great days, cool nights, beautiful ocean!

Hello my dear family!
Thanks Mom for taking care of the card for me! This week has been really good. We have been teaching at every opportunity, really trying to open our mouths in every place that we are in, and in turn we have the Spirit which allows us to touch the hearts and the lives of the people here. It is really a great feeling. We have a lot of new friends who really have a lot of promise. It is just so great to help people´s faith grow and watch the scales fall from their eyes so to speak. One of the new people we are teaching is our neighbor Niza. Two years ago her youngest sister died and the depression and grief has literally taken over her life. We taught her this morning about the plan of salvation and how to pray. I pray that she will really pray about the truthfulness of the things we are teaching her, because I know that she will receive a witness that it is true...because I´ve received that same witness. I really love these people here with all of my heart and could happily live here forever. The love that I feel for them is but a tiny taste of our Heavenly Father and Christ´s infinate love for each of us, and it nearly `consumes my soul`as Nephi put it(2Nefi4). I am so thankful for the blessings and the tenderness that He has given me!

Samuel...Este trabalho é completamente espectaular não é? Eu não posso exprimir o amor que eu tenho e a gratidão por um Pai bondoso que concedeu uma maneira que eu podia aprender tais lições ainda antes de ter filhos. Sei que eu será uma mãe muito melhor por causa das experiências que estou a ter agora. Espero bem que tudo esteja a correr bem contigo e acho que escreverei sempre um pouco para ti porque faz bem ao meu jeito com a língua. Antes de sair quero ser completamente portuguesa, então estou a me esforçar muito para atingir tal desafio. Espero que o meu escrever seja correto. Cristo vive e é nosso Salvador. Este eu sei sem sombra de dúvida nehuma. Eu amo o meu Redentor! Estás sempre nas minhas orações! Amo-te irmão!

Yep, so the sea is beautiful, the gospel is also beautiful in the same way because it was created by the same loving being and it´s depths are equally unsearchable. The weather is very nice and we´re partying it up here in Gaia...well, a party in a different way. Thanks for your prayers and my prayers are also with you. Oh, mom, if you haven´t sent the nylons yet, could you include some grape Koolaid? There is a member here who loves it and we are helping her through a really tough time, I´d just like to give her a little something...Thanks!!!

Love you all!

ellen