Man, oh man how the Lord blesses his missionaries! This week was AWESOME! It started off by receiving a lot of emails from all of you guys for my birthday, which was a great way to start off the week! So, thank you very much! Now I am Elder Rich 2.0, one year older and wiser too! It was an awesome birthday, that is for sure! The day wasn’t that much different from any other…we went around talking to everyone we saw, we taught a couple of investigators as planned and overall it was pretty normal until that night. The stake had a seminary activity that was super huge and they had an inflatable soccer field-bouncy-house thing, so we brought some of our investigators to the activity (so did some other missionaries). It was an awesome activity and everyone loved it! The other missionaries left a little earlier than we did, but we didn’t stay too long after them. My companion said lets go visit Adelma, one of the members of the ward, and I said alright lets go! So we left! BUT, when I got to the members house, SURPRISE!!! My district was there waiting for me with coke and a birthday cake (gluten free of course)! It was an amazing surprise and really I couldn’t thank them enough for it. It really was a great week and a great way to celebrate my 20th Birthday, and my 9 months on the mission!

I guess more on the spiritual side of things, I have really grown to love the scriptures and have been reading a LOT! It’s amazing how my love for the scriptures has grown in the past 9 months. Also, this next week we have a thing called general conference for the church. For those of you who don’t know, general conference is a time where all of the members of our church tune into a program through youtube, through a TV and through various other devices too. But, it’s a time when we get to hear from our prophet. I want to invite everyone to watch it because it truly will be very special! It’s this Saturday and Sunday! So, go to lds.org to find out how and when exactly it is because I only know the broadcast times in Brazil lol!

Have a wonderful week everyone! Thanks again for all the Birthday wishes!!! Oh e também Rich para AP 2019! Sua vota faz a diferencia!