Hi, Sorry we weren't able to do internet this morning, we had to get ready for a zone bbq at our house. It went really well though. We did hamburgers! They were good. Anyways, the news you've been waiting for! Elder Dunn will be leaving. He's going to T3 and I will be training again. This time I'll be training a missionary who comes from Morromeu a little village where the church somehow made it to. I'm pretty excited to be his comp. I heard he was really cool and it will be good to have a native comp again. However there is a chance that he doesn't even speak Portuguese well at all. In fact he probably doesn't speak well but oh well. It should be fun anyways. I don't really understand why I'm training again. It seems to me that there are so many other missionaries who could do a better job than I could. Oh well, it will be fun, I'm excited. I'm way happy that I stayed too. I really love my area and our branch. We will also get 2 more missionaries in our district which will be good cuz we will be able to work with the branch more. It should be a good transfer. I'm super happy. I'm super happy that I didn't leave, I wanted to do one more here and I got my wish! My 2nd filho gets here on Wednesday so I'll let you know next week how things are going. I'm glad that you had a good experience at education week and that you are enjoying reading about the history of the church. It is so true what you said about knowledge and faith. People here always say that they want more faith, but no one wants to read their scriptures or study. Then when the sun comes out, it burns the crap out of their little plant of faith and they go inactive. It's very frustrating to me. I explain to people so many times how important it is to read the scriptures and study. I tell people if they don't, they will end up going inactive for sure, and sure enough, those that are inactive never ever read or studied. But they don't do it still. uhhhg! oh well. I just have to keep trying.
I'm glad to hear that Dad's trip went well and also that my prayers are being answered. I am super grateful that they Lord is taking care of you guys. I make a special effort to thank him so much for doing that for us. It is amazing to see the many blessings the Lord has blessed us with. One of the things I have learned for sure is to always be thankful for what I have. With all the poverty here I'm so very grateful to have what I have. And one thing that I was always grateful for but now I'm more grateful than ever, is the blessing that we have to be from America. I have such a new devotion to our country. Everywhere else, not just here but even in Europe and Brazil, most people live in houses made out of cement blocks and things like that. I always thought that everyone built houses out of wood like we do but no one has a house of wood, it is absurd for people here to think of someone living in a house made of wood and sheetrock. We have anamazing education system where as here, graduating the 12th grade is like getting a bachelors back home. and most people never do graduate. Our streets are clean, people are kind, we take care of the sick and the needy, and many other things. Just hearing about Afganistan today was another testimony to me as to how blessed we are to not have to fear about being killed just because we want to have a say in who runs our country. We live in such an amazing country and I will be forever grateful for it.

This week Elder Dunn has been sick, so we weren't able to get a ton done. But oh well. I'll get a new comp and we'll get right back where we were finding members and trying to strengthen the branch. Anyways I better get going. Thanks for the letters, Always remember that I love you all and that I am always praying for you. Have a good week! Love Brady
Questions:
1. How's the weather there? How hot and humid is it?
We are in the transfer from winter to summer now so it is hot some days and cool others. It's always humid though. But we haven't had too much heat yet but here in a few weeks I'm sure it will be super hot.
2. That's amazing you had to give a talk with that short of notice. Have you done that much?
No not a ton but it happens everyonce in a while.
3. Do members there ever get the chance to go to the temple? Do you have endowed members in your branches?
Yeah, its pretty easy to go for them. The church has 2 trips a year where they rent a bus and ship everyone who wants to down. They have to pay what they can and the church pays for the rest. People just aren't willing to make the sacrifice though. We do have a few but not many who have been.
Thanks fam! love you!