This week was a bit slow, and full of wonderful special activities. We had a zone conference at the temple on Thursday!!! We got to attend the temple after having some instruction with President Cook as well as personal interviews with him. He is such an amazing, spiritual man. It was only my third interview with him, but every time it just lifts me up and makes me feel better! :) He surprised me in that interview by telling me that he is making me district leader for this change, which starts tomorrow!!! I will still be finishing the training of Elder Anderson here in Minas, of course, but it will be a big change! I can´t quite believe that starting tomorrow I am going to be doing all the nightly verifications with my district and that on Friday I will be teaching the district meeting! Yikes! It is a big new responsibility, but also a great opportunity to learn, love, and serve. I am mostly excited about it. But I also ask that you say a prayer for me so I can do it! The zone is getting a ton of new leaders -- the other district leader is going to be my friend Elder Torres, also a new leader, who I know because he was in Florida when I arrived, and we´re getting a new zone leader and a new hermana viajante.
Last night, all the elders traveled to La Capuera, the new area with the super nice, clean, small new house. All ten of us slept over, and this morning, we traveled to Pan de Azúcar to climb the famous hill with the whole zone. It was super fun! It was like a real hike! This is basically the only place in the country with a hill capable of being hiked, so that was a special treat. There is a giant old sketchy stone cross at the top you can climb. There was also a cute little zoo with some odd native animals including capybaras (here called carpinchos).
Anyways. Church was lovely even though not that many people showed up. Luisa is still going strong and she is progressing so much! This was her second time at church and she LOVED it! She talked to her husband and they are planning to get married so she can be baptized!!!! He still doesn´t have any interest in the church, but we will work on that. I feel so privileged to see the conversion of Luisa -- I feel like in a humble way I am actually making a difference in someone´s life. I hope we can find more firm investigators, because we still don´t have any other real investigators right now.
I love you all so much! Sorry for the short letter!
--Elder Max Olivier
gorgeous view from the hill
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