That sounds like a lot of fun! A trivai
competition! Where is it held? Thats super cool though. I want to go
there now! Thats no fun for Matt to have lost his teeth! Is he losing a
lot now on a regular basis? Wow it was Pi day and I didn´t even
remember it! Thats cool that its starting to warmup now though! Its
sounds like its been super cold there for a long time. I can´t even
imagine what it will be like when I get home! I did get the birthday box
that you sent. We actually used some of the stuff to hold a small
party for one of the Elders in my district 2 weeks ago. Thanks so much!
I still haven´t opened the present though! My date to return I think
is July 1st,
but it hasn´t been officially confirmed yet by the mission. It sounds
like I leave from Manaus, head to São Paulo, then to Atlanta and then go
to Indianapolis if I follow the same pattern as other elders, I would
leave the 30th and get to Indy the 1st about noonish. something like that. Thanks for the email from BYU!
This week was pretty cool here in Manacapuru.Monday was pday of course
and we got up early and played basketball and ate roasted chicken for
lunch. Pretty laid back pday. Went to a Family home evening that night
with a family in the Ward with one of our investigators and that was
really cool. Our investigators name is Ezekiel in english and he is
super cool. He is pretty intrested in learning about the gospel and is
super cool. he is always at the chapel playing soccer. Pretty cool
kid. Tuesday was normal. We got to start teaching Diane that day and
it was super cool. Her brother was baptized a few months ago and now
she is living with a member family and is interested in the church. Fun
to teach, she is reading the Book of Mormon and is liking it! We are
super pumped for her! We´ve been trying to teach Paulo Henique this week
as well. He came up to us in the street outside of his house this past
week and told us that he wanted to be baptized, and so we are getting
him ready for that date. He just needs to get permission from his
parents for him to be baptized! Wednesday was pretty normal. Nothing
super exciting happened. Thursday we got to wake up at 4:15
and catch the bus to Manaus for the Tri-Zone Conference in Alvorada.
It was super cool. We got there at about 7:30ish and the conference
went until 3:00.
Pres.Castro talked a lot about the importance of exact obedience and
how we need to always keep ourselves worthy of the Holy Ghost. It was a
really good conference. It was weird to see all the people who would be
leaving! After that we headed on back to Manacapuru. We had to take 2
boxes of Book of Mormons with us to the Bus statioin and that was
hard. They each weigh about 30 pounds! Got back to Manacapuru and got
to see a missionary farewell of one of the Young men in the Ward. He is
going to Campinas! We are all super excited for him! Friday was
normal! Saturday was the baptism of Lara. it was super cool to see her
baptism and there was a really special spirit there during the whole
baptism. Really awesome. Sunday I get to play the piano alot as I
helped out playing for the choir, make some recording of hymns for the
choir and then playing for the devotional. Tiring. My fingers are
still a little tired from that. This week will be the church open
house! Excited!
I hope that everything is going great back home! I miss you all!
Love
Elder Battraw
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