A New President

Soo..... yeah. This week. This is interesting, because Elder Pattie is the companion that I´ve gotten along with best, but we´ve done the least work so far. I don´t know if i´m just expecting too much from my companions, or from myself, but it seems to me like we´re just chillin WAY too long at member´s houses and after lessons. So this Sunday, I made it known that WE ARE GOING TO WORK HARDER THIS WEEK. Because I made a goal a while back to baptize at least one person every month that i´m in the field, and I´m not going to let a ´good´ missionary, a ´bad´ missionary, or flaky investigators get in the way of it. So I´m trying to help him step up his game, and I´m talking to more people in the streets, but I still get pretty darn frustrated when we just waste time at a member´s home not doing anything. ARGH!!

Yes, everybody was quite depressed here when Brazil lost their game. It started out alright, with fireworks, screaming and horns of course, but then we noticed that the whole city had gone quiet and cars had entered the streets again, so we asked who won.... and it wasn´t Brazil, haha, everybody was looking so depressed. Poor guys. I even bought myself a Brazilian jersey, and I do look pretty darn spiffy if I do say so myself.

So how was your 4th of July? We just drew an American flag on our new whiteboard, I colored in the wooden flag that happened to be in our house already, sang the National Anthem twice in the morning, and at cookies at night.... and that´s about it. And speaking of holidays, Bungie Day is tomorrow (July 7th), what are you planning on doing?? You HAVE to celebrate it, so i can live vicariously through you. (I'm not sure if I´m using *vicarious* correctly, I´m losing my grip on English) go to www.bungie.net to find out all you need to know about Bungie Day, one of the best holidays of the year, I´ve celebrated it for the last 4 years at least.

We got given a kite by one the kids in the street, apparently they´re really easy to make, so we bought string and we´re gonna sit on the roof today and fly it (with an American-made tail of course, made out of grocery bags). And that´ll do until the kid makes me my own. So we´ll just chill up there and drink guaranã with Açaí, and hope nobody cuts our kite down. We stopped the other day to talk with the kids who always fly kites near our house, and it´s WAY more fun to fly kites down here. There were two groups of kids, each group had three kites and they were yelling across the block at each other to coordinate their attacks and cut down the enemy kites, it´s crazy how good they are at steering their kites. We´ll get there, and then I´ll come home and rock everybody´s socks off.

That was an awesome story about Zach and Ben going Kayaking, we will definitely have to do that when I get back... I´ll have to learn to swim again first, except I´ll be getting back in October/November so....swimming wont be an option. haha. And I also loved the pictures, especially the ones with the guns, nice :) And Joseph should count himself lucky that the fireworks there are mild compared to what they have here, I pretty much just call them bombs, cuz that´s what they are, no fire, no color, just one big loud BANG, and that´s it. and it is LOUD! they throw it in the street to go BANG, they put some on the ends of rockets so they go BANG in the air, and so on.

This week and last week have been the transfer for the new President, so we´ll see how bad he shakes things up. But judging by the vibes from all the elders, it seems like his welcome aint too warm. But we´ll see how it goes, we have our first zone meeting with him tomorrow, so I´ll get to see what he´s like then. I´ve got a year and a half with him as president, so if I like him or not I´ll just have to get along with him and follow his rules. But I really don´t think he can be much more strict than Pres. Tobias was. haha.

How much food can you buy with R$20 (or 10 bucks) in America? can you feed two missionaries enough food that they´re hurling after-wards? We did, haha, cuz the food is so cheep down here. just thought i´d mention that.

We´ll that´s about it for now, I sent home a letter last week, and my jandals broke this week so i´m gonna go buy some snazzy Brazil ones soon. Pretty much.

*A wizard is never late, nor is he early, he arrives precisely when he means to*
Love,
Elder Webber