3 March 2014 - Estancia, Brazil

Carnival!! So is it just Carnival in Estancia, or is it a country-wide thing? I thought Carnival was a Rio thing, but maybe all the city festivals are also called Carnival? Anyway, there weren't really any comments from Elder Frogley on Dad's message, so I have nothing to summarize. So here you go.

Alright, carnival in brasil right now so everything's closed! Makes it hard to buy food, or go anywhere. Even the train is closed. But the week was chill. Our investigators are progressing and we have several baptisms marked. The problem is that it's carnival and everyone is gone. Does everyone remember perola? The crazy one? She's doing excelent. She stopped doing everything bad she use to do. She had an interview with out dl for an hour and a half (the guy talks for ever) and even he was impressed by her desire to change. She told us that she just needed someone to believe that she could change. Everyone even in her family calls her a lost cause, right to her face. Her baptism has to wait a little because of some stuff we talked to pres about, but she's verry excited. She also introduced us to her friend. Her name is flabisline and she's in a similar boat as perola. We've had several talks with her and she wants to be baptized too, she just needs a stronger testimony. But through all this experience I've learned that really anyone can be baptized. These girls have made impressive changes. With the couple that we were working with, they still need to get married. They want to alot, but they receive a pension right now and it's hard to give up. But we're working with them. Jessica is our other investigator. She traveled this week so we didn't talk to her much, but she thought we were more like salesmen trying to get her to change churches. After we explained our purpose a little better she agreed to really pray for answers. We're going to talk to her Wednesday. We started to talk to this kid and took him to church, but we think he's crazy. He's really dramatic and after church Sunday we saw him on the street and told us he didn't want to talk to us anymore cause some guy told him he'd kill him if he did. He followed us to our house to tell us that. He's nuts. But carnival is really annoying here! People have egg wars and we pass armies of kids having egg fights and flour fights on the street. It's a dirty mess. Anyway, love y'all! Send an email next week dad and Christian! Thanks for the email mom!