Parrots, snakes and other cool stuff

So this last we had a lot of interesting things happen. On Saturday we had a service project out at a member's farm, where we helped clear some land and laid some brick for walls. When we got there I heard the familiar screech of the elusive parrot, and that's when I saw one sitting in a tree. This parrot was a pet of the family and they keep it outside, so I was finally able to get a picture of a parrot, and then I got to have him on my shoulder for a little bit. While we were clearing fields we saw a number of creepy crawlies that included some nasty lookin spiders, millipedes, and a coral snake, but the snake was just a baby. Our reward for our efforts was a freshly slaughtered goat for lunch.
We usually have a branch activity on Wednesday, but everyone forgot, so we didn't end up having one.
We had a pretty amazing experience while walking to a member's house last night. We were walking when a sixteen year-old kid stopped us and asked us if we were from the church of the prophet Joseph Smith. As it turns out, the kid's name is also Joseph and he had talked with missionaries over a year ago. He was so smart. Most of the time when we teach someone they don't remember what we said in the last five minutes, but when we talked with Joseph he'd ask questions like "And that's when the priesthood was restored, right?"
I'm really excited to teach him.
In celebration of our baptism last week we went out last P-day to eat A'i (editor: not sure what this was). It is so much better in Brazil.
Well everything I think would take too long to write, so know that we are working hard and seeing the blessing.
Love,
Elder David Short

Exciting news

 

 

So this last week we were preparing for a very exciting Sunday where President Prieto, Sister Prieto and some other guest speakers came to do some training in the branch. I don´t remember if I explained, but we don´t have a real chapel here yet. We rent a house to use as our chapel, and we need an attendence of eighty people for three months and then they can start construction on the real chapel. We worked our shoes off this week trying to arrange rides for people who have difficulty coming to church and were also trying to teach our investigators as well. We worked hard and at the end of the week we had 85 people at church! Now we just have keep up the work for the next three months and this city will finally have a chapel to call their own. To makes things even more awesome we had a BAPTISM before church on sunday. His name´s Alisson and he really likes americans, so I might have to teach an English class here for Alisson and his friends. It was pretty sweet to have the mission president at our baptism. We have two more people that we´re planning on baptizing this week and hopefully we´ll find more of the elect this week.

Love you all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Love,

Elder David Short