1/19/2011

This week was good here in Mamanguape. We´re working hard, finding new people, and progressing in the work. The only problem is that time is starting to get slow. I´ve been in the same area so long that it starting to get hard to find exciting things. We still do have exciting things though :P

This week we were walking and we passed 3 blind people walking down the street together, all helping each other out. Elder Cook started singing 3 blind mice.

I met a 14 year old investigator of my zone leaders. He has long hair to his shoulders. I told him that I used to have longer hair, and showed him a picture. he though that was really cool, and we became fast friends. On Saturday he asked me to baptize him, and that was a pretty neat experience.

On a sad note, one of our investigators died this week. He was thirteen, and had come to church with us once, and was planning on coming to church again, and then he hung himself. They don´t really know if he did it on purpose, or if he was just playing around when it happened, but it´s sad either way. About once a week we hear another story about how someone died in the city. This week it just happened to be one of our investigators :(

I don´t have any new photos this week. Not a whole lot happened. I really enjoyed the photos you sent though. The closet at dad´s looks good, and it was neat to see the baptism photos. Josh looked stoked to get his license. I´m trying to send a sound file to you guys. I don´t know if it will work. I don´t have a program to play it here, so I´m just hoping that you guys have a program there. We borrowed a guitar for Christmas, and then the family we borrowed it from went to the beach for a while, so we´ve had a guitar for a few weeks, and I recorded the theme from Friends, "I'll Be There for You"to send to you. Let me know if it works. If not I can try something again next week.

I love you guys a lot, and I´m glad to hear that everyone is doing well. I´m content here in Brazil :) missionary work isn´t the easiest work around, but I can tell you first hand that it´s worth it. I really don´t have any reason to complain. I know that in the moments that I feel uncomfortable, I´m really just growing stronger. I started working out with Elder Cook about 2 months ago, and I´m starting to put on some muscle. I´m almost back up to 80 kilos, which is 176 pounds if my math is right. My arms are 14 inches around. I don´t know if that's good, but it makes me happy to know I´m improving. I used to be such a lanky kid, and now I´m starting to fill out a little bit. I´m just telling you about exercises because I´m waiting for that file to load, but it just finished, so I think I´ll wrap it up now. Let me know if you have any questions for me. I love you a lot and if you´ve got 30 seconds while you´re waiting for facebook to load up, just send me a quick email! :)

Love, Elder Forsyth

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