1st Baptism!!!

There was a lot going on this week! On our way to teach Maria Jose, there was a blackout of the entire neighborhood. It was kind of sketchy getting around all the cars in the dark and we had to teach Maria Jose using a candle for light.

I bought myself a very stylish hat that will help keep the sun off of me. It even has a flap in the back to protect my neck! It's sick! I also got some Patriot socks from the Hunters!

I did splits with Elder Welch (zone leader) and he has a lot of success and is super obedient. He inspires me and I have recommitted to be exactly obedient. While we were working in his area, we came across a girl on the sidewalk that was crying. As I passed her I realized it was Eliza, a girl that we are teaching in my area. We asked her what was wrong and she explains that some strange woman tried to take her!! What?!! She was almost kidnapped?! We let her borrow our phone and she called her dad. Crazy! We ended up teaching her dad later in the week and he called us "angels" to his daughter.

We had zone conference and there was some great teaching. We did an activity and it turns out that I'm the fastest kid in the entire Brazil Teresina mission, probably all of southern Brazil, I don't know. 

While we were teaching someone in their home, we saw on the news that there is oil coming up onshore. Not sure what that is all about. I hit the 3 month mark in my mission on the 17th and the next day I had my first baptism!

I baptized Maria Jose Pereda dos Santos. As I was baptizing her, her hand let go of my arm and it starting coming up. I used my hand that was on her back to push it (and her) down. There I was, pushing her down with both hands. I held her underwater for about 5 seconds, which seems like forever, and then pulled her up. So I almost killed my first baptism. Hahaha. We confirmed her in church on Sunday! It was so cool!!

  As you can see, their English is not that strong here.

It rained really hard again. Lots of lightning! I'm not sure you can see in these photos but there is a lot of rain in the entryway to our home.