18 February 2013 - Aracaju Brazil

It's that time of the week again, and we are thrilled! This week apparently was Carnival in Aracaju, and I hear it's even crazier in Brazil than San Fermín was in Pamplona, so I can certainly imagine that missionary work was less effective. This week Elder Frogley also shares frustrations with Portuguese names, answering difficult questions about God and agency, and how Elder Frogley has already adjusted to the relatively high temperatures of the tropics.

Family! And Friends! Love you guys. So this last week and a half was allllll carnival... We worked very little. Only like ten lessons all week. Our investigators didnt want to follow our challenges because they wanted to sin it up durring carnival. Stupid carnival. Daniel ( the one who doesnt believe in God) just cant find time to read the book of mormon, so we told him to read just a couple verses a day, and we gave him some verses to read. It made us sad because he also cant get passed that God would let bad things happen to his childen. We understand his concern because he is a cop, but still! We still havent gotten ahold of our first investigator women. Cant remember her name. Its hard to remember names you cant pronounce. Kainin is still excited about church and were teachin him tomorrow. Hes a kid we met on our first day. His problem is hes young and to lazy to come to church. So our gay guy and possibly gay guy (who is now certainly gay, we checked with his friend), one we stopped talking to cause he started getting creepy, but the one we werent sure about is really cool, and might be willing to fight against the gayness. Hes really cool. And he really liked church. Fernandos Mom still wont let us talk to him, and shes never home for us to talk to her. Joao, hes going to be awesome. We taught him a couple days ago before he left on a trip. He was really sad that day and he said our message was right on time. Hes back now and were goig to start teaching him! So those our our investigators. we have more but those are the main. 

Life sounds good there! If it was 70 degrees here Id freeze. It was around 80 when I got out of the shower thismorning and I got goose bumps. Yea, toasty. Id appreciate some prayers for my knees. Ive been having some patelar tendon pain, and not a little, more like alot. My companion says if I tell the president he´ll probably send me home. Id really prefer to stay here. Im off to the aquarium with a newly baptised family from my companions last area. Should be fun!

Love yall!

Elder Frogley