Woah!!!!!

Hey kids!!!!!

How are we doing? I am well. It was super cold this last week! It reached -1 degree celcius!!!!!! but now it has warmed up and the weather is pretty much perfect. We got our energy back, after a week of living without. It was a pain, the secretary didn't tell me that we needed to go to the energy place and show them that we payed. Basically I did a split with the district leader and we ended up running around for 4 hrs trying to get everything worked out. Hehehehe, that will teach him to ever do a split with me again!

The work is really picking up now and I am super excited. We are going to leave with at least one member every day in August. I am super excited! We have people with really good potential for baptism but they all have some problem that is in the way. Three people need to get married first, one needs to get divorced and then married and the other is on house arrest and can't leave until October. It will be a long term project but I am seeing good results that will come. I hope that I stay here for a little longer.

Yesterday, I had my first experience that I thought "maybe I shouldn't tell mom about this" but I will anyway. We were walking home, it was about 9:10 and this dude stopped us in the street. He was clearly not all there. He asked if I was American to which I said yes. He then started telling me about how everyone here hates Americans and that I wasn't welcome. I tried to walk away but he grabbed my arm and Elder Dias almost knocked his lights out. Then he said that I was a spy and that he could prove it because I didn't know anything about the Bible. He asked me to ask him 10 questions from the Bible and he would answer them all. I stumped him with the first, the names of Jesus´ 12 apostles, He knew Peter. We kept trying to walk away but he wouldn't let us and we were nervous that he maybe had a knife or something. After making more of a fool of himself we finally got to walk away. It was pretty interesting...

A member here went through the temple for the first time this week, she was super nervous and we had been helping her feel better for the past month. Last Sunday, her mom took the key to her house and hid it. She couldn't leave without locking the door. We were nervous that she wouldn't be able to go. We were eating lunch with her Thursday when we prayed that she could find the key. At the end of lunch she found it and we were all very happy! She went through on Saturday and loved it, it was a very awesome moment for me.

Sounds like you are all well... I don't know if you have sent me any letters, but I haven't gotten any here in Ijuí, maybe I put the wrong address. But I don't know maybe if you want some extra brownie points or something it would be cool to get a letter. Especially Mason, he used to send good long letters and now he only writes 4 sentence emails...

Anyway... I think that is about it. I am doing really well and we had a great week! It passed by faster than the fame of Nicholas Cage's second Ghost Rider film. (and I didn't want you to understand it didn't pass, because as we all know Nicholas Cage gets a lot of hype and he deserves every bit of it. Ghost Rider 2 was just a little disappointing alright).

But I love you guys a lot and I hope that you have an awesome week!

Love,

Elder Stringer