Olá todos!
It's been a wonderful week! After a very long flight, I'm back in Brazil!! On the way here I met up with some Elders from my MTC district, it was super fun catching up with them.
The area I'm in is Imbiribeira, it's pretty far north in the mission and I'm loving it! I'm with the Zone Leaders for the time being, their names are Elder Teodoro and Elder Mondadori, and they're hilarious! They were both serving in Africa before the pandemic and they're super fun to be around. They told me that the week before I got here, President Crane told them they had a miracle coming. So they prayed for this miracle. Then they got a call from the assistants to come meet their new companion. They were shocked it was an american. Elder Mondadori said it is a miracle! A very BIG miracle. Ha ha.
There have been so many miracles already! We had a baptism on Sunday, that was a super special experience. The only people there were us, another companionship of Elders, the Bishop and Severino, the guy who was baptized. I played the piano, we had a quick testimony meeting before the baptism, and that was that haha.
When I was in the MTC I had a really good friend named Elder Marques. He is from Recife and we connected because he knew I was coming here. He told me all about the city, and all about his family, and he hoped that I would run into his family when I got here. Well, long story short, I ran into them after sacrament meeting! After talking a while I mentioned when I was at the MTC and they said they had a son there the same time as me! Their son is Elder Marques! What a small world we live in, I was so happy to meet them.
I'm so happy to be back in Brazil! I've already had the chance to run into some of the people I worked with the first time I was here. The two areas are close to each other, so I was super excited about that! I can definitely tell that I am meant to be here at this exact time. God's timing is perfect, He knows a whole lot better than we do.
Thank you for all that you all do for me, I really appreciate it! I love you all!! Have a great week!
Até mais!
Elder Larkin
