It was a much improved week and I'm happy with the results. Onward and upward from here!!

Here's a picture of your son after a game of soccer having the most severe case of football withdrawls ever to be diagnosed.  It's futebol here (futchybol) but no, its not the same. I havn't been homesick for anything except for football.

So this week I want to start out talking about something I learned this week. This last conference there were many talks about member missionary work and assisting the missionaries. I want to help anyone that's reading this think of some ways they can do that. My first way to help this missionaries is when you see the elders serving in your ward, or even the ones that aren't, ask if they know that the time is gunna change an hour!! We got snuck up on by the time change. It moves the opposite way here so we went forward an hour and we didnt find out till we got a call at 7:00 (really 8:00) Sunday morning. Everything sped up really fast after that!!

 

 In follow up to my last email, I talked with my comp about the obedience stuff and it went better this week. Wasn't perfect, but it went better. I put forth more effort to be firm about the rules and he tried a lot more to be obedient. And we were blessed with two families, Edward, a BAPTISM, and a ton of nonmember family of the baptizee, at sacrament meeting!!!

 

  We had a good week with a handful of new investigators and some others that made steps forward. Last Monday after p-day I was with on splits with Elder Lourero. We were going to go to a family home meeting at a member's house, but that fell through. So we were trying to decide what to go do, and thanks to a little bit of inspiration, I decided to go make a surprise family home evening with Irma Silvia and her family (investigators). We went and had a family home evening, I shared a message about the importance of family and having the gospel in the home. Then after I taught them how to play "não coma Pete" the Brazilian version of "Don't eat Pete". I brought Swedish Fish and gummy worms (thanks mom!) so they could try with American candy, and I of course brought Guaraná as well. It went super well and she said she is going to start doing it every week. I got word yesterday that they will be going to the bishop's house tonight for "Noite familiar". (They are friends with the bishop's family.)

 

  The rest of the week we've been battling some crazy rain and hail here. I love it because it seriously reminds me of home with my good old Texas thunder storms. So you know when it rains real hard and all the ditches fill up with water and run real fast? Imagine if those ditches were roads and you've got Aracy. The roads turn into waterfalls. There's no underground drainage, and no one has yards, so everything is straight run off. The city is also built onto a mountain so it FLOWS!! One of the other Elders in the house hurt his back pretty bad bailing water out of a house, so we spent some time trying to help him at the hospital and went on splits with his companion too.

 

 

Here's me and Elder Maia (zone leader, on splits) siting under a tree next to a creek that is pretty much identical to the one behind the house and sent me right back home. I

was in heaven.

 

  Our investigators are progressing well. Our new ones are receptive and I'm excited to work with them.  Emily, the girl that was baptized is 9 years old. Her mom passed away but was a member and lives with her grandma now. A tooon of her family came to the baptism and her grandma listened to all the lessons and has been coming to church with her!

 

   It was a much improved week and I'm happy with the results. Onward and upward from here!!

Love Y'all tons!!

                      Elder Cam Little