So this week was amazing and maybe the very best in my mission up to this point.
Monday: We returned home at 10:30 at night. It was fun but very tiring.
Tuesday: Our bus got to the stop at 6:30 am and we had district meeting imediately because all of us were zombies. I think that I was the up there for one of the most tired. Then we came home cleaned and worked.
Wenesday:
Our dear friends the traveling assistants were back after teaching and baptizing in a outlying city. So we had divisions with them. I went with Elder Menezes and it was a very delightful division.
Thursday:
Our friends the assistants left for manauas. They also took all the heat in Rio Branco with them. We had the coldest weather in all of northren Brasil I think. It was 60 degrees fareinheit and 16 celcius. By far the very coldest it has been on my mission. From the reaction of the people here you would have thought it was in the 40s or 30s. Everyone had coats gloves and sweatshirts. Except for the two crazy people wearing short sleeve shirts and black pants. I was freezing. That night my thin sheet didnt help too much either.
Friday:
Today it was warmer but still really cold for us with 73 degrees F and 23 C. Im going to die if I ever encounter snow again. We had a lesson with Jennifer and Sara going over the baptismal questions and at the end we gave them the option of being baptized this week or next week. They wanted to get baptized this Sunday. It has been very interesting for me to see how the Lord has worked with them for these last two weeks to bring them up to this point.
Saturday:
We had the interviews of Jennifer and Sara and they went through without a problem. At lunch a member asked if i wanted any american food from bolivia because a friend of his was going there and they have a bunch of things like root beer and peanut butter. So I told him these two things. That night we had the temple celebrati0on which was very well put together. I think that President Uchtdorf got burned by the sun in manaus because he was looking rather dark.
Sunday:
We had the dedication of the temple. President Uchtdorf and Elder Cook were there. It was amazing and I had the oportunity to watch two sessions. It was interseresting for me to listen to the diferences in the translations in English and Portuguese. But the dedication was amazing. A member gave me an the first jersey of a soccer team that I like here and it was original too. I was touched by the generosity of such an amazing gift. This night we had the baptisms of Jennifer and Sara. I baptized Sara, but I was nervous since it was the first person that I personally baptized since march. I mixed up the word for bend your knees and instead said kneel down. So she was rigid as a board and since I was nervous I dunk her under the water. But her foot came up all of the members were looking at me a little suprised that I dunked her so rapidly adding to my nervousness. So I said the prayer again and then dunked her again. It was definetly a journal experience.
Today: On my way here to the library we passed a pile of books in the street with some boys ṕicking thorugh it. It was rather funny because I found the churches old testament guide and some other church books in it. The boys werent members but they still wanted the books of the modern day prophets.
This week are transfers and honestly I dont want to leave or a new companion so Iḿ hoping that nothing will change.
I pray that all of you are having great weeks and look for letters on the horizon. Oh and my watch broke this week So if you didnt send one in my birthday package I think im going to start looking for one.
Stay happy, keep smiling and pray always,
love
Eric
ps I want to hear about new nieces and nephews this week.
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