Year One, Letter Sixteen

OPA!

how is it going??

scripture: D&C 29: 4 - 7

hey can you please forward this to grandma?? i can´t find her email address. i wrote her a letter, too, but i didn´t have her address so i just sent that to the house and hope that it will make it to her via you guys :) but yes i got her letter a while back! i just was super busy so i never got to return a letter and i didn´t have her email.

ok so this week was definitely a busy one.

elizangela was confirmed and received the holy ghost yesterday. we also had a young women´s presentation in sacrament. even though they were singing in portuguese, it was so awesome. i didn´t understand everything, but it was amazing. i also helped translate the priesthood lesson for this guy from oregon who didn´t know any portuguese. kinda like me. lol but i was amazed at how much i could actually translate. it was weird.

Two of my favorite members in this ward decided that "they need a change," so they are going to be moving to Australia. Yeah, random. but they want me to help them learn english now. lol that should be fun.

ummmm who remembers the christmas letter of 2007? at least i think it was 2007. anyway. a member gave us a huge fruitcake on saturday. i refused to eat it. thank goodness it was a present to take home and not to eat right there. i probably would have thrown up all over the table.

on the 11th...i think that was friday? i dont remember. anyway it was the worst storm that i have yet experienced in Brazil. it was nuts. gates and houses were just being blown apart. we waited it out in this lady´s house and then taught the first lesson.

ummm on tuesday the first transfer ended. so elder cabral was transferred to Marilea and i stayed in Iguaçu. I also got my next companion. another brazilian. his name is elder vander. he is so tight. we have so much fun and we laugh so much during the day. he is determined to marry lauren and when i told him that she was moving to provo, he was devastated haha. but we are having a ton of fun. we marked 4 more baptisms. hopefully Isabel, Jackeline, Gabriel, and Anna will be baptized before the end of December. It will be tough, but i think that they are all ready and just have a few little things to get past. We also taught Junior´s sister, Aline. We will see how that goes. She said that she thought I was too serious during the lesson. Little did she know that it was because i am not at the stage of portuguese where i can understand jokes. lol but it was fine. but i think i am going to have a lot more fun with elder vander.

anyway. so we got word today that brazil is sucking right about now for visas for the missionaries. the church is giving them one more week to figure it out and if not, they are going to start re-assigning missionaries. so i hope connor´s comes through before that. they have over 300 missionaries who should be going to brazil missions that are still stuck in the provo MTC. so hopefully that gets worked out. jackson FINALLY gets to leave. that language must be nuts. but he will do great.

i hope that deal goes through for the company. it sounds incredibly big, so i will keep that in my prayers. i kinda thought it was random but i saw a ton of forever living products here. they are a pretty big deal here. kinda cool, i guess.

i loved the christmas letter draft that i got. it was hilarious. i can´t wait for it to arrive...in a month or so. i haven´t got any of the packages yet. they are in the secretaries´ office in Londrina because they forgot to send them at the end of the transfer. the secretaries kinda suck. they are the worst ones on the mission so far according to the guys i live with.

ummmm it is thinking a little far in advance, but i am alright with christmas in orlando in like 2011. lol i think that the harry potter world sounds great and that it will be going nuts seeing as how number 7 movie will be coming out around that time.

even though i had a good time with elder vander and i am psyched for the next couple transfers with him, the week was tough. i was really sick again. i had major headaches and a major cold/flu or something. the symptoms were bad. so i hope i get over it really soon. i am just using lots of advil and dayquil/nyquil right now. so i hope i can just walk it off. literally. lol.

Tiger sounds like he has screwed himself over bigtime. great. what an idiot. i wonder what would happen if he kept playing? i bet if he were to win a major, the people would just boo when he lifted the trophy. he will have to remove himself from the golf world for a long time. so much for breaking jack´s record.

and dad...as for that putting green in mark´s backyard...this totally throws the odds. i now get to have 3 months to get back into my groove before you get to play me in a competition. because that would just be totally unfair.

anyway. well i am sure you are all getting pretty psyched for christmas. when did lauren start the christmas music this year? october? lol i will miss that annual christmas breakfast. i will enjoy some cereal or something. and what is the christmas movie? sherlock holmes? it looked hilarious.

can´t wait to talk to you all! it is only a week or so away. pretty nuts. well i love you guys!

tchau!!

elder scott ghormley