weekly letter

Olá Família,

    This last week has gone by very quickly. Here in my new area it is really hot then rains a lot, so we have been trying to work overtime to still find some new people here to teach. The branch is pretty small with around 30 active members but they are really nice. The city is pretty small with almost 87,000 people, and we live with two other Elders in our house. The people are a little bit different here and we have to work a little more to get them to give us their address. We found an older man this last week and when we taught him he accepted the invitation to be baptised. So we were super excited and we returned on Sunday to walk to church with him. he was already dressed with a button up shirt and everything, he was sitting on the side of the road with his dog. He said that he wouldn't be able to go to church with us and didn't really say why. So we got a little disappointed but hopefully he will come next week. The same thigh happened with the other elders too, so we will have some brainstorming to do on how we can get these people to come to church. My new companion is Elder Castilho and he is from São Paulo. He has 8 months in the mission. The other two elders in our house are Elder Leonard (my old companion) and Elder Alvarado who is from Guatemala. Thank you guys so much for your prayers and support! Love you guys!

- Elder Child

PS- i sent a pic of a statue of christ here in Muriaé