7/25/11

Hi!!!

This week was a little tough as far as work goes. We had to cut a lot of people who were progressing really well last week. Actually, we didn't really cut them; they cut themselves. We walked 40 minutes to bring a girl to church, and when we got there, her little sister was at the front door with Book of Mormon in her hand saying that her sister wanted to return the book. We just told the little sister that we would come back another day talk with her older sister....groan..... One cool thing that we did this week though was go to the beach. Well it was´t really a beach; it´s a river that´s in our area that looks like a beach. We took a lot of cool photos there that I attached. It was pretty fun. I like the district that i have right now. Elder Silva Souza is our district leader. He´s smart and always beats me at chess. He´s fun to talk to. Elder Galvez is his companion. He´s from Washington and he´s been on the mission for a little over 6 months. He´s a fun guy too. Elder Ferreira is my companion. He´s been on a mission for 7 months now. He´s only been a member of the church for 21 months I think. He teaches really well though, and is really obedient. Everyone gets along great at our house. Joel, who we baptized last month, is still firm in the church. He´s excited to recieve the Priesthood soon. Roniele, who we baptised a couple weeks ago, didn´t go to church this week. We´ll have to stop by there tomorrow to see why. We´re still struggling to find some friends for her at church. It´s a little tough for us to integrate new members unless they´re already friends with someone in the group. I never realized how important it is to help people who are excluded until now in the mission. It´s really tough, because Roniele doesn´t have a chance of staying firm in the church without people supporting her, and her family isn´t going to church, so it´s just up to the girls in our branch now... I´ll let you know how things go. We´ve been teaching a girl Mariana for over 2 months now, and she hasn´t been baptized yet because her dad won´t let her. Her mom went to church his week, and so we´re hoping that the mom will convince the dad to let her be baptised this next week. We´re hoping to see a miracle happen. Our president really wants the mission to baptise 200 people this month, and right now the mission is pretty far behind. We´ll keep doing our part though, and working hard everyday. I love you guys, and I´m glad to hear that everyone is doing well. In the next few weeks I ´ll try to send home some dvds with pictures on them. Thanks for all your letters and prayers, I pray for you guys all the time too! Love, Elder Forsyth