Dear family.
Did I surprise you that I´m on today!? hahahaha. I was sad I didn´t have any mail when I got on today. hah just kidding. So on Friday we received word that starting this year our p-day would be on Mondays. So program it, that now I will be on the computer on Mondays and not on Wednesdays. So you can write your emails Sunday nights and what not. It´s a little more difficult for you all to right me Monday morning, considering that now we are like 5 hours in difference.
So how was your New Years!? Was it wonderful!? Mine was pretty good. We had to be home by 9:30 and I was sleeping by like 11, which suprised me because outside of our house, It sounded like I was in Iraq (because of all the shouts and fireworks) you know they say how you ring in the New Years is how you´ll spend your next year. well, I hope that´s not true, because that would mean that this next year will include a lot of sleep for me. hah.
So this week was great. Filled with a lot of work and a lot of surprises. Not TOO much has happened, considering the last email was sent on the last Wednesday. but to fill you in on some things:
We did a contact with a man named Nikanor on the street on like Thursday. We passed by his house and taught him the first lesson. He has a date to be baptized this Sunday. Please pray for him. He is a sweet little old man of about 60 years. He came to church this weekend and loved it. After the meeting he said "And this happens every Sunday? It looks like I´ll be coming here then." hahaha It was so awesome. He liked it. He has some fears/doubts about baptism, but we are helping him. Please please pray for him.
We had a neat experience yesterday:
We were walking on the street doing a lot of contacts with a lot of different people and I saw this group of people and I thought to myself, we will NOT contact them (I don´t know why) so we started passing them. I even said to Elder Schmidt, "let´s not pass those people, I think they are drunk." Well, as we were walking, I was looking at them, and behind the group was this teenager. He looked really familiar. I looked at him and he looked up at me and I saw his eyes and it was Vítor from São José dos Pinhais!!! Sonia´s son that me and Elder Elias baptized!!!! He saw me and got a huge smile on his face and came and gave me a huge hug. It was so awesome to see him. We chatted for a little bit. He said that he was living with his dad now and they moved here to Quatro Barras. He showed us where he lived and it was so great to see him. He told me all about Sonia and everyone in São José. It was so great to see him. We will definitely have to go visit him and maybe even start teaching his dad.
So on Saturday we were walking and a drunk man threw 2 fireworks at us. It was so funny. I felt like Wil Ferrell and Andy Sanberg from the video "Cool guys don´t look at explosions." We were pretty cool and kept walking. It was nice.
Family, I love you all so much and I am so grateful for you. I love you all. I was thinking last night about each one of you individually and collectively and I am super blessed to have a family like you. I hope you guys are excited for March and have some neat things planned after we go get Bahama Bucks!!!! hahahah I love you all so so so so so much and I hope all is well with you all. Sorry that I wasn´t able to inform you that p-day would be today. I didn´t know. but know that from now on, every pday will be on Monday. I love you all! Don´t stop believing!!!!!! Keep true to the faith!!!!
com amor,
Elder Askins
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