Looking forward to conference

Hey! Hope everyone is doing well! This week was alright but not a

whole lot of progress, our most promising investigators canceled all

the lessons, not quite sure why. But we just need to keep moving on.

The 13 year old kid that was baptized last week brought a friend to

church yesterday so that was good! We will try and teach her this

week. And we talked to a few less actives that said they have some

references to so we will see what comes of that. I have the last

session of training tomorrow so it will be cool to see my group from

the CTM again. Yeah it is crazy that it has already been 5 months.

Doesn´t seem like it at all. Time goes really fast usually, it scares

me at times that I will wake up in a week and be 50 years old or

something. haha

It is definitely a whole different world here in terms of wealth. Luckily

you don´t often see people going hungry, at least not here in Rio. It

is more just seeing people with a lot less, but it is inspiring to see

them make the best of things. Especially in the Favelas, but we really

don´t enter into them a lot. I’m glad to hear that people are really

getting involved in the government there. Nothing will ever change

unless we have a desire for it to change, and let that desire become

action. It depends of the day, but yes we usually do a lot of walking

from lunch to different lessons throughout the day. And I can almost

say anything I want to and my comp will understand. Sometimes I just

need to be creative with how I explain things. The language is coming

along great, I’m not perfect by any means but it is coming. Its great to

have two American elders to talk to and stuff. Most of the houses in

the misson are just 2 missionaries, so I’m glad to have 4. Christ the

Redeemer is about 40 or 50 minutes away by bus. If it is a really

clear day I can usually see a little from where we live. Unfortunately

I can’t go on Pday because it is not in our area, and we can’t leave our

area even on Pday.

Well I am really excited for conference here in 2 weeks. I have been

told that almost every investigator that goes to conference becomes

baptized. You can trust the Prophet. haha Hope everyone is doing well.

I send my love and Prayers. Elder Connor Ottosen