Farewell to mission President

This week was pretty busy but unfortunately we didn't have a ton of time to work. On Thursday we have to do about 8 hours of travelling because I had to do a baptismal interview in a different city which was far away. 

The interview was for a guy named Gabriel and he was super cool. I used him to do something I've always wanted to do lol. We left the interview with serious looks on our faces and told the sisters that he didn't pass in the interview.  I told them that he had some problem that we would need to resolve first. The sisters looked so worried it was hilarious.  He did get baptized this week so that was good.

On Friday we had our last interviews and conference with President Bangerter which was really cool.

We had the interviews and it was basically him just telling me how awesome I am lol. ;) Then we went to lunch at a members house in our branch and it was like the best and most expensive lunch that I have ever eaten on the mission. It was steak, bbq, lasagna. It was so good and then we sang the mission hymn for them which was nice. When the conference was over President and Sister Bangerter sang the original mission hymn when Brazil was only one mission and it was super special.  I think everyone cried except for me lol. Then afterwards we said goodbye to president and we were hungry so we went back to that house where we ate lunch to clean up the scraps.

Guess who was there when we arrived, President and the AP's. President was like what are you guys doing here? And I was just like, where there is food there are missionaries President and he laughed and then we ate dinner with them.
Saturday we met with Luciano who we baptized last week and he was having some problems in the family and he started to cry and we taught one of the best lessons that I have had on my mission which was great. 

Overall the week was pretty good, love and miss you guys.


Picture of our district meeting.

Location: Botucatu, State of São Paulo, Brazil

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