Week 21...Campinas, Brazil

This week flew by. It is crazy that it is almost to the next transfer already. This one is a little different because it is only 5 weeks because of some meetings that the president needs to go to in Salt Lake. I´m pretty sure I will be transferred after this transfer which is next Tuesday so I´m sure in two weeks I´ll have a lot more to say. The good news about this is I´ll finally be done training. I have been being trained for almost 6 months or 1/4 of my mission.

This week was really good. First off it was one Elder´s 1 year mark so we made him a cake and had a little party. It really is a blast here with 3 Brazilians. I am learning so much from them and their stories are so good. It is really cool seeing how much my Portuguese has improved and how much I can talk now. This week I had an interesting experience of teaching the rules to baseball and football to a group of Brazilians. It really is hard to explain what is common knowledge in the US. I´m not sure if I helped them or not but I told them to use Google/YouTube. Also this week President came to look at our house in Mogi Guaçu to see if we are slobs or not. We had a window that was broken and last time president was at our house he said that we need to fix it. So, us being missionaries, waited till the day before to repair it. Here, on the windows they use clay to seal the windows because they don´t have to worry about the clay freezing. We had a little left over so I made a sculpture of one of the Elders that I live with that we call Elder Gordinho. Then he stuck the little flag on the sculpture that says President Perrottão. When you put ão on a word in Portuguese it means big or large. So when President went into our house that was the first thing he saw. Luckily he loved it and now he wants to put it in his house. 

Also this week has been really good for our work too. Our first baptism in Mogi Mirim is rock solid. Her name is Cida and she had problems with smoking and drinking, the same problems as our other investigator. We asked if she would help us teach and she did just that. She taught perfectly and she was so happy afterwards.  That is just the beginning. Since we started working with members we have seen them help so much. They really do want to help they just didn´t know how. It is really cool seeing how people will change.

It is crazy that it is almost Christmas. They are starting to put Christmas stuff in the stores now and I´m sure Christmas music will start playing here soon. It really is weird thinking that we will have Christmas and it will be 90 degrees outside. I love you guys so much and pray for you. Stay safe

Love,

Elder Saueressig