Well, another week has passed and we´re almost in the end of June...this week passed like most weeks, without any extraordinary events. Teaching, procura...the normal things ;) But it was good. We focus a lot on finding families, and one way to identify if there is a family in a house is by the clothes that are hanging out to dry. We´re (well, at least I´m ) always on the lookout for clothes of children. But now we´re in football season here, and all the houses hang out their flags to support their teams. So it´s easy to see where are the Portuguese and where are the Brazilians. So we´ve done procura in the houses that have brazilian flags! So far its been working for us :) We found a new investigator on Saturday, a woman from Brazil, that went to church on Sunday and is already progressing. We also found other Brazilians on Sunday through the ´´flag method´´! Normally football is annoying because no one wants to talk with us during the games, but now I´m a little more appreciative of football!! Funny how simple things make a difference.

This week I´ve been reading a lot of conference talks from 2008 and 2009...these talks are so inspired! This morning I read President Uchtdorf´s talk from May 2009 (I am doing a great work and cannot come down), where he talks about the importance of focusing on the right important things, and fulfill our purpose and work. This really applies to all of us. There are so many things to do in life, so many distractions that are ´necessary´, but that remove us from our real purpose. The greatest works that we will do are in the Kingdom of God and in our family. I thought it was interesting that he said that he had no doubt that any preisthood holder would be able to give a good talk about ´´things that matter most´´, but the hardest part is aligning our actions with our knowledge and beliefs. Even as a missionary serving full-time, there are distractions that threaten to bring us down from the great work we are doing. Our calling is to invite others to come unto Christ by receiving the gospel through the ordinances of baptism and the gift of the holy ghost. Even still, at times it is easy to be distracted by other good things that we can do in the mission field, but that move us away from this great work. But when we focus on the thigns that matter most, the great work we have been called to do, all of us will move forward the Kingdom of God (and our family within it) and receive the marvelous blessings that await us. I would recommend reading the talk to all of you.