November 28, 2011- The Big Burger

Hey everyone!!

This week went really well out here in Brusque. One of my favorite investigators, Adilson, came to church for the first time yesterday and loved it so that was really cool. Unfortunately he´s not yet married so we have to get his marriage papers started if he decides that he wants to stay with his girlfriend. We also had a really good English class this last week. I took the students (20 and 30 year olds) on a tour of the church and when we got to the baptismal font they just started throwing out tons of questions. We talked for about an hour and it went really well, they all have Book of Mormons to read, too. Also we had a member in the ward go on a split with us this week and after we went to our appointments he took us to this Hamburger place where they sell ´Big Burgers´. It´s a Hamburger that´s about the size of your kitchen table, seriously, it´s HUGE. It´s the most American-like hamburger place out here, too and the burger was super good! HOpe you all had a great Thanksgiving and have a great start to the holiday season!!! Give the little ones some loves for me!!!

Love,

Elder Michael J. Neilson


December 5, 2011- The Gospel is for All

Hey everyone!!

So this week went really well!  We were doing some tracting this week but Elder Emerson and I almost tracted the entire city last transfer so we have to either walk really far away to find new streets or go tracting in the super ritzy neighborhoods.  We elected to go to the rich people.  The first 2 mansions we went to accepted us and we actually taught one of them about the Restoration and gave them a Book of Mormon so that was really cool.  Also we have this lady named Rosane who is super excited about the gospel right now.  She is about 20 years old, has a 2 year old daughter, is pregnant and giving birth in January and just broke up with the father of her 2 kids, so needless to say she was pretty excited when we started teaching her.  The relief society Pres. gave her a ride to church yesterday and Rosane loved it! She was crying because she said tht she felt so good and she asked the RS Pres if she should get baptized…she’s so solid!  She may get baptized this upcoming Sunday so we will see.  We have transfers coming up next week so this could be my last week here in Brusque but who knows.  Things are going well tho and hope everything is great back home!!! Give the little ones some loves for me!!!!!

Love,

Elder Michael J. Neilson