Ola’ Pessoal

Hey!!!

Its been a pretty good week!  right now I’m sitting here and I’m super wet because we got off the bus right as a huge rain storm started and we were running through the street trying to find cover and there was super loud thunder and lightning! That never happens so it was pretty cool. 

So i got transferred BUT i didn’t end up going to the area that they told me i was going to go to.  I got transferred to this area that’s watching over 2 areas.  Prazeres and Cajueiro Seco.  I only have 2 weeks to get to know both areas because my comp is going home this transfer so i got lots of work to do but i really like the areas!  They are super cool.  Lots of cool people also.  So we actually had a baptism marked this week for this kid named Ricardo and we ended up marking his brother also for Sunday so we were super stoked for that and finally Sunday came and after church and lunch we got the font all ready and nobody showed up!!!!  so we called this member and she told us that the ward secretary called everyone saying that nobody from the bishopric would be there so he called it off but we never got that memo so that was super annoying but were going to have it this week. 

There’s a girl were teaching also named Giselly and she’s really cool!  She really wants to get baptized and likes the church a lot but the only thing that’s holding her back is her uncle because she lives with him so we went and talked to him yesterday at his house to try and get him to sign the form because she’s 17 but he wouldn’t do it because he said he doesn’t accept our doctrine and doesn’t like our church and all this stuff and we explained to him that he doesn’t need to accept our doctrine and it was really dumb because he wont let her get baptized just because he doesn’t like our church and its so frustrating!  But were praying hard that we will somehow get the signature.

I’m really looking forward to May.  Got lots of stuff happening so it will be super busy.  I’m stoked I’m in this area now though.  We should have lots of success.  There’s this little neighborhood in our area and there’s like 35 members that live in it which is really cool. I’ve never seen that here.  Our church building is super nice also!!!  Its got A/C and its updated so that’s really cool also.  So everything is going good here!  I’m excited! 

Love you guys!  have a good week!  Talk to you all soon!

Love Elder Erickson