This Week...

Industrial got closed because the members there are nuts, and they didn´t appreciate the missionaries while they had them, so President put them somewhere where they´ll be appreciated and actually get things done, and the members will see what it´s like to have no missionaries. Every time we pass by in that area, all the members we meet seem way excited and ask if we´re the new missionaries, and I always have to tell them no. I´m only there to baptize one guy (and hopefully his family) and then I´m done. Speaking of which, we taught him a few times this last week (many, many bus rides) and the last time we taught him we took a member family with us. The members and him used to be part of the same churches, so they just spent a good 45 minutes bashing all the other churches they used to go to. The guy told us EVERYTHING he thought was wrong about all the other churches, and how they all teach apostasy. example: *the pope is the child of the devil, there´s no other explanation*
*all these other churches are filled with people screaming and flying around, is that in the bible? NO. They´re a bunch of money-sucking, miracle mongering, sin-condemning, scripture-screaming, lunatics. is that in the bible? NO!*

yeeeeah, balln´ ! He already believed the church was true, the only trick was to get him to accept a date. Which we did, he finally decided to be baptized on the 8th of January. yay!

The zone got together the other day to practice our musical program for tonight. We´re going to the praça to sing Christmas hymns for everybody, and Globo (the news station) will be there. They chose me to read the scriptures in between each song because of my deep voice suave. oh yeah :D so that should be fun.

The ward had their Christmas dinner the other day, so we stopped by for a bit, helped out a little too. I pretty much just pigged out on the pineapple... good stuff. It made me miss the ward barbecues back home when there was like a bajillion people, and hamburgers, here there was about... 20 people. sad story.

So we´ve got 2 baptisms scheduled for this Friday, hopefully everything goes over well. It´s always a mess, trying to invite members, filing up the font, getting everything set up, making sure everybody is happy *sigh* soooo nerve-wrecking. oh well.

Elder Black still gets ticked every once in a while when the language gives him a little bit of trouble. But he´s getting better. I still have to re-teach everything he teaches cuz nobody understands him. But it´s funny that everybody things he´s Brazilian (before he talks) so when they don´t understand what I say ( cuz I tend to speak too fast sometimes :-) ) they always look to him, and he has no idea what anybody is saying, so everybody´s lost for a little while. CONFUSION!


It´s kind of weird that I´ll only have one Christmas in the field, cuz my last one was while I was stranded in the MTC. But oh well. At least I get to call home this time :D yay. And I´ll probably have a lot to talk about cuz this week seems pretty jam-packed with stuff, so that should be fun. I might try that giving-out-candy idea, and we´ll see how it goes. Though most of the kids just ask us for gum, haha.

I don´t think there´s any crazy stories this week... just normal work.
I could ask a bunch of questions, and stuff like that, but we´ll be talking on Saturday anyways. So I´ll save questions for that.

Anyways, that´s about it. TALK TO YA`LL ON SATURDAY!! 2nd to last phone-call O_o

Love you :D miss you.
till Saturday...
Elder ´The yellow dart´ Webber