Well, lets start out with the biggest news. I had a baptism, it was the first time have baptized someone and it was really cool. I really enjoyed seeing the mix of excited and a little nervous in the little girl I baptized. I ended up having to do it twice because she didn´t go under all the way. I was surprised because I thought I would have to do it twice because I would say it wrong.
This week was one of conferences. Early in the week we had zone conference with the mission president. It was really good and I understood a lot of it. The funny part is I understood nearly all of it until they started giving instructions for an activity. I seem to do that a lot. I´ll be understanding someone just fine, until they ask me a question, then I can´t identify what words they are saying. For this conference we had 8 elders in our house one night and it was right after we had cleaned. It got dirty pretty fast.
Then we had general conference. Barbosa said in his other area they had a room that broadcast in English, we weren´t so lucky here. I understood next to nothing, except for the songs. We were able to watch 4 sessions, all of them except priesthood. I guess I´ll just have to wait for the liahona to be released.
We had a fun little event this week. We had not had a good day and our last appointment had fallen though. We didn´t have much time left so Elder Barbosa decided that he wanted ice cream. We got some and it´s really cheap here. It was only 3 reais for 2 scoops a cone and topping, a little less than 1 dollar.As we were walking out a man stopped us and asked us if we were Mormons. We told him yes and he said (obviously this is a translation) I have been to your church a few times, I like it and want to learn more. Needless to say we wrote down his name and address.
Randoms:
* We see that neon covered bus a bunch
* It is really hard to teach a lesson when their next door neighbor is blasting funky
* I heard a funky song in English and am glad I don´t understand the other ones yet
* Did I mention that in Portuguese Quain is the sound a duck makes?
Élder Quain
Zone Conference
with Nunes family Baptism!
with Elder Barbosa & Brother Marzinho
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