12 May 2014 - Clima Bom, Brazil

Guess what! Another transfer! But we don't know where, yet. There's not much to explain before we get started other than simply to say that this past Sunday was Mothers' Day here in the U.S., so (as many of you know) missionaries around the world got to call their mothers (and family as a whole). In many cases I believe the missionaries actually get to do a live video chat, which was in fact the case for Elder Frogley.

Alright! An email more for friends and Dave and Em and Jami and Jason then for Mom and Dad cause ill call you tonight at5:30. This week was weird. We started out the week pretty normaly. We were in a trio with Elder Acevedo who only had 4 days left of mission. We went to meetings, we taught lessons.On Thursday we went to the mission office for Elder Acevedos last interview with pres. It was a weird experience seeing him finish his mission. For the other Elders I ´´killed´´ i just stuck them on a bus and sent them back to Farol to pass the day with Pres. But since we live so close, i saw the whole thing step for step right up until he got in a taxi to go to the air port. It made it all feel so real. Id be lieing if i said i didnt feel a little trunky. It was sad to see him leave cause the house felt kinda empty with just me and Steven. But Saturday was back to work! We spent a lot of time durring the rest of the week letting Acevedo say goodbye to people and visiting old baptisims. Saturday we went to a members house for lunch, and it was his birthday! We didnt know. He just invited us. We got there and there was a buffet table and a canopy with tables under and stuff! We got there a littel early so it was just us and a friend of his from work. We decided to talk to her for a while while we were waiting for lunch to be ready and she was excelent. She really felt the spirit and understood the message well about the restoration. She decided that she would like to visit and know more about the church and whe promised to read and pray about the BofM. the only down side is that she doest live in my area!  :( but ill find out who her missionaries are and send them to her house. When the rest of the party guests arived there were several people from all over Maceio. We had the great opportunity to talk to all of them a little about the US and about the Church. It was great to be able to teach so many people with out walking 10 miles. After the party we ran to Cristianis house to teach a lesson. She looked like shed been having a rough day. She was sick and had been for several days. We talked to her about the Plan of Salvation which she thought was iteressting but she had something else. At the end i felt impressed to ask her how she was. She said fine, so i asked how she was spiritually, and she started to cry. She had had some problems with her boyfriend and didnt know what she wanted to do. We talked a while about what happpened and about what she could do. I marked a chapter in the Book of Mormon for her to read and she promised she would. she also promised to make it out to church. After that we RAN to a lan house to try calling home only to discover that the lan house didnt have webcams! So we went to another, still no web cams, and another, closed. So we remembered that the other elders were going to the church to try and call with the secrataries computer and a lap top. When we got there they had already finished up and the members had left. We called several people, finally found a camera in a closet at the church, and got the church computer password just 5 min after Steven had scheduled to talk to his fam! It was perfect. I also got a supprise talk in sacrament meeting durring all that hubub. Hurray! SundayCristiani kept her promise and went to church. I talked about the roll of men in the house and how as men we have the duty of helping our wifes. Not just with money but around the house. That totally goes against the national custom of Women serving men after work, but i didnt care cause its a dumb custom. I think a few guys got mad, haha! But yesterday was our transfer call too and i got transfered again! That was fast. Where to i know not but im off on a nother adventure! Thats it for now! love yall!

Elder Ian