just a pic of part of our area. i dont know if you can zoom in but its kinda cool to see the houses and how they are set up

a huge scorpion in our house!! so scary!

On the bus to conferance with a kid named Isake.

 

Oi pessoal‏

Whats up everyone! 

Just finished a pretty good week down here.  Elder Alves has been getting to know the area and we have been busy teaching people.  We have a few people that we visit a lot who are really close to baptism.  We have a baptism marked for this Saturday for a girl named Arieli who is the sister of Adalberto who we baptized a month ago so were really hoping everything works out so then we can mark his Dad for baptism also.  I like going over there and teaching them and talking.  Another guys named Aumary who we started recently teaching ( i think i talked about him last week) has been going real good.  He was baptized in the Catholic church a long time ago when he was a baby so were trying to teach him why he needs to be baptized again which is difficult sometimes but its going really good.  We went to this guys house who we contacted on the street named Oelton and we taught him a lesson and invited him to attend conferance which was yesterday and he accepted which was really cool so im stoked to go back and talk with him this week.  And theres a member who lives right next to him and we asked her if she could pick him up and take him to the bus stop where the bus will pass by to take people to  Stake conferance (because it was at a different ward)  and we told her his name and where he lived and she had this really weird look on her face and i was sort of confused and then she told us that this guy (Oelton) 2 brothers robbed her house a long time ago...but she accepted anyways which was nice of her haha.

So we had Stake Conferance yesterday which was really awesome.  We hopped on a bus that the church rented for all the members to take to the other building and got there and met up with the other missionaries and stuff.  Our mission President spoke which was cool too.  And the President of the Recife Temple and his wife and an area 70.  But during the talks there was this lady sitting about 3 rows in front of us and she was acting straight up crazy!!!  I have never seen anything like what happened.  So she had this little portable radio that she kept turning on and she was waving her hands in the air and getting up and trying to pass stuff out to other people and talking super loud to herself and people were trying to get her to be quiet and stuff for about 20 min and she wouldnt listen to anyone.  So finally when everyone stood up to sing, 3 dudes came up and like basically picked her up out of her chair and she started screaming super loud and trying to resist and they took her out of the building.  It was crazy!  I found out later that she attends one  of the wards a lot but isnt a member or anything.  It was pretty weird though.  But other than that conferance was really good!

After we went back to our area and had a super good lunch with one of the members.  Im looking forward to this week a lot!  On the 14th we have a Christmas zone conferance and a dinner and then after i think were going to go to the temple and sing or something but it should be sweet!  Im excited to see past comps and stuff.  But thats about it for this week.  Im getting anxious to skype for Christmas.  Cant believe how fast it has come.  I miss you guys!  Hope everything is going good.  Have a great week!  Talk to you all next Monday.

Love Elder Erickson