Captain Moroni

Hello, I hope you all are doing well. The work out here in Brazil is slowly coming along. On Sunday the 9th we tried to have a devotional fireside activity a tad far from the church. Unfortunately, we couldn’t get the area to do it. People still came though and we invited them to go next week. We also had a bunch of FHE activities this last week as it was Elder Becker’s last week here. On Monday, we had FHE and around 13 people were there. We watched a church film about the Prodigal Son then ate cake. However, there were plenty of tears shed at the end as it was the last time some of them would see Elder Becker. The next day, Tuesday the 11th, was transfers. President Gonzaga gave a decent talk about the different kinds of missionaries, then I got my new companion, Elder Clark. It is his first time as senior, but he is pretty cool. He is from Monterey, California. He likes or has heard of all the games I enjoy, but at times he seems a tad awkward around people. For this week, I’ve been showing him around and helping him get to know everyone.

On Saturday the 15th, we had a baptism of Captain Moroni (this is what we call him but his name is Clayton Moroni). He is a cool kid who is only 9 years old. Paula brought cake and soda for it. The one issue with the baptism is someone left the font running (not us) until water was literally spilling out of the church. That made for a hectic hour before the baptism, mopping it all up. On Sunday, we managed to have the meeting/devotional in the new houses and I managed to give a 10-minute talk there. Overall, things are going well here.

Elder Vincent Malmrose.