Hey there everybody!! Happy 2013!! Ya, sorry that I didn't send an
email last p-day, the LAN house that we go to didn't open that afternoon
because of New Year´s eve. I was worried on Christmas eve that maybe
the LAN house wouldn't be open, but I didn't
even think about it last week. I'm sure it was hard for you guys to
survive without hearing from me, but don't worry I had to go through the
same thing. But other than that, it was a good couple of holiday weeks
here. It was great to experience Christmas
and New Year's in a different country. These holidays are celebrated a
little differently then back in the US. Since it is summer here right
now, Christmas and New Years are great days to be outside and go to the
beach, play soccer, use fireworks, or make
churrasco. It was nice having both new years and Christmas eve on
p-day because we were able to celebrate a bit with the members. It was
really fun to bond with the members and it made missing you guys not
quite so bad :) Haha the only annoying thing was
that there was a party at one of our neighbor´s on New Years Eve and
they blasted loud music all night till about 10 in the morning, but what
can you do right?
It has been a pretty interesting 2 weeks here in Vera Cruz. It has been a little different for us missionaries because a lot of members and some of our investigators have been taking advantage of the holidays and gone out of town. This is the bad part of the holidays, but also we have been teaching quite a few families that are visiting members. Its been pretty cool and a lot of them went to church, so now we will be able to send their addresses and info to the missionaries working in there cities. Also, one of the members introduced us to her daughter and her family who recently moved back to Vera Cruz. We visited them and they seem really cool, and then on Sunday they were all came to church. Their names are Simone and Durlan? (haha don't know how to spell it) and they have a baby girl. They seem really interested in the church and want to get married soon so its gonna be good to work with them.
Also we had been working really hard with Tati to help her stop smoking. She has been lowering the number of cigarettes per day and also she said she has been reading the Book of Mormon daily so that's great news! She also went out of town to visit family during the holidays but will get back tomorrow so we will go see how she is doing and how we can help her out. Her goal for baptism is now on the 19th of January so keep her in your prayers that she can be ready for that date.
Other interesting things, we had divisions both of these weeks so I went to both Santa Cruz and Rio Pardo. I think that Jamie´s mãezinha, Fernanda, demands the Rio Pardo missionaries to visit her when we have divisions because we go there every time. Haha but there family is really cool so I'm definitely not complaining, it was fun seeing them again. Also President Wright has been telling all of the missionaries that we need to do a lot more street contacts and that our weekly goal should be 120 at the minimum. All of my companions have generally done more knocking doors so it will be different focusing on contacts. Hopefully we can have a lot of success doing this and can find new investigators that really are interested in our message.
Buuuut thanks everybody for the emails, love, and support! You are all great and I really miss each and everyone of you! And Happy birthday tomorrow, Kyle! I sent you a letter by MissionTies so make sure to keep checking your email every once in a while. Lots of love from...
Elder Gee
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