Feb 15- Letter Home

Hey hey whats up?
> Well Im trying to think of the stuff that has happened this week but there hasnt been anything too exciting. I think the biggest thing going on right now is Carnival which is their biggest holiday they have here. I am hearing that the missionaries in brazil have to stay in their houses for a week it gets so bad, but im thinking it wont be that bad here. We are still working and everything, it will just be kinda hard to catch people in their houses and the streets are going to be packed with people. There were some things going on yesterday like parades and stuff but tomorrow is supposed to be their main day so we will see how it goes. Its like the maurdi grass of here.
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> Our investigators are doing alright but they are kinda progressing slowly. We came up with a brilliant idea of how we could help out our couples that are thinking about marriage. On Tuesday we gathered them all up and headed to the chapel and watched the movie charly. During the end of the film i looked back at them and they were all in tears. When the film ended it was just kinda quiet and one of the guys stood up and said "spectacular film elders". He might have just been saying that to make us think that we did a good job when in all reality they were just super depressed from it and wished they never came, but i think it got the job done. We had two couples there and both of them are in their mid 20's, and then just a few other guys that are members but it was sweet. Its kinda cool how we are able to get involved with our members so much and they are just like normal friends. One of those same guys that was at our movie came and played soccer with us at 6 in the morning and they are always inviting us to family activity and stuff. If all the investigators that played soccer with us would have the same dedication with half of our lessons, we would have a line going out of the doors of the chapel on saturday of people getting baptized. One of my old investigators from the last area was baptized yesterday though which was pretty cool. He has a fake leg on one side though cause he was in a car accident when he was young, so my last companion had some difficulties baptizing him but they got it done. He seemed to really like the part when we taught him about the ressurection and how our bodies will be restored perfectly... i think thats the part that sold him. Besides that i cant think of a whole lot that is going on with the work, its going pretty normal and we have our 2 guys that will be getting baptized in a couple weeks.
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> Well i will try to answer some questions that you guys asked... and if you really want to know more about this place you guys need to ask more questions cause there are things to tell but i always forget them when i get to internet. But so yeah valentines day is somewhat big here but not as big as home i dont think. For my valentines day i was teaching about marriage with one of those couples, hopefully it made their valentines day pretty good.