This week was crazy. It rained every day for a week, and the street in front of our house was full of water yesterday. I almost left our house in a pair of big rain boots that we have in our house, but the other elders advised against this idea.
Tuesday was tough. Our investigator marked for Saturday told us that she can't talk to us any more. Her mom started going crazy when she heard that she wanted to be baptized. J-------- went to her mom and said, "I want to be baptized so I can serve a mission." And her mom didn't like the idea of serving a mission. So she is trying to stop her from being baptized. J-------- is 18, so she can sign her own ficha, but she doesn't want to fight with her mom. So we didn't have the chance to talk to her this week. But we found a boy named J-------- that accepted the baptismal invite for 14th of April. He came to church with us yesterday and really liked it. But his mom seems like she will give us trouble too. He lives with his dad, so we will be doing everything we can to help him.
Conference was great. Saturday I watched in Portuguese because they were having problems with putting English in another room. But yesterday I watched with another American in English. It was great to hear the voice of the prophet. He made a lot of changes, but I know that every one of them was inspired of God. He is the only man that can receive this revelation, and it will help us all to be better members and friends.
President Nelson is going to be a great prophet, and he was already speaking with such great power. It is cool to see our church leaders speak and think about what it would be like to have the Spirit so strong in your life. It is something we can all try to live to achieve, as President Nelson invited us to do. It was a great conference, and I felt the Spirit so strong. I got a lot out of it and will be working to apply these things for the next 6 months.
Things are good here, I had a split with Elder Gomes and I learned a ton. He is a great missionary, and I am glad that I can work closely with him because he has a lot that he can teach me.
Everyone here celebrated the death and resurrection of Christ by drinking. It's awful to see this. But the members were really good to us. They eat what they call "peixe de coco" or "fish of the coconut." It was really good. And they do eggs here too. The only one that I saw was a big chocolate egg with caramel inside. It was really good.
But this is it. It was a good week, and I am excited to keep working through this week. I hope you all have a great week!!!
Com Amor
Elder Nielson
These are the pictures I took last week for 6 months in the mission!!! Its crazy to think of how fast it is going! Quero ser melhor cada dia mais!
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