CHRISTMAS!

We were able to talk with Christopher on Christmas Day and he sounded great!  He has come a long way since he left back in March and continues to grow every day.  The language is coming along for him and he is adjusting to the culture.  He continues to have wonderful experiences and I know he is blessing many lives.  We are very proud of him and love him very much.  Here are four of his latest pictures and hopefully we will get some that he took on Christmas within a few weeks.

Part of Christopher's latest email: 

So! Life here in Brazil! We had a baptism on Saturday!!! Leurianne, that young woman I told you all about, got baptized! She is super awesome and will be a great addition to the church, a strength to the young woman, and especially a strength to her family. I hope we can start teaching the rest of her family now and find success there. She shines and is great. Elder N. Rocha baptized her and I confirmed her a member. My second confirmation. I feel like it went well. 

The rest of this past week was super good. Christmas Conference for the zone was great! We played Basketball and Soccer, watched a movie with Robert De Nero and Cuba Gooding Jr. Called ´Men of Honor´, and it was really good, and we went to this all you can eat Chinese Resturant which was WAY good and had dessert in the church building and had a Ámigo Secreto´ where you drew out the name of another Elder and bought him a gift. And we just played, talked, and had fun. It went really well. i got a box of choclates from my Elder, Elder Riviera, and I gave Elder Crithfield some chocolate too. He was my friend.

I also went on a split Friday with one of the ZL´s, Elder Leite, and it went well. We taught two new young men and they were super cool.

We are working to try and find new people to teach. Daniel and Eveline are doing well. We haven´t been able to teach them a ton this past week, but we will work on that. We did a split yesterday where Elder N. Rocha went out with another young man, Morôni, and I went out with another young man too, David, and one of the brothers, Irmão Francisco. We passed by Daniel´s house and Eveline´s three other sons, that she had with another man, where there, so I shared a spiritual thought with them and got their names and addresses. One of them, William, lives in our area, so we will go visit them.