This last transfer has been flying by!

Oi one and all!
I can NOT believe how fast this transfer has FLOWN by!
2 more weeks left and I feel like so much has happened that it had to have been more than 4 weeks already... but that is the time warp of the mission, right?

News... President Tanner isn´t in the best of health and when we had the general authorities here last tranfer they could tell he´s doing worse.
They flew home and spoke to the First Presidency in which they prayed and decided to release him and Sister Tanner as a 2 year mission instead of a 3 year.
Which means they will be going home in June. I can´t really describe how I feel except to express that gratitude that I have to have them while I have them
And that I trust the Lord and President Monson. We always need what we don´t realize and God always knows what that is.

Right now we´re teaching a man named Francisco who I´ve decided is the exact older version replica of Preston Chadwick. Voice and everything.

This past week we had an amazing opportunity to witness the baptism of Neilson. He is incredible and the experience was too.
The best moment of teaching someone is when you look into their eyes after their baptismal service and in this case shake their hand.
The picture attached is of pretty much everyone in the branch who was there in front of the baptismal font before his baptism.
Neilson is the man behind Paulo who was previously baptized crouching down in the middle.

In one year Neilson and his wife Marcia will be able to be sealed in the temple. She has been waiting for 3 years for him to accept.
They will have an eternal family. The greatest blessing for all the little sacrifices we feel we are making.

And that is why I am serving a mission.