Cam: Thanks for the doughnut recipe. Can you send this to Luciene's Facebook?
Mom: I did send it to her Facebook. How was this week? How is your belly?
Cam: It was fine I got the blood tests done. It was in a rich city.
Mom: Where is it at? Did you get some pictures? Do you have the results yet?
Cam: It is by Ponta Verde a GREAT BEACH! After my mission I am going to buy a house there and rent it. There is a member that does that and he makes a lot of money.
Mom: You can do that. But, first you will come home and hug your mom. What time do you skype? We were planning on just missing sacrament but can miss all of it, if you need us to.
Cam: No, you will go
Mom: Ha! O.K. Elder Jensen. Let me know what time and we will be ready and waiting. Do you want it the same way we did it last time?
Cam: Yeah, the same is great. I want Nicole to for sure be there and the Earnests too. Talk to them and tell them what time and everything. I have already told them I want them there.
Mom: I have talked with all of them but I will make sure they know the time and everything. Tell me about your week.
Cam: So the doctor was in the richest part of the mission and I went with Elder Angulo because he served there and we visited some people. It truly is a different world from Viçosa. We ate lunch with a member who has a maid that makes the food and serves us.
Mom: Are you kidding? Did you get some pictures? Who hooked you up with the member? Who is Elder Angulo?
Cam: Elder Angulo is the district leader. He knew the member from when he served there and so we arranged to visit.
Mom: Where is he from?
Cam: He is from Mexico. I just got an e-mail from the missionaries.
Mom: They are regulars at the house. They asked about you the other day and asked us if we thought you guys would get a long. I told them I love to do things for them because I feel like I hope someone is doing the same for you. It gives me a little peace.
Cam: I am sure they're thankful for that.
Mom: How was seminary? Oh, so on my birthday weekend when we are going camping with grammy, grandpa, Marti & Tracey, Earnests are taking endowments out, Kassie is taking her endowments out, and it's her farewell also on that same weekend AND the missionaries are talking... Seriously! Why all on Memorial weekend... Can you give me any advice on how to tackle this.
Cam: You need to go camping. All the others will understand. You have tried to do get a camping trip together for a long time and you committed to it and have planned it for a long time. Is school out before Memorial Day?
Mom: I thought that too but regardless what I do, I will feel bad. Yes it is out before Memorial Day. I can't ever remember not having to come back after Memorial Day. How was teaching seminary?
Cam: Seminary was good. The stake president usually teaches and it is on Saturdays but he had to be somewhere else and so he asked us to teach.
Mom: Tell me about your investigators.
Cam: We have 3 couples to marry and then baptize. Reinaldo will get married the 25th.
Mom: Holy cow! I knew Reinaldo was getting married. Have they prayed? I am glad the others are getting married. Will they commit to being baptized. At least they are taking a step in the right direction.
Cam: I think one couple will and the other I don't know. Then Lettisia... I really want to get some money from my account and pay for Valmir and Givania to get married. They are so committed already without even being baptized. They don't miss a Sunday of church and they even asked if they could pay tithing before being baptized, and etc. They're truly wanting the gospel in their lives.
Mom: If you want to do that, then follow your heart and do it. It would be nice to see them get married and baptized before you are transferred. You are 1/3 of the way done. Has it gone fast or slow for you?
Cam: FAST!
Mom: Have you thought about where you want to go to college or anything? You don't have to know yet, I was just wondering if you'd made any decisions.
Cam: I want to go to Utah State. I think I will do business but who knows?..?.. I may just live at home and go to the extension at first too?.?.?
Mom: I would be o.k. with that. The Discovery principal is having a bunch of teachers trade grades. Mrs. Henry and Mrs. Hansen applied and got a job at ACYI. I can't imagine Discovery without them. I love you and thank you for all you do. I love you more than you can imagine.
Cam: Thanks mom. I love you too, talk to you soon!!!
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The last two weeks have been good and full of work. So, here in Brazil nobody gets married they just move in together. That is a struggle for us. We have 4 couples that we are working with. There is Reinaldo and he will get married on the 25 of this month and his wife is returning to church. We have Overlum and Letissia who need to get married also. He is returning to church and she will be baptized. We are working with them to get a date marked. Then, we have Valmir and Givania who have been coming to church for the last 3 weeks. They like the church a lot but need to get married. It is expensive to get married so they said that hopefully in June they will have the money saved up to get married. Then we have Fabiana and Edinaldo, she is coming back to church and we are working with him and teaching him.
We taught seminary this week and these are the young men and young women that went.
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