Elder Benjamin S. Smith

We had another transfer this week! I am serving with Elder Valente now and he's a legend 😎 Also we saw baby monkies! They were jumping over each other back and forth and it was pretty amazing. We have been helping someone stop smoking. Which is a hard change to make. But we have been talking with him every day to help him out. He wasn't answering his phone Sunday morning so we were disappointed that he wouldn't make it to church but then he walked right in! I was very excited about it. Afterwards he was able to meet some more members that can support him with the difficult challenge of overcoming an addiction. Elder Smith

The past two weeks had a few fun adventures. First, we went to Rio to do some immigration paperwork and I got to talk with my first Brazilian companion Elder Mercês again! After that we had Zone Conference at the Rio temple. This was the last Conference with President and Sister Gunça and it was powerful. It was a neat experience for me because its generally challenging for me to understand President Gunça's Portuguese but while he was talking with us at Zone Conference I could understand as if he was a speaking English. During Zone Conference it waa announced that I would be transferred! So I went from the Água Branca Ward with Elder Costa to the Curicica ward with Elder Cardoso. It's fun to serve with Elder Cardoso because he was originally called to serve in England and so I get to help teach him Portuguese :D We had many spiritually filled and spirit lead lessons this week and an incredible fast and testimony meeting yesterday. One sister who had given us lunch during the w...