A GREAT Week.... Being Trained.

tá bom, tá bom.

So, first. yes I am pretty good friends with Elder Erickson, we´ve been together pretty much the whole mission, and now we´re actually companions, we both knew it was bound to happen sometime. He goes home in May, with Elder White ( my trainer) and Elder Pattie (my third companion, after Elder Casey) and yeah, I was pretty good friends with Elder Pattie, whenever he calls us, or we call him it´s nice to talk with him for a bit. But anyways, Elder Erickson is from Idaho, he´s completely nuts about Disney, he´s planning on working there after the mission.... and he´s half-convinced me to go there with him as well, we´ll see how that goes. You said you sent my package *there*... where is *there*? the office? my old house? i certainly hope it wasn´t to my old house.

Speaking of packages, I got one the other day. woooo!!! I got the package with buttloads of candy, and the sing-a-ma-jig. It´s the bee´s knees! so thank you, thank you, I love the package :D also.... I spent a good long while staring at the back of the pop-tarts box... cuz there were pictures/contest about winning an xbox 360 with Kinect.... oh how beautiful it was.

So Zach started every game is St. George for the U19 team? holy smackers! keep it up jimmy! i´m gonna get my butt kicked when I get back home... cuz all we do is walk.. and that don´t do too much for my Gaston physique.

There was a huge storm last night... and as we were in the street we were getting beat to death by sheets of rain, so we ran to hide inside a bar (that seems to happen a lot these days) and whiles we were chillin, the power cut out. so we were stuck in a dark, tiny, family-run bar for a bit while we waited to mother nature to calm down. But as usual, there were rivers in the streets so we didn´t have very many options for where we could go. Fun stuff, saw a few accidents.

Anyways, this last week we had a couple conferences and meetings. firstly, on Thursday we had a conference of all the zone leaders at president´s office. It was pretty awesome chilling with all the most powerful people in the mission, all obedient, all the best. I was thinking that it must be like what a stake high-council meeting feels like. President call it our *war-council in the general´s tent* and Elder Erickson calls it the *Jedi Council* either way, it was awesome. When we got there, President shook everybody´s hand and said hi, as usual, but this is how it went: *good morning Elder ... Good morning Elder... how are you? good morning... how are you?.... ELDER WEBBER!! How are you my son!?* Then he shakes my hand with both his hands and asks about how the work is going. so... I liked it :D Elder Martin said he used to do the same thing with him when he used to be zone leader, so if I´m anything like him, I´m doing pretty good.

Then Friday we had a conference with Elder Araujo, from the presidency of the area. That guy is the shiz-niz. he´s soooo funny, and he´s HUGE! He makes our president look tineyyyy. his story is in the February ensign...( i think so anyways, cuz all we get here is the Liahona, and it was there). Anyways, I learned a bunch, loved it. and then he left... until he came back and asked for a few more minutes to speak... and in short, this is what he said: *the kiss has nothing to do with a temple ordinance, so you CAN and you SHOULD kiss your girlfriend before you get married! I did, your president did (pres. said... bwaha, why of course) president monson did, so all this chatter about how you shouldn´t is FALSE DOCTRINE!* hahahaha.... oh yes, we learn alot during these meetings.

I think it´s funny you kept talking about *1-minute quick oats* and hershey´s cocoa and golden syrup.... if i were to ask for that stuff in the store here they´d tell me to go away and stop making up product names :D haha, but no worries, they have all the ingredients. so thank you for the recipe!

Elder Vitorino stayed at our house for a few days last week, cuz there was the conference and all that, he slept on the ground. *with the mice?* *with the RATS!* and I made pancakes in the morning one time, good stuff. He was gonna stay for our baptism, but it fell through cuz the mom took out her kidney stones... meh. Perfect timing. But the 12th we´re gonna have a bunch of baptisms, for sure!!

I like being zone leader tons more than district leader, cuz i don´t have to fight tooth and nail with the slacker missionaries to get them to do as they should, instead I just tell the district leaders what I want, and they get it done.... like an *easy button*.

So yeah, that´s about it for this week, fun times, good stuff, good work, good families. and this next week should be better, and the next EVEN BETTER! woo!

*why do we call our jeep a warthog?*
*i dunno, maybe cuz it has these tusk-things in the front?*
*yeah, but i think it looks more like a puma*
*He-he, oh Grif, making up animals again, obviously it looks like a chupa-thingey*
*you mean Chupacabra?*
*that´s it! Chupathingey*
*...mm yeah, no i think it looks like a panther*
*Dangit Grif, i thought i told you to stop making up animals!*
-Red vs. Blue

love, Elder Webber