March 3, 2009

Familia,
I am a little sad because I had no e-mails from my family to read today, but last week was wonderful and so thanks for all the sweet e-mails, and today I will get to rewrite what I wanted to say last week!
First of all i hope everyone is well and life is going great!
I am so happy to hear of successes. I wanted to say to Marci that I fasted for you and for your baby, without knowing that anything was wrong, but I just felt like a fast would be a good idea for you! I am so glad the lord knows us, whether we are in Brasil, or any other place in the world!
WE had a baptism this week.We thought we would be having two, but one fell through. Monique I hope will be baptized soon, but Hernani was baptized this week and confirmed! It was wonderful! Alexander has been helping us visit him which is great because we need to see Alexandre more too. He bore his testimony at the baptism, and walked with us with Hernani for the baptism. Wonderful! The only thing that was sad was that Monique was not baptized with him. Her sister wants to be baptized as well, so we hope in the next couple of weeks to have their baptisms together.
Very interesting to have a Brasillian companion. Sometimes interesting to try and explain what you are thinking and feeling in another language and culture, but I can tell that she has helped me a lot. Just the other week I realized that I was saying my prayers for the most part in Portuguese. My thoughts were coming in Portugues! Way cool! Always pray with others in Portugues but in my own personal prayers most all the words and thoughts and feelings I wanted to express are coming!
I am learning the lessons a lot better too, and learning other words and examples to help investigators understand.
We have a couple we are teaching right now who are so awesome and we hope will accept a baptismal date. Janesio e Alesandra. They are very cool. His father and mother were baptized but are inactive now. HE attended church a lot with them, and he and his wife came to church. They are awesome! And they are married really married which eliminates an obstacle. Here people have to wait a long time, or pay a lot of money to get legally married. interesting!
I sure love you all and want to know how things are going for all of you! I hope you are doing well mom! I can´t wait until we have a meeting with President Tobias because he will bring the letters you all have been writing. Yay, I will make sure to send you my address next week! And I will send pictures of the baptism of Hernani! He is awesome!
I love the lord. In Him my soul delights!
Sister Judd