Bryce Busy in Brazil

Hello!

This week we had a lot of busy work to do so we had a little less time to teach. We had 

to pick up stuff from the office (which is a long way away), fix a problem

with E. Parada´s credit card, and we went to Aguas Claras (which is also pretty far) to

teach some of the sister missionaries´ investigators (I´d never heard of doing this, but it was cool).

We had a cool lesson with Leo this week. We watched a film about Christ´s visit to America to accompany

his reading of 3 Nephi 11. He really liked it and said he wished more people knew about this. We talked

more with him about trying to stop smoking. He thought he could stop easily but he was getting

a little discouraged. We encouraged him to read the scriptures and pray anytime he feels an urge

to smoke. We asked his sister what changes she´s seen in Leo since he started talking to us. She mentioned

that they stopped arguing and he has more patience. It´s easy to see the change that´s already

taken place in him. It´s great to see how quickly the gospel can change someone. I know he´ll be able

to stop smoking if he stays determined.

Eduardo has been coming to church for about 2 months now. He still doesn´t accept everything taught

but he makes a wonderful contribution to the gospel principles class with his insights. Everything he

says is well thought out and perfectly concordant with what we believe, so I scratch my head quite a 

bit, wondering why he doesn´t accept the church. I know he enjoys coming to 

church and feels something different while he´s there. When he becomes a member someday he´ll be

an excellent leader, I know that. 

The ward choir is singing soon and we got to rehearse with them. I was relieved to be able to sing in a choir again.

I think I´ll play in sacrament meeting something on the piano too, which I´m excited about.

Every day is busy and tiring but I´m enjoying the learning and growing. Keep it real fambam.

Love,

Bryce