Someone Ate All My Chocolate!

Were you able to see the blood moon?

They put it in the newspaper, but we never woke up to see it. In the mission field, sleep is very precious. ;)

 

The sister missionaries are moving in to our home next week.

Leave some food downstairs for them to eat. If they're anything like us, they'll arrive home late with the munchies. (But then again, ya'll eat dinner, and here we just eat lunch)

Did you forget your dads birthday?

I didn't forget Dad's birthday, I just forgot to write to him in all the rush. Happy Birthday Dad (April 16th) and happy anniversary (April 18th).

In Portuguese the birthday song is a little different. The translation would go as follows:

Congratulations to you

on this special day!

Many more happy moments

and even more years of life!

(Honestly, I think it a little more creative than ours)

 

ROTFLOL XD.  Woah!  Grant got huge.  No wonder Grandma got confused. ;)  kkkkkkkkkkk (This is in reference to a picture that was sent to him of our Easter dinner party.  Grant is Jess's younger cousin and Grandma called him Jess when she saw him this last Sunday)

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This week was a week best to remember our Savior and his triumph over death. It also means tons of chocolate, because the tradition here is to buy large quantities of chocolate to give to friends and family.  At the same time, it also happens to be a national five-day holiday that sends everyone we're teaching to the beach or to some other place... 

:l 

Anyway, despite the unexpected traveling, we were still able to help out a lot of people. One of the families we are teaching is showing great progress that I've never seen in another family. This family is very humble, but they are also very diligent. When we first talked to them, we could already feel their great desire to receive and follow the gospel of Christ.  They had been inactive in church simply because they never felt the churches they visited were right. We taught them the restoration and left them a Book of Mormon to read. When we returned, we were surprised to learn they had not only read what we marked, but all fighting over the book to read more. So, this week we left a book for everyone to read, teaching quickly and inviting them to church the next day. When we arrived to walk to church together, they were not only all ready to go, but they'd been reading into the third chapter already while they were waiting. In that moment I gave a great big smile, while my heart did a silent "boo-yeah!"

Woah! Time went by quickly. Maybe I should have learned how to type faster before the mission. Oh well. Happy late Easter to everyone, and remember that Christ and his acts are not something to be remembered on a calender, but eternally.

Elder Angus

Phrase of the week:

KKKKKKKKK (kah kah kah kah...) Meaning hahahahaha. Honestly, I don't know why, but that's just the way it is.