Elder Rhodes Missionary Experiences while serving the Brazilian people

Well we baptized this week! It was really cool, her name is Julia and she is 13 and has a kid that is almost 2. Yup that is not a typo; not sure how its possible but its true, and we baptized her.  We were able to confirm her and give her child a baby blessing. It was really cool and a good experience. It was really great, I think Saturday was one of the most stressful days of my life, but it all worked out in the end lol. We had to clean the font because of all the spider webs (massive spider in the font as well), find a way to pick up Julia, find out she is not at her home, find a ride on short notice, cannot find my companion after splitting to pick her up, figure out how she is to dry off after being baptized; realize my companion does not have a towel either, find out he doesn't have white clothes to baptize in...... It was all worth it in the end. We watched 2 conferences at a members homes and we watched the other two in the chapel. It was funny when we watched them at ...

So this week had a lot of ups and one really big down. The ups were that i was able to go to Presidents house and pick up my companion which was awesome. He has been a member for 1 year, he is from Fortaleza and he is a really good missionary. He trusts me a lot and was having a lot of trouble in the CTM with wanting to go home. We had a nice talk this week and he told me that he wasn't going to think about going home anymore because I helped him find his purpose. He trusts me a lot and I'm learning a lot from him, and its giving me a good chance to learn how to do everything in the mission. We are having a good time and we are getting a lot of work done. I'm just glad that I'm able to help someone because the work here is going really slow. I saw Mari and Alice this week when we went to Piracicaba to get my companion, they are doing well and have been called as visiting teachers for a less active family in the ward. That is Awesome! They are doing well. The worst part ...