São Paulo Temple

São Paulo Temple
São Paulo Temple

Monday, May 30, 2016


I will be transfered, so this area will lose two and receive two new elders that I don't know. I will go to a neighboring zone to an area called São João Climaco (I think) to be a Zone Leader in the Iparanga Stake. I don't recognize the name of my new companion. This Saturday, this one Irmã here, knowing that I would probably leave the area, made her special beans (I don't know what it is that she does that makes her beans 10x better than any other) for our last lunch with her :) Then, her 10 year old son presented for me a scarf that they, as a family, had gotten for me as a small thanks for everything that I and my companions had done for them, their family, and the ward (they come from that family that makes up like half the ward and we have been working with various family members of theirs to return to church... With tears in her eyes she thanked me and showed me how to use it :)

We hiked to the top of the third highest peak of the state of São Paulo with the majority of the young men from our ward and took some pictures from there. There was a Stake high Counselor with us, too, who said we used to be able to see 1/2 of São Paulo from that peak, but because of polution it's just about 1/4th now :(