This week was a pretty good week. That's crazy to hear about what happened to Tyler but it's good to hear that he's getting better. It was kinda funny that mom told me everyone was healthy and then a few hours latter that happened. But I'm glad to hear that he is doing better and that he had a good attitude about all of it. I haven't had any pain like that but if I do I'll be sure to buy myself a plane ticket to South Africa. I'm not having anyone cut me open here! The doctors here aren't very good at all. Pretty much they only know how to treat external wounds and malaria. Anything else they will send you to the witch doctors. NO JOKE they send a ton of people to them all the time!!! We have members ask us if its ok to go to them. They are weird people too, you can tell that there is something wrong with them. It was alot worse in Beira but it still exists here. That's great to hear that things are going well in primary. I sat in on primary here and I'm happy to say that it works a heck of a lot better here than it did in Manga. It's weird being in a strong branch but I kinda like it!

This week in teaching we had an alright week. Our area is really cool, I like it alot. We have alot of people progressing and everyone is really smart. It's just hard to get them to come to church but I've already been through this in the city in Biera so I'm kind of use to it. The people who are progressing are doing really well. We have 3 baptism dates and we are way excited! It will be cool to have the secs baptize someone! It hasn't happened in so long but because we inherited the area from someone we can baptize them! We have some really good people here. There is one family that i really like to teach. Everyone in the family is a member except the mom. The mom was born in Russia and is super smart. she speaks like 5 languages and is a really nice lady. She didn't sit with us so i asked her daughter why she didn't sit with us. She said that she use to sit with the missionaries a long time ago but she has her own "ideas" about things and the missionaries got frustrated teaching her. So it seems that she got the idea that the missionaries were getting frustrated so she stopped sitting with them. The family has been trying to get her to come to chruch for a long time now but she said they just cant get her to come. She is a super nice lady and greets us when we come and even feeds us. So i went and talked to her before we left and asked her if she would sit with us next time and she said that she would. I'm really excited to see where it goes. If she has alot of questions and things, I think I'll call President Packard and have him come and sit with her. Either way I think we can get her to come to church.

Anyways i better go but I hope that everything is going well for everyone. Glad to hear people got my cards finaly. When I got here they were still sitting in the office. I had to send them myself but that's great to hear that everyone got them. I hope tyler gets feeling better and that buisness keeps going well. Thanks for everything. I love you and I'm grateful to be your son.
Elder Filho

Here's the questions for this week:
1. How many missionaries are there in the mission now? How many members in Mozambique? How many branches?
There are about 85 now. When I got here there was just under 60. Members I'm not sure, branches there are 14.
2. How's Tanha and Nelsia? Are you teaching others? Are you working with inactives or are there many there?
We stopped teaching them, they won't come to church and we are too busy now to keep trying to get them to come. I'm sure there are alot of inactives but we don't do alot with them, I'm sure that other missionaries do though.
3. Is it dangerous for the crooked policemen to have a copy of your license. That kinda worries me. What would they do with it?
No not really. They can't even use a credit card here so it wouldn't be of any use to them. Even the real one wouldn't do them any good. One missionary got pick pocketed and found his wallet later, they didn't even take his credit card or drivers licence just the money because they don't know how to use it and couldn't even if they did.
4. What do you do for P-days in the city?
Well we drive people around all day. Usually we play soccer or something, do email, buy our stuff and then work the rest of the night while we finish our email.