Well, I started writing an email, and then I got about half way through a paragraph and realized that I was writing in Portuguese, and that you guys wouldn´t understand what I was writing...
This week has been really good though. We had a mission conference on Wednesday that I really liked. They talked about cleaning our houses, budgeting our money, obedience, and baptizing more men. Basically all these things I had been thinking about for a while. When I got into my new area, the house was a mess, and my companion didn´t have any money because he´d been spending it on dumb stuff before, so I had to pay for all of our stuff with my emergency reserve. I cleaned up the house, and made some goals to be more obedient, and then we went to the mission conference. Basically my companion got burned for all of the things that he was doing wrong, and I felt really good, because I was already doing the things that they said we should do, like have an emergency money reserve and stuff.
We´re still working really hard on converting more men in our area, because all of our wards have enough members to split, but they don´t have enough priesthood authority. The good news is that we found 2 really great guys this week that we brought to church, and they´ll probably both get baptized next Sunday. One is Carlos. He´s 50 and lives alone with his dog. He´s a little strange, because you can tell he doesn´t talk to very many people, but he loves talking to us. He got way nervous with all of the people at church being so friendly, but he says he wants to come again next week :) We´ll talk to him more about baptism during the week. The other man we brought was Clebson. He´s 24, and pretty chill. We brought him in the church, and a deacon walked up to him and said " Are you going to get baptized today?" he was a little surprised and confused, and said, "Today is just my first time in the church." I wanted to smack the deacon across the face, but we were in the church... and he didn´t realize that those types of questions tend to scare the crap out of our investigators. Its ok though. Like I said, Clebson is super chill, and says he wants to come to church again too. My favorite question as a missionary is " When can you come back to visit me?" When people are really interested you know! Both of these men asked us that question after church, so I´m pretty sure they´re golden.
This week has been great. I´m really happy, and I have a lot of energy. I´m loving the Lord's work, and I know that this church is true. p.s. i gave a 15 minute talk in church. It was way hard in Portuguese, but I pulled it off!
Love, Elder Forsyth!
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