Mais uma Semana passou!!!

Hey guys! How is my wonderful family today? Thanks for all the wonderful emails and pics of my lil nephew or however you spell it. Portuguese is much easier. Well we are rocking it down here on the bottom of the world. We should have 8 baptisms in the next month or so. Workin our lil butts off that is for darn sure. It keeps raining like crazy which sucks because shoes and clothes don´t dry at all. Humidity. Funny story, e. Gubler sent me some peeps, yeah reminded me of my dad. But they won't harden because it's so humid. Shucks né. All is well here. Me and my comp are getting along great and workin hard. Ya´ll want stories eh, I've got a good one for ya. My Birthday went great, but when we were coming home a man aproached us in a dark street and asked how to get to the bus station. My comp watched closely from the other side of the street as I gave him directions. He didn´t want directions he wanted to assault us and take our money and stuff. I thank my comp because he didn´t give him the opportunity to assault us both. He went away with out taking anything but kept following us and watching us closely. WE were protected and nothing bad happened. That was the highlight of my week this week. I really don´t know an elder in my mission that hasn´t been assaulted yet. I think I'm the only one. But hey, I pray it doesn't happen to me cause that wouldn´t be fun. Congrats on the new member of our family!! He is a cutie for sure. Tell Justin and Kayla congrats for me. I'll be seeing him before we know it. Well I'm out of info for today so have a great week. I love you all!!!MUAH!! ELDER RAPP

Elder Rapp is a new Uncle!

Elder Rapp got a new nephew yesterday! Baby Eastton Seth was born at 5:07 pm. He weighed 8 pounds 3 ounces and measured 21 1/4" long. He has lots of hair and looks both like his Mom and his Dad. He had some breathing issues at first, but they put him on oxygen and he is doing fine. He is very loved! Everyone is loving on him and spoiling him already! This makes the second time that Elder Rapp is an Uncle. Now he has a niece and a nephew! Congratulations Uncle Jacob!

Life is going great here. Man its cold though. This is my first cold birthday. Haha I am lucky to have it land on p-day. We are going bowling this afternoon. Pres Johnson called me last night and said that he was gonna do interviews in our appt. Weird, I have never had Pres. in my appt. Good thing I'm a clean freak and the appt was already clean. He brought me a package and a letter from the ward yeah. Packages are always good. Man this last week was full of fun and exciting things, rain, wind, rivers in the road. Blah it was a miserable day and Thursday, it rained like I have never seen in my life. The streets were rivers and the side walks as well. Hey how do you stay dry in weather like that.. hahah, ya don´t and I only have one pair of shoes that don´t hurt my feet. Now they are wet. It's life though. This week we worked a ton with less active members and man was it successful. I've always thought that working with them would help out the ward and help us find new people to teach. It's a fact the best ways to work are with the members. Thanks for all of your emails today. The best birthday ever is today. All of your love means the most to me, and I liked the ice cream idea Dad I'll do it for sure. (Even though its freezing cold out side.) Thanks for all the pics too. Man my family is growing and changing ssoooo much. Um can you explain how to send pics in emails? I don't know how but want to send some eh. I love you all and am so very grateful for all you do for me. It means the world to me. Have a great week. Muah!!! ELDER RAPP

Funny story, I told Jessica about the dog and told a little bit more than the truth and she told me she hopes all goes well with the surgery. HAHAHa I make myself laugh. Blonds think everything is the truth!!! I'm doing great here. Man the weather is cold. Yesterday was the coldest day of work yet, 4 degrees Celsius not sure the exchange rate. Windy and flippin cold. Guess what? I'm senior now. Pres called me the day of transfers, Elder Rapp are you ready for this... I sure hope I am Pres. I couldn't´t have asked for a better comp to help me out, he rocks. E Sousa. He's from Sao Paulo. He is great. A little bit slow getting stuff done but does a great job. He's an old man 25 almost 26, and I haven´t even gotten to 20 yet. One week yea, and it lands on p-day. We are having churrasco with the Bishop and going bowling with the zone leaders. Hope all turns out well. Don´t worry about not having the package out yet. I understand 100 percent. Hey my fingers are shrinking with the weight loss and cold. Can ya send me some more ctr rings 8 and 9 to see if they'll work. Can´t say no cause it for my b-day. So hows things going for you all? Life is warming up there ne? Hey, I'm gonna keep looking for a suit. Ill try and get a cheap one. We'll see how things look . I'll let ya know. Dude, we had a pizza party Monday night cause all of our comps hadn´t arrived yet. They got here Tuesday but ya. 5 pizzas 6 elders and 4 liters of pop. Barbaridade it was good. Homemade pizza is always better than the pizzas from the pizza place. Well have a great week. I love you all and am always praying for ya!!! ELDER RAPP

For your information, I put up 3 letters for Jacob today. The first is a letter he wrote to the Youth in our ward. He wrote separate small letters for his Dad and I, so I put them both on. Enjoy!

If it makes you feel any better my connection just fell and I lost my letter too. It was really really funny too, stupid computers. Anyways this week went well. My comp is kinda really really trunky and it was a little hard to work. That and he got sick and had to stay in bed Saturday. But hey, it's life. So I'm finally a missionary!!! I got attacked by a dog. I was walking down the road yesterday after lunch going to pick up a family for church and this stupid dog came out of no where and attacked me. Well you all know me, well I wasn´t gonna let him get away with attacking me. So I wanted to kill the lil bugger. All in all the lucky punk ran faster than I did before I could kill it. With my steel toe boots, he's lucky he got away. But don´t worry he didn´t even leave a mark on me. I just took out my insurance for dog attacks from my Father in Heaven and he came through and protected me. I have a great testimony of the power of garments. I never really thought about the blessing they promise you, but they are real. I can tell you that. The dog only ripped my pants, which Iwill now hang on my wall when I get home. Along with my deer heads, hahaha. So transfers are tomorrow and my comp is going away but I'm staying. YES, I don´t have to pack my bags. Oh and his dad didn´t send him money for a new suit so he isn´t selling it, but I'm looking for another one in the same price range. Well all is good here. Nice and cold and rainy blah, that puts a damper on things. I love you all and pray for you always. Keep up the good work. Muah xoxo!! ELDER RAPP

Hey Dad!! I'm glad that all went well in your Bishops youth discussion. I hope it made even a little impact on their lives and attitudes towards a mission. Sounds like the tooth problem in NYC turned out to have an implant done huh? Yikes, I don´t like tooth pain or any pain for that reason. Transfers are tomorrow. Man time is flying by too fast. I feel like I just got here in my area and my comp is already leaving. It seemes to me like there isn´t enough time in one day to do all that I need to do. So many people to help that I love so very much and want them to feel what I feel but the sun just doesn´t stay up long enough. I' m sure you felt that way on your mission too. But hey, just putting forth all I can to help these wonderfull people. Thanks for all you do for me Dad. All your prayers and love you send, and especially you testimony that strengthens me always. I love you!!! ELDER RAPP