Well, one more week flew by! It honestly seems that every week passes by faster and faster...I need more TIME!! But this week was a good one.

An update on the flea situation :P - we got rid of them this last week washing and ´´bio-killing´´ everything in our house. Then my poor companion got 4 more bites during one day this week. But we don´t know if it is the same bugs or others...but we´ve gone a few days without anymore bites, so we´re hoping that´s a good sign!

Lately we´ve been finding and teaching lots of families, which is new for me and has been really fun. I love how kids are so willing to listen and learn, and they recognize the truth so easily. And they are actually excited to go to church!!! Yesterday we about doubled the size of our primary with the kids that we brought to church :) They´re really funny and so cute. We had a lesson about OLA (oração, leitura, assistir igreja) and we used mini glowsticks that my comp brought from the states. They don´t have them here, and the kids LOVED them! It´s so fun to teach families :D

The mission leads to lots of moments that you just have to laugh. Have I already mentioned that they have a LOT of dogs here? Yesterday we were walking and tracting on a road that had vivendas (stand alone houses instead of apartment buildings that are more common). There was a dog in the road in front of us, but I didn´t think much about it. My comp is REALLY scared of dogs, so she was a little reluctant to walk by. Suddenly we´re surrounded on both sides of the road by HUGE dogs that are in the yards of the houses on either side (like, St Bernard huge- like a pony!). There are about 5 dogs barking like crazy and growling at us, with one loose in the road! My comp ran away a little, so I found myself alone in the middle of all the dogs! We had to pass through to keep going in the road, so I went back to my comp and pushed\pulled her through the dogs to keep going, and the dog in the road was following and growling at us...finally I got him to leave us alone, but it was soo annoying! I never loved dogs but the mission has sealed a solid hate of dogs in my soul!!

The other day we were walking to an appointment when the heavens opened and we got sooo soaked. We had umbrellas, but with wind and literally rivers of water in the road, it doesn´t help much! When we got to the house, I was wringing out my skirt in the doorway before going in...we stayed wet the whole day, but thankfully eventually the sun came out :)

One of the challenges of the mish (and life!) is learning to be led by the spirit to know what and where to do and go. We had one neat experience this week that really showed how the Lord guides His work. A few months ago the primary had its presentation, and I played the piano. We had a practice on saturday, so we were in the chapel. My comp invited some kids from the street to come watch the practice, and they liked it. We saw the kids a few days later in the street with an adult and talked to them briefly, but didn´t get their contact info, and never saw them again. A couple weeks ago I contacted a woman in the street that was going to buy compras, that said we could pass by her house another day. We passed by a few times, but no one was ever home. This last week while on the way to another appointment that passed by the house, I felt that we should try again. We knocked, and one of the daughters was home and talked to us, and told us that the two younger kids had already gone to our church once and always talked about the church when they passed the chapel- it was the same family that we had seen that one time! We went back the next day and met some other members of the family, and they went to church yesterday with us. It was just so cool to see how we were guided to find this one family- what is the chance that we would contact the mom of these kids in the street and find them again? It´s always neat when things like that happen.