Elder Helms is from Virginia, though he has lived in tons of different places int he U.S. because of his dad. His dad is a chaplin for the government, so he does some sort of religious something with the military, I guess.
Maringá is nice because there are a lot of trees. It's a pretty rich city, I think it's the richest in all of southern Brazil per capita. Our area is way on the edge of the city and just has houses in it! It's really weird to have just houses and houses! normally there are tons of bars and randoms stores all over the place.
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| The Church! |
Elder Helms has 5 months on the mission. He just got done being trained by Elder Baker, who is still living in the same house he just went to the other half of the ward and is in Mandacaru. While Elder Helms and I are Mandacaru B. We live with Elder Baker and Elder Bispo who are the zone leaders. this zone is a lot smaller than Bauru and only has 1 district for the whole zone! There are six companionships here.
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| Inside the church |
Our ward recently left the stake center where they were meeting inthe center of the city and has a place rented thats a lot closer to where everybody lives.
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Big trees that provide shade! I've never had an trees
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I'm still a little bummed that I left Bauru because we were really starting to baptize a lot there, but Maringá is supposed to be a great place as well. It did rain for the first three days I was here! Yesterday it was a little drizzly at times and today is looking like the first day that will be a nice sunny day (by nice I mean only about 90 degrees, which before was suuper hot to me, but now its comfortable). I think it got down to about 70 last night because of all the rain we´ve had and I was really cold!
Well things are going fine here, I need to get to know the members so we can start working better with them. This week we only had 1 lesson with member... really bad!! I´ll send you our zone letter, we´re having a competition for the whole transfer and Elder Helms and I are currently in 4th place :( We´ll do better this next week!
Also I finished reading the Book of Mormon for the second time in portuguese this week! That was
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| A tarantula! It was already dead but its the first one I´ve seen here! |
pretty cool and I´ve already started my third and I understand so much more now, I think it's Heavenly Father rewarding me for having read it and because of my effort I'm blessed with much more understanding as I read now.
Thanks for all the love and support!
Elder Haws
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