So last night while we were closing our numbers for the week, I got a call from the zone leaders, and they did a conference with us three district leaders. Apparently president wasn´t too pleased with our results of taking people to church, our numbers were....low. So after they got barbecued, they called us and burned us alive, then sent us off to fry our districts. So that was fun.... I´ve never actually had to burn somebody so bad before. I called Industrial first, and asked a bunch of questions, told them to repent and try harder (something along those lines). They live in a house with another companionship, and I could hear the other missionary in the background giving excuses to his district leader as well, haha. Then I had to call Morumbi... and I had to step up the fire-throwing, otherwise he won´t do anything, first he was joking, then he got angry, then he got all depressed about how he´s a bad missionary, what a mess. So pretty much, I got a 2nd degree burning last night and my district got a 2 1/2 degree burning, I´ve never had to speak with such righteous fury to other missionaries before.
And apparently, yesterday was a day of fire all day long, cuz the Stake President came to our ward, he called a new Bishop, and called the ward to repentance because they weren´t supporting the former bishop, then burned them for not going to conference, then again for being lax in going to church, yay finally someone smacks around these members to wake them up, then during the last hour of church, we all had one class together and he continued his fire-show.
but yeah... that was fun.
And when the zone leaders called again this morning, they said they really didn´t want to include me in the burning, cuz they know I´m doing the best I can here, but it needed to be done, and I needed to burn my district, so I felt pretty good about that :D
And I lost the competition between me and the zone leaders, we had a deal to see who could mark more dates, take more people to church, and make more contacts in the street. It was pretty close, but we only talked to 200 people, and they talked to 238, blast. So now I have to take them to an all-you-can-eat pizzaria. I´m gonna eat too, of course, but I have to pay. But the pizza there is sweeeeeeet! (not amazing deep-dish amearican pizza, you have to eat here with knife and fork) but have you ever eaten ice-cream pizza? Banana pizza with cinnamon? i think NOT!
Also, there´s a pretty cheap ice cream shop here, called Nectar, and you serve yourself and they weigh it after, charging by the kilo, it´s about 11 Reais per kilo, pretty darn spiffy, so we´ve eaten there a few times already.
We made pancakes this morning. (Well *I* made pancakes with the Western Family pancake mix that was in our fridge when we got here, and i instructed Elder Margalho on how to make maple syrup, cuz we snagged a bit from a member who somehow had maple extract for some reason) He wouldn´t stop crying about making pancakes, sheesh, sometimes i feel like his mother, this kid is just rediculous sometimes, he doesn´t know how to use his money, or keep the house clean, sheesh.
Anyways, it´s funny, maple is FAMOUS down here, cuz nobody has it and hardly anybody has eaten it, but they always see it in the movies and the americans are always talking about how awesome it is. so if anybody has some, and knows and american who knows how to make it.... they wont leave you alone. So we had pancakes and maple syrup this morning... I´m so good.
Ah, but Saturday was pretty awesome as well. Angela ( the lady I baptized in Anapolis) and Gledson were getting married and invited me to be a witness. So we went up there early in the morning, the lady read some paper all fast-like, and then everybody who was involved signed their names and we went to the park after to eat ice cream and celebrate, yay. So that was pretty sweet. Pictures are included below.
Then later at night, me and Elder Margalho were watching the moon, cuz it looked pretty cool, then we saw a shooting star fly allllll the way across the sky, it was HUGE and lasted forever. That was awesome, The second one i´ve seen, and here in the same city, haha. i was happy.
We have a baptism closed for this weekend, yay! his name is João Paulo, he has one lazy eye, and he works as a rodeo-bull rider, so he´s pretty neat-o. He´s crazy to go to texas and wield a 6-shot and ride bulls in the huge stadiums filled with people. I always feel like he´s talking to the wall whenever he´s *looking* at me and saying something. but yay, baptism!!
Thank you for the excerpt from the blog, that was awesome to read, I liked it, and certainly helps. It seems like everybody is getting all cyber-savvy since I´ve been gone.
I´m TOTALLY not feeling the Halloween spirit from anybody here, how sad, they know what it is, but nobody celebrates it... i think i´ll just be a missionary this year.....
Pictures:
1. Us at the wedding, Angela and Gledson sitting down, me and Elder Pattie being witnesses. Laisa was a witness too, but she was busy taking all the pictures.... and she took a butt-load.
2. Me signing the paper saying I was really there and saw it all happen.
3. Yay, chillin in the park
4. More chillin in the park.
I finally gave my first district-meeting training this last week, me and Elder Bare did ours together. So we had motivate our district to help the mission reach the 120 baptism goal that president has set for us. So that was fun. Not as hard as I was thinking it would be.
Anyways, I think that´s about it for this week. I´ll have a baptism to write about next time, as well as about our pizza-night, wooo!
I love you all, miss you all
Love,
Elder Webber
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