Pick up games in Brazil

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The most exciting news from this week is that one of our investigators from church last week committed to be baptized this sunday! Her name is Elaine. Im praying that that will all go through and she will continue to be strong. In our lesson this week we found out she drinks coffee a lot, but has a desire to stop and just needs a little time. Its awesome how motivated she is to do this, so that she can be baptized! She told us she had been reading the book of mormon on the bus to work and has really loved the effort that our church has made to make her feel welcome. our members here are awesome!

The other cool thing that happened was stake conference this sunday. The president of our mission and his wife (the Ribeiros) were there and spoke to everyone. All the members love them and they are great speakers. The spirit was so strong and I just have such a great respect for them. President asked if all the missionaries in that stake could bring up investigators if they had any to meet him afterwards. We had 4 investigators there! our investigators loved the opportunity to be able to meet him. I know President was happy with us and we talked for a while which was cool. 

Last thing is that literally everyone here just wants to play me in basketball. Some of the high schoolers came this morning and I was finally able to play a little and take my first victims😉 in a week or two ill have some harder competition cause there is a guy in our ward that wants to play me 1 on 1. But if felt good to finally get to play a little. 

Love you all and miss you so much!
Elder G

pics-
our homemade bench press, not the most comfortable on the back but it´ll do
lunch with members
my favorite is finding american stuff here😛
church with our favorite hispanic Irmao Juan (the hair is a tad short but i guess thats what i get for paying the equivalent of $3 US for my haircut lol)
ballin´






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