CARNIVAL!!!

Alrighty this week was not my favorite but we still tried our best! We had zone conference this week which was super fun. They talked a lot about teaching about the Restoration because its getting close to 200 YEARS since the 1st vision! One of my favorite things to teach is when Joseph Smith saw Christ and God, the spirit is always there and always testifies of this powerful moment in history. This week didn't have as much success as I would have liked but we still managed to mark a date of baptism with 2 of our investigators for this Sunday!

Carnival, for those who don't know, is a super crazy party here in Brazil that basically goes all week so it makes it super hard to work and super dangerous but its all good here. We have changed our schedule to working in the morning from 8:30-4:00 instead of the usual 10:30-9 which has made it pretty hard this week. But a fun experience I had this week was on Friday where we were almost caught in the middle of Carnival! We were trying to go teach an investigator but as we were walking we started to hear music and we realized it was coming from where we were trying to go. It was early so we tried to just go around it and we would teach really quickly before going back. But as we got closer we realized that the party going down was on the same street as our investigator so we had to go the long way around and when we finally got to her house she was going to Carnival! But by the time we started to go back the party had grown even bigger so we couldn't go back the way we came and had to walk a back route. We made it back avoiding most of Carnival until some drunks stopped us and started asking if we were Mormons, we explained briefly then booked it for our apartment. Fun experience, I hope it doesn't happen again.

Amo vocês muito e espero que vocês sejam muito bom! Vou continuar orando por cada um de vocês! (I love you so much and I hope you are very good! I will continue to pray for each of you!)

-Elder Pettingill

Pictures are from zone conference last week: