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Well, It's been a good week. :)

Alma (Real name being Josias, nickname being Djy (sounds like "G"), I'm not sure really why we call him Alma...), got baptized this week. He is the one that looks like Napoleon Dynamite in that baptism suit. hahaha. We're super proud of him. He has other friends preparing to get baptized, but they aren't quite there yet. They all had the same baptism date.. but they are lacking on different places... like keeping certain commandments. Anyways, I'd just like to say we're proud of him. All of his friends went to a weekend party instead of going to his baptism or confirmation. So he went to church alone. We're working really hard to integrate him in the branch.. It's a little hard because not alot of people are his age or live near him.. Alma also quit school before we met him so... that's also a differenciating factor. But it'll all work out.

Helder and Janizia are doing well. This week we made them a box to start putting their get-out-of-debt savings in. We pasted pictures from the Liahona all over it. :) Their little 7yr old is really happy about it. She told her mom, "Wow, those sisters gave us a great idea!" Hahaha.


We took Janizia to the Relief Society birthday party this week... It would had been nice if it was something a bit more social.. It was like a 2hr long program with snacks. She had to leave early too, so she didn't even get around to the mingling part. And some of the slideshows were just scriptures.. or english videos with Portuguese subtitles.... And she can't read. :/

When we got to our area we recieved a reference of a woman named Ana who was learning with the Elders but was super flaky. Well. We teach a girl that lives on the same rooftop as she does. We went up there to teach her, and Ana was there washing her clothes. SERVICE! :) So we helped her finish up what would have taken her 30 minutes in 10! And when we went over to teach that girl, she pulled a chair right up and stayed for the whole lesson! I'm not sure if she'll continue to sit with us, but I hope something touched her heart!


Our new branch President is so funny. His wife is a short, whiter woman from Fogo. And EVERYtime he introduces us to someone, he comments about how his wife is a little woman like me. The word for that is "Picininha" or "picinote". hahah. And then he continues to comment how the Lord makes small women to be really intelligent. hahaha. He gives us a lot of less active member references too. He and his wife are super helpful.

I've started up running again. I like it alot more now than I used to. But we all now my fitness fads come and go. hahaha.

Sister Routson is sick. But she'll be better soon.
And yup... that's it!
Love you all!
Sister Buhler