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Adopted Son

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Hello my amazing people! This week was really wild, let me tell ya. Earlier this week we got a reference of someone who wanted to learn more about the Book of Mormon, but he lives a little over an hour and a half from here. God has blessed us with technology in the past couple years as missionaries so we sent him a text and he immediately started answering back talking about baptism. He set up a lesson with us for Saturday morning and he asked if we could set a date to be baptized and if we could mark it that day! He said he knew he needed to and he knew he would be baptized into our church and he was so excited! We sent him a video talking about the Book of Mormon and invited him to read it and within 15 minutes he sent a text that said "My brothers I'm loving this book! I know that it's another testament of Jesus Christ!!" It was so amazing to see his testimony already start to grow. The lesson on Saturday morning ended up falling through and he hasn't answered ...

Broken Elbow

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Hello everyone! Sorry, i didn't wrote last week, my editor and secretary took a paid vacation to Hawaii and didn't tell me. This week we had transfers, and I was so excited because President told me I was going to train! He said my companion was from Argentina but that's all we knew. Well, turns out Elder Cuevas already has 8 months on the mission, so I'm not training but I am teaching Portuguese! His first day here in Brazil we were on our way to the supermarket to get some things so we could lunch, and he hit the front brakes too hard (they're really sensitive) and he flipped right over the front and dislocated his elbow. We ran to the clinic and I had to use my very very limited Spanish to translate and help him understand what they were saying (thanks Sr. Macdon) and we were moved from the clinic to the hospital where they relocated it and put him in a soft cast.  He's doing better now but, he's still in a lot of pain so pray for him!  The doctors kept h...