We had a pretty good week this week. Nadia was baptized finally and I confirmed her yesterday which was cool. We had 5 investigators come to church and all are continuing to progress and do very well. We got ahold of a Joseph Smith movie in portuguese and we have been using that in our teaching a lot. It is such a good movie and a great missionary tool especially for new converts. It really shows the history of the church well and shows how much the saints went through to establish the church especially Joseph Smith. It really is a great tool to be using to strengthen testimonies. Another thing I like about it is that it shows that in the US it's not an all happy problem free money filled joy land, but that it wasn't so different than it is here which is nice. After the movie people always ask if it really happened and they say they had no idea that kind of stuff even happened in the US. I just don't like people thinking I'm a pansy american who has never done any work or felt any pain in my life I guess ha ha!

Anyways everything here is going great. We just went to renew our phone contract so I got to choose a new phone which was fun. Of course they don't have anything here that is anything like what you guys have there but it was still fun to pick some phones out. We went to the Angolan embassy today to see how the process was going, they told us that their entry visas weren't done yet. This process should only take a few days but its taken 2 weeks and they still aren't done! They are going to leave in like 3 weeks and we haven't started their long term visas yet! And I just got 5 phone calls at the same time! President is in Angola and his flight was cancelled so I got a call from him, also from the travel agency telling me that his flight was canceled, so I had to rebook him again for a later flight. Then a janitor for the church called (also at the same time) telling me that he hadn't been paid and he wasn't too happy about it. We have been having alot of problems with South Africa area office lately though. They haven't given us any money forever and we are running out! They also decided to stop paying the church employees here and they don't like that much so they are coming to us for checks be we also don't have any money. I hope it all works out but right now, its looking pretty grim. Then president called me again to tell me that the flight he was now booked on wasn't on the board and he was worried that it didn't exist. So I called the agency and they said it did exist and not to worry, then she also told me that one ticket that we tried to cancel that was really expensive can't be reimbursed so we may loose a lot of money.... whew today has been ruff. Oh well, I'm learning alot still and I still like the office a lot.

This week has been pretty busy trying to get everything straightened out with the banks and South Africa. We are having a lot of problems right now and I hope that things work out. I'm doing well though, I also think I might be getting a little fat :-( I eat out every day and sit in a car all day. I just can't get a gut ha ha! I will not come home with a gut!!!!!! Well I better get going, Thanks for everything, it's great to hear all of the news about the fam. I hope you have a good week! I'll talk to you later.

Love
Elder Filho