Serra - Week Three

FYI the graffiti says "independence is a fairy tale, revolution now." haha

So this week was interesting, went by fast, but it feels like we didn't get that much done. So this week we cut almost all of our investigators because they are being weaksauce. Its rather annoying. But we worked with some part member families this week, and we could have some success there. The problem here in Brasil is that people aren't ever married, just living together. Lame.

On Wednesday we had a multi-zone conference. It was pretty good. I really like hearing the mission president talk, he's really funny. Sister gave us good words about obedience and qualities of a good missionary. And one of the new things that our mission is doing, is a obedience report? spreadsheet? I don't know what to call it. Unfortunately we have some slacker missionaries here, so now we have to report on obedience, which for me and my companion, isn't really a problem. =) President talked a lot about change, and how we are going to change the mission. For our mission, we need roughly 42 new investigators for every baptism, which is more than just about every mission in Brazil. (This is one of the hardest here.) But he's putting in some changes so that we can teach more, find more, to baptize more. Woo hoo!  President told us about his conversion story, which was literally about "the lord calls men in their weakness and qualifies them for the work." The ward council where he lived was praying for a bishop. He visited the church out of nowhere, liked it because of the architecture of the chapel, and because it had a place for football in the back. So he decided to join the church. 1st Sunday, he was confirmed. 2nd, he was called to the bishopric, and 3rd Sunday, he had to preside the meetings, and then when the professor wasn't there gave a lesson which happened to be on one of the only scriptures that he had read in the Book of Mormon. President is a really funny guy, and I'm pretty sure he'll be a Seventy after the mission.

The rest of the week the work did not go all that well. We had a lot of appointments fall through. We tried our best, and we taught some new people who have potential. We are doing great. Saturday was ridiculously hot, and then Sunday and today it decided to rain again. Yay...

Well that's about it. We don't have any baptisms lined up since Sergio's wife decided to be offended over something silly, and now he wants time before we come by again. That ticked me off. But that's it.

I got that box already. I called the bank also. Yep. So now I just have to wait for the Christmas boxes. That's all. Thanks family for everything.

I love you all! Looks like you're having fun and staying busy!

Oh and I forgot that it was Thanksgiving until halfway through the day. I had gravy to make potatoes and gravy, but I left the gravy in Campos. =(

Tchão!