Nick's Most Recent Letter

Hello family! I hope that every one is doing great and from the emails it sounds like everyone is! 

Birthday shoutouts this week first for dad today! Happy birthday dad! I Hope you have an awesome day and that the fam does something special for you! I want you to know how much I love you and the example you are to me! I don't know what I would do without your example. Thanks so much for everything you have ever done for me! I love You!! Happy birthday to Andrew as well on thursday! Hope you have an awesome day as well! Dang your getting old! haha Thank you as well for your example and for the friend you are to me! love you bro! As well happy birthday to Mike winters and Uncle Mitch! Hope you are well and know that I will be thinking of you! Have a great day! Congratulations to Lee for graduating from high school! What a stud. And as well to Padgy and Andy for graduating from college! Best of luck to you both in the real world! haha

As for the week, the week was good! To answer some of your questions, I haven't been to the temple since november. Everytime my zone is getting ready to go, I'm transferred and get to a new zone and they've already been! So it has been awhile! And since there are so many missionaries arriving in brazil these days, we don't get to go as often which is a bummer. Ricardo and Aline were at church yesterday and loved it again which was awesome! They are way awesome and such proof to me that people are really waiting to hear our message. We passed by their house on saturday and had a lesson and Ricardo's testimony is already so strong! The way he talks about the Book of Mormon is as if he has had the book for 10 years not one week! haha. He treats it with such care as well it's amazing. But he told us that he has already made plans to share the Book of Mormon with his mom and mother and law and the rest of his family. They are so awesome so keep them in your prayers that his birth certificate can get here so we can marry them! The mailing here is ridiculous so I hope we can get it soon! But they are doing way well.

We found a super awesome family this week that we have been working with. They were super comitted to going to church yesterday but then weren't there so I dont know what happened there, but we for sure will keep visiting them.

This week we have a meeting with our entire mission and I think with Sao Paulo south with Elder Anderson! So wednesday should be super awesome.  We are looking forward to it a lot! It will be fun to see everyone there. I have a few friends in the Sao Paulo South mission so that should be cool! 

That's about it for me. I don't have a ton of news but things here in brazil are going well! I know the Book of Mormon is true and know that there are so many things to learn from it! Seeing the things that Ricardo and Aline are learning by reading the book strengthens my testimony of its power everyday! Read the book each day and our lives will be blessed! Love you all and have a great week!

Love 

Elder Holmes