Padrasto!?!?!?!? Março 17 2013...no, ´14

Happy Saint Patrick´s Day, Y´all!

     I bet you´re all pretty excited to hear what happened on Tuesday. To tell the truth, there was a mistake in the transfer announcement, and they just sent me back to Aracruz with Elder Capelletti...

JUST KIDDING!

This week, everyone is calling me ``padrasto´´, which in Portuguese means...

*Drumroll*


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STEPFATHER!

     Yup, I´ve been assigned to finish up the training of a greenie who´s dad left to be a Zone Leader in Vitória. His name is Elder Bessa, and he´s from Fortaleza, Brasil. I´ll be telling you more about him later, he´s pretty great. My other announcement is that I´ve been sent to...

Rio de Janeiro!

     It´s gorgeous here! Seriously. My area is in the city of Itaperuna, and we´re here with one other companionship that is training, too. Elder Sacramento is our district leader, and he´s training Elder Garcia, who has just 5 days in the field. They´re pretty great, too. This week was a little bit rough because the travel time from Vitória to Itaperuna is over 7 hours, and we made the journey the same day as the transfer meeting. ..We got home reeeeally late. I think that this morning I finally shook off the last symptoms of the huge lag it put in our schedule.

     We´ve jumped right into the work, and we already have some families with so much potential. I was surprised, because I´d heard of Itaperuna before...it`s known for being a difficult area, but we seem to be managing just fine so far. I really believe that here in a few weeks we´ll have a baptismal service!

     Being a trainer is really a different experience, especially being an American missionary training a Brasilian missionary. I haven´t really had any trouble with the language yet, but it´s certainly going to be a transfer very unlike the others. I´m pretty excited!

     That´s all I have for this week, so I´ll let you all go. Love y´all!

Elder Crapo