...and a happy new year!

Well if there's one thing that Brazilians like it's an excuse to throw a big party. 

New year's eve was a riot. We went to bed on time and I managed to fall asleep even with the music and some scattered fireworks. My rest was intorrupted after a short hour and a half when midnight comenced a series of fireworks throughout the city. Since we couldn't sleep to well anyways we poked our heads out the door and watched from in front of our house as several neighbors in our street shot off fireworks and in other nearby neighborhoods we could see big rockets going off. It was quite the sight.

The Ward Works

I'm serving now in a ward that is doing a GREAT job in missionary work. A mother and son that we're teaching are being baptized (one this week and the other last week) and the ward is welcoming them very well. We brought members to their house this week before the mom's baptism and this week they took charge. At church on sunday we went up to one family to see if they could do a family home evening to meet this family which they were glad to do. Another ward member overheard the idea and said "Hey elders, wednesday night is at my house" after which a few other members coordinated to have pizza with the recent convert on thursday. It was such a relief to have a ward that not only did we not have to PLEAD for them to help but actually JUMPED on the chance by their own to integrate the new members.

The Zone Works

We have excelent missionaries in our Zone. We had several miracles that happened this week when we went to do baptismal interviews and when we got their took the chance to interview other people who before weren't going to be baptized that weekend and after being interviewed decided to be baptized that very weekend, some even that very day!! There was another instance of a woman that had already been taught but then avoided the missionaries for a time and then showed up on her own at church wanting to be baptized. She was interviewed during sunday school and after the meetings was baptized! It was cool to see how we were blessed

The Freezer Doesn't work

So we have been sort of negligent in terms of taking care of our freezer in the fridge. It started to get some ice buildup and once it started to remind us of something out of the movie Titantic we finally got around to cleaning it out haha #missionarylife

Chase after your dreams this new year!!

Até mais,

Elder Della-Piana

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