It´s time to fly south for the winter

So to start off I´m transfering areas for the first time in my mission. I have been reassigned to the Rio Branco, Rio Branco ward in Acré and so tomorrow morning im going to take a plane to a place that is much colder with lots of Tereré. My new companion is Elder Nunes. Elder Almeida will stay here with a missionary transfering from gloria.

Monday:

I got the nastiest sun burns from playing soccer. like really nasty. I´ll send you pictures next week of the burns because i had a defined sock mark.

Tuesday:

We had our last district meeting of the transfer. It was good and rather sad.

Wenesday:

I went on a division with Elder Gray in Colina do Aleixo. It was fun and in one part of the division we spent an hour looking for a house in the limits of the area. I think we might have gone out of the area/zone looking because no one had a clear sense of direction where the street was. It was cool because the area that we were in is in the middle of the city but all the houses have yards and its like its all in the jungle which is awesome. When we were about to give up a lady came out of the house (it was a reference from a member) and flagged us down. We went and taught the woman´s husband and taught him the restauration. Hes an elect and asked us immediately when he could be baptized because he wanted to be baptized as soon as possible. At the end of the lesson we taught about the word of wisedom and i asked him to give me his coffee. He said that he would throw it all down the sink and that he was done drinking it. And he did just that. He dumped it all down the sink and it was an amazing moment.

Thursday:

We had an ok day and it was fairly normal.

Friday:

We taught Michella and Rodrigo and now they are living above the house of Irmão Cesar, (he let me use him computer at Christmas time). They are awesome and i hope that they get baptized but they need to get married.

Saturday:

André our favorite little priest went and walked with us for a couple hours. Then that night we went to a Devotional with Elder Marzagarrdi a member of the seventy and the second counseler in the area presidency. We took Valeria, the mom of Seisi. It was great and i was able to see elder walch for a little bit. its been a while since ive last seen him. Elder Marzagarrdi talked about he was baptized after he visited the temple in São Paulo. It was really enjoyable.

Sunday:

Rodrigo Michella (the daughters of michella 3) Valeria and Divina all were at church which was the most investigators that we´ve had in a while there. I bore my testimony about accepting the will of god for us and that we can choose to accept it or we can choose to reject it and not recieve the blessings.

We had a division and i visited Iury and it was during this lesson that I recieved the transfer call. During the lesson i felt very lost at times because libras are definitely different than ASL. 

We visited a family that the sisters here were teaching about a year ago and it was good. The daughter of the family said that she wanted to be baptized and serve a mission. An elect family for my companion to teach. It should be very good. 

We ended with visiting Irmã Maria Rita. She is like  family to me here in this area and it has kinda become a tradition visiting her at the end of each transfer. I gave a message about how i´ve come to love the people here in this area since coming here. I really do love them and im going to be sad to leave.

Today:

I sent a package home with my scriptures, sunglasses, something from the indian fair and my letters. Thank you very much for continually sending me letters since i´ve arrived. I counted and off all the ones that i´ve kept (which have been almost all) I have recieved 170. Yes i do want them after my mission still. 

Until next week,

Love

Eric