"Divisions" (splits), 6,000 Kilos of Cestas Basicas, baptisms, and a reference machine

Oí família!! Tudo bem??
Sorry it's been so long--these last few weeks have been pretty nuts. Here's the story:
Two weeks ago we had a baptism--I'm pretty sure I already told you guys about it. Tamires, 18, was baptized. It was a great baptism =]

The following week was pretty interesting. We had a few possibles to baptize, but all of them were falling through for various reasons. Saturday arrives. We do a division with the Zone Leader and an Assistant, and as we arrive at the Chapel to begin the division, there's an enormous truck in the front. The guy comes up to us, asking if we were from this church. The truck was filled with "cestas basicas," or in other words, emergency food kits. We started to unload them ("we" being the four missionaries). After about ten minutes, we discover we're going to have to unload 400. Kind of a problem, because each of them weighed about 15 kilos (that's over thirty pounds). It took us three hours to unload them all, and the chapel walls were lined with groups of food-package-things (something katie would say, right? =]). 

As we were finishing, one of our investigators who had gone to church the last Sunday showed up and started helping us. When we finished, we taught him the first lesson, and invited him to be baptized--he accepted. Since we had an AP with us, we did the interview right then. He came out after the interview, smiling, and told us he would be baptized the next day, Sunday. And baptized he was. It was a fantastic baptism, truly. His whole family went, whom we are now teaching to probably be baptized next Sunday. Super special.

So that was last week. Now this week. This is a super special story. It starts way back at the beginning of last year, with a guy whose name I haven't the faintest. But he lived in Espírito Santo, the state northeast of Rio. He visited his family in São Paulo, and was baptized into the church. He returned to ES and introduced his friend Morgana to the church, who also became a member. Morgana's mother was then baptized. Arlete (mom) visited Caxias three weeks ago and brought the whole family with her--mom, ex-husband, sister (Ana), sister's daughters (Bea & Bárbara). And we baptized Bea this last week. 

Super special. We're also hoping to baptize Bárbara this Sunday. Mom and dad have to wait a bit--they're not legally married, but they'll continue to go to church =]
 We're also working with Célio, who visited Morgana in Espírito Santo, who got to know the church through her. He was never a churchy guy (believes in God but doesn't go to church), but when he saw the activity of the youth in the church and met the missionaries, he found the church to be true (he already told us =]). We hope to baptize him this Sunday as well. We'll also start working with his family and neighbors--he's a reference machine. He wants everyone to know about the Church =]

And that's not even half of our teaching group. I can't go through all of them right now, but needless to say, we have a HUGE amount of work on our hands. I hope we can get it all done this week. We gotta plan super carefully, haha. But I love you guys. Hopefully this filled the canteen for you guys. I've been having trouble sending pictures lately, but hopefully you guys got a few of them. Check the .mac account for a few you maybe haven't seen yet?

Love you guys, hope all is well! Amo suas tripas!
Elder McGregor