10/18/2010

Me and my companion... This is a part of our area of Santana

This was a suprise birthday party that a recent convert did for Elder Viana

Me and Elder Viana on a bridge in the super rich part of town

Super Nice Car Dealership! Lamborghini

Lamborghini Dealership!

Me and Elder Wilkinison. Of of the other Elders we live with. He is from Austin, TX. This was the Ferrari Dealership!

Hey Everyone!

Today was an awesome PDay. We went to this street in downtown called Jardim Cidade ( Its super super rich... on the Brazilian version of Monopoly the Blue property of Boardwalk is named Jardim Cidade!) So anyways we went there because its like an entire street of super nice car dealerships... Ferrari, Lamborghini, Porsche, Bentley, Jaguar, Mercedes, Mazzeratti, Aston Martin, and much much more! But it was solo sweet! So I sent some pictures of some sweet cars!

Then afterwards we went to the mall and we bought Pizza Hut. Which is incredibly expensive.. I spent 65 reais for one pizza! ( that is $ 38.87 ) But it was sooo good!

The work here is going great! I'll explain way better next week... I'm just in an extreme hurry today. But this week we have continued to "Put water up to our necks". At Sacrament meeting yesterday we had the bishop announce that there would be 7 baptisms this next Sunday after church, so now everyone knows. Then we didn't feel like that was enough. We needed to show more faith, so we invited the stake president to come and he is going to give a talk at the baptism. And tomorrow we are going to invite the mission president. The amazing thing is that we don't even have 7 people to be baptized yet!!! haha we have 5 people that think that they aren't ready yet. So we are needing a huge huge miracle to happen. But I know that as long as we do all we can, then Heavenly Father will bless us... He has too! If not we are completely screwed, and we are going to look sooo retarded! haha But I'm calm and know that everything is going to work out. I know that Satan will do everything he can to stop us, but we will come out winners in the end.

For everyone that is reading this. Please! I ask for your prayers. We cant do this alone, in Alma 6:6 he asked his people to pray and fast for the people he would be teaching as he left for his mission. Right now I'm asking all of you that you will include these seven children of God that will be baptized this weekend that they will have the strength and the faith to do what's right. I know that with your prayers that everything will go right! So these are the people that we are preparing to be baptized...

Rita, Lucas, Matheus, Bruna, Camila - This is one family (They think its too early and they aren't ready yet)

Luciana- 32 years old, and needs to stop drinking coffee

Dimitri- He is good to go

Lucas- His friends are saying a lot of stuff about the church, he knows its right, he just need the courage to follow his feelings.

Thanks for Everything!
Love
Elder Schoen