OI!!!

So this week we had our Baptism Nazaré, funny story elder Judd(my district leader) did the baptism… it was cool.

So it rain some more this week. And church was a lot calmer . things are going really great here for me!

How about back at home???

So there is this young man in our ward well he is like 10 ish, he hates church but his mom makes him go. So he came up with a way to make it fun for himself. He brings 5-8 other 10 year old kids to church its really crazy because they all don’t have parents but hey I don’t have to deal with it, and we get familys to go teach out of it. Its really funny to me thou.

Tomorrow I have my monthly interview with president Richardson. So that’s cool.

So we went downtown again today because my companion leaves in a month so he wanted to go shopping, and as you know I HATE SHOPPING!! So it sucked but it was all good, because I got my bus card today.

That’s really about it!

Questions??

Araraguera, 27 Janeiro, 2009
Nice to meet you Linford’s family! In first place, I’m sorry for my English. I am still learning and trying to improve (lol).
My name is Elder Zamboni (now just brother Zamboni). Your son Steven Linford, was my last companion in the mission field and I was his first one. It was a great privilege to me to work side by side with him. He’s really good!
I want to share one specific experience with you. When Pres. Richardson came to the Brazil Mission I was with six months left in my missionary work. He asked for every missionary to greet him with a shake hand. When my turn came he said to me many things, and one of them was “I will make your six last months’ become the best of all your mission.
I remembered him about this promise in my interview before my last transfer and asked him to pray carefully about me to decide my last place and my last companion.
I need to explain that I was oftenly used as the missionary who “takes care” of “bad missionaries”. I don’t know how to explain it in English, but I cannot number how many times I got emergency transfers to stay with a “bad or rebel” missionary to take care of him. (And that was the reason that I asked Pres. Richardson pray carefully about my last companion) (lol) (lol)!!!
And the blessing is: I received Elder Linford! I really love him! He’s now a good friend to me. I explained to him that I was fisicaly (physically) tired but I would do my best to walk and teach him the best things I could.
I want to thank you for preparing and sending that great son to do the Lord’s Work. I’m aware that you have a big family. I Trust in Christ. He will do the best for us. And some day, our neighbor (even our family) will know about it. They will realize it in us.
I bear my testimony about Jesus Christ, the Lord, whom I’ve represented. He is our high Master and only Savior. The Church where we are, is his Church.
In the name of Jesus Christ, amen.
Elder Irmao Alessandro Manuel dos Santos Zamboni

Araraguera, 27 Janeiro, 2009
Nice to meet you Linford’s family! In first place, I’m sorry for my English. I am still learning and trying to improve (lol).
My name is Elder Zamboni (now just brother Zamboni). Your son Steven Linford, was my last companion in the mission field and I was his first one. It was a great privilege to me to work side by side with him. He’s really good!
I want to share one specific experience with you. When Pres. Richardson came to the Brazil Mission I was with six months left in my missionary work. He asked for every missionary to greet him with a shake hand. When my turn came he said to me many things, and one of them was “I will make your six last months’ become the best of all your mission.
I remembered him about this promise in my interview before my last transfer and asked him to pray carefully about me to decide my last place and my last companion.
I need to explain that I was oftenly used as the missionary who “takes care” of “bad missionaries”. I don’t know how to explain it in English, but I cannot number how many times I got emergency transfers to stay with a “bad or rebel” missionary to take care of him. (And that was the reason that I asked Pres. Richardson pray carefully about my last companion) (lol) (lol)!!!
And the blessing is: I received Elder Linford! I really love him! He’s now a good friend to me. I explained to him that I was fisicaly (physically) tired but I would do my best to walk and teach him the best things I could.
I want to thank you for preparing and sending that great son to do the Lord’s Work. I’m aware that you have a big family. I Trust in Christ. He will do the best for us. And some day, our neighbor (even our family) will know about it. They will realize it in us.
I bear my testimony about Jesus Christ, the Lord, whom I’ve represented. He is our high Master and only Savior. The Church where we are, is his Church.
In the name of Jesus Christ, amen.
Elder Irmao Alessandro Manuel dos Santos Zamboni

HI!
Well nothing new really happened this week, it hasn't stopped raining so thats pretty fun. the trasnfer is just about over so we're cleaning today and stuff. This was a pretty calm week just the normal stuff. teaching lessons,. people think we are stupid.
Oh and this same family thought Iraq was apart of the United States like the continental states. they are super smart down here.....
So the whole world likes to tell me when somthing horrible happens in the US, like Obama taking office, planes falling from the sky. They never say anything good.
um Ryan I'll smille if I want Iwas hungry okay!
Well theres is a chance for a baptism this week with Jonny but we will see. He was going to be baptized Sunday but his real Dad(who lives in another city) found out and was mad no one told him so put a stop to everything!
To answer a popular question yes. yes we had 5 in investigators at church for that funny Fast and Testimony metting. 1 is baptized, and 2 more will be when they are married....
Well thats about it. oh Dad pictures of me and a neighborhood will be hard, I can't really pull out my camra that offten, actually I don't carry it often. Sunday mornings are safe everyone is asleep so i'll try.
love
Elder Linford

2/23
HI!

Well nothing new really happened this week, it hasn't stopped raining so thats pretty fun. The trasnfer is just about over so we are cleaning today and stuff.

This was a pretty calm week.. just the normal stuff. Teaching lessons, oh we had someone we WERE teaching. We asked if this is everyone here, "oh yeah all here". well you wanna tell your mom we see behind that curtain to come out too. People think we are stupid.

oh and this same family thought Iraq was apart of the United States like the continental(SP) states. They are super smartdown here.....

So the whole world likes to tell me when somthing horrible happens in the US, like Obama taking office, planes falling from the sky. never say anything good.

um ryan I'll smile if I want I was hungry okay!

well theres a chance for a baptisum this week with jonny but we will see. He was going to be baptized sunday but his real Dad(who lives in another city) found out and was mad no one told him so put a stop to everything!

To answer a popular question yes yes we had 5 investigators at church for that funny f&t 1 is baptized, and 2 more will be when they are married....

well thats about it. oh dad yeah pictures of me and a neighborhood will be hard, i can't really pull out my camera that often, actually I don't carry it often. but Sunday mornings are safe everyone is asleep so I'll try.

love
Elder Linford

So it rained some more this week, and church was a lot calmer !!! Things are going really great here for me!
How about back at home???
So there is this young man in our ward well he is like 10 ish, he hates church but his mom makes him go. So he came up with a way to make it fun for himself. He brings 5-8 other 10 year old kids to church. It's really crazy because they all don’t have parents but hey I don’t have to deal with it, and we get families to go teach out of it. Its really funny to me tho.
Tomorrow I have my monthly interview with president Richardson. So that’s cool.
So we went downtown again today because my companion leaves in a month so he wanted to go shopping, and as you know I HATE SHOPPING!! So it sucked but it was all good, because I got my bus card today.

February 10, 2009
So this week we had our Baptism of Nazaré. Elder Judd(my district leader) did the baptism… it was cool.
So it rain some more this week. And church was a lot calmer. Things are going really great here for me!
How about back at home???
So there is this young man in our ward well he is like 10 ish. He hates church but his mom makes him go. So he came up with a way to make it fun for himself. He brings 5-8 other 10 year old kids to church Its really crazy because they all don’t have parents, but hey I don’t have to deal with it, and we get families to go teach out of it. It’s really funny to me.
Tomorrow I have my monthly interview with President Richardson. So that’s cool.
So we went downtown again today because my companion leaves in a month so he wanted to go shopping, and as you know I HATE SHOPPING!! So it sucked but it was all good, because I got my bus card today.
That’s really about it!

SO this week was pretty much just another week here in Basil. We worked a lot.... got rained on a lot. My shoes are still wet actually. But it was a lot of fun. We just gave up and put our umbrellas away because of the rain was so hard. We are going to have a baptism this Sunday and one next Sunday so we are pretty excited. The weather here is pretty much like Texas with its randomness. One day 95 next 72 its pretty much makes me feel like I'm at home. But Texas gets way hotter. So I really don`t have a whole lot of new news. Other then let me give you a short history of our fast and testimony meeting.

Fabao- he is mentally handicapped... sang a hymn as a testimony.

A 5 year old bore his testimony about Adam and Eve

A member of the ward said"borthers and sisters I`ve got a sin to confess, I committed adultery, with the relief society president" She then stands up calls him a nice name and liar, and he said

" no no no I committed it in my mind"

yeah that was a pretty awesome Sunday.... I`m still laughing lol.

Monday we had our interviews at the office with Presidente that was really fun. I really like president Richardson he is really cool, guy and definitely inspired that is for sure. Ummmmm I really don’t know what to write about oh actually that’s a lie. So today we went to downtown São Paulo (outside our mission) (but we got permission to go) and that was fun.

we got to go down to the black market. We bought some really cheap cool things! It was a lot of fun! Of yeah minus the fact that my Brasilian companion forgot that everwhere you go in Brasil you need your id, so when were going to go up this awesome tower... that’s like the Empire state building we couldn’t….. if he was an American it would make sense but yeah I was mad at him…. But oh welll.