Week 51

We've seriously had soo many people lying to us lately and its getting to me! People 9investigators and people on the street usually) always lie to us cause we're the missionaries but this past week its been out of control! I might develop some major trust issues that i'll have to get over by the time i get hom!

This is a family that gives us lunch once a month.
They aren't even members of the church!

The area I'm in isn't really jungle-y although the areas by the river are, they are really small though. There are just lots of parrots. A lot of people have pet parrots and parakeets and stuff and there are a lot of wild ones too. The wild ones are the most annoying birds ever because their whistle is the exact same and they just sit there making noise all morning while we study.

They kind of celebrate Halloween here but its nothing compated to the united states. They have a thing they do on new year's day though. They go to the houses and say "felize ano novo" and if its a little kid the people are pretty much required to give them something, otherwise everybody gets mad at that house.

I've never gone to primary here. In Ourihos, we always teach the new member class, principles of the gospel and about half the time there is no youth teacher so we teach them as well.



This is my super dialated eye
when I went to the doctor.

President Genaro already told me that this next transfer I won't be killing my companion!

this past week we almost had a baptism but she didn't feel ready. She is a daughter of a less active member who is returning to church. She is returning and knows that her daughter needs to be baptized but the dad isn't a member of the church and is making the daughter feel not-ready. I don't think he means to do bad but he also doesn't really support her being baptized 100% only 80%ish and he's made her fee not-ready.

We've had to cut two families that we were teaching this week because they weren't progressing and don't want anything really. Actually one family its just the husband that isn't interested and so because of him, the wife doesn't want to come to church or be baptized without him. He had been inactive in the Catholic Church for years now and he "wants to return" and so the wife will go there with ihm and their two kids.

The other family is just a waste of time because all they want to do is talk about the U.S. and want their daughters to marry an American and go live in the U.S. So, we're done there.

WE haven't baptized in a while but our numbers are still pretty good. Our mission did really well last month. We got 3rd in all of Brazil last month. That's super good!

-Elder Haws