I got the package from the ward today, with the book that everybody wrote in, it was pretty spiffy, I like it. tell everyone thanks, and I also got the package from grandma, with cookies and flakes and everything, thanks grandma :D
ANYWAYS, nos batisamos esta semana!! Yeah, we baptized Leiticia, and it was pretty darn sweet, cuz the two other district leaders all baptized as well at the same chapel, so there were 6 baptisms all at the same time, I liked it. Though some other missionaries were giving us some troubles earlier in the week, cuz they were trying to rob our baptism, trying to get her to baptize in their ward.. haha... yeeeeeaaaah, that aint gonna happen, so I finally just got fed up with it and called the zone leaders and we had a phone conference with everybody involved, we told them to stop being stupid and she´s gonna baptize here. and he was ticked, but that´s what you get for being a lazy Brazilian and trying to steal a baptism from the Americans, that aint never gonna happen. Here comes the boom!! Her father in law baptized her, and then she chose me to do the confirmation, so that was pretty sweet.
Other than the baptism, this week was terrible, nothing went according to plan, and everything fell through, the only people who would talk to us were all the nut-jobs, we decided to go knock doors in a new part of town and met a whole new group of crazies and drunk... so we won´t be passing by there again any time soon.
We´ve been making pancakes these days though, I´ve gotten pretty darn good at cooking them on a stove that either cooks too hot or too low, on a pan that has no handle, with a spoon for a spatula, and a sponge for a potholder. oh yeah. i´m just too stingy to buy any new stuff, besides, if it works fine, why fix it?
Speaking of stuff from America, i don´t mind what you send, as long as it tastes good and fills up the empty spaces in my stomach, just anything random, i don´t mind. though i could use a new oil container... cuz i´m 101% sure that a Brazilian elder stole the other one I had.... I hate Brazilian missionaries.... well.... some of them.....never-mind.
Ah, Brazilians.... it´s pretty sad knowing that our ward has an attendance of 30 every week when it could have 70 if it weren´t for JUST ONE PERSON. There is a sister in our ward that is addicted to gossip. Wow..... now that is something I just don´t have any patience for, I´ve never really had to deal with gossip before.. cuz I didn´t really participate in school groups or was a ward chatter box, but here I have to hear it almost every day, and it´s the worst from this one sister, I cant take it--so sad, there are inactives that have told us that they would go to church again if it weren´t for that family, that´s pretty darn sad. And there´s nothing I can do about it. I´m sure gonna help where I can. Sad stuff.
moral: no gossip.
So yeah, that´s how it goes, we should have a conference with President coming up, and hopefully this week is better with finding people to teach, cuz we gotta plan for February.
*Do not use fire during a zombie outbreak, because the only thing worse than having your brain eaten by a zombie, is having your brain eaten by a zombie that is on fire.*
Love,
Elder Webber
Monday, January 24, 2011
Monday, January 17, 2011
Another " 'Tism"
The stake/ward here is getting worse every week, sad story, a pretty sweet family here just split up, there are only 30 people in church every Sunday, the bishop was looking through the records from last year and realized there are 16 people that were baptized and he has no idea who they are.. and so on.
Me and Elder Black gave talks again on Sunday, he talked about prayer and I talked about faith/works. I read a lot from the book of James... especially James 3:17.... the members needed a little spark. :D. I thought it went pretty well.. a couple members came up and said *Elder Webber.... you put me in my place, made me think.* wooo.
I havn´t been mud-slided yet, cuz Annapolis is pretty flat compared to Rio de Janeiro, though we still get soaked every once in a while.
Yes, i am a rolex man now, the band is kind of cheap, and you can´t really tell the watch itself is fake unless you look really close, but i´m still ballin´ . I saw a citizen watch the other day (like mine) and it was 1500 bucks, sheeesh! My watch is pretty sweet.
So transfers came this week (a week early again, cuz President is trying to do away with the habit of some missionaries slacking off the last week of the transfer) and I´m sticking around. yeah! This ward/area is struggling, but I´m glad to be sticking around, with Elder Black still as well, 7 more weeks together. Guess it means that President thinks I´m playing to the par, hope so.
Speaking of President, we had interviews with him the other day.. Nothing too exciting: *how are you?* *good* *are you sinning?* *no* *can I help you with anything?* *nothing comes to mind* *did you baptize this month already?* *definitely* *keep it up* *ok*.
That´s pretty much how it goes. and he´s set new goals (rules) for the whole mission: 7 people in church every Sunday, 10 new investigators and 5 baptismal dates each week, and 2 baptisms per month. So it´s no longer just a personal goal to baptize every month, it´s now a rule (like it wasn´t before, but now it´s written in stone so all the slackers have no excuses)
We decided to de-frost our fridge the the other day... that took a while, cuz it was pretty much all frozen over, but with a little bit of physical negotiation we managed to get all the giant pieces of ice out, now we can freeze things again! Lourdes, the lady we´re teaching, separated from her ex-husband, so she was able to be baptized, so we marked a date for this Saturday, HAPPY, until we went back yesterday and saw that he had come back, head hanging low, and said *i wanna get baptized....pweeeese?* ugh! Fine, so now we´re working on getting them married so they can be baptized next month. Such a headache. Though another girl we were teaching, Leiticia, got married to a member this last week, we went and watched, and I was the camera man, so now we just gotta find her/teach her the rest of what she needs to knows and schedule her baptism... nothing is ever easy.
We found out the other day that we´ve been teaching a gay guy..... he asked us after we had passed by the second time *what does the church think about homosexuality?* So I explained it all to him. And then he told us he was gay.... pretty strange. but either way miracles can happen, he can still change... hopefully. Besides, we already thought he was after he told us that he was a professional cook that didn´t eat meat.... yeah.
hmm... and what else..... I think that´s about it for this week, we´ve been working a lot to get new investigators, and we´ve got a few good people, we´ll see how it goes. I got a booklet from some 7th day Adventists the other day, and when I looked through it I couldn´t help myself from laughing... I felt just a little bad after, but that´s what they get for being idiots.
Pictures:
1. Me eating a strange fruit.. I don´t know what it´s called... but it tastes a lot like dragonfruit... if you can remember what it tastes like. haha
2. Moving statues...
3. Me and my frog.
Well, I love you Mom, Dad... and all you other people.
Peace!
Elder Webber
*He who knows not, and knows not that he knows not, is a fool, shun him.*
Sunday, January 16, 2011
Another GREAT week.
We had a baptism! wooo!
We had a meeting with the zone leaders during district meeting, they brought some new rules and stuff from president. We have a crazy/complicated new retention plan, fun stuff, and since some missionaries were STILL being retarded on the internet, now we have to use the computer one at a time. Idiots. I sure hope they got sent home.
During the week I went on division with Elder Martin, the zone leader, finally we have a division, it´s the first one since I´ve been here. It´s a bummer that everything fell thought that day though. Either way it was fun, he´s going home in 4 months... and I´ve never seen anybody as trunky as he is. He was one of the most messed up kids before the mission, (he´s 24, so that explains a bit). it´s funny though, the best missionaries I know are kids that messed up before the mission and just was to make up for their mistakes.
But the big news for this week was our baptism, woooo! Sandoval finally got baptized, we tried to get him to choose his member friend to baptize him, but he chose me anyways, haha. He´s already gonna get the aaronic priesthood, and the branch president is gonna call him as secretary. He´s a pretty shy/timid guy, but he´s way smart. The baptismal font took about 3 hours to fill up (with two hoses going at the same time) then we bought pop and sweet bread stuff from the bakery and had a pretty cool baptism, the president called us up to do a surprise musical number... haha, yeah.
Today we had our first weekly leadership meeting, cuz apparently some missionaries thought it would be a GREAT idea to meet together every preparation day and talk about the zone and stuff. So now we have to come here to Jundiai every Monday morning to talk about the zone problems, it´s not boring or anything, it´s just a pain to use the bus and lose time. But oh well, it´s still pretty fun/helpful.
Anyways, my 40 minutes is up, (I hate, I hate, I hate stupid missionaries/sinners)
*THIS... is my BOOMSTICK!!!........shop smart, shop S-Mart!*
love you all
Elder Webber
We had a meeting with the zone leaders during district meeting, they brought some new rules and stuff from president. We have a crazy/complicated new retention plan, fun stuff, and since some missionaries were STILL being retarded on the internet, now we have to use the computer one at a time. Idiots. I sure hope they got sent home.
During the week I went on division with Elder Martin, the zone leader, finally we have a division, it´s the first one since I´ve been here. It´s a bummer that everything fell thought that day though. Either way it was fun, he´s going home in 4 months... and I´ve never seen anybody as trunky as he is. He was one of the most messed up kids before the mission, (he´s 24, so that explains a bit). it´s funny though, the best missionaries I know are kids that messed up before the mission and just was to make up for their mistakes.
But the big news for this week was our baptism, woooo! Sandoval finally got baptized, we tried to get him to choose his member friend to baptize him, but he chose me anyways, haha. He´s already gonna get the aaronic priesthood, and the branch president is gonna call him as secretary. He´s a pretty shy/timid guy, but he´s way smart. The baptismal font took about 3 hours to fill up (with two hoses going at the same time) then we bought pop and sweet bread stuff from the bakery and had a pretty cool baptism, the president called us up to do a surprise musical number... haha, yeah.
Today we had our first weekly leadership meeting, cuz apparently some missionaries thought it would be a GREAT idea to meet together every preparation day and talk about the zone and stuff. So now we have to come here to Jundiai every Monday morning to talk about the zone problems, it´s not boring or anything, it´s just a pain to use the bus and lose time. But oh well, it´s still pretty fun/helpful.
Anyways, my 40 minutes is up, (I hate, I hate, I hate stupid missionaries/sinners)
*THIS... is my BOOMSTICK!!!........shop smart, shop S-Mart!*
love you all
Elder Webber
Monday, January 3, 2011
New Year's... And "Stuff"
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
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
Monday, December 27, 2010
Christmas in Brazil and Talkin' with Home...
ZChristmas was awesome, it was great to see and talk with everybody on skype, Everybody sounds/looks so much different. Josh looks like a scallywag with his hair, zach looks... the same, but sounds way different, Ben sounds older and looks..... strange. Mariah looks older but still sounds the same. and Joseph is the most different out of everybody.
I´m happy that everybody had a great Christmas, it certainly didn´t feel anything like Christmas here, everybody just did a churrasco and got drunk... as usual. We had apple pie and chocolate cake the night after Christmas day, so that was pretty fun. haha, and I´m happy to hear that Jared Whippy enjoyed his first American Christmas (there´s really nothing else like it in the world, America does it the best, by far, that´s why we´re #1 :-) )
While we were at Lehi´s house, Elder Black gave him some of his Sour Warheads candy.... hahaha... funniest thing I saw all week. So now he gives them out to all our other friends and investigators to see all the faces they make... nobody likes them. They all spit them out the moment they put it in their mouth. Good times, good times. Then we played a game with his *every flavor* Jelly Belly jelly beans... I had *barf flavored bean* taste in my mouth the whole rest of the day.... that wasn´t as fun.
Also, during our pancake night with André´s family, we used the maple syrup I got, and the kids hated it. haha, they preferred to just eat the pancakes plain. hahaha, the parents liked it, but the kids said it was way too strong. So I tried it to see what the problem was... and I experienced 5 seconds of heaven. In other words, the maple was fine, the kids are just weird. They´re just not used to pure-awesomeness.
Mariana and Dilmas got confirmed on Sunday, and the family is still excited to go to church, including the parents who say they´re gonna get married in January so they can get baptized, yay!! And then we marked another date with a girl we´re teaching for the 22nd. So now we have at least 4 baptisms for the next month. YES!!
I really don´t have that much more news... cuz I told about everything on skype,
We met our tipsy friends the other day, one of them was waaay too drunk, so we told him * dude, you should go home, you´re drunk* response: *who´s drunk? you are! I´m going home, I don't want to hang around you drunkards* hahaha but then another whipped out a guitar from somewhere... I don´t know where it came from, so we just finished off the night by singing songs, (some from my hymnbook that I had on me) Then we left, they told us to come by anytime, cuz they don´t like mischief-makers, and we´re people of god, and the like us. Pretty much they´re the best group of friends we have here in this part of town. All the new people that were passing by were introduced to us by our friend and now we have a group waiting for us anytime choose to pass by. haha. sweet. And it was while I was sitting there, talking and laughing with them all, that I realized how much I love Brazil. Sure some (most) of the people are half-stupid, don´t know how to drive and are religious maniacs who don´t know how to take care of their money, but the people we were hanging out that night were the best/nicest people I´ve ever met, if the world were full of them, we would have no problems (except for the lots of drinking part).
How´s Joseph liking his blue motorbike? I´m digging my legos and sweet t-shirt, I´m wearing it to our barbeque today. woo!
Well, I don´t have much more to talk about. But I hope you have a great week and a happy new year.
Love ya dad, love ya mom, love ya all you other people.
Stay thirsty my friends.
Elder Webber
I´m happy that everybody had a great Christmas, it certainly didn´t feel anything like Christmas here, everybody just did a churrasco and got drunk... as usual. We had apple pie and chocolate cake the night after Christmas day, so that was pretty fun. haha, and I´m happy to hear that Jared Whippy enjoyed his first American Christmas (there´s really nothing else like it in the world, America does it the best, by far, that´s why we´re #1 :-) )
While we were at Lehi´s house, Elder Black gave him some of his Sour Warheads candy.... hahaha... funniest thing I saw all week. So now he gives them out to all our other friends and investigators to see all the faces they make... nobody likes them. They all spit them out the moment they put it in their mouth. Good times, good times. Then we played a game with his *every flavor* Jelly Belly jelly beans... I had *barf flavored bean* taste in my mouth the whole rest of the day.... that wasn´t as fun.
Also, during our pancake night with André´s family, we used the maple syrup I got, and the kids hated it. haha, they preferred to just eat the pancakes plain. hahaha, the parents liked it, but the kids said it was way too strong. So I tried it to see what the problem was... and I experienced 5 seconds of heaven. In other words, the maple was fine, the kids are just weird. They´re just not used to pure-awesomeness.
Mariana and Dilmas got confirmed on Sunday, and the family is still excited to go to church, including the parents who say they´re gonna get married in January so they can get baptized, yay!! And then we marked another date with a girl we´re teaching for the 22nd. So now we have at least 4 baptisms for the next month. YES!!
I really don´t have that much more news... cuz I told about everything on skype,
We met our tipsy friends the other day, one of them was waaay too drunk, so we told him * dude, you should go home, you´re drunk* response: *who´s drunk? you are! I´m going home, I don't want to hang around you drunkards* hahaha but then another whipped out a guitar from somewhere... I don´t know where it came from, so we just finished off the night by singing songs, (some from my hymnbook that I had on me) Then we left, they told us to come by anytime, cuz they don´t like mischief-makers, and we´re people of god, and the like us. Pretty much they´re the best group of friends we have here in this part of town. All the new people that were passing by were introduced to us by our friend and now we have a group waiting for us anytime choose to pass by. haha. sweet. And it was while I was sitting there, talking and laughing with them all, that I realized how much I love Brazil. Sure some (most) of the people are half-stupid, don´t know how to drive and are religious maniacs who don´t know how to take care of their money, but the people we were hanging out that night were the best/nicest people I´ve ever met, if the world were full of them, we would have no problems (except for the lots of drinking part).
How´s Joseph liking his blue motorbike? I´m digging my legos and sweet t-shirt, I´m wearing it to our barbeque today. woo!
Well, I don´t have much more to talk about. But I hope you have a great week and a happy new year.
Love ya dad, love ya mom, love ya all you other people.
Stay thirsty my friends.
Elder Webber
Monday, December 20, 2010
This Week...
Industrial got closed because the members there are nuts, and they didn´t appreciate the missionaries while they had them, so President put them somewhere where they´ll be appreciated and actually get things done, and the members will see what it´s like to have no missionaries. Every time we pass by in that area, all the members we meet seem way excited and ask if we´re the new missionaries, and I always have to tell them no. I´m only there to baptize one guy (and hopefully his family) and then I´m done. Speaking of which, we taught him a few times this last week (many, many bus rides) and the last time we taught him we took a member family with us. The members and him used to be part of the same churches, so they just spent a good 45 minutes bashing all the other churches they used to go to. The guy told us EVERYTHING he thought was wrong about all the other churches, and how they all teach apostasy. example: *the pope is the child of the devil, there´s no other explanation*
*all these other churches are filled with people screaming and flying around, is that in the bible? NO. They´re a bunch of money-sucking, miracle mongering, sin-condemning, scripture-screaming, lunatics. is that in the bible? NO!*
yeeeeah, balln´ ! He already believed the church was true, the only trick was to get him to accept a date. Which we did, he finally decided to be baptized on the 8th of January. yay!
The zone got together the other day to practice our musical program for tonight. We´re going to the praça to sing Christmas hymns for everybody, and Globo (the news station) will be there. They chose me to read the scriptures in between each song because of my deep voice suave. oh yeah :D so that should be fun.
The ward had their Christmas dinner the other day, so we stopped by for a bit, helped out a little too. I pretty much just pigged out on the pineapple... good stuff. It made me miss the ward barbecues back home when there was like a bajillion people, and hamburgers, here there was about... 20 people. sad story.
So we´ve got 2 baptisms scheduled for this Friday, hopefully everything goes over well. It´s always a mess, trying to invite members, filing up the font, getting everything set up, making sure everybody is happy *sigh* soooo nerve-wrecking. oh well.
Elder Black still gets ticked every once in a while when the language gives him a little bit of trouble. But he´s getting better. I still have to re-teach everything he teaches cuz nobody understands him. But it´s funny that everybody things he´s Brazilian (before he talks) so when they don´t understand what I say ( cuz I tend to speak too fast sometimes :-) ) they always look to him, and he has no idea what anybody is saying, so everybody´s lost for a little while. CONFUSION!
It´s kind of weird that I´ll only have one Christmas in the field, cuz my last one was while I was stranded in the MTC. But oh well. At least I get to call home this time :D yay. And I´ll probably have a lot to talk about cuz this week seems pretty jam-packed with stuff, so that should be fun. I might try that giving-out-candy idea, and we´ll see how it goes. Though most of the kids just ask us for gum, haha.
I don´t think there´s any crazy stories this week... just normal work.
I could ask a bunch of questions, and stuff like that, but we´ll be talking on Saturday anyways. So I´ll save questions for that.
Anyways, that´s about it. TALK TO YA`LL ON SATURDAY!! 2nd to last phone-call O_o
Love you :D miss you.
till Saturday...
Elder ´The yellow dart´ Webber
*all these other churches are filled with people screaming and flying around, is that in the bible? NO. They´re a bunch of money-sucking, miracle mongering, sin-condemning, scripture-screaming, lunatics. is that in the bible? NO!*
yeeeeah, balln´ ! He already believed the church was true, the only trick was to get him to accept a date. Which we did, he finally decided to be baptized on the 8th of January. yay!
The zone got together the other day to practice our musical program for tonight. We´re going to the praça to sing Christmas hymns for everybody, and Globo (the news station) will be there. They chose me to read the scriptures in between each song because of my deep voice suave. oh yeah :D so that should be fun.
The ward had their Christmas dinner the other day, so we stopped by for a bit, helped out a little too. I pretty much just pigged out on the pineapple... good stuff. It made me miss the ward barbecues back home when there was like a bajillion people, and hamburgers, here there was about... 20 people. sad story.
So we´ve got 2 baptisms scheduled for this Friday, hopefully everything goes over well. It´s always a mess, trying to invite members, filing up the font, getting everything set up, making sure everybody is happy *sigh* soooo nerve-wrecking. oh well.
Elder Black still gets ticked every once in a while when the language gives him a little bit of trouble. But he´s getting better. I still have to re-teach everything he teaches cuz nobody understands him. But it´s funny that everybody things he´s Brazilian (before he talks) so when they don´t understand what I say ( cuz I tend to speak too fast sometimes :-) ) they always look to him, and he has no idea what anybody is saying, so everybody´s lost for a little while. CONFUSION!
It´s kind of weird that I´ll only have one Christmas in the field, cuz my last one was while I was stranded in the MTC. But oh well. At least I get to call home this time :D yay. And I´ll probably have a lot to talk about cuz this week seems pretty jam-packed with stuff, so that should be fun. I might try that giving-out-candy idea, and we´ll see how it goes. Though most of the kids just ask us for gum, haha.
I don´t think there´s any crazy stories this week... just normal work.
I could ask a bunch of questions, and stuff like that, but we´ll be talking on Saturday anyways. So I´ll save questions for that.
Anyways, that´s about it. TALK TO YA`LL ON SATURDAY!! 2nd to last phone-call O_o
Love you :D miss you.
till Saturday...
Elder ´The yellow dart´ Webber
Monday, December 6, 2010
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So this week all zone leaders and district leaders headed to Goiania for 3 days, so that was fun. Just sitting around and listening to president talk is always fun. Though i did have to abandon my area, what a bummer. I stayed with 3 Brazilians during our little conference, in a house that took an hour to get to/from by bus every morning and night. fun. But it was cool to chill with some Brazilians, I found out that it´s quite normal (and almost expected) that Brazilians kiss their cousins... apparently *cousin* isn´t close enough in the family to cause strangeness. Also, it was good to not hear any English, Portuguese comes a whole lot easier these days than English, and since my companion speaks English EVERY TIME he doesn´t understand something it´s really giving me a headache. He asks me to explain something in English, but I just cant, I sound like a retard cuz I´ve forgotten words and all my grammar is backwards.
But when I came back from the conference, Elder Black was working with Elder Pattie and Elder Fralick, so when we headed back to our area he said. *wow dude, we work BUTTLOADS harder than Elder Pattie, I felt like I was slacking off while I was with them.*
haha, oh yeah.
Preparation day last week we all headed to Jundiai to play basketball (volleyball was canceled cuz the ball popped) so that was fun, everybody plays for a bit then just wants to go inside and lay on the cold tile floor :D But since today was transfer day everybody is staying home so the other districts can resolve all the transfer mess. So the news about transfers: Industrial got closed, so I´m gonna have to pick up the area book and baptize the investigators they left behind, and Elder Stoddard and Elder Cruz are sticking together...again. They both sounded so depressed when I told them last night, neither one believed it. Elder Stoddard was already packing his stuff cuz he was SURE that he was gonna be leaving. He´s spent his whole mission here in Anapolis, and 6 months with the same companion, and now they´re gonna stay one more, poor guy, sounded like he was about to cry. haha. I dunno if they still have some small problems with the companionship, but if they do, they´re just gonna have to suck it up. So now the zone leaders are gonna do divisions with them to keep them excited, and I will too after a bit, just to get him happy until the end of transfer. You know it´s bad when the secretary says: *dude.... i don´t believe it.... everybody here thought he was going to get transferred for sure.....I don´t believe it.... how terrible*
But yeah, me and the bishop here aren´t the best of buddies. I mean, he´s a cool guy... just I think some of his *ideas* or *his way of doing it* are.... not good (stupid). I wont extrapolate, but suffice it to say that he´s getting in the way of our work. Just step back and let me do mah bidness!! I´ll swagger the way I was taught, thank you very much.
I held my breath for 1:40 on the bus the other day.
In church yesterday one of our investigators got up to bear her testimony, it was a very *evangelical* testimony, but it was pretty sweet anyways. Then she told everybody that she´s gonna get baptized. woo. It´s just that she lives in the same house as her ex-husband... so we´re in negotiations with President to try and get the green light to baptize her. Oh what a tangled web we weave. Downtown Anapolis is all lit up with Christmas lights and music and everything, it´s missing a bit of snow, but it still looks pretty dang sweet, the zone is going to go sing carols in the main park one of these days, and be covered by a TV station, so that should be pretty fun.
I actually felt a little bit sick for the first time on my mission today, but I popped some Imunizen, and Bio-C and pepto bismal and bye bye ickyness. woo. I say I´m doing pretty good, I´ve gone a year and a bit in a far-off land and I havn´t been attacked, eaten, sick, robbed, or anything. (watch something happen this week now) Though I´m pretty sure nobody´s gonna mess with us, cuz we´re two big Americans, and we tower over most of the Brazilians here, so anybody would have to be pretty crazy to mess with us. Bahahaha!
But yeah, I´m pretty sure that´s about it for now, This next week should be pretty interesting.
*I bet a fiddle of gold against your soul cuz i think I´m better than you...*
Love, Elder Webber
But when I came back from the conference, Elder Black was working with Elder Pattie and Elder Fralick, so when we headed back to our area he said. *wow dude, we work BUTTLOADS harder than Elder Pattie, I felt like I was slacking off while I was with them.*
haha, oh yeah.
Preparation day last week we all headed to Jundiai to play basketball (volleyball was canceled cuz the ball popped) so that was fun, everybody plays for a bit then just wants to go inside and lay on the cold tile floor :D But since today was transfer day everybody is staying home so the other districts can resolve all the transfer mess. So the news about transfers: Industrial got closed, so I´m gonna have to pick up the area book and baptize the investigators they left behind, and Elder Stoddard and Elder Cruz are sticking together...again. They both sounded so depressed when I told them last night, neither one believed it. Elder Stoddard was already packing his stuff cuz he was SURE that he was gonna be leaving. He´s spent his whole mission here in Anapolis, and 6 months with the same companion, and now they´re gonna stay one more, poor guy, sounded like he was about to cry. haha. I dunno if they still have some small problems with the companionship, but if they do, they´re just gonna have to suck it up. So now the zone leaders are gonna do divisions with them to keep them excited, and I will too after a bit, just to get him happy until the end of transfer. You know it´s bad when the secretary says: *dude.... i don´t believe it.... everybody here thought he was going to get transferred for sure.....I don´t believe it.... how terrible*
But yeah, me and the bishop here aren´t the best of buddies. I mean, he´s a cool guy... just I think some of his *ideas* or *his way of doing it* are.... not good (stupid). I wont extrapolate, but suffice it to say that he´s getting in the way of our work. Just step back and let me do mah bidness!! I´ll swagger the way I was taught, thank you very much.
I held my breath for 1:40 on the bus the other day.
In church yesterday one of our investigators got up to bear her testimony, it was a very *evangelical* testimony, but it was pretty sweet anyways. Then she told everybody that she´s gonna get baptized. woo. It´s just that she lives in the same house as her ex-husband... so we´re in negotiations with President to try and get the green light to baptize her. Oh what a tangled web we weave. Downtown Anapolis is all lit up with Christmas lights and music and everything, it´s missing a bit of snow, but it still looks pretty dang sweet, the zone is going to go sing carols in the main park one of these days, and be covered by a TV station, so that should be pretty fun.
I actually felt a little bit sick for the first time on my mission today, but I popped some Imunizen, and Bio-C and pepto bismal and bye bye ickyness. woo. I say I´m doing pretty good, I´ve gone a year and a bit in a far-off land and I havn´t been attacked, eaten, sick, robbed, or anything. (watch something happen this week now) Though I´m pretty sure nobody´s gonna mess with us, cuz we´re two big Americans, and we tower over most of the Brazilians here, so anybody would have to be pretty crazy to mess with us. Bahahaha!
But yeah, I´m pretty sure that´s about it for now, This next week should be pretty interesting.
*I bet a fiddle of gold against your soul cuz i think I´m better than you...*
Love, Elder Webber
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