Elder Lindquist 7/8/09

Hey how's it going all! We had a great week, well I should say an awesome week and it sounds like yours was great also. Hey dad you misunderstood my last email we didn't get 10 investigators for the week that was only in one day. We continued working hard throughout the week and by the end of the week we had 23 new investigators. It was amazing. It's awesome what you can accomplish with the help of the Lord. We broke the record and we were really excited. Elder Wheeler is a stud I love serving with him we have a lot of fun. His personality is a lot like that of Jake's, so I feel like I'm serving with Jake haha. We had our first zone conference the other day with our new mission president, President Moroni Torgan. He's a great man, and really funny too. You should read about him on Google or something he's done a lot of cool stuff for Brazil as well as for the church. He came into the church because Elder Faust baptized his great-grandmother, cool huh? Well we've continued teaching some great people and things are going really good. Elder Wheeler and I made a goal that we will have 10 baptisms by the end of August and we just ended our fast for that so I have a feeling things will continue moving forward with great leaps and bounds. The other day we were working in São pedro da cadeira until later in the day and our bus, (the last one that passed through that small town) didn't show up, so we ended up spending the night sleeping on the floor in the chapel. This was not the most comfortable night of my life but at least I wasn't bit by any fleas. We recently watched a "presidents of the church" documentary on Joseph Smith and it made me realize that one night on the floor didn't compare to the several months he spent in the jail floor so I appreciated his sacrifice more after that. I don't know when father’s day was because it's different here but happy father’s day Dad I love ya. I never remember when holidays are in America. In fact we forgot about the fourth of July the other day.. It wasn't until we saw an American food sale at a grocery store here that we remembered. Oh and yes we heard about the death of Michael Jackson all the drunks here were freaking out about that. I thought oh man uncle Kyle must be tearing up right now. Well we're in Mofra today doing a sick P-day as a district and after this we're going to go to the big convent. (I'm the only one in the district who's already been there) and next week we're doing another joint P-day as a district as well as with our zone leaders and I think we might go golfing in Torres Vedras so we're excited for next week. But yeah everything is going great here the area is exploding and Elder Wheeler speaks great (like as well as I did in my second or third transfer). So yeah have a great week everyone. Love Elder Jordão Lindquist