Pioneer Children never walked as much as we did this week...

Dallin has had quite a busy week since we last heard from him. To begin with, the afternoon after Dallin sent his last email, he and his companion decided to cook hamburgers and french fries- just to have a taste of American food. Dallin's companion, Elder Brown, put some oil in a pan and covered it with a lid so it would heat up. Long story short, Elder Brown forgot about the oil and they noticed smoke pouring out of the kitchen. They took the lid off of the pan and saw that the oil had caught fire! After trying many different ways of putting the fire out they finally just wrapped towels around their hands and took the pan outside so the fire could finish burning without causing any damage to the apartment- crazy!

"...Our neighbors were all staring at us and making fun of the stupid Americans who tried to burn down the apartment. Quite the experience..."

Dallin says that they have experienced a difficult past couple of weeks but God saw their struggles and blessed them because of it.

"...I was actually on divições (splits) with Elder Lima in a different area called Boa Vista... while I was gone, Elder Brown went to a noite familiar (FHE) with a family and taught two girls who accepted and want to be baptized! Then, we met back up the next day and went and visited a contact we made the other day. We taught her and her boyfriend the First Lesson and the were really enthusiastic about it and really want to be baptized..."

"...we went to another noite familiar and taught a different pesquisador (investigator) and she too was really interested and excited in our message. Yep, it was amazing. We also saw success on Sunday. We have been working with this family, R and L, who were baptized a few months ago but then Satan really went to work on them and they went inactive. Well, after months of trying to get them to come back to church, THEY FINALLY DID!!!! It was awesome and they had a great experience..."

It sounds like Dallin is doing better on his Portugues as well:

"...My Português is starting to come along. I can understand people better but I still have trouble speaking it...It is kinda difficult still at times to understand all that everyone says but I'm still working on it..."

Dallin is also enjoying the Brazilian food:

"...Brazilian food is RIDICULOUSLY salty, so sometimes its all I can do to choke down the food with some water, but its usually fairly good. They also have Tang here... basic orange, mango, guava, passion fruit, grape, pineapple, watermelon, and there are more flavors too. Yep, its awesome... The pizzas have no sauce and they also have crazy different kinds of toppings. I had a stroganoff pizza. No joke. Also, they have dessert pizzas with about a centimeter of chocolate over the cheese and fruits- they're awesome. Hot Dogs are way different too with lots of different kinds of toppings..."