Brrrr, It's Cold!!!

"Oi!

That's really sad news about Patty Mortensen. I was not prepared for that. This weekend is Fast Sunday. My prayers will be with her.

This week has been a little less busy. We stayed a little closer to Campinas this week, in the Hortolandia zone (the cities of Hortolandia and Sumare). We worked in Jd Amanda (our area) and in Vila Flora with Elder Felipe and Elder Wagstaff. Elder Felipe was my district leader before I was transferred to Jd Amanda. The next day we went to Sumare and participated in their "pass along card/get references for the missionaries drive" and participated in their meeting with the ward mission leader. There is no better city in this mission than Sumare. The members there live and love the gospel and share it too. Sunday, we surprised the sisters in Rosolem by showing up at their sacrament meeting. I played the piano there and we had lunch with practically the whole ward. After, we went and taught an investigator that went to church, but could never be taught by the sisters because he only lives with men. That night we went back to the office and Elder Hillam and the other two assistants started working on the mission conference that is this week. Yesterday, I did a division with area Castelo here in Campinas and tomorrow will be our mission conference in Piracicaba.

It's getting pretty cold here, these past few days everyone has been dying! Someone told me last night that it got down to 8 Celcius or 46 Farenheit. Around 8 am today it was only 11 Celcius or about 52 Farenheit. It felt around 50 below zero! We're all wimps here in Brazil when it comes to the cold and I'm sure I'll freeze my butt off when I get home. So anyway, I survived last winter, somehow, but today I broke down and bought a sweater ( a nice, dressy, chique, sweater), but it was kind of expensive....sorry!

Last week I got a package. Thank you! Thanks for sending the conference Ensign and the Church News. To be honest, that's the stuff I enjoy most. Oh, and thanks a ton for the Motab CD! Everyone here, the secretaries, the assistants, and the other companionship in Jd Amanda are enjoying it.

You'll have to send me a picture of Tyler's (Allen...his piano student before the mission) new dog!

Oh ya! I was not prepared to hear that Blair (Woodward...a former member of the ward) is getting married in August! Holy cow! That's awesome that Nick (Woodward) is going on his mission. I can't believe as well that these kids are graduating this year. Ah, I'm about ready to faint! But, I am SUPER HAPPY that Chaz will go on splits with the missionaries! Give him a big hug for me, alright, and tell him how happy that made me!

This week is likely to be just as calm as the last, but next week I'm sure we'll be running everywhere. I love you and know that this church is true and God lives and Jesus is the Christ.

Ate mais!
Elder Christian Larsen