Busy in Brazil...

Here is the latest from Brazil. Sounds like Brandon is keeping busy! He is a man of few words but we can feel his excitement in his email!

Oi Família,There´s big news this week. President Tobias was here with his family to pay us a visit this week. It was cool, we ate dinner with them friday night and we also ate lunch with them on saturday at a fancy resturante. He came by to do some re-organizing in the branch. He didn´t move much around. He and sister gave a training sat. night to give the branch excitment. We didn´t get to listen because we had to watch over the kids. Afterward we all ate pizza and we didn´t get home until 10:40 at night. I felt like mom because i was soo tired at 11 at night. Then he did a baptism interview for us at 7 in the morning on sunday and we´ll be baptizing Wanderson on the 20th!!! He´s been an investigator for 4 years!! And when president drove us home sunday morning he told us that i will be the new 2nd counslor and elder wride the young mens president. Since then we have been WAY busy. Carnival is this week and we have just about nothing planned for an activity. Carnival is like Mari Gras, and this city is a huge tourist city because of the river and the waterfalls so there will be parties non-stop from this friday night till tuesday. And there is no valentine´s day for anyone that doesn´t know. That´s about it. It was also really wierd to see president and sister tobias in normal clothes. I almost forgot, Today we founf out who will be our new mission pesident at the end of june. His name is Ramon Cesar Catherini Prieto and his wife´s Elza Mari Gurres Prieto. We´re assuming they´re brazilians but their names are a bit strange. That´s it see you all later.


here´s some pics of some huge hills, i don´t know if it shows in the pics but we had to climb some major hills this week. A pic of part of the city, you have to zoom in to see the bridges and we live right next to the one on the left. The left side of the river is Goiás and the right side is mato grosso, two different states, our area consist of 3 cities and 2 states. And the other pic is some parrots eating, there´s a bunch of these things that fly around here.