Elder Chris Dellrie

This last week has been ridiculously busy, but way good! We've been organizing our groups of investigators, finding new ones to baptize, getting to know the members, obtaining references, contacting like crazy, and baptizing! Seriously, I've sat down for about ten minutes this whole week, ridiculously busy. But it has definitely paid off, we're getting everything down and yesterday had three baptisms! (Left to right in the photo) Bruno, this 15 year old kid that is rock solid in the gospel, he had a problem with drinking coffee, but up and quit to enter into the church, Brunielle (Bruno, Bruna, and Brunielle- all in the same family, haha), this little 12 year old girl who glares at me like I'm an idiot all the time, I spilled the sacrament water all over myself this last Sunday, but we get along way well, and this kid named Daniel, he's this 13 year old little wangster, always pretending to act hard, but he's way funny and we always make fun of eachother. They're all so legit! They all live in the bayeaux São José, the favela, the other side of the street from one another. Their baptism was so good, I had the privilege of baptizing them all. Afterwards, while I was changing clothes with Bruno and Daniel in the bathroom, I asked, "was it good??" And they were like, "No... It was awesome!" and then kept asking if they can be baptized again. Haha, they loved it. This week, we have for sure three more baptisms, but we're going to find some more. We're going to baptize everyone and their mom, literally, we're working on families. So yeah, it's good. I didn't know this, but I was promoted to Junior Assistent, so I've had some extra duties to do and more responsibilities, which has been sick! I'm learning a ton. Élder Cope is still in missionary mode, we don't talk a ton about his mission ending because he needs to stay focused, but he's way happy; we have a way good time together. I work way more with Élder Kawai though, because both of our companions are assistents and almost always gone. He speaks quite a bit of English, so we talk in English when we have stuff to say about investigators or members that we don't want them to know about, nothing bad, for the most part, haha, But he also knows a ton of American songs, so we walk the streets, just singing or rapping away. He's the man! He's the huge Brazilian who's hair I'm cutting. Did you know I could cut hair? Neither did I! I think I inherited it from you, thank you mommy! But yeah, I cut everyone's hair in the house, even mine, so we're all looking beautiful like missionaries should. Our new mission president will arrive in the first days of July, I know he's from Arizona, but I'm not sure exactly where, Shoot, well, I have to go, but I love you all and wish the best. Looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooovvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee