Olá

Olá Família,

This last week was definitely different. haha. Every morning we try to play soccer for our exercise, since the church has a little field. Tuesday morning, Elder Torres went to kick the ball, and twisted something in his neck. He couldn't move his head or neck without pain. So we took it a little easy, still walked to lunch, but after he couldn't work. So we studied for a while then finally went to the hospital around 7. I will attach some pictures. haha. It was a really small hospital and had only a few holes in the ceiling. They ended up giving him an IV of morphine, and some other shot. The next day we had divisions with the Zone Leaders, to do our baptismal interview. So that was kind of interesting since I had to try not to get us lost on the way to our appointment. But we made it on time. haha. When we got back to the house, Elder Torres was able to move a lot better, so the rest of the week went smooth. We did have a Baptism of Hudson on Saturday. His girlfriend Jessica, is a member in our ward and has invited him to come to church the last 4 weeks, he accepted all of the lessons and read the Book of Mormon before we even asked him. Jessica´s father baptized him. He even invited his mom, grandma, brother, and friend to his baptism. His friend came with him to church the next day also. We went to pizza after wards with the other Elders and Ricardo, who is a recent convert. We had a little competition to see who could eat the most pizza, and I won...with 26 pieces. But the pieces were small, so don´t think I am fat. haha. We are having a little trouble getting our investigators to church. We had 14 total that said they would be there, but only one came. We are trying to figure out why our two families wont show  up, they do everything else but wont come to church. Even after we visit them with some members. But other than that this week has gone well. The Portuguese still needs a lot of work, but the people are usually nice an say they understand. If they are not nice they cut you off in the middle of your street contact, and say ``you must not know very much Portuguese huh.``  But oh well. I love and miss you all a lot! Glad to hear everything is going well!

-Elder Child