So this week was a pretty fun one here. I´ve spent the week getting to know my new area and my new companion. The area is great with lots of members who want to help us. We have a recent convert, Ivan, who works with us almost everyday. He´s great! He will leave on a mission in May, but until then he´s helping us out tons, and he´s basically working with us full time as a missionary, but he´s not a missionary, so he can use facebook. I´ve been letting him put up some of my pictures for you guys. I hope you all like that. He speaks a little English if you want to send him messages and stuff. He tells me all about the messages.
This week we had interviews with the President. He told me some really great things, and I really think I´m on his good side :) I´ll keep doing my best to stay that way.
So Elder Simpson was called as a senior in this transfer, so we´re basically both on the same level as far as experience goes, and I speak just a little better than he does. He has a little over a year on the mission, and President told him that he would have been called earlier as senior if we´d just had more missionaries. I´m sure the same is true with me. I´ll probably get called as soon as more missionaries arrive, but for right now it´s great to be a junior. With Simpson I have all the responsibilities of a senior, but I don´t have any of the accountability...haha. We´re going to work super hard this transfer though. We´re way excited.
So basically conference was awesome! I got to watch the first session in Portuguese, and all of the rest in English, in an air conditioned chapel. It´s basically been a three day weekend for me, because we didn´t get a chance to work Saturday or Sunday, and now it´s p'day again. I feel physically and spiritually recharged. What did you guys think about conference? When the prophet started talking about a special temple getting constructed, a voice in my head started shouting, JERUSALEM! but then he said Rome, Italy. That's still super exciting though, and I think there might even be some prophecies about the Rome temple, but I don´t know what they are. I'll have to study that more when I get home...
So yeah, everything is really good here. That's crazy that Amber is coming home soon. It seems like yesterday when I had to leave her and drive back up to Utah State through the night. Just one more year and 3 months before we get to meet back up again!
I love you all so much. The church is true. Make sure you all study the conference talks when they come out. I´m still studying the talks from last conference, and they're great! Our church is totally different than all the other churches here in Brazil, and the biggest difference is that our church is true!!! Don´t ever forget that, and if you´ve already forgotten, then try to remember again, because this testimony changes peoples lives, to be more happy, and full of love and purpose.
Have a great week you guys, and I´ll write to you more next Monday!
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