What A Week...

Yup yup, so before I forget, I guess I should start worring about my BYU classes, I dunno when the semester starts, nor when the deadline is to sign up for classes, but I´ll get my name and password to you so you can check it out for me, maybe sign up for me. lets see...

Yeah.. I don´t remember. Maybe you can try for me and find out my name and password. haha.

Anyways... 20 minutes later...

So all week we were running after baptisms, we had 2 completely ready, but one fell through during the start of the week, another then just fell into our laps *hey, can you baptize me?* HALE YEAH! so we marked a date for Sunday, then later we found out that his family re-marked it for the 4th, NOO!! well... at least it´s still a baptism. then we were working with our friend Gilvanilson, we was being a bit flaky about baptism. So I gathered up 2 members, prepared myself. and headed to his house. I was reviewing all my tricks and moves before I got in. Then during the lesson I pulled out my bag of magic and sprinkled some fairy dust, the two member boys taught well, even my companion did pretty good. Felt like the A-team, and he accepted to be baptized Sunday morning. WOOO!! Then.... passing by there Friday night, we found out that he went for a trip... until monday night, NAAW! what a bummer, total let-down. So after 3 firm dates, all fall through. And I´m left with empty hands for this month. just shoot me. Especially after I found out that the family of five I was teaching in Goianis got baptized. grrrrrr. This next month will be better.

Also, found out that my comp from the MTC, Elder Bagely, got ran over by a train in Vitoria, and got his leg amputated... bummer.

One of our zone leaders went home the other day because the guilt of what he´d done before the mission was getting to him. oh well.

Wow, what a happy email eh?

Moving on. I´m down to single digit weeks now, did ya know that? I do.

It seems like things are coming together nicely for this next month, we´ve found quite a few people that are awesome and moving along easily, I think we can reach 6 this month. We´ll see how it goes.

I was thinking the other day about Josh, and I decided to put together a CD of music that describes the mission from start to finish, I recommend finding this music and making a real CD. Here goes:

1. month before the mission: *live like you were dieing* Tim Mcgraw

2. first night in the MTC: *Lonely Day* System of a Down

3. On the plane heading to your mission *starlight* Muse

4. First Area *lose Youreself* Eminem

5. Worst comp (or your getsemani) *sound the Bugle* Brian Adams

6 Best comp ( or training) * you got a friend in me* Toystory

7. Making one year *feelin´good* muse

8. Being called as something else after being Zone Leader *Viva la Vida* Coldplay

9. Month before coming home *on a jetplane* John Denver

10. Night before coming home *insomnia* Dirty Heads

11. On the plane coming home *Coming to America* n/a

12. When all the investigators that didn´t wanna be baptized see the second coming *vindicated* Dashboard Confessionals

Hope you like it :D

Also, since my companion walks 5 feet behind me no matter where I go, I decided to make my own version of *the devil went down to georgia*

Well a pastor went down to Brasil

He was lookin for a soul to teach

He was way behind, so he was lookin to find

someone willing to let him preach

He came accross a young man reading the scriptures and reading them hot

so the pastor hopped up on the podium steps and said *boy let me tell you what

Now you read pretty good scripture boy, but give the pastor his due

I bet a bible of gold against your soul, cuz I think I´m better than you*

Well the boy said my name´s Elder Webber, and it might be a sin

but i take that bet you´re gonna regret cuz i´m the best that´s ever been

Well the pastor said * guess i´ll start fight off the fly*

and fire flew from his fingertips as he straightened up his tie

he thumbed his fingers through the pages and it made an evil hiss

and a band of demons joined in and it sounded somthing like this...

when the pastor finished elder Webber said, well you´re pretty good old son

now just sit down in that pew right there, and let me show you how it´s done

When elder Webber finished the pastor knew that he´d been beat,

and he laid that golden bible at the ground at Elder Webber´s feet

and Elder Webber said *Pastor, just come on back, if you ever wanna try again

cuz i told you once you son-of-a-gun, I´m the best that´s ever been.

LOVE YOU ALL!!!

ELDER WEBBER

A "Crazy" Week...

So this week was crazy.. again. We spent ALL of Wednesday walking around our whole area trying to find a new house for us to live in... no success. Too many people greedy and rude, screwing over the missionaries. So now were living with other missionaries here in the center, taking a bus to our area and back every day, having to listen to my companion complain the whole way... fun. Still lookin for a house, getting kicked out of your home sucks, I´ve learned.

On Thursday, we had interviews with President. FINALLY! I havn´t had interviews for a long time, ash! So we got there, Sister flipped out at us because nobody brought their area book (nobody TOLD us to bring it, so I´m supposed to lug 20 pounds of paper with me for no reason??) right. so... naturally... I flipped out at Elder Boyne, our zone leader, cuz they were putting the blame on me that nobody brought their books, until the Sisters showed up from the other district and they didn´t know either that they were supposed to bring it, IN YOUR FACE! I backed him into a corner caught in his own excuses, chewed him out, and he stopped talking.

Don´t call me a liar when I´m not.

Anyways, finally my turn to be interviewed... not much of an interview, more like 20 minutes of chit-chat with pres.

*how ya doing?* *good*

*keepn the rules*

*of course*

*keeping the commandments?*

* easily*

*how´s your companion?*

*he alright*

*still slacker?*

*yup*

I asked a bunch of questions, confessed my sins.. all of which were before the mission that have been beating my in the head for a while. Feels good after. Then we just sat and talked about the mission, about life, about the district. Fun stuff, I love interviews with Pres. Talked a bit about the miracle of forgiveness and so on.

Then after, we spent the whole day taking all the furniture from our house and taking to a member´s where it´ll stay until we can find a new house. We enlisted our neighbor and our street-rat friend to help us out. It was a good bonding time.

Friday, we had conference with President for most of the day. Awesome, as usual. Love listening to President talk. Afterwards he gave me a hug and thanked me for my great work *you know I love you son, keep up your work, I need you.* I thought, yeah for sure you need me, cuz after my group goes home you´re gonna lose half your leaders. haha. My group rocks.

Sunday we had to give talks in sacrament meeting. The night before I asked my companion *hey, remember, we have talks tomorrow, did you prepare anything* *yeah* then when he got up to talk: *so... yeah... I didn´t prepare anything for my talk today* ugh... idiot. He just read the story of Ammon... verse for verse..... he was the second speaker, only supposed to be 5-10 minutes... he talked for 20 and lefter 10 for me. aargh! The president gave me 10 more minutes to I could give a longer talk. but wow....dude...

Then later in the day, he asked me to sit down on the curb with him, and he started talking about all his sins on the mission, and how he wants to go home... how he´s already made up his mind and that I should give him the phone to call Pres. Well I talked for him a little bit, trying to talk him out of it. I mean... he obviously is suffering in the mission, and doesn´t want to be here, but I wouldn´t be fulfilling my calling as a representative of the Lord if I just said *Sure, go home* but it still hard to help someone who doesn´t want help. But I´m still throwing in my 10 cents, as well as the other elders here. Sad dude. Sad excuse for a man. Either go on a mission, or not, but don´t come back home a failure.

I spent a half our the other day trying to rescue a 1 Real coin from the other side of a gate that I had dropped. Shows how much the money is worth to you when you´re on the mission.

*I am the Hairless otter, and I must eat chicken... AHHOOOO!!!*

LOVE YOU!

Elder Webber!

A New House

So this week has been interesting, we´ve had to deal with two morons who both say they own our house, one wanted to renew the contract and the other said he´d already sold it, in the end: we have to move out by Wednesday and we went on a wild goose chase on saturday trying to find a new house. We found one but now we have to get President to give us the OK. Sometimes people are just so stupid.

On Wednesday, we were walking through the open market, when a group of teenage kids were walking by on the street, i saw one turn around and yell *hey mormons! you guys are idiots!* well... me love and long-suffering went straight out the window, I turned around and marched toward the kid who said it, he saw me and tried to run away but just hid behind his friend when i called him out. *hey you! quit hiding like a girl and look at me when I´m talking to you! You ever talked to an american before like you just did? hmm? have you?? you ever gonna do it again?* *no...* *that´s what I thought, get out of here* I´m pretty sure he half peed his pants, and he aint gonna be talking to the missionaries again like that.

Thursday, we taught an ice-cream man. oh yeah. we were knocking doors as usual, and at one house the lady didn´t want to let us in, until her husband saw us and invited us to enter. So we did. At the end we invited her to do the closing prayer, and she said this *please forgive me for my ignorance in not letting thy servants into my house. and I thank thee that thou hast sent thy angels to our door to help us, please keep these two angels safe....* :D

On Friday I did a division with Elder Thompson and Elder Dos Anjos, I went to their area to stay with Elder Thompson the newbie. Not too shabby. We marked 4 baptismal dates in a day, success! Whenever I do divisions with the newbies in my zone or district I always try to be like how Elder Dutra was to me when I went on a division with him oh so long ago. I feel it´s better that way.

Yesterday we had three investigators in church, two of which have dates to be baptized this month. wooo! Not too bad indeed.

You know the cheesebread at Tucanos? Yeah, the best cheesebread in the world is here in Minas Gerais (the state i´m in). Take it.

I don´t think hardly a day goes by without somebody making mention of my funeral, or my departure.

Brasil got spanked in soccer by germany.... everybody was sad. hahaha

Well, that´s about it for this week, I left my memory card at home, so i´ll bring it later and send pictures :D

*Sugar...spice... and everything nice..*

ELDER WEBBER!

A Solid Week

First things first: pictures.

1. the friend and family of Jefferson when he got baptized last week,
2. the district over which I rule.
3. the death of Elder Margalho.
4. me
5. Elder Souza Silva and Elder Thompson out to lunch with us.

So this week was just another normal week, powering through the days, trying to drag people out of their houses and get them to church. ugh.

Tuesday went on division with Elder Souza Silva, I went to his area, cuz it´s been a looong time since I´ve done a division outside of my area, so i went and *chilled * with him for a bit, got to know his investigators and all that, we are currently in negotiations about his cologne and my shorts and speakers, I´m sure we´ll come to agreement. We were supposed to meet and trade at the zoo today... during our district activity, but that was shot down by the leaders, no activity this week. No zoo. No animals. Lame. Also, he offered his house for my use when me and Elder Lunceford come back to check out São Paulo and Rio De Janeiro. He said he´ll take us to his favorite restaraunts and party places, sounds good.

Also on Tuesday, we held a funeral for Elder Margalho during district meeting, cuz he´s heading out today, on the big bird that leaves and never comes back.

My my my, David is back home is he? well, Dr. XXX we meet again, only this time the advantage is mine!

Of all the people we taught during the week, all the sweat and hard work, only 2 went to chruch with us, one will be baptized this weekend if everything goes according to plan, and the next one will be baptized the week after, again if everything goes according to plan, it´s very discouraging when you work all week but you see hardly any result at the end of it, almost makes you want to just sit down the rest of Sunday and do nothing.

Yesterday was transfer day, so that means the clock has begun: 2 transfers left, 12 weeks remaining, 84 days to DO WORK!

This area is awesome in the fact that I don´t have to spend a fortune on bus-passes, so now I can use that money to try and gain back the weight I have lost, I only weigh 89 kilos! Madness! So whenever I have a spare moment I buy me some sweet confectionary baked goods from the bakery, mmhmm. I feel like Edgar: *Edgar, your skin is hanging off your bones* I have to keep hiking up my pants cuz they don´t fit on my body anymore haha

But yeah, other than that, hauln´ butt and working all day, nothing is new. Baptism this week, woo!!

LOVE YOU!!
Elder GH Webber

Just workin'...

My my, we had another BAPTISM! WOOO!!!! His name is Jefferson, and he´s been wanting to be baptized for a while now, and last week he finally made the decision. So yesterday before church we held his baptismal meeting. Wooo!!! I was thankful that The Big Man Upstairs held onto him just long enough till I got here then allowed him to be baptized under my watch, woo!! The kid is way cool, we were friends as soon as I entered his house.

This week was a bit unusual though. Tuesday I did a division with one of the new zone leaders, Elder Periera... it´s a very *interesting* experience to walk with these missionaries, being the second-oldest in the zone, and seeing them make all the same mistakes I made when I was a newbie... oh the frustration. But it was still fun. Friday Elder Boyne, the other zone leader, came here to kick it with us for a while (also to do an interview), and he spent the night as well. We got up early the next day to go to *helping Hands*, we helped distribute panflets about Dengue... fun, but alot of the members were complaining that it was kind of pointless... haha, I have no opinion. Later, I headed to Tibery to do an interview for Elder Souza Silva, longest interview ever, but I talked her through her problems and she got baptized yesterday, sweeeeeet. Elder S. Silva invited me to come stay at his house sometime in São Paulo, so we can go to Carnaval together with Elder Lunceford, and we can go party in Rio and São Paulo. Fo shizzle.

Let's see.... really these days are all just full of knocking doors, I cut my hair into a mohawk last monday.... I love mohawks, and everybody here has them... I shaved it off before I went out to work. :D. I´m eating pineapple almost every other day, there´s a hard-core football fan that sits next to our house and he updates us on how all the teams are doing. Our team, the Flamengos, are kickn´ trash, so that´s good. I was fooled into cheering for Vaso for a few weeks, but luckily some members convinced me of the error of my ways and i turned back to my first love.

I´M A-CHARGIN´ MAH LAZER!! SHOOP DA WOOP!

love, Elder Webber