Borda do Campo Week 10

So one thing that I don´t know if you know, but here in Brazil there are people that drive cars selling things with a radio yelling what they are selling to all the world. The most common are eggs, sonios (they are kind of like cream filled donuts), and popsicles; but this week we had something special which is a car yelling that the circus is in town. I don´t know how, but this car has managed to be the most annoying car in the history of my time in Brazil. So if you didn´t get the message it is pretty annoying.

Anyway, this week has been good so far. Ricardo is still progressing, and I think that it will take a little time for him to really be ready to be baptized. Also we got some great new people to teach this week. There is Natany and Mateus, who are a mother and her son. The mother was taught by the missionaries years ago, and for some reason they stopped visiting her. Recently she asked for a missionary visit, through a member that is studying with her. She is really great, and wants to learn about the church. There is also a women named Benoir (nicknamed Bell) who went to church last week with her friend who is less active, and so we talked with her one time this week. She is really investigating about the church.

Other than that, this week started the #LightTheWorld program, and we are inviting everyone to participate! It is our chance to really take on the real meaning of Christmas, and really remember Christ, and everything that he has done for us. Every day has something simple to do to help someone, and there are videos on the site mormon.org for every day of the program. This is a wonderful opportunity to do as Christ has asked us to do, and be the light of the world.

I am so grateful for everything that Christ has done for me, and for the opportunity that I have to be His representative here in Brazil, and to help spread the message about His gospel to the four corners of the earth.

I thank you all for everything that you do and I hope that we can all do a little bit more to be the light of the world.

Have a good week,

-- Élder Pettingill

I don´t have a lot of pics this week, but this is a pic of the floor plan of our house that I made. The numbers are the number of tiles that each room has. In pencil there is a bed in one that would be our bedroom. The big one in the middle is the kitchen. The one that has a smaller part connected is the bathroom, with the small part which is the shower. There is the one that is a square which is where we change usually, then there is the one which is next to the room which the hammocks which is where we study. Our house is big in comparison with other missionary houses.