So the conference went pretty good, always fun to hang around with president and the assistants. I don´t know why, but I just love being around them, just sitting and listening to them just feels....good. President calls all the missionaries *child* or *son*, and he´s a pretty happy guy.... though we found out he´s already sent home 2 missionaries... so he´s not here to mess around. haha.
It´s always a bummer to have to head back to your house after the conference, being with all the missionaries, president and the assistants, it´s just....awesome. I took a bunch of notes, and he took us all out to lunch, of COURSE I ate the most. It was at a buffet and they ran out of pineapple....what a crime. On the walk there and back I spent most of the time talking with Elder Kevern, one of the assistants. And....wow....he´s pretty much the most hardcore kid I´ve ever met, he served in the Army Special Forces before he came on the mission, so he has pictures of himself blowing up buildings in Afganistan and all that... crazy stuff. Fun guy to talk to.
My interview went pretty good. It was way different than the interviews with Pres. Tobias, he didn´t ask so many questions, and just looked over the weekly letters, but eventually we were able to talk and I explained my frustrations and all that kind of thing. And then he told me that many times the last few weeks he´s looked over the pictures of all the missionaries, and been drawn back to mine repeatedly and recognized that I have something, I have potential. So I left that meeting pretty happy. As I was leaving, Sister Prieto told me to go back in....so I obeyed... and she asked me if I had had a birthday in july, I replied yes, and she gave me a little statue and a note for a birthday present, haha, oh yeah :D so that was pretty sweet.
The day before the conference, we got a call that the assistants wanted to do divisions in our area, so I spent most of the day with Elder Webb.... so a lot of people were confused about that fact that we have almost exactly the same name. But that was pretty darn fun as well, learned a lot. Most of our appointments fell though, so I just had to keep doing contacts and finding alternate plans, and that's when he told me *The difference between an excellent missionary, and the others, is what he does on the days that everything falls though, ya done good today* Among other things as well :D We then ate ice-cream and we parted ways.
I´ve been watching Venus move through the sky the last few weeks/months, and wow that thing moves fast... compared to everything else.
Haha, so I´m gonna have 3 packages headed my way from 3 different cities eh? haha awesome, we´ll see which one gets to me first, but thank you for sending another :D It´s always great to get something, even just letters, from home. Speaking of which... I´ve been looking for a new journal the last few days, don´t panic, I still have pages left in the one I´m using now, but I´ll have to find another sometime in the future. There´s some stores in Centro that I still have to check out. so yeah.
One thing that´s new these days....Communist adds on the TV. It´s election season down here in Brasil, and apparently the communist party is a tad more popular here than it is back home, so it´s kind of strange to see communist candidates running adds on tv, and campaign workers waving communist flags in the street. Kind of fun I must say. Also, there´s bats outside our house, every-time we return home at night there´s a bunch of bats circling above our heads.
And speaking of night....there´s a hair salon across the street from our house that only opens at around 7:00 pm... and stays open until 5;00 in the morning...and it´s where all the street-rats and riff-raff hang out all night long... cutting hair, playing videogames, blasting music and revving their car engines... not fun.
I´ve included a few pictures:
1. Us walking back from lunch.
2. They have cookies here with images from Cartoon Network! woo!! they come with stickers too, so I´ve bought quite a few of them, hahaha
3. This would be a truck, a car, and a horse-drawn cart parked outside of the mall. I´ve gotten used to horses and carts a looong time ago, but i just thought this was funny.
4. The sign above our toilet... just in case any of you forgot how to pee. hahahaha, the 4th point says: don´t pee on the ground. Don´t forget that, very important. :D
Anyways, thank you very much for the advice and the insights you write every week, it certainly helps.
We have a conference this week with President Dodoy(?) the first counselor in the area presidency, so that should be fun, we´ll have to catch a bus to Uberlandia, yay roadtrip!!
For the last time: we did NOT order a giant trampoline!!
I love you, miss you
Elder Webber
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