So now it's no secret... I no longer speak engish... But at least I can still type it!
We spent Christmas at Salete and Marcelo's house. President let us stay up until 11pm! woah there. Pretty late for a missionary! Here in Brazil everyone stays up until midnight and we open all the presents, party and then go to bed. haha. Much better right?
We did the thing where everyone picks a name to buy a present for someone in the family. I got Elder Caetano... You can bet it was pretty hard to do it without him knowing. In the end I convinced him that the scripture cases were for me, even though I already had some. I think he was still suprised when he got them on christmas. haha.
Christmas eve was also very special because we had the wedding of Geraldino and Fernanda! It was great. Elder Caetano was so excited to go to their farmhouse afterwards. He kept saying "this is the good life" when we were there, and after we got back he proudly told me like three times (pointing to his shoes ) "today these shoes stepped on the farm"!
The baptism was, as we say here, uma correria! The school were we normally baptize was closed, so we had planned to do it in a resevoir. When our investigators got there, they told us the resevoir was contaminated and you might glow in the dark if you get baptized there from all the chemicals.
We were all decided that we would drive an hour to do the baptism in Uberlândia, when Geraldino told us there was a river on his cousins farm where we could do it. Geraldino's dream to be baptized in a river was realized. haha.
After taking two carfulls of members and investigators through some tough off-roading, crossing a stream and almost getting our other investigator's car stuck, we got to the river. His cousin and his family where washing the truck, and I thought maybe Geraldino would be a little embarrassed to show up in his white jumpsuit. But he was the first to go up and say "today we're having a baptism!" haha.
I know the more we sacrificed to make the baptism happen, the better we felt afterwards. It was a miracle.
Love you all!
Elder Wallace
Fernanda's Family's farm!
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