Letter #39- "Loving You.... Makes Me Want To Write Bad Poetry."

Hello my family! I hope everything is going well up in good old AZ! Everything here in Curitiba is just fine. I know that many of you were asking about the raining and the floodings and if any of that was happening down here. It just is raining a lot more than it rained in Arizona but there is no flooding. That´s all happening in Rio. I have heard that more than 500 people have died up there! Wow!

This week we have been working super super hard at continuing with our new people that we have found and working with some references. We have a baptismal interview for our investigator, Richard, on Saturday and he will be baptized this Sunday. I am super excited for him! He is 16 and so hopefully after his baptism, he will prepare to serve a mission. Which would be SUPER awesome! Hahaha!

Last Saturday was great! I did a division with my good friend Elder Petersen, which is always great because we have many things in common so we can just talk the whole day away. We passed by this one reference that we received and it turns out she ALREADY received the Elders and many lessons and then one day they just stopped coming by. We think that it was because the area was closed. We extended the invitation to be baptized and she said no. After, we passed by this other reference we received and talked with her. It was GREAT! She was talking about this member that she works with and how she has so much respect for her because of the EXAMPLE that this member has always set for her. We invited her to come to church and we taught her about the Book of Mormon. The next day she came to church and so did Richard and he brought 2 of his friends that have interest in the church. Then yesterday we ran into 2 old investigators that I started teaching and they wanted us to stop. They told us that they wanted to have us start passing by again. It was super great!

President Cordon has asked that we start using the Book of Mormon a lot more in our lessons and when we talk to people on the streets. So that is what we have started doing. It´s been great.

I love you all so much! This week has been super good. Thanks for all the prayers and the thoughts! I love you! Until next p-day!
Com Amor!
-Elder Nay!