The Curitiba Mission is doing great. It is amazing how busy we are. I apologize for not updating the blog but we have been very involved in the work from dawn to dusk. Here are just a few things we have done in the past "almost" three weeks: 3 Zone Conferences, 2 sets of arrivals of new missionaries, 1 set of departures, multiple baptismal interviews and baptismal services, 1 branch conference, 175 missionary interviews, 1 area leaders council meeting, 2 missionary surgeries and dozens of Dr. Bonnie calls including 2 dog bites, a lot of colds and flus, montezuma´s revenge, dinner with our district president. We have wonderful missionaries. President Araujo made sure I had two of the best for my first several weeks, Elders Homero Amato and Stevan Hewett from Sandy, Utah. They were very helpful and really on the ball. They helped us get our feet well planted here in the mission. Elder Amato was transferred to be a trainer for his last 6 weeks in the mission. It certainly was not what I wanted to do but for sure, the Lord needs new missionaries trained correctly and he is one of the best. Bonnie shed lagrimas over that one!! In the last transfer we had many spiritual experiences and there are several missionaries now who will have opportunities to serve in new ways. We traveled to the far side of our mission this past weekend. It rained all four and a half hours there and was freezing cold. Mongolia has nothing on us here. Our "quaint" hotel had no heat and we about froze. We took the district president and his wife to dinner at a unique little Churrasquaria recommended by the hotel. It turned out to be a truckstop. I wish we had arrived in the Ford pickup. The beast would have felt right at home.