Salinopólis 4

Hello,
This week was pretty fun.  We worked hard, but it's still a bit difficult to find people that are progressing.  We brought a casal [married couple] that is the friend of a member that are super cool and we will continue working with them.  This week church was a 3 1/2 hour bus ride to stake conference so lots of people didn't want to visit.  We were going to bring the same girl that went to church last week and her family with us however they dropped out at the last minute so that was a little sad.  However stake conference was super fun we got to see other missionaries and also there was a seventy that came and gave a good talk about leaving worldly things and staying out of debt that was fun.  This week everybody got a cold but it was still fun to work.  This week we are going to have a zone conference in Belém with Elder Godoy one of the seventy so that should be fun.  We will also be able to see other missionaries which should be fun as well.  The transfer is already ending so that is a bit sad.  I like this area and I have no idea if I will be leaving or not.  However either way I am excited to keep working. The end keeps getting closer and closer and there isn't much time I have left to get to be a missionary anymore :(
Love,
Elder Holcomb

A couple of things from Isaac's phone call today:
It is Isaac's birthday on Friday (send him an email!) so we asked what he will be doing.  He said he'll be at Zone conference so we asked if everyone will sing to him.  He laughed and said, actually, at all the other zone conferences he has announced it's someone's birthday and gotten everyone to sing to that person...whose birthday it isn't hahaha (He says he stole the idea from his cross country and nordic ski coach).  So he thinks no one will believe him if he says it's his birthday.  
Also while talking to Isaac somehow corrupt police officers came up ??? I don't remember how, but he mentioned sometimes (not once, "sometimes") they will be sitting in someone's house teaching them and then all of a sudden you'll see the neighbors jumping out of the windows and take off running into the jungle and you'll just be like, "what?" and then five or ten minutes later the police will show up.
Oh, I think I remember what it was, that brought up police corruption.  At some point on his mission, I don't know when, someone called out to them on the street and so they went to talk to him and he told the missionaries how much he loved church and it was his favorite, but he couldn't be a member because he had killed so many people and he even wrote the prophet and asked, but the prophet said no.  There's probably more to that story, and we don't know the "rules" about those things, but Isaac is wondering if part of it could be because he didn't serve time for his crimes, but the prisons are pretty bad and the justice system is corrupt...even some of the police; and that is how we got to that last story.
Here's some photos sent to me.  Isaac was excited to go running on the beach and sing Chariots of Fire to himself in his head.