1st Week of Training!

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Well I recieved my new son here on the mish last tuesday! His name is Elder Jairo. He is from Fortaleza, Ceará and only was baptized in the church less than 4 years ago. He is the only member in his whole family and I have such respect for him because of that and his decision to serve a mission. We ate lunch at President Ribeiro's apartment afterwards. Chiquesãoooooo! it was a sick apartment in a high rise in São Paulo. It was a pretty crazy experience and amazing lunch as i watched the Range Rovers roll by 22 floors below.😀

We found an awesome kid in the street this week named Gabriel! He came to church with us and we literally lost him. The ward here took him in (especially the teens) and they had an awesome time already building friendships. He loved church and we will be working with him this week to try and set a baptismal date. The other girl we are working with is a girlfriend of a member. She is suiper awesome and already has a desire to be baptized!

Well this week as Elder Jairo experienced the first week of his mission, through him I was able to have some flashbacks to the beginning of my mission and some of the same things that I probably said. The funniest ones were probably after lunch when he said "that member was trying to kill me! She just kept saying 'come mais Elder!' (eat more)" hahah and the second one when one night he just looked at me while we were walking and said "Wow, I'm really not gonna kiss a girl for 2 years..." hahaha i was dying.

Then also yesterday was the Paulista Championship for all the professional teams here in the State of São Paulo. We were out on the street near the favela and all the sudden a noise erupts in the favela and fireworks start going off. I just start hearing "Vai Corinthiansssssss!!" These people truly are crazy about their soccer. 

Love you all! 
Elder G

pics- last day with my old comp took advantage to make fun of him for his woman shampoo that he bought
zone pic (i stay on the outsides...)
sunset
Elder Jairo!

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