Realized Blessing

Family Night

Monday we had a family night with Castro and some people in
our ward named Carlos and Maria. It was really fun. We talked about
 repentance and we used the object lesson that with sin and how it weighs
you down and through the atonement we can be free from sin. It was
great because now Carlos and Castro are really great friends. Castro
asked us if there was a place where there are mostly all mormons and
 we said Utah and he said "great lets all move there." hahah he wants to
move to Utah. He said its hard to live around people that are not in
the church and dont have the same standards as us. He recieved the
 Holy Ghost this week. It is so great. He has changed. It makes me so
happy. He just wants to be better and is constantly studying. (future
bishop one day woot woot ,)). Also he is preparing to go to the temple
and he has problems with his marriage but he said that he thinks he
 can work it out now because he is part of the church. Oh Castro is so
great.

First Talk

Sat night at 9:30 pm the bishop called and asked for one
 of us to give a talk...!!!! My companion really didnt want to and i
really didnt want to, but i said i would. hahah idk how i have gone 6
months into my mission with out giving a talk haha. But I gave it on
the Book of Mormon. It was really rough because i didnt have much time
 to prepare it and i still can't speak Portuguese very well but i did my best. I
just hope that they have a greater desire to read the Book of Mormon.
I know that it is true. That book has so much power. I LOVE the Book
 of Mormon.

Sabation

We are also teaching this lady that only speaks criol.. idk spell. But
we have this member come and translate the whole lesson for us for
her. This member is named sabation. haha he is so funny... he likes to
 tell everyone that he has been a member for 30 years. When he
tells people he throws his arms in the air hahah its really funny. But
we started to teach the first lesson and I said God is our loving
Heavenly Father and I waited for him to translate that and then he
 did and then he went straight to saying Joseph Smith went to
the forest and prayed and restored the church and this is the only

true church. hahah no introduction at all to who joseph smith is or

anything. hahah he is funny.