God looks on the Inside!!

EDSON'S BAPTISM DAY!!

This week has been awesome and not at the same time. That is the mission for you! Anyway. Last Monday we had a P-DAY in Votorantim. I loved it. Because my awesome companion also served in Votorantim it all worked out. Richelle picked us up with her sister who served a mission in Brasil and was able to speak Portuguese with Sis O and had a yummy American lunch. Then we went to Simone and Juarez. I baptized them with Sister Knudsen and it was so fun to see them, and to talk with them. I love them so much they are my family. Thursday was a holiday. I`m pretty sure Brasil has at least two Holidays per month. They like to get there party on. It was fun. It was Kids Day. So Holidays are hard on the mission becasue no one is home but becasue I`m in Brasil there is always cool stuff and food in the street so that was fun. We are in spring. So what does that mean. April flowers bring may flowers right? So lots of rain. Rain is cool when your not on the mission. On the mission without a car takes a lot of mental work. Do I really want to leave the house to find people not in there house and get completly soaking wet? Luckily we bought these umbrellas one day before it started raining really hard. So the third day we are walking in the rain and I am completly wet on the upper half of my body and not the lower half. We were laughing so hard. At least we were laughing right? Turns out there were holes in my umbrella. So the moral of the story is don`t buy cheap umbrellas. Our cellphone fell into a cup of milk. Opps. And then it started acting all kinds of crazy, opps. We will see what happens with that. The other day after a hard hard day of all of our appointments falling through we were walking on the bike path and it was about eight at night these men without shirts run behind us and well needless to say our day got a whole lot better. Saturday we got our money so we tried to do shopping in the morning. It was still raining. We needed a mirror. Ok grocery shopping is already a pain imange without a car and in the rain. So we left and we left in flip flops I left thinking that was a good idea but it wasn`t. We came back and I threw on my tennis shoes it was crazy. I was losing my flip flops all over the place. We bought some fresh bread from the bakery and were walking out and my flip flop flipped off and went into the gutter and started runnng down the hill with the water. We were screaming and laughing and crying without umbrellas in the rain with hot bread in our hands for my flip flop to come back. Once we got the flip flop back the day got a little better. Do you want to know why? WE BAPTIZED EDSON!!!!! That is right, the hardest person I have ever taught was baptized saturday night. It was awesome! He is so funny. He cracks me up. He acted like he was drowning when he went under the first time so we had to do it again but it was awesome. Then after we went out to dinner with the Elders that are in the area next to us. It was a really good week.

Powerhouse Scripture of the Week

1 Samuel 16:7

But the Lord said unto Samuel, look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature, becasue I have refused him: for the Lord seeth not as man seeth, for the man looketh on the outward apperance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.

Let us think of this little verse the next time we judge someone for whatever they have on the outside. I thought the Edson wouldn`t except the gospel because he was an ex drug addict and looks pretty homely but...

Ate Mais, boa semana...