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August 20, 2018 from Gray

yoyo momma! so this week was honestly really really good. the highlights are that we baptized AMANDA (!!!!), I got to go back and do splits in Freguesia and see how some old friends are doing, and today we finally climbed Pico de Jaraguá and it was soooo dope. We got to feed WILD MONKEYS MOM! it was like a dream come true. lol ive got tons of videos and pics.

Im sure education week will be awesome. im not completely sure what it entails but it seems cool and like you will learnd a lot. But yeah that sucks about your team teacher. Now youll have an excuse to put a little more of the load on her later in the year. lol. That is a huge class. hopefully they will be obedient and easy to keep under control. Thats fun about noelles ward! Who all will you do education week with?? with ama and noelle??

WHAT?!?!!? im so sad that i wont be with parker. That sucks, i cant believe that there will now be 6 wards from that original prosper ward. holy moly. so im a little confused. they already have the land to build that is out near ama and pop pops house? But we will stay in our same building right, even when the new one is done?? So I cant imagine there are a ton of baptisms in our wards, so its gotta just be everyone and their mom moving out to prosper right??

How did my bathroom end up flooding?? So will you take out the sink of my room and just make the room a little bigger and then add another sink in the hall closet? or will you add another shower/bath in the hall closet too?

Ok well right now, i think im learning more than anything how to resolve problems. Im with a tougher comp but we are working through everything really well. Im also learning more and more how to be obedient and to work hard. We had another "companionship inventory" this week, but it helped a lot and its going well. Hes just a tough guy and odd sometimes but most of the time hes cool. I have had a really strong feeling lately that this experience is going to help me with my future family. so that is pretty cool. The responsibilities i have is really just to check up on the district leaders every night and then call the other companionships every once in a while. its a little exhausting. we are working so hard and getting home at 9:30 and then im not getting to bed any earlier than 10:30 like i was earlier used to. but im liking being an example and i hope im being a good missionary that people can look up to. We also give a lot of advice and teaching. People will usually call their zone leaders for this kind of stuff so that is a cool part. Im eating better than ever and loving the food a ton. I find new stuff i like almost every week. its awesome. I feel super healthy, just need a little sleep. haha. 

For this next week we are focusing on a couple that we are teaching Analíci and Célio. They are praying and looking for an answer to be baptized this next week at our stake conference. should be an awesome sunday and im hoping that President will be there to speak to everyone. 

ALSO GREATTTT NEWSSSS!! GUESS WHO IS COMING TO TALK TO OUR MISSION THIS WEEK? ELDER M. RUSSELL BALLARD AND ELDER SOARES!!! THE FIRST BRAZILIAN APOSTLE AND THE PRESIDENT OF THE 12!! ITS GONNA BE SOOOO SICK IM PUMPED. WE WILL SEE THEM ON FRIDAY AT THE CHAPEL NEAR THE TEMPLE OF SAO PAULO! 

I love you momma! sorry i asked a lot of questions i think but try to answer them. miss you like crazy!
Elder G

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