5/31

Hello! This week was pretty awesome, we had another baptism. Thats right, weve had a baptism every weekend since I got here. Even though its Brazil, thats still not normal, its been a miracle. The Lord has blessed us with great success! Sister Tiburcio was telling me and my other american comp that we have great power, and strong testimonies. We dont believe her, because we are both frustrated with the langauge. When we did stats, and saw weve had 4 baptisms this month, Sister Tiburcio yelled, if you dont believe me, at least believe in the numbers! I didnt completely understand what she was talking about, we have a lot of those communication barriers, and I yelled back at her, I believe in Jesus Christ and nothing else!! Haha, we laughed. Oh man, its been really awesome though. However, I was sick this week. Just a cold, but still no fun. It was really bad on Sunday, and we had incestigators to find and bring to church. We wlked up and down some ridiculously steep hills, like...ridiculous. I thought I was going to die. And it turns out non of the investigators were there/ wanted to come. It was a little devastating, and we showed up to church empty handed. Here is where the miracle comes in: we had 8 investigators at church. EIGHT! OITO! Why? because our members are amazing and bring their friends/family. Its crazy how the Lord works sometimes, we climbed mountains thinking we had no success that day, but we were blessed! (Holy cow...I sound like a missionary. Thats...really weird.)
In other great news, we got our shower fixed and have hot water. Well...we had hot water. Because a week later it broke. and then the shower knob broke, when the shower was on. So everytime we want any water, we have to turn on this big knob, and the shower runs, and then we tuen all the water off. its kind of annoying, but hopefully well find someone to fix it this week. And then well try to get the hot water back again.
Its been really sunny this week, and hot, but I havent burned yet. Its back to rain today, which I love, but the people here complain its too cold. Its like 85 and breezy, I love it. But when the sun comes out...not so much. And its only winter! I dont even want to know what it will be like in November here. But thats okay, thats not for a while. Im at 7 months on my mission! Isnt that crazy? Its crazy to me.
Everything is going great here. I love you all a lot! Thank you for all you do!
Love
Sister Pratt