GENERAL CONFERENCE THIS WEEK!!! WOOO!!!

GENERAL CONFERENCE THIS WEEK!!! WOOO!!!

Thanks Mom for the quote from CS Lewis, I´ve read parts from that book before, but I´ve never read that part. I liked it. One of my favorite parts goes something like this (I´ll try and remember how it goes)

*The mistaken idea these days is that good people know very little about what it means to be *bad*, or that they know nothing about what evil really is. This idea, in it´s entirety, is false. After all, you discover the strength of the German army by fighting against it, not by running away, you discover the force of the wind by walking against it, not by lying down. So, in a sense, bad people know very little indeed about what it means to be bad, for always having lived a sheltered life and always given in to temptation, they never know what it might have been like five minutes later. And Christ, being the only man who never gave into temptation, is the only man who really knows the full strength of evil, the only true realist*

Anyways, news from the front-lines:

We had a baptism! finally!! We had a baptism meeting Saturday with the other companionship in our ward, and 4 people got baptized, we baptized Camilla, woo! And that one lady I told you about the other day (the lady I marked a date with for Elder Dantas) got baptized too. So it was a good day, and it was also the ward´s Relief Society party, so there was cake too! Sweeeeet. Makes life easier for us. But President still has a goal to baptize 300 people by the end of the next month... so we gotta work on doing our part for that, we have 5 baptisms marked for this Saturday, but the Mom is being a bit flaky, very annoying, but oh well, we´ll get her/them. We always meet her kids in the bus stations and they come running up screaming our names and jump on us and give us hugs and everything..... then stick their hands in my briefcase trying to grab my extra change to buy Popsicles. BACK YOU DEMONS!! Meanwhile everybody is watching us, wondering why there´s a bunch of kids hanging off our necks as we´re trying to talk, until of course they see that our bus has arrived and they *help* us get onto the bus, mainly just by pushing us into it. haha. And all the while they´re yelling out the day they´re gonna be baptized, haha, so now everybody knows that there´s 4 little kids somewhere, running around, that are gonna be baptized on the 2nd, haha, at least the kids are excited about it.

Yesterday, as we were at lunch, the dad pulled out all his book of mormons and showed them to us, old ones, new ones, and all sorts of languages. And then I saw one on the bottom of the pile.. and it looked like....oh could it be? Yes, yes it is! a Book of Mormon in Arabic! Before I even picked it up to see for sure I had already made my offer to buy it from him.... after a small negotiation he said he´d give it to me for free! He put his name in it and all that, so then the rest of lunch was spent trying to get him to accept the money for it, but he wouldn´t accept (I get an A for effort). So now I have an Arabic book of mormon sitting at home, booyah. Then he felt bad about giving me one, so he gave an Italian book of mormon to Elder Erickson.... Arabic is better.

Elder Erickson got sick this week, diarrhea and all that, not too fun, though we went out to work anyways, however our numbers did suffer a little bit. But he´s a bit better now, so that´s good. I found some Immunizen I had hidden away in my bags ( it´s amazing how much stuff I had hidden in my bags )... so what did i do? I kept it for myself to protect my precious body from his black death, of course.

We had a service project the other day, clearing out the bush from a member´s *back yard* and the whole time we were encountering huge spiders, GIANT caterpillars, bats, and all sorts of other critters, Elder Erickson got attacked by an army of ants, poor guy, and removed himself from the battlefield.

All the older guys in the meantime, we just talking about stuff, and chatting away, and by the time I had realized that I was the only one working, I had already plowed my own small trail way into the middle of the tall grass and bush, I was surrounded. So what did i do? I decided to chop down the small trees around me, good times.

Well the work goes on, we´ve formed our own little study group at that one Hostel I told you about, there are now 3 guys who are listening to the lessons, one already went to church with us yesterday, and the other two say they´ll go with us this week, I love those guys. Everybody in the bar in front knows who we area and always give us a warm welcome when we enter into the small doorway to the rooms in back. :D

Anyways, I miss you all, love you all.
*the Jamaican papaya was seedless!!*

Elder Webber