5/13/13

Hello!

First off, thanks for all of the bday wishes!!! Love you all!

I cant believe I am 21 too. I can drink now! just kidding haha

It was so fun talking to you guys yesterday even though I know that I will see all of you really soon!
6 weeks one transfer. I am going to Arapiraca I think. It's what I have heard will happen, but I am not 100% positive yet. We should have tons of success there, and should be an awesome last transfer. Don't have much to say today because we talked yesterday. Happy Mothers day again! 

I am getting a ton of emails for my birthday. Taylor, Dan, Hollands, Joanne and Ron, Carmine and Suzy and a bunch of others too. 

Not sure if I will do something really special this birthday because I will be transfer on my bday. Today we are going to a "tucanos" and after we will play sports with all the young men. A few are missing school to play with us because its my last week haha. Should be fun! 

This week there was a soccer game of the 2 soccer teams in Maceio. They are rivals, and I sent a picture of a CRB fan. They won, and this guy was super drunk and super happy so he ended up buying us a coke! haha he said " buy my two friends a soda" 

We were talking with some recent converts on his street. I guess he liked us! 

Hope everything is well, I am sure that you are able to see the end of the tunnel already. 

LOVE ELDER JAKE LANGLOIS

5/6/13

Hello!

Things were better this last week. My cold is gone, but my comp was sick this week. I think I passed it to him haha. Still havent gotten any packages... one day they will get here.

2 days is sufficient to visit everything that I want to show you guys.

I didnt buy a razor, just used the non electric one. The convertors here are really simple. It's just a little plastic thing. It's 10 reais about 5 dollars. Almost all of the electric appliances like computers laptops video games everything has to use these converters, so it isn't hard to find.

That's fine if we just talk on the phone. My number is 9327 7170. You remember how to call right? if not you can find out on the internet.

7:30 would be a good time. My comp is going to talk at 6. I dont promise a very good conection though. Our phone is terrible.

That's sad that BYU lost. Taylor wrote me an email! I was happy when I got it. 

This week went well. We worked a lot more than last week, and we also rededicated the area of our zone. The whole zone came together and we did a rededication. It was pretty cool, I have it written down, because I was the one that had to do it. We are fighting to get everyone working in our zone, but it's a lot harder than we thought. Unfortunately the numbers are falling rapidly in the whole mission. This is the worst that the mission did in the history. There were only 89 people baptized last month...

Funny story for you guys. Last night there was a rat in our kitchen, so I got a broom and slap shotted it. He hit the wall and died instantly. My comp said that he never wants to play broom hockey with me hahahahah.

love you guys!

LOVE ELDER JAKE LANGLOIS

4/29/13

Hello.

This week went well. We were running the entire week. I am a little sick. Just a cold, because it is raining like crazy here. We had to do 2 baptismal interviews this week, one of which ran away and we werent able to do it, and the other will only be baptized this next week. Basically traveling for nothing.
About the packages, I should know tomorrow because we have a zone leader counsel, and the visa I havent heard anything yet. I am still reminding him to keep checking in to see.
Glad to hear that byu won. Now its just two more games to the end
I got the itinerary. Looks good. Not sure what we will do during the days here in Maceio. I will show you some recent converts and maybe we can go to a beach. I will plan something fun for us to do.
I dont even want to get into that fight about lake powell. You guys can choose for me haha
I dont think I want an all sports pass. When I was there they had 2 or 3 games that we could watch for football. Its not worth the money.
We didn't have much success this week, but this next week will be much better. We will have a meeting with the zone leaders, then we will do a zone training on thursday. Time is flying by. In two weeks we talk on skype, and it will be my last transfer. Hope everything is going well at home. Miss you guys and I will see you soon.

LOVE ELDER JAKE LANGLOIS

4/22/13

hi!

This week went really well. We baptized a girl named Marilia, and here story is really funny. About a month ago we were walking on the street, and a drunk lady called us over. She asked what we do and wanted to receive a visit. We went the next day and she lives just her and her daughter. Long story short her daughter was baptized and now we are fighting to baptize her and her mom and her sister. Let's see what we can do these next few weeks.

Being a zone leader isn't that much more work. We just have to worry about everyone in the zone, and if they are baptizing or not. Sometimes there are problems and we have to travel to see what is going on. Like this week.... our district leader didn't show up for the baptismal interview and wasn't answering his phone. Usually that means there is something wrong, so we had to search for him. Nothing happened, but that is just one of the tasks that we have to do and yes, there are always difficult missionaries.

  I haven't gotten a package these days. Maybe its just sitting in the office waiting for me to get it.

We also participated in a educational fair at the church. We made a booth about the church. I will send pictures to you guys to see.

Things are going well. Just 9 weeks and I am with you guys here in Brazil!

hope you are excited!!!!

LOVE ELDER JAKE LANGLOIS

4/15/13

Hello!

My new comp is Elder Hansen. He is AWESOME! We have the same vision, and we work the same way. Should be really good these next few weeks.
I didn't get delirious or pass out and I am positive that I am not dehydrated. It was just three days of a little bit of sickness. It was biddulph that was vomiting his brains out in the middle of the favela. Its better just not to listen to his mom. President Gonzaga already told you that I was fine too. He can't lie to you....
Still haven't gotten Teresa's package. Did she send it again?
  I got a ton of emails this week, but I wont have time to respond to everyone, so sorry if i didn't respond. I read them and am grateful receiving them.

So some things that happened this week. We had a zone meeting this week, and we were talking about investigators "flakes" vs "elects." We did a training with cinamon and milk. We put powdered milk on spoons and cinamon on the others. Then we had them eat it to see how fast they could finish and touch the other wall in the room. Let's just say that the 2 people that ate the cinammon ended up barfing! Guess who they were? the APs!!! Elder jepsen from the other san jose stake, and Elder Biddulph :D hahahahah it was hilarious!

Also, we were invited to teach in another church this week. Do you believe that? We talked about Jesus Christ, the apostasy and the restoration. It went really well and they asked tons of questions. Let's see if we can convert an entire church! there were about 15 people there that night.

LOVE ELDER JAKE LANGLOIS