I´m training!

Many things changed for me this week. I received a call from the President of the mission telling me that I would be transfered to a new area and training a new missionary. Tuesday I went with all the other trainers to a hotel in Porto Alegre. There were about 25 new missionaries who arrived at this hotel. They all looked super excited. The assisstants said that all of them were singing hymns during the trip from the airport to the hotel. After the new missionaries left their things in their rooms in the hotel we all left to eat a nice restaurant with the president. We spent the rest of the day listening to different trainings from the president. Towards the end there was a huge presentation showing which area that every missionary would be going to. My new area is Rio Pardo. It´s a little city called Rio Pardo. It´s part of the zone Santa Cruz. The missionary that I´m training is Elder Oliveira. He´s from Terezina, a city in the northern part of Brazil. His accent is very different from the brazilians that live here in the south. That night the new missionaries and sister trainers sleeped in the hotel while the elder trainers slept in the assisstants´ house close to the mission office. The next day we had more trainings, ate lunch with the president again, and then left to our areas. The bus took about 2 hours to arrive in Rio Pardo. On the trip to this city I looked at the cell phone of the area the assisstants had given me and tried to find if there was someone I could call that could show us where our house is and help us with our baggage. I decided to call a member called Jean. He told me that he didn´t have a car and is only 14 years old, but that he could help us get to our apartment on foot. He met us at the bus station and helped us get to our apartment. By the time we got there I was drenched in sweat because I was wearing a suit and it´s summer here in brazil. The apartment was a pig stye so we spent the rest of the night and the next morning cleaning the apartment. We began working and found tons of people to teach. We´re going to baptize like crazy here. All the people here are very receptive and want to hear our message. They are all very friendly. It feels great to have the opportunity to train a new missionary. It won´t be easy because he´s already wanting to go back home. But I won´t let him. I know that this is the best work in the world.