Lots of pictures!

Thanks for the all the emails! And cool beans.  Help with missionary work is really good for feeling the spirit.  You get to feel the same spirit i feel here...or at least for a moment but it's really good "spirit food!" 

This week was really stressful and hard, but we fought hard and I survived the week!! hahaha My Companion was transferred and President said I'll love my new comp so I'm pretty excited! We tried really hard to help a lady get baptized this week (She would've been a miracle!) but she disappeared Saturday and we couldn´t get hold of her-_- but we have people who are getting ready this week.  One is Rose.  She's super golden sadly her daughter was ran over by a car and she was sad/mad at Heavenly Father and she says that everyday we come by she feel like she's getting better and feeling more and that she's going to work hard at talking with heavenly father better. But sadly she didn´t go Sunday - Arrg. It's all gonna work out in the end, though!

We´re also teaching a family that is really wanting to learn but is having a lot of difficulty fighting off opposition but this week We'll be able to be closer to them to help them be baptized sadly the husband is having a difficulty with Alcohol and when he drinks he get a little mad (he doesn't hit or anything just threatens) and so we're getting him to stop.  He drank about 3 out of 7 days last week so that's an improvement, but he's not willing to do what we ask him to to help stop, so it's hard but other then that the rest of the family is really interested in our lessons! There's a kid there that's 13 yrs old and he is really interested. Which surprises his mom a lot. So that means the spirit is helping him a lot!

Well that's about it this week I love you guys!

Elder Sharp

One of the photos is of our bishop and his family and the other is the family I was talking about.

My view from my apartment

We put something in our hair. I dont know what it is in English, but it did some cool stuff with our hair.

Some cool things I saw

Pastel with icecream and chocolate!!

I bought A&W cream soda and bought a frozen pizza for lunch - I was in heaven!

My comp ate food from his culture, too. Cuscus with feijoada! It's really good, too.

New Area

Sounds like fun!! Glad to hear it was all fun for ya'll at Chattanooga its a cool thing to travel for July 4th! HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MOM, by the way (I hadn't forgotten).  Sounds like it'll be fun!

My week went great! It was for sure a challenge. And I know why I was called to help this Elder and sadly lost a little focus this week. ARGG but we asked our bishop where he thinks we should work where there are families for us to baptize, and oh ya my comp suddenly remembers that we needed to be working in a different part that bishop had already indicated-_- but it's ok.  We're going to be doing great this week! We don't have anyone to teach yet, but on Thursday I had to go to a meeting for District Leaders argh again haha, and so I went with the other District Leader from my zone and on the way back a member called Elder McLaren (other District Leader) and said that we had to come to a Syrian friend of her´s house....So we ran there and we taught them in English....It was actually really good.  There was a spirit there that was so strong that they could feel it. They are Orthodox Christians, and they loved the idea of one true church, and since they grew up near Rome and Jerusalem they knew a lot about Christ and His life.  They walked where He walked and that seemed to help them have a lot of faith,  It was really cool to see!

I love y'all

Elder Sharp