Elder Rhodes Missionary Experiences while serving the Brazilian people

This week was good, we had a baptism! Which was awesome. Its was cool to see him go from smoking about 400 cigarettes a day.....stop completely and get baptized.  He is 2 weeks without smoking now. We should have a few more this week, and we will be running behind them to get them baptized this week. This is the last week of the transfer so we will be working super hard to get the job done. We were in the quorum meeting yesterday and we were called to the branch presidents office.  There was a less active member with his girlfriend. They said he wanted to return to church and get married in order for her to get baptized. So yeah that was pretty cool. We will be going to the civil thing to get them married and then try to get her baptized her soon.  Do you guys remember that super golden family we found in the division last week?  It's the mother and daughters living in the really nice homes on the corner of the map we picked out.  I talked about ...

One of the people that I was teaching back in Nova Italia got baptized this week. He was the one that when we knocked on his door he had just finished talking to his wife about how he wanted to change his life. I was super happy he got baptized. Here in Botucatu the members are helping us a ton, and we are working a lot with them. We basically have members going out with us pretty much every day and its going super well. We should have Sergio and his two nephews getting baptized soon. He just has a problem with the smoking but we are working with him and he and them will be getting baptized soon. I got sick in the first few days of this past week and lost almost 10 pounds lol. I woke up Tuesday feeling a little rough with stomach aches. We went to our first appointment at like 8am, I started throwing up at the appointment. She gave me Dramamine or something like that. When I got to the hospital they put in an IV and some more medicine and it knocked me out. I threw up another 4 ...