Oi tudo mundo,

      This was by far the best week of my mission. The Correir Pinta Family of Paulo, Sonia, João Paulo, Bianca, and Beatriz were baptized as well as a twelve year old boy named Igor and an eleven year old named Kimberly. We broke the record for most baptisms ever in a week in our area and we received a award called ´´Minha Oferta a Cristo`` or ´´My Offering to Christ``. I´m telling you all this for a reason and it isn´t to show that I am some amazing missionary and this all happened because I cam and whipped things in to shape. In reality, I did nothing really. I have no idea how it happened. It wasn´t anything I said, or an amazing lesson that I taught that changed these people. It was only the Lord. He blessed us to the messengers that would bring the true and everlasting Gospel to these people. At our Zone Meeting this week our Zone Leader asked Elder Freitas ´´So what did you do to have this success in your area this week?`` He was expecting a grand explination of techniques and so forth.

    ´´ We were obedient and we worked all day every day, and we prayed a lot`` said Elder Freitas.

  It´s true. I´m having a great mission only because the Lord is fulfilling His promises. We receive these promises through our Mission President, the Leaders fo the Church, Preach My Gospel, and  the scriptures. The Lord will fulfill all of His promises, but we always are on His terms. We follow Him in the way he decided, we don´t decide the way we will follow and then expect Him to play by our rules.

    Search for the promises and test them. The Book of Mormon and The Bible and every Ensign are filled with blessings waiting to fulfilled by your obedience, you only have to test the word like Alma taught in the 32nd Chapter of Alma.

   I love it here. We will have a transfer and I will receive a new companion next week, I´m scared. I receive cards and packages each transfer. Also, pleaes send Old Spice Pure Sport Deodorent Sticks, they don´t exsist here and Axe spray is horrible.

    I am going to play basketball for the first time in Brazil today with a few members so my time is rushed, but I love you all. I LOVE YOU NOODLE! CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR STRAIGHT A´S!!! KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!! GIVE COSMO A BIG HUG AND KISS FROM ME!

   Also, I sent some pictures on a disc home to you last week. It has all the pictures up until last week.

 

Love, Elder Nothum