First of all how was Christmas for everyone this year, everyone busy with all the holiday cheer and all the Christmas activitys? This was one of the best and craziest weeks of the whole mission so far so I´ll just start form the beggining

First of all on Tuesday as we were doing our weekly planning where you plan for the whole week and who you´re going to teach how are you going to help them and all your goals we were trying to figure out who we could have be baptized for this week, and for a Christmas baptizem. During this time we had a really good referal to check out saying he´s going to church for a while and want´s to learn more, so of course that was our first priority was him this week. After the first lesson it was easy to tell he was really prepared for us, he read all the way to second Nephi before we even taught him anything and is just amazing for us. After teaching him the first lesson we asked him to be baptized for this friday the day before Christmas eve (because he already had the two weeks in church) and he said yes!!! It was amazing, we spent the rest of the week making sure to prepare him, even though he was just a huge blessing in our lifes. 

For lunches we alwasys have to give a message and normally it´s just a simple sweet message from the scriptues bear your testimony and that´s about it, but it being Natal this week we decided to change things up, so each day we would bring a Santa hats and our hymm books and sing a Christmas hymm and as soon as we would finish the hymm we would pull out the bible and read in luke 2:10-11 talking about the birth of Jesus and the true meaning of Christmas, and that was amazing to be able to do, it was such a big hit that when it came time for Saturday we had a huge chance to do it again because the Saturdays for us are one of the most crazy days, it´s the day to prepare everything for Sunday, so you go to every house you teach and share a message. But we Did the same thing as we did as the lunches and just made everyone laugh when we pulled out our hats and started to sing. It was a really cool experiance just to be able to talk about the true meaning of Christmas and the opportunity I had to share this messasage with everyone this time of year. 

Now it´s time for mor of the highlights of the week, after we finished all of our singing we hard to go to a house of a member for Christmas eve, this is a rule and also the one time you get home late because the presdient tells you to. We went to the house of Vagner who is just way funny and we always have a blast at their house when we eat lunch there. But we had some of the best BBQ of my life that i still dream about because it was so dang good, we spent the whole night there and just laughed and ate, I still feel a little full from it right now because they made us eat so much meat. 

Christmas day was the best day of the mission, we started off the day with presents from the house and it almost felt like a normal Christmas with our little mission family, then we went to church and had a special program, just one hour and it was mostly singing and the bishop from our ward and the ward we combined with for the day gave a little talk, Our Bishop talked about how it´s important to find Christ each week and find Christ in our lifes each day and was just amazing. For lunch we went to a members house and had a secret santa there and it was just amazing. 

Now it´s time for the best part with talking to the family. It was amazing being able to talk to you guys with skype and amazing to see your faces, you all look great. As far as the new boyfriend Arrie i don´t know if I´m more dissipointed in him or you for not knowing a Giants player when I asked that question. But the Portugues is sounding great from you two and can´t wait to talk more with you guys in the amazing language. 

Last but not least we had a transfer today and i got a new comp!! His name is Elder Menezes a Brazilian, he´s a really cool guy though, I´ve known him my whole mission because he´s been in my zone this whole time and he´s a really hard worker, so this will be a great transfer with him and a great chance to learn a lot form him! 

I hope you all had a great Natal this year!!!

Wow this week a lot happend and nothing happened at the same time. As far as teaching this week it was one of our hardest weeks for us. Whenever we had a plan the people would leave before we got there or just tell us to come back a different time and then not be there. It was one of the hardest weeks we had out here because of it. But right when things started to look really bad for us the lord started working his miricules for us. For this entire week we´ve been trying to find this one family to teach that we found in our area book from the past missionaries.A perfect family that has had all the lessons but just needed to be married. After about 5 days of trying we finally stumbled upon their house to find out they broke up and now live in different houses. (I know really sad) and sadly the girl didn´t live there anymore and she was the one really interested in the lessons and nobody knew where she lived. So of course we thought the bad luck would just continue on us for the week. But no, the next day we were working in a area we don´t normally work in and just had three or four people not show up so we weren´t door to door again. our first house we knocked on we found the mystery lady that we´ve been looking for!!! After talking to her for a little big we found out all the details on what´s been going on and how she´s been wanting to missionaries to vist her again so it was just a huge miricule for us after one of the hardest weeks we´ve had here. If she goes to church next week she will be able to be baptized so hopefully everything goes right for her this week.

As far as the rest of the week nothing big really happened, This next week will be really busy will the the activitys for our ward and the missionaries.