Stereotypical week! Dog bite

I can say that this week was the most sterotypical week of my mission. This isn't a bad thing, actually its super funny and I'm glad for all that happened because it was super sterotypical. So it started off with being sick on sunday as I wrote last week and during the week we worked a lot knocking doors and marking appointments and as we went to visit them they weren't home or didn't have time or weren't interested even after marking an appointment with us. So we had the sterotypical door closing in our faces experiences this week. I also passed the actual day of 1 year on the 15th of Nov. So benchmark... On Friday we went to visit a member who had recently moved and we had marked with them to eat cuzcuz that night, when we got there the mother of the member went to hold the dog to not bother us as we passed by but she lost hold and the dog bit my leg. It was funny because my companion freaked out a little half-screaming and throwing the member in front of him to protect himself from harm. It didn't hurt too much the teeth that met with the level of my sock didn't penetrate but one good looking tooth hole was left in my leg because it was above the sock and only had the pant leg protecting it. (Photo attatched) So funnily enough to add to the sterotypical missionary life, I was bitten by a dog. SO the week was pretty wild... We also took a different route this week going to an appointment after lunch going along the train tracks so we took some cool pictures (as attatched).

Tomorrow is the transfer, and suprisingly I will be transfered! Everyone thought that my companion would be the one to leave because he has more time int he area but president moved me instead and my companion will stay and train a new missionary. So I will be transfered to Petrolina, which as I'm told (and I've experienced), is one of the hottest cities in the mission and not in a good way. It gets up to, as I try to change from C to F, 90F-110F which is really hot considering the slightly increased humidity and we are arriving into summer here so it will really get hot. I'm 99% sure that I'll burn, I bought sunscreen but even if I don't burn it will be real dang hot. Also with this change I will be Senior companion and district leader. Also my zone leader will be the trainer that I had Elder B Costa. I'm excited, maybe nervous, but I'm sure everything will turn out great, I will just have to work hard with diligance. I will travel there today, early, because by compánion has to leave for Salvador to pick up his new missionary.

Well thats all I have time for,

Love you!

🌞🌡😋🚌                  😣🐕

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Elder Benjamin Barton

Double Success

This week was awesome 👏 We tag-teamed it this week and the both of us baptized a person, or in other words, 2 young men were baptized by us. One of them was addicted to coffee and was drinking 3 big bottles a day alone, but it was amazing the moment we taught about the word of wisdom because he stopped altogether and switched to cevada, which is like the mormon coffee that isn't coffee that almost all the members drink. Now he is so careful not to drink anymore, if he isn't sure he makes someone taste it to make sure its not coffee. And the other young man has been wanting to be baptized for over 4 months but his mom hasn't been letting him but we've been working with him diligently to show to his mom that he is learning and becoming a better man the more he goes to church and learns about Christ, we were even doing Duty to God with him and he was'nt even a member then; but regardless his mom saw the difference and his desire over the space of 4ish months and let him be baptized. It is so cool being a missionary and being able to help/see the progress that people make as they follow christ.

We had district meeting in Jacobina (2.5hrs by bus) and we had a little fun the night before and had the meeting the next morning, I took some pictures of the city. It looks like utah a bit with the mountians so close, I like it and think its a pretty area. It was funny because after the meeting we went for lunch in the house of a member in Jacobina and after lunch our Zone leader and his companion started to sleep and one of them even snored! It was too funny, so I took a photo. :) I also took a photo of a (I think the translation is right) Freemasonry building, here in Bahia there are many of them, they are not very secret other than I don't know what happens inside; normally they are bule buildings with the symbol out in front, I find it interesting.

Other than this my week was normal, I bought sun screen because wow the sun is hot/strong already, summer is definety setteling in here. I was suprised to hear about snow at home, it seems like it snowed just last month but its more likely that the year just flew by and its winter again already.

Not much more, Love you people! 

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Elder Benjamin Barton