Our First Paper Letter

Dear Family
So i wrote ya'll a letter a long time ago but i never finished it because I never had the time  so now I have to re-write it because things have changed since I wrote it and other things that i have included in the original letter are irrelevant. Wow that last sentence is long! So we are working with a man named Valentim right now. We met him on the street on the 26th of September. He was walking down the road and we tried to stop him but he said he was going to the shop so Elder Johnson asked him if he was coming back our way and he said yes. and we said we'll wait for you. Elder Johnson doesn't know why he said that; its not something you would normally ask someone in this situation. He cam back and we basically followed him into his home and sat down and he just talked and talked nonstop. He just ranted on and on the whole time about random stuff and didn't really let us talk. The second time we met at his house was very much the same. The third time we met started the same way and we thought we would get no where with him until he saw our Book of Mormon. He recognized it and remembered he met with missionaries back in Angola when he was young. Now he listens very well to our lessons and he has decided he wants to be baptized. We do not know when that will happen though because he is not in a hurry to do anything. We originally planned for him to be baptized on the 23rd of November but he wasn't ready by then. He need to come to church enough times before he can be baptized and he's only been once, and he was late. But he has a good excuse. He is currently taking heavy medication that makes him sleep all day. He's trying to get a different prescription or lower his dosage or something so we'll see if that works. He will eventually be baptized but he's the kind of guy who's never in a hurry to do anything.

Denis is a recent convert now. I'm sure i sent you pictures of his baptism. Before he decided to be baptized ha was far from being converted. He was a heavy drinker and smoker. On top of that he liked to argue. When we tried to teach him he would always dissagree with everything we told him. Finally we decided not to teach him anymore. We were going to watch the Joseph Smith movie with him and then drop him and stop teaching visiting him. So we went to his house one last time and watched the movie and when it was over we asked him "how did you like that?" to which he replied "I want to be baptized." From then on we taught all the lessons again to him and he listened and accepted everything and he got baptized on his 62nd birthday (the 17th of November). He even bore his testimony in the testimony meetings on both the fast Sunday before and the fast Sunday after his baptism. He also quit drinking and smoking. He also said he would give me one of his guitars (once he gets the strings on it). Well i'm running out of room on this paper and don't have enough to say to fill another page so I'll end here. Good buy and Merry Christmas!