hey everyone!
sorry it is a lot later than normal. today has been busy as crap. e. cabral and i had to wake up at 5:30, be on the bus to the station by 6:15, pick up the assistants at 8, be back on a bus to the terminal at 8, meet president at the parque dos aves (bird park - basically, zoo) by 9, and then we went through the park and went to lunch with president. and it rained the whole time. but now that is all done and we have some valuable email time. :)
Favorite Scripture: Alma 7: 23 - 24 good scripture.
anyway. so here is the news -
first of all, we will no longer be going to the Falls. President withdrew that promise. now, he said that we will go IF every single companionship (65 duplas) baptizes in the same month. so, yeah that sucks.
next, my camera decided to stop working today. i was taking a picture at the bird park, and the screen started flickering and then just went dead. so that is great. it hasn´t gone back to normal. i might have to send it home so that you guys can use the warranty for it. and possibly send it back? i would send it back with the memory card so that you can see all the pictures i have since that cd i sent home. i will wait for the ok on that one though.
um if thanksgiving was quiet for you guys, i don´t know how i would describe mine. i mean the food here doesn´t quite compare to mom´s cooking. so i suppose i had the worst thanksgiving dinner thus far in my life lol. i am sorry that i wasn´t able to provide the comedic relief necessary during rook. i know how tense that game can get without the occasional ron white rendition (sp?). blindside does sound like a good movie, though. i will be thrilled to watch it...in two years when it isn´t popular anymore. lol.
for thanksgiving, i made a list in my journal of everything i am thankful for. like, everything. big and small. and during that time i had a kind of personal revelation to remember certain things because i had an impression that i would need to remember them in the upcoming months and also that i would be talking about them in my homecoming talk?? yeah, talk about weird. i wasn´t even thinking about my homecoming talk but i have already started writing a little bit about it based on the feelings i was getting. kinda cool. i guess i better follow that. but i really missed you all during thanksgiving. i was just remembering all of our family times and all the fun stuff we all did and i was getting a little down. buttttt it´s all good. i know that i am doing what the lord would have me do and that - even though it is hard to be away from all you guys - this is the right choice. every day i can always push forward because i know that this is the work that i am supposed to be a part of.
looks like the sports world is falling apart. are cardinals even in the hunt this year? are the suns still running? i hope byu keeps it up. but more importantly, dad i am sorry, but i will be totally ready to beat you when i return home. :) president leal told me that he wants to play golf with me some time and that he would send me to a really good area if i let him win lol. but that he had other plans for me if i won. lol
i had an interview with president leal on sunday morning. he told me that my language is progressing very quickly compared to the other newer missionaries so that was great. and he told me that based on the interview and what he has been told about me, he thought that i was going to an excellent missionary. cross your fingers, right? lol but do me a favor...pray that i don´t get called to be an assistant to the pres or a secretary or a zone leader or anything like that. haha
ummm i still have not received the address. but we are probably going to be moving to an apartment in centro. very soon. once the mission gets all the necessary supplies. that way i won´t be spending 40 reais per week on bus fees.
food is decent. lots of rice and beans. and chicken and beef. and spaghetti is big here. and then they love giving us guarnana. and we drink that because they don´t have mineral water. only water from the tap. and sister leal told me that if i keep drinking water from members houses that isn´t mineral water, she is going to call my mother. but i think she was kidding...maybe. occasionally, a member will just give us a little bit of money to go eat at some cheap buffet place for like 7 reais.
i do remember new york. and yes a lot of centro smells like that. a lot of areas smell worse, but some areas just smell normal. the area we work has some areas we avoid because they are nasty. going into the favelas and hostels is the worst. it is way dangerous and it smells awful lol.
my shoes are doing ok. yeah i think i will probably walk at least 7000 to 8000 miles on the mish. no joke. we walk between 10 and 15 miles on average. and then on days when we are super busy, it is a nightmare. sometimes my legs just go numb after a while. it is funny though because at night i get those muscle spasms all the time. but i conditioned and cleaned my shoes, so i am good for now.
so things are going pretty good with our investigators. we have a few that are progressing really well and want to be baptized either this upcoming sunday or the next one. so that is pretty cool. jackeline and anglea both want to be baptized this next sunday.
junior is doing pretty well. he went from smoking 20 cigarettes a day to zero and he no longer drinks coffee. he committed to living all the commandments and has heard all the lessons. he prayed about the book of mormon and woke up in the middle of the night and heard something tell him it was true.
oh and he is also another reason that i would like to send some pictures home. you see, he was baptized last night. and i baptized him. :) sorry, i almost forgot to mention that :P
anywho. yes we will be having a christmas conference, but i think i will be getting packages before that. the rest of this week was pretty good. lots of lessons and progressing investigators. maybe we will have some more baptisms this sunday. i hope so.
the news about all the temple work you guys are doing is great. that is so awesome that you are getting that all done.
i love you all so much. i am so thankful for all of you and all you do for me and the support you guys give me. thank you all for your examples. i can´t wait to talk to you guys in a few weeks. it will be great.
well i gotta run.
until next week!
love
e. scott ghormley
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