HEYYY! lots to report.
favorite scripture - D&C 1: 19 - 23 and 28 i started doctrine and covenants this week.
ummmmm ok. good news. Elder Webb stayed. i was just misinformed by an elder in his zone. but yeah. elder webb is currently in my zone now. so that is cool.
other good news. we baptized Eva this last saturday and she received the holy ghost on sunday. basically awesome :) she is amazing. she is a teacher in the brazilian equivalent to preschool. she is way firm already in the church. nothing more i can say about that. she is just the perfect convert at this point. lol
not so good news. i got to visit our local podiatrist this last week. i had a fungus in the big toenail on my left foot. and an ingrown toenail in the big toe on my right foot. gross. and yikes. so she did some brazilian toe surgery. which means she didn´t use any type of pain killer. which was probably for my benefit in reality. because a shot here would probably give me some new kind of AIDS. but anyway. so she took some "scissors" and cut about a quarter of the nail off on my left foot. which apparently was the infected part? and then she gave me some medicine to put on in twice a day. so if all is well, i do not have a fungus in the toenail in my left foot. then she went to work on the ingrown nail. she took some scissors again and cut off some of the skin next to the edge and then (keep in mind this is without pain killer) cut from the front of the nail to the back to "remove" the ingrown portion. i was squeezing the chair harder then...something that squeezes really hard. and then she told me that was all i needed. i guess the fact that it still hurts ridiculously bad is normal?? so that was a fun experience.
um as for the work right now...we are the first companionship in 5 months to baptize in this area. and we have a few more people who are pretty firm possibilities. so keep praying. the members in the ward are pretty psyched though. i guess the last few sets of missionaries were big time slackers. so when we baptized eva they were pretty psyched. now if we can have a few more this month that would be spectacular. i gave a talk about the difference between baptizing someone and converting someone. i am hoping it hit home. because the members are a big part of the conversion. we need their help. i will keep you guys updated. president leal said that he wants 150 baptisms this month. between 2 and 3 per companionship. that is tough. but we will see.
ummmm i sent a letter to connor via our house because i don´t have the address. i am hoping it gets there before he gets back out into the field. that would be great. i am so psyched that he is going to get back out here. that is so awesome. how is hyrum doing? and any news about jackson? TJ seems to be doing great. he is gunna be the assistant to the president. just watch. i called it. when he hits the year mark he will become assistant lol.
so what else is there to report?? um OH YEAH! i have exactly 14 bug bites on my right butt cheek. just the right one! i guess spiders like...american butt cheeks? but yeah he got me good when i was asleep. i wish i had filmed it. i wonder how i reacted when he bit me the first time?? i must have freaked out to make him go nuts and bite me 13 more times. and then i guess a few of his friends were watching too? because i got bit in lots of other places too. most of which i can´t take pictures.
i am way jealous that i missed elder oaks. i am so psyched for general conference. president leal said that if we do our best and give our best effort, that we would receive revelations in the conference that we had never received before. i am way psyched. i have been preparing big time. i have the ensigns from the last 5 conferences. i have been studying them each morning in preparation for the conference. it is crazy how much i have learned just reading old talks.
anyway. time to go! love you all! i hope that you all have great weeks. i pray for you constantly, and i know you are all praying for me. so thank you :) hope to hear from everyone next week. tchau!
elder scott ghormley
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