Sept. 17,2008

Hey! How are things going? its like things are going well. and i super excited to hear more about BYU and Dallas. you need to give me more details. but with dallas it looks like our defense needs some work if the Eagles are scoring that much on us. i dont doubt that the offense is awesome like it has bee lately. but Defense is what is going to do us good in the playoffs. we need that. and you have got to let me know who they drafted this past year. and why is ben working on the computer. did somethings happen to it? and well the baptisms were awesome of course. it was a good day, it was the first baptisms in this area since July. i have been really starting to lose my patience in this area, because no one seems to care about the message that we are bringing. we have tons of people say that the gospel is true, but none of them want to change. it is really sad to see. and i am not in a great mood right now so you might get a lot of complaining in this letter. because i was writeing dad and i had written a ton and then we had a stupid black out and i lost it all, so i am a bit irritated right now and am not liking brazil very much. because they have these black outs like every day. it is really annoying. the slogan for brazil is order and progess, but they have neiter. the brazilian people have so much pride for there country and it is all in vain. because they have nothing. and my companion just looked over and read that and he told me to shut up. but he is from São Paulo and it is a thousands times better there. Manaus just doesnt have anything but jungle. but yeah things here are going alright. you talked about the members and how they are starting to help. well it seemed that way, but they arent helping as much as they started out to. a couple of families are and that is because they a some great families. but at the baptism one of the members in the bishporic gave the welcome to the ward speech and he taught some apostate things to the people there. i cant give details, i actually cant talk bad about the are. but things are working slower i just hope that things will start to get better. but things sound pretty good for you. and yeah i did know that dad is getting another divorce he has been talking a lot to me about it. he hasnt been holding things back from me lately, so things for him have been really difficult for him lately. so i have been praying a lot for him and juston as well still. i just hope that things can get better for all of you guys. it is hard for me to hear all the things that i going bad for you guys and knowing that there is nothing that i can to help, because i am thousands of miles away. but i just have to have faith that the Lord will take care of you all. but also about the baptism, the mother and daughter were both baptized, because the father hasnt really hard a true desire yet. but on monday night we went to there house and talk to them a bit and found out that he has a desire now. so we marked his baptismal date for the end of this month. i dont know really exactly what happened, but the spirit touched his heart somehow. which is awesome, so my companion and i were pretty excited about that. it will be my companions last baptism on the mission. which will be good for him. and well i found out that my companion and i are not going to be able to go to McDonalds yet. because it is to far from our area and the assisants to the president wont allow it. but i dont know they have one closer to our area that we just barely found out about. so we might try to go there next week. but it is really dumb. they dont have one at the center of the city where they have everything......except McDonalds......it is really dumb. but oh well. and i am sorry that i have been talking about quiet a few negative things, i am just not in the greatest mood right now. because a lot of things have been happening to me that i dont want to happen or things havent been happening that i want to happen. if that makes an sense. but i have been study the scriptures a lot lately and the book Jesus the CHrist and i have been loving it. it has been so cool to be able to study the life of Christ so in depth. i love it! we have zone conference tomorrow which will be good. but things are going well and i hope that you guys finally got that package of mine in the mail. but i love you and give everyone loves for me. and tell steven thanks for the letter and give him my email address, because it is easier for him and i to recieve things that way. but dont give it to everyone and tell him that he has to watch his language in the emails. because the church monitors the words that are in the emails and they might close my email if he sends something that isnt appropriate. but i love you tons and i miss. i wont try to be to trunky.
Com Amor, Élder Jory B. Spotts