The city is HUGE with over 100,000 people and we're the only missionaries here so wedon't go to all the idfferent parts that often. It takes about 2 hours of straight walking (really quickly-even for missionaries) to get from one side of the city to the other.
Elder Halpin is 6'4" and actually he reminds me of Chandler McMullin a lot! We have a lot of fun and I'll talk more about something we started this week!
So this past week I had an idea to do a competition in our district and talked to my comp (the district leader) about it. We decided to do it. The competition is to see who can have hte most contacts this week. Which is essentially a competition to see who talks to the most people. The sisters (our district is Elder Halpin and I and two companionships of sisters) went crazy, and got 72. We had to go to Marilia on Thurdsay, unfortunately. Which means that we had to leave on Wednesday to be there on time for Thursday morning meeting! We lost almost two complete days of work!! We only have 36 for this past week!! The competition is two weeks long...so this next week we are going to CRAZY and talk to EVERYBODY we see so we can win. If they win we have to make them cookies. Which is a problem because we don't have an oven at our house. If they win they will give us acai and a cake!
On Saturday we found a family resting out in the shad, brazilian style. Which means the dad hooked his hammock up under the trailer of his semi truck and everybody else was sitting in nice plastic chairs in the shade of the truck. We asked them the name of the street and then decided to talk to them about the church and we invited them to come the next day. They came!! Peope ALWAYS accept invites here but rarely follow through. So we were really surprised! We went to their house later that day and taught the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Word of Wisdom, and Chastity. They are married legally (also rare) and they have been wanting to "segui um caminho" to follow a path-and when we talked to them they took it as a sign that this is where they should go. They haven't been attending any church for a really long time. They are probably about 40 and have 4 kids. Three went to church. The trhee youngest-the oldest (who is 16) didn't go and we haven't been able to talk to him yet. The youngest is only 7 and so can't be baptized but the parents and two middle children liked the message and all have baptismal dates marked for next Sunday!
It's gotten really hot again here and its\'s not even close tot he summer heat yet...
Have nother great week and remember that the Lord always is trying to guide us, we just have to recognize and accept his help. We have to do our part that we know we are responsible for and he will bless us (such as place a family in your path who wants to be baptized!!!)
Com muita agua
Elder Haws
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