This Week!

hey!
i can't believe how fast the days are going! time is seriously flying!
the pictures: the first is of me in a Catholic church! a huge church! it was really cool. its in down town Petronia. i hear that the ones in Salvador are really really old and famous. that will be cool. something that i thought was funny, while i was in the church walking around, there was a man kneeling in front of the big statue of Jesus praying, but while he was kneeling there, he pulls out his cell phone and answers a phone call. so he puts the Lord on hold and for 10 minutes he talks on the phone, on the alter.. interesting.
the second picture is one of my favorites! its in the area that my comp and i work. in Brazil there is tons of cars with huge speakers on them that drive around advertising. also motorcycles. their really annoying, because their sooo loud and interrupt our lessons all the time. but this bike is my favorite! a bicycle with huge speakers on the front and back! blasting an advertisement for some church. i thinl its amazing. i may have to do it to my bike when i get home. haha
the next picture is me eating Acarajé. its a Brazilian food that is famous in Salvador. they say the further you get from Salvador the worse it is, but this one was really good! i like it a lot! im not sure how to describe it. it was my first time having it, and its pretty famous in brazil, so i thought it was picture worthy.
the last is a picture of the two districts in Petrolina west. their all pretty cool. 5 Americans and 3 Brazilians. one of the Americans looks really Brazilian. he is from Alaska. the second from the right.
so this week was pretty cool. my camp and i found an amazing family!! a man and women and 3 kids. the oldest child is 9, then 6, then the youngest is 3. the family is really interested and we took they to church last sunday and they loved it!! so the only thing holding them back from becoming members is that the couple is not married. but this week we will find out why they are not and we will encourage them to get married. they are a perfect family and all supper happy! the ward loved them! so that helped a lot. we think they're not married because they dont want to pay for it. if that's the case we will help them out. so we will try to get the married in the next 2 weeks, even if we have to do the planning and decorating haha the family is awesome!!
the weather is getting hotter, one night i worked out and then took a cold shower and when i got out and dryed off, i was all sweaty again!! its crazy! i cant stay dry for 2 minutes! its so hot. but i like it. im glad im not somewhere cold.
this week is ward conference and my comp and i are working hard at getting investigators to go and less actives. its a lot of work but always rewarding.
this week we were visiting a family in the ward and i was watching their little 3 year old daughter play at the park and the mother is pregnant and will have her baby soon, while im still here. and the father of the family was talking to us and giving us advice and telling us he wants to go with us to help teach the family we found. and i was thinking of how blessed i am to be here right now. if not for this mission i would never get to know any of these people here in my ward and my area. the people of Brazil are so amazing and i have such an amazing opportunity to be here and get to know them and help them. its amazing. a mission is hard, very hard. but i cant call it work. i love being here! i love getting to know new people everyday that i immediately care about and want to help in any way i can. this has been the best opportunity of my life.
i really hope everyone is doing well, im doing good and loving every moment. keep in touch
com amo
Elder Cluff