Hola!

Hey so once again it has been a pretty solid week and things are going really good!!

Our baptism we had scheduled for this week with Belen whos 10 years old went through!! It was super awesome, and she and her family were super excited!!

haha and yup you know it Fabricio the kid who was baptized last week, came teaching with us like 4 times this week ha! The kid is just a pure stud! We have helped that kid out so much because hes just living with his grandma in very poor conditions and weve helped him find a better home and stuff. His grandma smokes and not the best infuence but were working on her also! Anyways theres a man by the name of Washington who is a member and older, and him and his wife feed us every so often...but anyways Washington has been awesome to Fabricio, hes pretty much let him live at his house, and feeding him, and also buying him a lot of clothes. haha so sunday Fabricio walked in with a big smile on his face as he walked in with a suit coat that washington had got him! Fabricio has just changed so much and thats because of the Gospel! The Gospel blesses and strengthens families, and individuals because I can testify of that only being here a few weeks! And you can tell just by meeting someone by how happy they are!

So ill tell you about some of the people that were teaching. Were teaching an 18 year old kid whos Fredrico. Ill tell the long story short...We helped this kid from killing himself a week ago and he lives with this guy named Geraldo.

Geraldo is about 40 and offered to keep Fredrico because his family is all messed up, but anyways Geraldo has feed him, given him a place to sleep.

So me and Morris have taught both of these guys and found out Fredrico was baptized a while ago! But yesterday Geraldo came storming into the chruch pulled me and Morris out and he was in tears very upset. Fredrico had stollen everything from Geraldo all his money, supplies, and everything. Found out that he had been faking listening to mine and Morris lessons and had been using Geraldo. So things are crazy and feel bad for Geraldo because he had done nothing but love this kid. We told him that well always be there for him and were going to eat lunch at his house today so we can talk so that'll be good! And we have other people that were teaching but its only been a couple visits.

Santa Lucia is not the biggest place but I dont think it would be considered small. Its probably an average city. I have a couple blisters on my feet from walking ha!

Were going to have a good week though! And I cant believe you guys are coming to Brazil this week, have fun with the long flight and hope you have a great time down there! Let me know how it goes!! Is jaxon going or just you guys?

Have a great week love you guys!!

Love Elder Schenk