March 24, 2018 letter -- Salvador

what up fam! we had a pretty good week this one with some interesting happenings.

sunday we had an awesome day. we had marked with Haziel for him to go to church with his neighbors so we werent too worried about him getting to church but when we went to meet up with vivaldo we got a pleasant surprise! we had expected some excuses and walking back to church alone but He was ready when we got there and he brought his brother in law as well! so we showed up feeling good on sunday and there was some crazy dude shoouting a bunch of nonsense at church.

monday we had a normal day in the office i worked on putting together some stuff for the transfer and translating some stuff for president into english on a new project of his. we got out to our area and some stuff fell thru so we were knocking doors in an area we have already hit but this time a little old lady and her grandson answered the door and she tried to send us away but her grandson begged to let us in! we had an awesome lesson with Rose and Rafael about the restoration and the amazing truths that were restored to us. Its really rare to find young men and women here who pay attention or care for religious stuff so its always really special when we visit with them.

tuesday spent some more time preparing transfer supplies and organzing the office. and then we had a good lesson with vivaldo and reinaldo (brother in law) about the Holy Ghost and what amazing traits it can bring to our lives. And they accepted baptismal dates for 3 weeks for now! we were super excited and so are they.

wednesday we had some good office work but also the north and northeast of brazil had a huge power outage from 4 pm until 9ish so we were not able to really get into our area. we went there but people just sent us home cuz it was dark and unsafe. Then when the lights came back i think the whole city started screaming it was awesome. mom you would be very pleased to know that literally the only commercial point open and serving (restaurant or grocery store/any type of shop) during our 30 minutes walk home was good ol' MCDONALDS hahahha so we got some burgers.

thursday we had some huge material deliveries in the office and a good lesson with vivaldo and reinaldo about the plan of salvation.

Elder Bednar's visit to Salvador. Elder Prince is located on the right side of the photo in the last row on the aisle.