Nathan's email ffrom August 19

Subject: If Mike Phelps was his own country he'd take 4th place in the world...

So the Olympics down here are pretty big, like every store has the games on and every house as well. Its fun, but everyone still talking about that fishman from America lol, yeah Micheal Phelps!
Another week come and gone. Saturday we had a baptism of an 18 year old kid, he's a pretty cool dude ya know, the problem was is he's pretty big too and we were late getting to the chapel to fill up the font, so let's just leave it at 2 wet missionaries running from room to room with buckets in their hands, laughing all the way. It was quite entertaining, and in the end there was enough water in the font to save a soul.
Well this week should be interesting we plan on marrying a couple, that's always cool, and finally starting our English class, that's always stressful. No, but it should be fun and such, people here love English. I can't think of many stories for the day. Yesterday we met this 84 year old guy who's been a lifelong member of the Congregation of God church, he feels like there should be more to life and he saw us, don't think that's a coincidence. Well we taught him, he liked it, his life didn't and he's coming to church with us this Sunday :D I find this extra sweet because 99 percent of active religious people are 99 percent impossible to reason with, so you do the math and leave the rest for the Lord!
Oh, by the way everyone from the ward thank you so much for your little letters and such, I received them last Wednesday and I loved them and cherished every one! Sounds like mom gave the best lesson in the world about missionary work or something, go mom!
Anywho thanks to everyone and their love and support for us missionarios, é sempre bom de saber o amor e supporta das pessoas lá na outro lado do mundo, muito obrigado pelos testemunhos vocés tem e compartilhar para fortelecer um e outro, especialmente nos missionarios. então até mais meus amados Irmãos!
Elder Nate Spencer

Brian's email from August 18

Subject: Spaghetti is messy

Yes... I spilled a whole plate of spaghetti on my lap at a dinner appointment and yes go ahead and laugh, all the other missionaries did! lol good times!
Well I now have a new companion, his name is Elder Chavez from San Diego California. He goes home on Saturday so I am just his companion for a week. My new companion will be here on Sept 3rd. Chavez is a stud though, he works so hard. We were tracting last night until after 8 o'clock! and we were able to find and teach LOTS of people. Life has been kinda tough as far as some of our investigators :S I think we might be losing one of our best investigators, Molley. She was doing amazing and reading the Book of Mormon, she is almost all the way through Alma and she has come to church several times, but she just asked us to stop coming :( I don't even know why, we have one last appointment on Wednesday with her. I think she may have talked with her pastor... But I don't know.
We still are working with many hopefuls and it's only a matter of time before baptisms come. We are working a lot more with members lately and that always helps. well that's about it for the week. Until next week! love you all
Elder Brian Spencer

Nathan's email from August 5

Caramba! what a week! Well actually I'll start with Sunday cause that was the best! It was fast and testimony meeting and one of the most spiritual sacrament meetings of my life, actually I think it was the most spiritual.
So those youth I'm always talking about... they all bore their testimonies, but they didn't just get up and say I know the church is true, they gave heart felt testimonies with their conversion stories, I was close to tears. and better yet Erick and Raphael, two awesome brothers, finally convinced their parents to take a few minutes off work to come. They came and heard their kids bear testimony and also saw them administering the sacrament! Caramba if that's not a powerful message for a parent I don't know what is!
But alas, Sunday night we found out about transfers and the elder AssiSpencer duo was broken, I'm now in a new city, Piratininha, very close to my other area but I'm opening this area and that means for all of you who are unfamiliar, that I'm completely lost :D Isn't that fun! No but I'm excited cause I've heard tons of good stuff about this ward and the last missionaries left it in good condition.
I'm now with elder Santana, he's a pretty cool kid. I don't know much about him yet so I'll fill you in on those details next time, but he seems kinda excited about missionary work so I'm sure we'll get along just great :D haha
Well someone just said something and I wasn't listening, so my comp tried to speak English to explain, cause he thought I just didn't understand, thus confirming he can say five and minute with a wonderful accent. haha perfect :D Oh I was at my new house a little while back and its awesome, much more roomy than the last house and there's only the two of us. the washing machine looks like it works so that'll save on a lot of work, hurray!
Anywho I'll have more to say next week about my new area cause as of yet I don't know anything, but tune in next time to hear all about it. lol
Thank you all for your love and support!
Elder Nate Spencer

Brian's email from August 4

This week has been the best one for a long while! Nothing incredible happened, just lots of good stuff and just a good week. We found several solid investigators this week, and guess how we found them! Tracting! Ya it was pretty cool. One guy we found is an old crazy man, but one of the good kinds :) He is really smart and knows his Bible but he isn't against new revelation and others views, so he listens to us very well and is willing to accept whatever truth God will reveal to him. The reason why I say he is a crazy old man is cause of the way he looks and talks. haha He is bald except some white hair jetting out the sides of his head, (like a mad scientist) and when he talks, he is very loud and enthusiastic! but I like him.
We also found another man, and the first thing he said to us was he wasn't Christian, but he was willing to listen nonetheless. Well it turns out he is very familiar with the Bible but because of the inconsistencies in the Bible and in Christianity he has given up hope. Well, it just so happens that our message answered many of his questions and I'm confident that it will continue to make sense to him. Especially if we can get him to pray about it and read the Book of Mormon. I always love finding potential priesthood holders who can help lead in the church.
Then we found another two ladies who are sisters, and the one sister, Neli, started crying because she was just about to give up hope in Christ and she asked us to come back and to help her find her faith again. She seems very promising and I'm looking forward to working with her.
So those are just three of the people we found this week. It's times like those that really give you the boost to keep working :D Tender Mercies, just keep your eyes open and its impossible not to see them.
Thats a wrap I suppose!
Love Elder Brian Spencer