Week 16

Alright Family!!!!

Well this week.... not a whole lot . we actually spent most of the week in joinville because we had a zone conference then the next day we had interviews with the president.. so i actually wasnt in my area very much this week. but we were still able to do some good..

my interview was awesome! i have been a little un easy about my president before the interview. unfortunetally my first day in the area one of the elders in the office tried to give me the scoop on every thing about the mission. lets just say it wasnt all good. so he had me worried a little. but my interview went great! president is a very busy guy but he loves every one of his missionaries! and the best part was i think i understood about maybe 70 percent of what he said. so thats an improvment for me.

um ohh before i forget again!!!! mom and brittney and jamie i have received your packages! thank you so much for everything in them! nothing makes you feel better then getting a huge box of american stuff!!!

So we have 2 investigators marked for baptism this saturday!! coolest part...... We get to have the baptism in the ocean!!!!!! i dont know if i get to actually do the baptism but atleast a witness so i get to go in the water!!! um so these investigators are deffinetally a blessing. they kinda just fell out of the sky! they had been taught all the lessons but they work at a bar so they had some problems with some things. and they werent married.. just like every body here in brasil!!!!!grrrrrrr. but one day i hear there getting married. so a couple days after we go over to there house and they asked ok... um ... when can we be baptized..... are you kidding me!!!! um how about in a week... well okay two weeks becuase this week is carnival.... lets just say they were a little busy working at the bar this week. but ya im so excited. oh the best part is because they were progressing any more the missionaries had stopped visitng them. i didnt really even know about them. so even though the missonaries werent working with them anymore they were still working by themselves and they fixed all there difficulties that they had.. so we really didnt have to do anything. they were just ready to go.... what a blessing!!

so ya carnival this week. lets just say a little crazy. it actually hasnt been to bad. just really loud at nights and alot of people here in the little town of itapoá but its kind of a cool experience!!

but ya thats about it for this week.
i love you All!!!!

Love Elder Ruesch