The stake/ward here is getting worse every week, sad story, a pretty sweet family here just split up, there are only 30 people in church every Sunday, the bishop was looking through the records from last year and realized there are 16 people that were baptized and he has no idea who they are.. and so on.
Me and Elder Black gave talks again on Sunday, he talked about prayer and I talked about faith/works. I read a lot from the book of James... especially James 3:17.... the members needed a little spark. :D. I thought it went pretty well.. a couple members came up and said *Elder Webber.... you put me in my place, made me think.* wooo.
I havn´t been mud-slided yet, cuz Annapolis is pretty flat compared to Rio de Janeiro, though we still get soaked every once in a while.
Yes, i am a rolex man now, the band is kind of cheap, and you can´t really tell the watch itself is fake unless you look really close, but i´m still ballin´ . I saw a citizen watch the other day (like mine) and it was 1500 bucks, sheeesh! My watch is pretty sweet.
So transfers came this week (a week early again, cuz President is trying to do away with the habit of some missionaries slacking off the last week of the transfer) and I´m sticking around. yeah! This ward/area is struggling, but I´m glad to be sticking around, with Elder Black still as well, 7 more weeks together. Guess it means that President thinks I´m playing to the par, hope so.
Speaking of President, we had interviews with him the other day.. Nothing too exciting: *how are you?* *good* *are you sinning?* *no* *can I help you with anything?* *nothing comes to mind* *did you baptize this month already?* *definitely* *keep it up* *ok*.
That´s pretty much how it goes. and he´s set new goals (rules) for the whole mission: 7 people in church every Sunday, 10 new investigators and 5 baptismal dates each week, and 2 baptisms per month. So it´s no longer just a personal goal to baptize every month, it´s now a rule (like it wasn´t before, but now it´s written in stone so all the slackers have no excuses)
We decided to de-frost our fridge the the other day... that took a while, cuz it was pretty much all frozen over, but with a little bit of physical negotiation we managed to get all the giant pieces of ice out, now we can freeze things again! Lourdes, the lady we´re teaching, separated from her ex-husband, so she was able to be baptized, so we marked a date for this Saturday, HAPPY, until we went back yesterday and saw that he had come back, head hanging low, and said *i wanna get baptized....pweeeese?* ugh! Fine, so now we´re working on getting them married so they can be baptized next month. Such a headache. Though another girl we were teaching, Leiticia, got married to a member this last week, we went and watched, and I was the camera man, so now we just gotta find her/teach her the rest of what she needs to knows and schedule her baptism... nothing is ever easy.
We found out the other day that we´ve been teaching a gay guy..... he asked us after we had passed by the second time *what does the church think about homosexuality?* So I explained it all to him. And then he told us he was gay.... pretty strange. but either way miracles can happen, he can still change... hopefully. Besides, we already thought he was after he told us that he was a professional cook that didn´t eat meat.... yeah.
hmm... and what else..... I think that´s about it for this week, we´ve been working a lot to get new investigators, and we´ve got a few good people, we´ll see how it goes. I got a booklet from some 7th day Adventists the other day, and when I looked through it I couldn´t help myself from laughing... I felt just a little bad after, but that´s what they get for being idiots.
Pictures:
1. Me eating a strange fruit.. I don´t know what it´s called... but it tastes a lot like dragonfruit... if you can remember what it tastes like. haha
2. Moving statues...
3. Me and my frog.
Well, I love you Mom, Dad... and all you other people.
Peace!
Elder Webber
*He who knows not, and knows not that he knows not, is a fool, shun him.*
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