from Brazil...

I'm a little behind in posting... this is from last week!

Oi famíliaThis week was kind of crazy. Just yesterday was crazy to tell the truth. Elder Lopes already got tranfered! With all the health problems he has, president kind of put a pause on his mission. He is companions with another missionary with a bunch of health problems too. My new comp is Elder Stuart. He´s from Utah and he doesn´t speak very much portuguese. He has been on the mission for about 5 months. But the crazy thing about the transfer was that we didn´t know anyone was getting tranfered until yesterday afternoon. The secretary called us monday night and said that elder lopes had an interview with president tue. morning at 11. Elder lopes asked if he had to bring anything and he said no. When we got to the office, The same secretary asked if he brought his bags because he was being transfered and my comp was already on the highway coming to gioania. So we had to run back to our area which is a little more than an hour away from the office eat lunch, pack his bags, and get back to the office by 2 in the afternoon. Just like all mormons in the world, my comp didn´t show up until 4:30 and we got home around 6. It was a fun day. The packages already showed up. But i had my briefcase with me so i didn´t have enough hands to bring them with me on the bus. We also have a stake activity this friday. It´s going to be a huge first message of the restoration. The stake is planning for about 500 investigators to be in attendence. It should be great. Anything new with you guys? Christmas is getting close! This is my first and last christmas phonecall. How´s everyone doing? Is it cold there? It is raining a ton here, everyday for a week and a half now. It´s raining right now. That´s about it here. We have a baptism for this saturday all planed out but i´ll tell you aboutit next week. Happy birthday to those who are getting older this month. See you all later. Elder Lewis.