Doing well in Brazil!

March 24, 2014

This week we did an activity for the two branches in Rosário which was a dessert competition. I made a permutation of French toast for it that I dumped sugar and sweet and condensed milk on; it tasted pretty good, it was just strange. The activity turned out really well! Everyone enjoyed the yummies and everyone won a prize for something; we also related it to the gospel because the fruit of eternal life like in Lehi’s dream of the tree of life is the sweetest thing we can have and share with others. Some of our investigators were there and they brought a friend too!

Then the people that were at the activity came to church too! The friend they brought Luis said he wants to be baptized and he missed the bus to church so he walked all the way there!

I ate capybara again this week, it is actually pretty good! 

March 31, 2014

Ollo Família! :) Como vocês estão!

This week we kept working and inviting people to come to church and be baptized! I think we invited 10 people this week to set baptism as a goal!

After church Elder LaPray and I went to the branch council meeting. I did not understand very much but i think it was cool to see how they held the meeting with almost the whole branch in attendance. It is crazy the differences between how many members of the church live in Utah compared to home and then home compared to here in Brasil.

There was one guy we talked to on the street that had a bunch of questions and was excited to be talking to Americans who spoke Portuguese; we talked through practically the whole restoration and gave him a book of Mormon and talked about the plan of salvation with him.

We try and do visits to people with members in the ward which is always good too.

The meat is yummy, but sometimes I get meat stuck in my teeth until at night when I floss or brush my teeth.  There are street vendors, small shops, and big supermarkets. We normally shop at Nacional, the Brazilian version of Wal-mart because it is open during the lunch hour of 12-1.

The bread people feed us is normally dry white bread that is in the homemade style, but sometimes it is sweet like cake and every once in a while is like cornbread. One time me and another elder (Elder Rogers) made banana bread and ate it.

I finished reading the Book of Mormon in Portuguese all the way through for the first time! It was Awesome!

Com muitos sorrisos!

Elder Cory Vernon