The Beira Zone. Brady is 2nd from the left, back row.
This week went by alright. I didn't have a great day yesterday though. People think we don’t get mad so they try to "test" us to see if we do get mad. So they yell at us, call us names, use racial comments, run into us anything they can do! So last night some guy clipped me on his bike. I know I need to be an example to people here and try to do as Christ would do but I've just about had it.

But on a happier note we have 2 people in our area with a baptism date. One, Joana will be baptized this Saturday. Also 2 of my old investigators from the Baixa (city) have baptism dates as well. Tininha will be baptized this Saturday so I'm way excited for them. We are also teaching a couple Albano and Jocinta that are doing very well and are getting their marriage papers ready and after that be baptized. (Most people here aren’t legally married) We are trying to find more inactive members and reactivate them. There are a lot of them in Manga. Missionaries here would just find a pool of water and baptize anyone who wanted to take a bath just to get a lot of baptisms. So there are a ton of inactive members here and we need to find them.

I'm excited for Thanksgiving here! On Thanksgiving day I’m killing and cooking the turkey for our district and a member from Brazil, and then on p-day we are playing football and watching a movie. I'm so glad President Packard lets us do stuff like that. I might go crazy! Another thing I was thinking about today was how fast the time is going by! I'm just about ready to hit 10 months on the mission! Time is really going by fast. Thanks for all the advice for cooking the turkey and how to gut the turkey as well. I'll let you know how it turns out! Thanks! I love you and I'm so grateful to be your son!
Thanks! Love Elder Filho