A Week Before Mother´s Day!

Editor’s note: I usually clean up some of the font irregularities in Elder Short’s letters, but I do not know what to do about the weird characters within the Portuguese. My rough translation had him eating something bad that gave him digestive complaints for a number of days.

Firstly I must say that I’m stoked for our call on Sunday. I plan on calling around 18h00.
Secondly, we baptized this week!
We had the great privilege of baptizing two sons of a recently reactivated member. We had planned to baptize her husband as well, but we have to work with him a little harder to conquer some addictions. He’ll be getting baptized this week, or the following.
I’m becoming well known in the ward for making cakes at baptisms. Maybe I’ll become a baking legend in this area.
We clapped a good number of gates this week in the hopes of finding the elect, but no one we found went to church this week.
Sometimes missionary trials raise the questions of “why isn’t it easier?”, but I find strength in the words of Elder Holland. He explained that “Salvation was never a cheap experience. It was never easy for [Christ], so why should we expect it to be easy for us.” For us to have genuine missionary experiences, we have to walk a part of the path that he walked.
This next experience of the week I feel the desire to share in Portuguese.
Esta semana eu tomei a decis鉶 horr韛el de comer 创Mortadela创, isso resultou em me passando mal por quatro dias. Eu tinha a for鏰 pra trabalhar m醩 tinha que usar o banheiro quase toda hora. Domingo foi o primeiro dia que eu estava sentindo normal.
We started teaching the eight year-old son of a member that has started coming back to church. The baptism will count for the ward and not for us, but we’re happy to help this family get reactivated.
Love,
Elder David Short

Pics
the Jabuticaba fruit
Mortadela must die
My rede
Baptism
Tucans!