Michael: November 16, 2011

Dear familyI just overheard the girl next to me saying to a little boy ´´no it´s just my dad that is your dad, my mom and your mom are different.´´The good this week was that Joao was confirmed, can´t forget the importance of that.I had a cool adventure on Monday. We took a bus out as far as we could in our area, to the outskirts of town. Then we started walking further down a country road for 20 minutes looking for a part member family´s house, who came to church Sunday. As it was getting dark and the thought came to me that I should ask for directions again. So I asked someone who was outside their house, and he said we were in the right area but he didn´t know the street we were looking for. Then I told him the names of the people we wanted and he said ´´Oh they live up this same street!´´ And we talked a little more and then he said ´´Let my boy drive you guys there´´ and as he said that it started to rain cats and dogs and 2 of every kind of creature but the car was able to get us up the dirt hill roads to their house. We taught her really quick about Joseph Smith cause it was late and it´d take us over an hour to get home and she accepted to be baptised Sunday. Then my companion and I ran into the rain down the hill back to that families house to bum a ride to the bus stop. Their son had left with the car but their kind neighbor took us, and not a minute after we got there the last bus of the night pulled up.Yesterday that girl decided not to be baptised.Although these weeks have been tough like nails and chewin rubber- I still am enjoying the experience and learning. I´m grateful for the guidance of the Holy Ghost and Mom you can bet the Lord protects and never lets us get lost in the Brazilian forest at night in rain storms. That´s really heart breaking to hear about the missionaries in Texas.We tried helping a drunk guy passed out on the sidewalk walk home, we picked him up and walked a little ways and then he said to let him go and if we touched him again he´d kill us, so we let him fall down right there in a ditch, but I havent faced any real danger.A senior couple got to the mission recently and the husband served in ´´the Brazil mission´´. and he opened up an area (a state) where there is now a mission. Anyway, really crazy to think about how fast the Kingdom of God is being established. Um milagre e uma BENÇAO. Mom- You´re really good at emailing! I´m 99% sure it´s Tim Fitt there in Rochester! That´s great! He´s a good guy. You´re the indexer of the nations capitalAl- Great email, great laughs. Good to hear the spirit of Elijah is turning the hearts of the daughters to their mothers and the hearts of the mothers to their daughters??Jor- Matt steps in lots of dog poo! Tell all the single ladies.Matt- Cara, don´t you love learning an expression and then hearing it bastante so you´ll nev forget it. Sonho com meu bem DIRETO! é cabuloso kk. Já ouviu essa? Eu gosto.Well family. That´s all for this week. Sem dúvida next week will bring some great news.Elder Michael Gagon