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So this week all zone leaders and district leaders headed to Goiania for 3 days, so that was fun. Just sitting around and listening to president talk is always fun. Though i did have to abandon my area, what a bummer. I stayed with 3 Brazilians during our little conference, in a house that took an hour to get to/from by bus every morning and night. fun. But it was cool to chill with some Brazilians, I found out that it´s quite normal (and almost expected) that Brazilians kiss their cousins... apparently *cousin* isn´t close enough in the family to cause strangeness. Also, it was good to not hear any English, Portuguese comes a whole lot easier these days than English, and since my companion speaks English EVERY TIME he doesn´t understand something it´s really giving me a headache. He asks me to explain something in English, but I just cant, I sound like a retard cuz I´ve forgotten words and all my grammar is backwards.
But when I came back from the conference, Elder Black was working with Elder Pattie and Elder Fralick, so when we headed back to our area he said. *wow dude, we work BUTTLOADS harder than Elder Pattie, I felt like I was slacking off while I was with them.*
haha, oh yeah.

Preparation day last week we all headed to Jundiai to play basketball (volleyball was canceled cuz the ball popped) so that was fun, everybody plays for a bit then just wants to go inside and lay on the cold tile floor :D But since today was transfer day everybody is staying home so the other districts can resolve all the transfer mess. So the news about transfers: Industrial got closed, so I´m gonna have to pick up the area book and baptize the investigators they left behind, and Elder Stoddard and Elder Cruz are sticking together...again. They both sounded so depressed when I told them last night, neither one believed it. Elder Stoddard was already packing his stuff cuz he was SURE that he was gonna be leaving. He´s spent his whole mission here in Anapolis, and 6 months with the same companion, and now they´re gonna stay one more, poor guy, sounded like he was about to cry. haha. I dunno if they still have some small problems with the companionship, but if they do, they´re just gonna have to suck it up. So now the zone leaders are gonna do divisions with them to keep them excited, and I will too after a bit, just to get him happy until the end of transfer. You know it´s bad when the secretary says: *dude.... i don´t believe it.... everybody here thought he was going to get transferred for sure.....I don´t believe it.... how terrible*

But yeah, me and the bishop here aren´t the best of buddies. I mean, he´s a cool guy... just I think some of his *ideas* or *his way of doing it* are.... not good (stupid). I wont extrapolate, but suffice it to say that he´s getting in the way of our work. Just step back and let me do mah bidness!! I´ll swagger the way I was taught, thank you very much.

I held my breath for 1:40 on the bus the other day.

In church yesterday one of our investigators got up to bear her testimony, it was a very *evangelical* testimony, but it was pretty sweet anyways. Then she told everybody that she´s gonna get baptized. woo. It´s just that she lives in the same house as her ex-husband... so we´re in negotiations with President to try and get the green light to baptize her. Oh what a tangled web we weave. Downtown Anapolis is all lit up with Christmas lights and music and everything, it´s missing a bit of snow, but it still looks pretty dang sweet, the zone is going to go sing carols in the main park one of these days, and be covered by a TV station, so that should be pretty fun.

I actually felt a little bit sick for the first time on my mission today, but I popped some Imunizen, and Bio-C and pepto bismal and bye bye ickyness. woo. I say I´m doing pretty good, I´ve gone a year and a bit in a far-off land and I havn´t been attacked, eaten, sick, robbed, or anything. (watch something happen this week now) Though I´m pretty sure nobody´s gonna mess with us, cuz we´re two big Americans, and we tower over most of the Brazilians here, so anybody would have to be pretty crazy to mess with us. Bahahaha!

But yeah, I´m pretty sure that´s about it for now, This next week should be pretty interesting.

*I bet a fiddle of gold against your soul cuz i think I´m better than you...*

Love, Elder Webber