This week we had transfers, but I´m staying 6 more weeks in Mamanguape. I have 3 months here already, but it´s a great area, and I love my companion and the people here. It will be a great place to spend Christmas.
We also had Thanksgiving this past week. No one here celebrated, but we had our own little feast at 9:00 at night. It was fun with just the missionaries. We had chicken patties, potatoes, noodles, and a few other things. Here everyone likes a drink called guarana. You should try it. I think you can find it in the stores in the part with international stuff. I have a few pictures from Thanksgiving, but the photos of the baptism from last week are on another elder's camera.
It´s crazy hearing about all the snow at home. Here it snows black; we have a lot of sugar cane fields by our house, and when they harvest it, first they burn the whole field, and everything burns except the stalks of the plant that have the sugar water inside. everything else that burns goes into the air, and comes down on the city as black snow.
We had a weird experience with an investigator this week. He said he likes the Book of Mormon, but he doesn´t know if its true because he has his own visions and dreams, and he doesn´t know if they´re true. He then told us of all these different visions he had already had, and he wasn´t sure if they were from God or not. I didn't really know what to think. We just told him that if he feels good when he has them then they´re from God, and if they´re not from God then reading the Book of Mormon should help the problem. I´m kinda nervous to return to his house. There´s a really weird feeling there now.
It's kinda weird typing in English right now because I´m thinking in Portuguese, then translating my thoughts into English. Learning a language is nuts. I just need to practice some grammar and learn some more words, and I´ll be speaking perfectly.
The other photos I uploaded are of a family night we had in the house of Tony Suares, the first counselor of the stake. We ate abacaxeira pure, which is like mashed potatoes, but more gooey. It´s good.
I love you all, and I hope you have happy holidays! I´ll write again Monday.
Love, Elder Forsyth
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