9-09-08

Elder Jason Allred
Brazil São Paulo South Mission
Rua Dr Luiz da Richa Miranda, 159
8 Andar, Parque Jabaquara
04344-010 - São Paulo - SP
Brazil

Subject: Wow, that water was cooooooooooooold!

Hello Everybody!

Yeah!

Rodolfo was baptized and confirmed! His wife, Shirley really felt the spirit at the baptismal meeting. I´m sure that it won´t be long until she realizes that she to needs to be baptized. And their daughter Sarah is just waiting for her mom. Guess what! Sarah is 11 years-old - just like another Sarah I know! :)

(Wow, this keyboard is really weird to use)

On Saturday, we participated in the Church's nation-wide service project "Mãos que Ajudam" (Hands that Help). Throughout all of Brazil, the Church spent Saturday renovating public schools. We were lucky. The Church chose one of the public schools in our area. Over 500 people from the two stakes here in São Vicente came to help. Most of the work was repainting, cleaning and fixing desks, fixing and replacing doors, rewiring the fans and the lights, and stuff like that. My companion and I got a cool job. We got to drill into the side of the school to put up metal grates on the windows to block the rocks that kids throw. It was only a one-day project, but we got a lot done. Actually, President only let us help for 5 hours. He said that there were more important things to be doing. :) So we got there at 6:30 in the morning and worked until lunch. Most of the other missionaries in the two zones live on the island and had to wake up a lot earlier to get a bus. We only had to wake up at 6am because it´s only a 5 minute run from our house. We´re hoping that the parents of the students that study there get a little more curious about the Church because of the project. Many teachers were crying out of thankfulness because they had lost desire to continue working in that broken-down school, but now they have a renewed hope.

I finally mailed the letters I wrote a few weeks ago.

Fabrício (who was baptized 3 weeks ago along with his wike) got his first calling on Sunday. He was set apart as the assistant secretary in the Elders Quorum. He and Sérgio (a recent convert from last transfer) got the Aaronic Priesthood the week before.

Elder C. Pereira got a little sick on Sunday. He threw up a few times. I had to call Sister Richardson for him because she´s still learning Portuguese. It was really hard to try to talk in English. Typing is easier. Anyway, he´s better now. We´re pretty sure it was the leftovers from lunch that he ate.


Everthing´s great!
Goodbye for now!
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Élder Jason Morgan Allred