Wednesday, August 20, 2008
whoo-hoo - Scott answered my questions this week!

How do we send you letters?
Just send stuff to the mission home. I'll probably get it like twice a transfer 'cause they bring it to zone conference and interviews. The apartments are a really scary place for mail to sit all day.

What's going on in Brazil?
It's elections here so there are just cars driving around with huge speakers on their roofs turned all the way up so it's really hard to talk to someone on the street when they drive by. I call them satan mobiles cause anything that tries to stop the work is of satan.

How's the teaching going?
We are teaching Charles. He is not a member, but his wife was baptized like 3 years ago and they had two boys die while ago and some buddy some where said some thing to make her mad about her sons, so they never went back, but we started teaching. And I said, "Charles, is the book true?" "Yeah," he replied. "So then the church is true and perfect cause it's of Christo, but the people in it aren't perfect, so get baptized." So he is on the 31st with the other family. And we have a baptism this week, Edinalva.

...big problem, getting people to church 'cause the building is really far away and people can't afford the onibus ticket to get there, so it's hard to get them to church.

Had any good experiences?
...back to Charles. We taught him about fe last night and I didn't really know what was going on, but at the end I thought I should tell him that is would help if he read the bom every morning before he went to work and it would help him throughout his day. And later Elder Broud told me that we gave him a scripture and we are going back tonight and he wouldn't have time to read it but then I told him he should read in the morning. So that was so the Spirit 'cause I didn't even know what the heck is going on...like antes the mission I didn't really know what was the Spirit and what was the crazy ideas of Scotty. I'm starting to realize how to recognize and follow thoughts or promptings.

In zone conference, sis. Frei talked about pineapples and how it takes them 18 months to develop and everybuddy always wants fresh pineapple, so they continually grow them and harvest and plant more. So she was saying that we need to always find people and plant the seed.

We have 5 baptisms on Sunday.

Just funny Scotty talking about trying to get home fast after an appointment went late-
So we're keeping the pace up and moving right along but we are going up and down and up and down these hills and my fat legs are getting tired but we finally get to the last stretch and I just want to fall over, keeping in mind I've just been walking all freaking day up and down up and down hill mountains all day so it's the last stretch and I'm like, "Pai celestial, help make it home." and right then this thought comes to my ehad, Elder Broud is a little in front like always and I thought 'race him home.' So I was like, yeah, I could beat him. So I raced him -- and won by the way.