Hello Hello!

Shout out to c bear for dominating the meadow creak tourney! Thata boy!!!!!! Way to bring home the trophy!

This week was a good one for sure! I'll start out by answering some of mom's questions! Sometimes I have so much stuff to write that I forget! Hebert is already a member but has had some huge problems and left the church. But now we are helping him come back. He just has to stop smoking! This week was a little rough for him but he's still going! He went to church yesterday and stayed for all 3 hours. He said he hasn't been able to do that in 5 years! He has tried but he always has to leave to smoke. So we're making progress with him for sure! He's such a funny dude. He went to watch our baptism on Saturday too and left super excited! He's really coming around, so please keep him in your prayers! 

Mom asked why I don't use an umbrella and there are a few good reasons these days. haha.  The first is that it's always like above 100 when I leave without a cloud in the sky so I am to lazy to bring my umbrella! It's annoying to carry it around the entire day and then it doesn't rain! The other reason is literally umbrellas don't do anything with the rain here! The other day it was raining so hard and i actaully had my umbrella, but there is always wind as well, so literally it is impossible to stay dry! I was dripping wet even using the umbrella! So why bother!  That day that it was raining so hard that the road behind our house literally was a river! It was crazy and we had to cross it and there was water up to our knees! It was seriously like crossing a river! So all in all, I've given up the faith on umbrellas!

This week was awesome as well because Walmiria (apparently you spell it with a w. Who would have thought?) and Paulo Cezar were baptized! It was super awesome! They are both so amazing! The president of relief society is such a boss here. She helped out so much! The power of members is incredible! One of the first times we went there we went with this member Quinteria and literally she taught the whole lesson! It was so great because they became such good friends! On Saturday the relief society had an activity all day long at the pool and Walmiria went and loved it! She's really been integrated way well into the ward. and when she got back, we had the baptism which was super special! Always a good way to end the week! 

It's crazy how fast the time flies! Today I made 8 months!! And this is the last week of the transfer! It's so crazy!! I love you all and hope everyone is doing awesome! Have a great week!

Elder Holmes