News. Apparently Elder Nelson, another from the Presidency of the 70, and another area authority are coming to the Goiania mission for some reason. They´ll be here the 20th, so the President wants us to all baptise a complete family by then. So pretty much we´ve never been so nervous, we got a family to church last week, so now we just have to get them there again, and we can baptise them this week. Every day that passes is another day towards victory, or horrible, messy failure. Either way, it will be interesting to hear what he´s got to say.
My new comp is pretty sweet. We definitely get along much better than I did with Elder White, But since he´s only got 3 months left, I think I can see him dying more each day. It´s not so bad, but we do spend a bit too much time just sitting around sometimes, it´s weird I actually want to get up and get to the next house so we can work. not that he´s lazy or anything. I spent most of last week visiting all the investigators at least once to show him where everything is, who is who, who we like and who we don´t, who is usually drunk, who gives us food, where the cheapest cookies can be found. and so on, you know, the important stuff. I actually laughed a lot this past week too, kind of strange, I know. but good times.
Answers to your questions:
About baptisms, I´ve got all their names and dates written down in my PME and notebook, which is 7 so far, but apparently on the mission records I have 13 already (Elder Casey was an assistant, so he knows everything apparently) so I´m not complaining about that. It has something to do with my first Sunday here.
Which reminds me of another song, one that Elder Casey sings while we´re walking though dodgy parts of town. It goes a little something like this:
Please don´t rob me
Please don´t kill me
Please don´t rape me
Just let me be.
We live in a house, I took a video tour of it, so you guys will be receiving that someday. It´s street level with 4 rooms and a bathroom. Not too shabby. And it´s safe, with the first wall about by the sidewalk, and a 20 meter walk to our house after, so 2 locked doors aint too bad.
We walk forever each day, and it either always uphill or downhill in this area, my area is the biggest in the zone, so yes, we do walk a bit. No idea how far though. If we want to get from one side to the other, we´re usually inclined to take a bus.
We´re told to approach 10 people every day and commit them to be baptized, sometimes we do, and sometimes we don´t. Other times they just come up to us instead.
I did not excersize any unrighteous dominion during my short reign. the definition of unrighteous dominion´ would be Elder White, bwahaha.
The church building is pretty nice, especially in comparison to the other churches around here. we managed to have 71 people in church this week, which was great! including 6 investigators.
and about the store, depends which one we´re talking about, the one we usually go to is pretty small, and doesn´t have much, but I like it, and the guy there likes us, and trusts us i.e. "oh, it´s ok, just come back tonight and pay for it, i don´t have change for a 20" yup.
But there´s another called Super Vi, which is like the wall mart of Brazil, but it´s far and uphill, so I don´t like going there.
I usually bare my testimony every day to our investigators, so yes, I do quite a bit. No worries.
hmmm... I think that´s about it for now. Miss you all, love you all, and my address is still the same, yup.
Peace, love and happiness,
Elder Webber
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
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