Hey family!
Eu sou Tio! Haha I´m an uncle. Man I really cannot believe it. Beck! I like the name. He looks great! Can´t wait to see that bright blonde hair haha! When will you guys get to see him. I´m thinking you guys will go there for Christmas right?? Congrats Pehrson and Kate. They sent me a super awesome email with lots of pictures and details.
Well it was a good week. We had another baptism! This week we baptized Gabriel (13). He is super awesome. We would visit him to teach each day and he had read the part of the Book of Mormon that we left and prayed. He always remembered what we had taught. He has already talked about wanting to serve a mission. He is a quiet and somewhate timid kid, but polite. Elder D. Souza baptized him. His little sister Isabella is 8 years old. She is just as special as Gabriel and will be baptized this next Sunday. We found them through a contact. Every baptism here has been through contacts. We rarely receive referrals here.
Questions:
What do they do to celebrate Christmas there? You said that you were excited about your Christmas lunch. What will you be eating and who will you be with?
They have a late dinner the night of the 24th and they open presents that night. The dinner is a big family thing and it normally starts around 12 at night haha. Lunch will be with the family of Irmã Ivoni. Her daughter and son-in-law live in the city too and it will be the family together. They are fun to be with and the food will be sweet!
How is the teaching going with those kids? What happened to their mother?
Our recent converts??? They are going good. Our focus with them is church, read, and pray. Not all of them have been going to church, which is hard to see. We just keep visiting them and telling them to go to church. We can't visit them as often as we would like, because we always have a lot to do. We don't have too much support here in the branch. Our Branch Mission Leader doesn't help us very much. We try to help him help us haha but sometimes that doesn't work too. It's a lot to do. We have 2 ward missionaries, but they are really busy and can't do too much with us. We are everything in the missionary work here in Leme. But we are working super hard. There are good people that do what they can.
Loved the pictures. Your apartment/home looks really nice. Is it always that clean? ha ha
We keep it clean. The mission is doing a competition thing where you earn points by cleaning and sending pictures of the house to the secretaries. But we clean every pday. It really is much better to come home to a clean house and live in a clean house. Thankfully my comp is the same.
How are your feet doing? You didn't say anything about them in your last letter.
They´re not worse, but not better haha. I will talk to Sister Prieto tomorrow at the conference. I don´t want to have to go to the doctor or anything. Its just uses a lot of time, but I´ll see what needs to be done.
And you had another baptism! That is wonderful! How did you find Adenilson?
Through a contact. We weren't able to confirm him yet. Unfortunately he didn't wake up for church haha. But we will confirm him this next sunday.
What time are you planning to call? There is a 4 hour time difference. You are ahead of us.
I'm planning to call around 5 here, 1 there? I'm pretty sure i will be able to call the 24th for like 5 min to set a time also. We are going to call from the chapel here. Does that work for you guys? The number that i have for the chapel is 019 3554 6431. I don't know what other numbers you would need to call from the US to Brasil. But plan on a short phone call sometime the 24th and 5 oclock here the 25th. From what i hear we have an hour to talk. Make sure that the account has a bunch of credit (money) haha. I remember what happened with Tyson last time haha.
But how are you guys doing? Will you guys go to California? Rachel is already getting her Braces off? I noticed that Pehrson is doing everything he can to not show his braces in a picture haha. Just show them ahah. What are your plans for Christmas? I guess none of these questions matter since I will talk to you Saturday. Oh well.
We had a branch party. It was a secret friend activity and dinner. It ended at 11. We got permission from Pres to stay. It was fun. I got a zipper tie and I gave a picture of us eating lunch to a sister that gives us lunch. She really liked it.
It was a good week. We are working hard and I´m learning a lot. It is always hard to hear what you are doing wrong. But if you change for the better afterwards it is very gratifying. We need to not be offended, but be humble and look to change. We will become a better person. I have seen this with me. I don't like hearing what i'm doing wrong but I like the fact that i can change and learn and grow. And I Have. I love you all a ton! Talk to you Saturday! Stay strong and be safe.
Elder Hawkley
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