Year One, Letter Twenty Two

HEY EVERYONE!

what up?? how is everyone doing? i only heard from morgan and mom today, so i don´t know how everyone else is doing at this moment. dad. i didn´t get your email yet. blake is probably pretty busy getting situated in a new house. and lauren as well. but it is cool.

alright, so favorite scripture. Alma 57: 19 - 21, 25 - 27. 2,000 stripling warriors. i used it in a message at lunch and that was pretty cool.

so some cool stuff happened this week. weslei and weslei were baptized and received the holy ghost on saturday and sunday, respectively. that was pretty awesome. they are both 9 and look very similar. they were both afraid of water, but we were there with them the whole time so they were okay.

we also had a meeting with our bishop this week. we have a pretty huge responsibility right now. we have another area called Três Lagoas and it is really far away from a church. so we are going to open a new ward there. so we will be having our whole zone going on divisions with a member or return missionary in the first week of february to have a huge teaching day there. the goal is 40 baptisms before the end of next transfer. but i am probably going to be transferred before i see those results. so i will be teaching a ton, but won´t see all the baptisms because this is my third transfer. so that should be cool.

our family - acildes, nilsi, patricia, and aline - were all marked for baptism. but they aren´t married legally. so that sucks. so those two and sandra (because she isn´t married, either) have to wait at least a month for the marriage papers to be ready. but that family lives in a different area. so we had to pass that reference to other elders. so we are just kinda starting over in centro and now in três lagoas, too. so it will be a long road.

elder guerrette is cool. he definitely isn´t used to the heat in foz do iguaçu. so that is kinda sad. he is cool. he is a good missionary. but he is very quiet. he doesn´t talk very much. so he doesn´t really help with language or anything. but it is ok. it will still be a good transfer. we are going to go play futebol de sabão today with our zone. it is soap soccer. lol kinda weird. basically a ton of soap and water are put into this big blow up thing like those things at the halloween parties for our ward. and you play a mix of soccer, dodgeball, handball, football, and slipping all over the place. it is pretty fun.

that sucks about the olympics. i forgot it was winter olympics right now. it seems too hot! but that sounds pretty tough. i hope those guys get better.

and it was really scary to hear about daryl hatch. it made me get chills because i can´t remember what day it was but it was just during the day one day last week or something and i was thinking about our ward and just how things were going to change and be so different when i get home and i was thinking about brother and sister hatch and i just had a feeling that i needed to say a prayer for them. so i will keep praying for them.

i am glad that you finally got yuma´s letter. lol we both said we were going to write each other´s family back in the ctm. so that is cool haha. i still haven´t received the other package, mom. and no i don´t need more face wash. you guys sent me two orders in the christmas package. so i have lots.

it is so great that hyrum is finally getting out in the field. he must be so thrilled. and i will be writing to connor i think. i will just send a letter home and you can give it to mendi or doug or connor at church.

yeah the mission is definitely life-changing. it is so great to find someone who actually accepts the truth and is ready for the message. especially in our world today where so many people try to disprove anything religious. but it is so great to be able to help someone change.

oh blake, my friend is serving in Porto Alegre Norte. He said that he is in São Leopoldo. do you know that area? he asked some older missionaries about you and there are a bunch that still remember you. pretty cool to leave a legacy neh? haha but i bet that if you haven´t been wearing a helmet while snowboarding, you will have another concussion and won´t remember.

oh yeah. i sent home a letter with my memory card in it a few weeks ago. you still haven´t got it? or did you receive it? i am praying that you did. that was a lot of pictures...

anyway. so this week was pretty good so far. hit 5 months. that was weird. but the 6 month mark is more of a milestone. so i don´t think i will celebrate or do anything till then haha.

love you guys! i hope everyone is doing well! better than our sports teams anyway.

love you! tchau!

elder scott ghormley