vera and Luiz. Unfortunatley Bruna was not baptized. Her mom heard some stuff
about the church and got all evasive. We will try and pass there this week to
see if we can save that baptism. But yeah, lots of good stuff happening this
week :)
That's so awesome that Rachel will go to Taiwan!! Wow, I think that will
be really good for her as well. That's so cool!
I still havent gotten the christmas packages yet. I think tomorrow my
ZL's will go to the mission council and get it for me. But if not, there is a
zone conference on the 14th that President will bring it to. So no
worries.
Thanks for giving permission for Elder Mimary stay if everything works
out. In response to your question a few weeks ago about picking me up, there
presents a few problems. 1, who all would come and pick me up? Also, if Tanner
comes, will he have his call yet? I will come home in August, so he could have
his call already. If he has his call, he is not gonna be allowed to leave the
country, especially if he has to get a visa for out of the country. That's my
thoughts on that. I still would like to come home by plane and meet you guys
there (it will be weird if you guys come. You will want to do lots of stuff like
go to the beach and I will still be an Elder and can't do lots of stuff) so I
don't know. I would rather come back being a normal person again lol, and do
these things with you guys. What do you think? And also, reading my patriarchal
blessing, it stresses al ot in way of education and getting a good education.
I've been thinking of coming back early august or sometime to be able to go to
BYU in september. But I haven't decided yet.
One more thing. Can you guys do a search for me if you can find this
kind of milk? It's a powdered milk substitute for children who have allergies.
It's called NEOCATE and by the group DANONE fabricated my SHS INTERNATIONAL LTD.
The company is ADVANCED MEDICAL NUTRITION. There is a sister in the ward who has
a daughter who is allergic to almost everything, and has to drink this stuff.
It's really expensive here in Brazil and she wanted to see if you guys had
access to it and how much it was, to see if it was worth it to ask from the
States. If you guys could just see if it exists there, if there is a store that
sells it or something, and how much it is? Thanks.
Alright, I love you Mom and I love you Dad.
Hope you have a great week :)
Elder Baldwin
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