``That´s why we love Carnaval!´´... ``Só que não´´ (only, not...) 19 de Fevereiro 2015

SO...let me explain... Remember when I said that the city would completely shut down during Carnaval? That´s what happened on Monday when we were supposed to send our e-mails...and everything was still closed on Tuesday, and Wednesday we spent all day travelling to zone conference, having zone conference, and travelling back. It was like driving to Cedar City for a meeting and coming back the same day. We arrived pretty beat... But the conference was great. President Young is really focusing on how we´re using the Book of Mormon, and I remembered a lot of things I learned earlier in my mission that I need to do better. Also because of Carnaval, we really had a hard time finding anyone to teach. Actually, we were having a hard time finding anyone to look at. Really... I´ve never seen Brazil so quiet. We did find a 15 year old boy named Isaac who seemed a little shy, but receptive. His parents told us that he creates chores for himself to do around the house, and completes them without his parents telling him anything. THAT´S the kind of men we want in the church, haha. Isaac said that he´d like to make a visit to the church, and his parents said he could go if we went to pick him up (we would have gone to pick him up anyway, haha). Also, our recent convert, Juneia´s son is home from his trip to his grandma´s house, and has started to receive the discussions. It´s great because you can tell that Juneia has been taking time to teach him everything ahead of our visits, so he already knows all the answers to the questions we ask. It´s reallt funny when he starts showing some of the traditions from other churches and Juneia quickly and desperately corrects him, haha. For example, in our last visit, we let Julio say the closing prayer by himself. Everything went great until he got to the end, and started to say, ``in the name of the Father, and the Son, and th--´´ after which, Juneia was like: ``NO NO NO!!!`` hahaha. She then told him ``In the name of Jesus Christ...`` It was pretty funny. That´s all for this week! I love you all and see you soon! Elder Crapo