Thanks for the weekly emails I always enjoy hearing from you guys. This week was pretty good things are running pretty smoothly here, lots of stuff happened that I'm not sure I can remember but I'll try. We have been working really hard and with the lack of members here it is really difficult to get references, thus leading to a million hours of contacts and knocking but we're coming along and are still able to find a steady flow of lessons. Because our area is so huge and includes a bunch of towns, (big and small) we try to spread things out pretty evenly. Maria’s neighbor that we taught with her came to church on Sunday, his name is José António and he's an awesome guy. Very poor and humble like Maria. On Monday he called us and was like you guys are picking me up right and we were like for what? He said for church this coming Sunday! We were like well yeah of course. It was just funny to get a call that early in the week from someone who has such a desire to go to church. We also taught Maria’s sister, Maria José and her husband João. They can't read so we brought the Book of Mormon CD's for them to listen to. They fed us a BOATLOAD of Feijoada, (which is basically like a bunch of beans and big chunks of pig fat). This was the first time on my mission I had to pray while I was eating that the food would not project out of my mouth and onto their table. There was this one piece that was probably the size of a small chicken and took me like ten minutes to chew, but I got it down and I'm grateful for the people here and their willingness to feed us.Yesterday we had our last zone conference with President and Sister Terry and it was excellent. I'm going to miss them a lot they help the mission so much and are such great people. President Terry truly is a man of inspiration.I'm excited for this week it will be good, tonight we're going to teach English class and I'm pretty excited because the other day we went to São Pedro da cadeira and found a bunch more Brazilian investigators that are friends with the ones we already have out there.. There's a house just full of them so we watch the Restoration DVD, (I swear by the end of my mission I'll have that movie memorized..) and they thought it was interesting, a lot of investigators I didn't think had that much interest or would progress very much and doing just the opposite so I just need to use my "eyes of faith" and they say here and the Lord will help them progress. Well I better go have a great week!-Elder Lindquist
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