Good and productive week here in Vera Cruz; teaching 5 granddaughters; start holding English classes

Sorriso means "smile" in Portuguese

Hey everybody!!  How are you all doing?  I have been wondering the whole week whether or not I was an uncle but it looks like I´ll have to wait just a little longer.  Haha that's alright patience is a virtue.  Just make sure to send me pictures of her when she comes.  It sounds like you guys are having a lot of good family bonding time inside while it just keeps getting colder and colder outside. Haha I'm not missing the snow enough yet to be jealous of you guys but maybe after 2 full years under the Brazilian sun I will be ready to go out and shovel sidewalks again. 
     We've had a pretty good and productive week here in Vera Cruz.  The biggest news for sure is that we got to begin teaching 5 granddaughters of one of the members.  They lived in Vera Cruz before but now they are living with their grandma for the summer vacation and possibly longer.  We are pretty excited because teaching family of members is always good and they have a better chance of progressing and going to church together.  The ages of the granddaughters are from 15-10 so If we can get them coming to church it would be a real boost for the youth here in our branch.  We taught them the restoration of the gospel and after invited them to be baptized when they prayed to know it is true.  They all accepted and we really excited to have them come to church on Sunday, but none of them showed up.  We arranged with a member to pick them up and give them a ride to the chapel but they didn't come out of the house while he was there.  We will just have to keep visiting them and help them see how going to church can help and bless there lives.  Other news, we have been visiting Tati regularly to help her prepare for baptism.  One of the visits we went with branch president Henkes and had a great lesson.  She told us that she knows how important baptism is and that its the path that she wants to follow.  Haha also she told us that she would like to be a sister missionary someday so that cant be a bad sign ;)  What else has happened this week,  hmm One thing that will be interesting is that we are gonna start holding English classes in the chapel for anybody that's interested.  Hopefully it will be a good way to meet new people that we can help out and get them more interested in the church. Im pretty excited for that, it should be fun to go from the person that always is asking how to say something, to the person that that is teaching words :)
     But that about sums up this last week.  Thanks again for all the emails and support.  Good luck to y'all in school, work, and everything else.  I love you all a ton!  Until next week...

Elder Gee