This Week!

I told you all that I would have a lot to write this week and I do! Things are really picking up here and I am suuuupereeeee excited! I don't even know where to start.

It sounds like y'all had an awesome week! That is good, and to Mason who will start school next week I say "enjoy your last week that you don't have school." and to mom who already started I say " enjoy it too." And to everyone else who is doing stuff regardless of whether or not school is involved I say " enjoy it." (this paragraph was basically a waste of good time) hehehehehe...

Anyway, I didn't get my package. I don't know if it didn't get to Santa Maria, or if it got there and just got lost in the office. Next time that I am there, I will do a thorough search. But I did get 4 letters!!!!! 2 from Bro. Porter, which are always good. And 2 from some recent converts in São Gabriel. It was great!!!!! One said that she was doing well and that she has been teaching a lot with the sisters that are there and that she is thinking about maybe serving a mission after a year of being a member!! It was awesome to see that they are progressing in the gospel and learning and stuff!

It was pretty hot this past week, until Friday when it rained alllll day and Saturday too. And then it got cold again and I had to use my sweater and my coat yesterday! Yesterday was fathers day too, so feliz dia dos pais, dad! And since Ashs bday is this week, feliz aniversario Ash!

We have some good investigators! There is a family of four that we are teaching who are really interested and we are super excited to be teaching them! We also found an older gentleman by the name of John Carlos (which is an awesome name). He is about 60 and lives alone and his house is very humble, it doesn't have light. So we went there one night and taught about the Book of Mormon. We read 2 nephi 31 by candle light, it was a very spiritual expierience and he accepted to be baptized at the end of the month! (It was like a scene from a movie basically if you can imagine it in your mind) 

We did a fast with the bishop this month and things are starting to work out! There are 4 young men that go to church a lot but aren't baptized because their mom won't let them. The bishop and young men pres. went and talked with her and she is starting to warm up to the idea! We have a lot of good people to work with! We've also helped the members help us a lot more too! We taught one lesson with a member at least once everyday last week, we had 14 lessons with member in total! It is cool to see what happens when everyone jumps in and helps! The Lord is really great and I know now that if the people aren't baptised it is because of their agency, because the Spirit has been very present here in the ward!

Mase asked me if my thigh cramps up when I drive for a long time and the answer is no, that's weird. But my feet have been cramping up an awful lot lately and sometimes it really hurts. There have been a couple of times where it happened in a lesson and I just have to pretend like nothing is happening, the people think that it is really weird cuz I suddenly stop talking and make a weird face! I usually have to explain to them that it is a problem in my foot.

Anyway, that is what I've got for this week, I have been wracking my brain trying to make a Nicholas Cage reference, but I just can't think of anything good! I will include some pictures of the city and the area here! I love you guys a ton and hope that you have an awesome week!!

Love,

Elder Stringer