Yeah, it´s gotten pretty cold here as well. wow. It caught us all off guard, it´s a constant over-cast sky, pretty darn cold, and perpetual rain. Not the hard thunder-and-lightning rain storm, just sprinkling constantly. So weird. I havn´t seen the sun for quite a while. I see the Brazilians walking around in their arctic coats cuz they think they´re about to freeze to death. They know nothing of cold.
Good to hear that everybody is doing good, making new goals, and hanging out at home, it certainly is missing some mother-style-decoration down here. oh well.
Friday I did a division with Elder Cruz, Elder stoddard came here with Elder black and I went to Morumbi. It´s a nice break to just be able to follow him around and see how he works. Needless to say... he works way different than I´m used to, I´m glad I only have to stay a day with him. Also, I am NOT planning on leaving elder Stoddard and Elder Black together again.. they worked good, but i just don´t trust Elder Stoddard that much with my investigators. I think a year in the same city, and seven months with the same companion is starting to make him crazy. :-)
But anyways, that night was new years... and I didn´t get to sleep until 1 in the morning, explosions everywhere right next to and above the house. and they´re not cool, colorful fireworks, they´re just explosions. Little bombs. Just noise. So we opened the front door to take a look at what was going on... and there were just a bunch of black people-shaped shadows running around in the thick smoke setting off and throwing all sorts of explosives.... we didn´t stay and watch for too long, haha.
Other than that, this week was pretty sad. everybody was traveling, nobody wanted to talk to us, nobody was home, so we didn´t get too much work done, *sigh*. Though we are still teaching the guy in industrial, and he has a date for this Saturday, so hopefully that goes over well. We feel like he´s always on the edge of saying no, so we stay nervous.
As we were walking around the other day, we saw a guy that got just a little bit out of control for new years... he was totally messed up on crack, not good. He asked us to stop and talk with him, help him find his way home ( on the other side of the city ). He took his shirt off, then asked why it was so cold, so I suggested that he put his shirt back on. He held it up, looked very surprised * hey! I have a shirt * then he quickly put it back on. I felt pretty bad for him so I gave him a candy cane. :D
Elder Black almost killed me the other day. I was laying on the bed talking with my district (remember, we have bunk beds), blah blah blah, then I got up to plug the phone in to charge, while I was up, Elder Black climbed up the ladder and hopped onto his bed and... BAM!! The posts come apart, bed, wood and Elder Black come crashing down onto my bed, where I had been just seconds before. I almost died, it was a very traumatic experience for me. I could be dead right now, not cool. So I took pictures :D Then we put it all back together and I slept very nervously, afraid it would fall again. But then, while Elder stoddard was here, it happened again! And he actually did land on him, just his head though, so it´s ok. haha. So they put it back together, and now me and Elder Black and come up with a new *bed approach* so he doesn´t pull the posts apart anymore. How dangerous.
I have entered into negotiations with some members here about my shorts, and t-shirts, apparently they really like them (as they do anything that´s from America and they don´t have here, haha) so we´re trying to work out a trade. So far.... it seems like I´m gonna win, I feel bad that I´m gonna rip one of them off so bad, but oh well, that´s how I roll.
Brazil officially has a woman as President now......... good luck Brazil. :-)
I came up with a plan to help one of our investigators (Andre) stop smoking, and it´s working :D He´s gone from smoking 30 a day, to 7-every-3-days. YAY! my plan is pretty good I guess :D
Well, that´s about it for now, kind of a slow week without much success, but next week we´ll have a baptism, wooo!
*you lost today kid, but that doesn´t mean you have to like it*
Love you Dad, Mom, Josh, Zach, Ben, Mariah and FedEx (Joseph)
Elder Webber
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