Monday September 12, 2011

So this week was good. We had two baptisms yesterday! Two sisters. They are cool. Also the Mother of the sisters told me the other day that she wants us to teach and save the whole family. So, we´re going to do just that. Just got to help the mom and dad get married. Apparently it´s really hard to do here. Takes like a month and like $300. Ridiculous. Anyways, we have our work cut out for us this next week. We also met a single mom this last Saturday that lives in our area, and she is going to allow us to share a message with her this next week. She´s a non practicing Catholic, so hopefully we can help her out. Had a fire at our apartment building this morning. Apparently our fault. Our breaker box blew up and caught fire. But totally because of bad wiring and bad quality everything. The box overloaded because I was taking a shower and the washing machine was going at the same time. Ridiculous. Don´t know exactly what is going to happen with that, but hopefully we can get it fixed this week, if not today. Had some really good Churrascu at a member´s house on friday. Amazing! Never thought I´d like the taste of grilled fat with a little bit of meat, but it was really good. There was some other meat that was more like steak that was only seasoned with rock salt, HOLY COW! So good! But all is good here in Brasil, saw a small clip of the news at a member´s house that the police in the main city of Rio basically had a little war about a week ago with the baditos, aka drug traffickers. Crazy but far from where I am. So that's good. Although did come across a charred car in our area last night. Took a picture. Was weird because usually there are a ton of people selling things in that area at that time on that day, but there was nobody. and a charred car in the middle of the street. Well that's it for this week, but next week should be good. Hopefully 2 more baptisms next Sunday.

Elder Bender

Spencer found this quote from Joseph Smith and sent it. 

I think it's really neat so I decided to post it with this week's update...especially since they got to help a couple get married!