Things have changed a lot here. I got a new companion this week. His name is Elder Sutto. He is a brazilian from São Paulo. He has about a year and a half in the field so he is my senior companion. Its kind of crazy though because my last companion, Elder Andrade is still living in the same house as me. He is training a new American in the same area - Duque de Caxias. So that means we have 4 missionaries for one ward. Also we are the only ward in Rio de Janeiro that has more than 2 missionaries now. Strange right? Last week Elder Andrade and I had a lot of success with the open house of the church. We had over 200 people leave there addresses and we taught people inside the church after a tour. It was really a miracle because every single person we taught inside the church accepted our invite to be baptized. We marked 25 baptismal dates last week alone. So as you can imagine its impossible for just the two of us to visit all these people that have baptismal dates and really prepare them to be baptized. So our mission president gave us 2 more missionaries to serve with us. Its definitely different because we havent divided the area yet. Also having 4 missionaries under one roof is quite different. We had a baptism this past Sunday too. I am hoping that we can continue the success that we are having for the next couple weeks at least. Every week so far this month we have had a baptism! I have learned a lot and have really been spiritually strengthened.

 A couple of random things to share. I havent played sports a single day yet here in Rio, not even on p days. We have a rule where you cant play soccer in our mission, and nobody likes to play any other sport than soccer so yeah. Also its a lot different because we only have 1 meal a day - lunch, and its always rice and beans. We also walk everywhere we go whereas in the US you drive or ride a bike.

Both pairs of my shoes are completely smooth on the bottom from walking so much. So when its rainy and the ground is slick, i have a good chance of falling. Last week i fell in the mud and had mud all over my clothes. Yesterday i fell once in a ditch, and once on the side walk. My companion nearly died from laughing so hard. Oh also yesterday night it was raining so hard when we were walking from one members house to another to teach their non member family members. It just so happened to rain like it has never rained before. The roads we were walking on too werent normal roads. They were just paths of dirt. There is also no draining system on any of the roads too so all the water just piles up and literally rivers form and flood the houses. So last night when it was just pouring, we were stuck in the rain for about half an hour walking through small rivers of water that were half way up our calves. Im pretty sure my shoes are completely ruined now haha. But when we finally arrived at the members house, it had looked like we had both taken baths with our clothes on! No joke!