Wow it just keeps raining! it just stopped right now, but this entire week it has been raining and not just Seattle rain, but rain rain! Luckily I brought my umbrella that I found in my last area with me. So yea I was transferred...I loved my last area and I am missing it still, the people there are great and the people baptized and the people that are preparing to be baptized were awesome. So I was transferred to my first Zone in Guarapiranga again haha its a great zone, and what is funny is I did a few divisions already in my area before so some people already know me haha. I am serving in Ranieri which is close to Riviera Paulista which is my first area. I am excited because my first area changed to the zone leader's area and I marked a division with them so I will be able to meet up with all of them again on Friday! This area unlike my last area is HUGE, yea it has way more then 20 roads that's for sure. I am with a brasileiro this time his name is Elder Sabino from Pernambuco and has 7 months on the mission. gente boa, but he is quieto... ou calado (i forgot how to say that so look it up sorry). Its going to be a fun experience because we are starting from ground zero and have no one in our teaching group. This week we managed to mark 3 people for baptism, but our goal is to baptize 3 next month so we need to mark a lot more then that. The church has a stat that to baptize one person in one month you need to have 10 people go to church and have at least 22 people in your teaching group. So we have to have 66 people in our teaching group and 30 people go to church, so yea we are going to have to work our tails off.
This week was awesome as well because we saw the dedication of the temple of Manaus. President Uchtdorf dedicated the temple and put the corner stone in with Elder Cook their wives and some kids that were watching. There was also a celebration that was held on Saturday that was really cool. All the stakes in Manaus danced, the primary did a funny jungle dance with costumes, then there were a bunch of other dances by all the organizations. The best one was the Cowboys, did you know that there are Cowboys here in Brazil? they did a cool dance and I am sure the Cavalcanti's are jealous that they weren't here to watch haha. President Uchtdorf gave a great welcoming speech on Saturday, but unfortunately the translator wasn't hearing him so he was struggling to translate, until Uchtdorf put his arm around his shoulders and started to speak easier for him haha it is crazy to think that I can speak more then one language fluently. I hear the English speakers first, then the translation in portuguese and understand them both and I hear the same thing being said. Its funny because Elder Uchtdorf is really funny and he cracked some good jokes and I would be the only one laughing and then the translator would speak and everyone would laugh afterwards. I even beat the translator some times giving the translation first haha. So maybe I might be able to come back to brazil in 2014 to be a translator during the world cup and get paid and meet up with everyone at the same time.
This week we are also going to the temple! I love the temple and I will miss it when I am gone, but luckily I have at least 2 or 3 more times before I go. Yea so its starting to hit me that I am getting pretty old on the mission, I only have about 8 more months on the mission and judging how my time has been passing by lately, its going to fly by. I will try to do my best to take advantage of my time here e aproveitar os bons momentos and do my best to bring more children of God back home. I love you all and hope you all have a great week and that Brian doesn't get lost in Europe and that my next sobrinha será bonitinha like Ella. (Dev and Bec don't call here Beatris its a beautiful name in portugues but doesn't work out in English)
Love you all so much!
Abraços e Beijos
Com Feijão
Elder Crandall
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