My Birthday!

Well it was my birthday this week. It was really fun to be able to work and the week went by so fast but its because we didnt have much time to work in our area. On Tuesday we took a trip to Porto Alegre. Its a 3,5 hour bus ride. it was a lot of fun and I got a lot of reading done while my companion got a lot of snoring done haha.  We had a leadership meeting and I was able to learn alot on how to be a good leader and how to have more sucess. The mission is ready to move on to bigger and harder things. We are having a lot of progress and president wants more! So we are changing lots of things and kinda starting over. This will be exciting.

On wednesday one of the districts went to an area to work together. Cangoçu. This area is in the middle of knowhere, an hour from the city and the poor missionaries live there all alone. Luckly, we were able to be there to help them and give them lots of sucess. The city is really pretty and really small. Its a big time German city. Everone was white white white with clear eyes haha it was kinda funny and differnt for me to see, Every now and than id look up and just think that i was in europe. haha. but im glad im here in brazil because the german folk wernt that nice to us!

We were able to get in a few days of work in our area and we spent alot of time visiting Daniel. Our new investigator. He has now been to church two times and will be baptised on Saturday!!! How cool is that? He is an excelent man 27 years old and very inteligent. He researched so much avout the churhc that it was really easy to teach him, he already knew most everything:) He is really really excited for the baptism. and we are too.

So Saturday was my aniversary. it wasnt a big deal, just a normal day of work but we had alot of fun and we had some good sucess which is all I wanted!! Just to top it off, the sisters made me lemon pie which was really really tasty!!! I appriciate them alot.

Finally Sunday was a good day. IT was ward conference and the spirit was really strong. We had 2 investigators there. After lunch, we had a meeting with the stake president to talk about his needs in the stake than we were invited to participate in the bishops meeting so that they could tell us how the missionaries are working in their wards. it was a good experience and I learned alot of what the stake needs and what the missionaries need to do better. it was a very productive meeting.

Well have a great week!

Elder HOrst