More Baptisms...

Well this week was good, I almost died of a friggn heart attack on Saturday, everything was planned out that Nara and her kids would go to church early on Sunday so Lucas could be baptized then the three of them would be confirmed during church, well we found out that she had taken her kids to a ranch-place to keep them away from their nut-job dad, and she didn´t have a car to pick them up and bring them back, she said she´d only be able to get them on money (today). Well THAT was unacceptable. So we call ]ed everybody and their dog, trying to find some way to get there and get the kids back in time for Sunday morning. Nobody was available. So we ended up just calling president´s son, Cesar, telling him to come pick us up at 6 in the morning, so we can get to Santa Maria on time and get back to the church with enough time to have a baptism. Well he showed up, and we headed out... Santa Maria is a whole other city, even further than Trinity. So we come rocking up to this ranch in a hilux, and 4 dudes in suits jump out approach the house, with Nara in tow. I´m pretty sure the lady who lived there was scared out of her mind. so we grabbed the kids and bounced, came baaaack to the church, gathered everybody up (luckily we manage to talk with a guy from church to get to the chapel about 5:00 to fill up the font.. it was COOOLD) and got things started, Lucas got baptized, and all three of them got confirmed. YES!! victory!

I spent a day and a half with Elder Jensen, cuz we had a few interviews to do. He aint TOO trunky... I´ve certainly seen worse. he´s heading home on Wednesday. Though I forgive him for his trunkyness, cuz he baptized 2 people last week, and will baptize two more on Tuesday... and we went to sleep Thursday night listening to Halo Instumental :D wooo.

So here in a few days we´ll see how the zone fared against the others, I think we did pretty well, we for sure beat Anapolis, Parque amazonia and aparecida. Lets go Leadership council. Also, transfers came yesterday... almost nothing changed, we have 4 assisstants now though, so that should be fun.

Sounds like the 50-miler was awesome, I think I probably would have liked it. fo shizzle. It takes a lot of my force of will to resist the urge to just go bush-whacking into the wilderness.... green hills as far as you can see... I hear them calling to me.

I wrote a letter to Josh ( for his bday). The Lord aint gonna send missionaries out to plant seeds, what a freaking waste of time, such a boring mission... what a failure. The lord sends out missionaries to BAPTIZE! cuz who else is gonna do that? If you go out and dont baptize YOU. HAVE. FAILED. The Lord aint gonna send a missionary to baptize in an area where there´s nobody to baptize either, duuuur, why would he have missionaries in Brazil and missionaries in Europe, using the same manual, doing the same things, teaching the same way... for different reasons? There´s a picture of Jesus being baptized on the front of Preach My Gospel for a reason. I love water, why? cuz I´m waist-deep in in every month baptizing somebody. It´s not pride to say *gee wiz, there sure are lots of people in my area... I´m gonna baptize all of them.* Isn´t that what the Lord wants?

Shoot for the moon, even if you miss you´ll land among the stars. If you have a goal of 5 baptisms for this month.. you´re only gonna get 3. If you got out with a goal of 10 baptisms on your mission, you´re gonna get 5. If you go out wanting to baptize 100, you´ll baptize 50.

I baptize, therefore I am

And... because I baptize.. guess where I´m heading after this... to the Balneáio chapel to watch Narnia 3. booyah.

I have a little book that I´d like to share with the boys when I get home, a special book entitled *The Rules of The Game* that fell from the life experience of Elder Webber and Elder Lunceford into existence. Dude´s eyes only. So my advice: being serious with anybody is lame... read this book first, THEN decide what you will do.

Well, I learned this week that I LOVE testifying about the Atonement. Good stuff, thought you´d like to know.

i´m gonna blow this popsicle stand.
PEACE!!
Elder W