It really is crazy that another week has gone by, the time is flying for me! Everything here is going great! My new filho is awesome!!!! His name is Elder Chimica He's a super good missionary and I'm sure we will have a good transfer together. I'm super excited to work with him. He really is a great guy. He is a very simple person and very easy to teach. It was kinda funny when we sat down today to start internet, he just kinda looked at me and asked for help cuz he's never used a computer to get into email before. So I've been helping him write president and stuff and he's just super easy to teach and willing to learn.

This week was pretty good. Everything in our area is going good and our branch as well. We are still giving most of our attention to reactivating members, however we do also have some investigators that are progressing. We have one of our families that are just about ready to be baptized. Paito's (who I baptized when I first got here) family is doing great. We are going to give them a date this week I think. His father passed away and the thing that really got his mom and his 2 sisters into the gospel was temples and being sealed together with their father. I'm super excited to see them all get baptized!

We taught one lesson yesterday that was really cool. We were teaching a lady that lives with one of the members that we reactivated. She's from another church but said she wanted to be taught. She is such a smart lady and she knows the Bible super well! It was really cool, we talked about prophets and how they could talk to God face to face like Moses did in Numbers, Then she said "wow we talked about that in my church today!" Then her pastor called her and she told him that she was sitting with the missionaries. He quickly asked what we were teaching and she said "They are talking about Numbers and how Moses talked with God just like we did in chuch today!" Then he "oked" us to be there I guess cuz I though he was going to tell her to send us away but she didn't. Then we talked about the Book of Mormon. Her eyes got big and she said that that day she had read a scripture that talked about how there are other prophecies and acts of Christ that aren't written in the Bible and that she was wondering where they were written. She was really excited and kept saying "you brought me the answer to my question!!!" It was really cool how the spirit helps us with little things like that. Kowing just what to say and when to say it.

I also got that package this week THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!! The M&M's are awesome and the Oreos too!!! Thanks so much! I'm super glad to hear that Kaylee and Tyler are doing well also. I'm glad that Tyler took my advice, I still pray for him every night and Kaylee too. I'm super glad to see that the Lord is answering my prayers. Anyways I better go, thanks for everything! Oh and will you do me a favor? Will you call Gma Platt and just tell her that I love her? Thanks. Have a good week!

Love Brady

Questions:
1. What language does your new comp speak? Does he speak Portuguese well? Did you learn some of his native language when you were in Beira? Are you going to try to learn some of his language?
He speaks portuguese without any problems. He's a smart guy. He speaks Massena which i learned a little bit but not much. But yeah we have no problems teaching or talking.
2. It will be awesome to have more Elders in your branch! Did they move in your house? How many Elders in your house now? Are you crowded?
Yeah we have 6 in our house now!!!! Very crowded, and there is never hot water.
3. How's things in your branch? How is your branch compared to other branches in Mozambique?
Really well actually. Our branch has the best retention rate in the mission.... however it's still really bad, just a little better than the other ones ha ha!