Nine Months Today
hiiiiii dad, mom, stuart, morgan, blake, lauren, and the soon-to-be baby in morgan´s belly. <----this list was done in order of age.
so this week was good. elder santana is from Bahia. he is great. we have been getting along great. his last couple companions were big slackers. this morning, i told him that every p-day, we clean the house and i asked if he would be willing to help. he just goes, "wait...are you asking me? or telling me?" and i was like, "uhhh...i am asking"
and he just looks at me and says, "you know that you are senior companion, right?" i just cracked up. i just told him that i don´t and would never command him to do anything and that i would just ask him and the decision would be up to him. he just looked at me and goes, "yes, i can help you clean the house. i am just surprised that you are asking and not telling me to do something." and i just told him that i was having a good time being able to work with him and that he was helping me a lot and he told me that it meant a lot to him when i said that. the only problem? the poor guy is dying here. we work our butts off and when we get home, we plan for the next day and then he just falls into bed and crashes. he told me that he is working harder this transfer than ever before. when he was at the first lunch with Rosangela (a return missionary in our ward), she asked how he was liking it and how he was liking me as his comp and he just looks at her, then me, and pauses, and then says, "he likes to work." she just started laughing. but seriously, he works, but it is tough for him to keep up. i think it was hard for him because he was accustomed to working with slackers and now we are moving to another area in the city to work and it is pretty rough. he just needs a few minutes every now and again to recover. but he is cool. this morning i finished my winter cleaning of our house. it included scrubbing the floor of the kitchen. we don´t have a mop. and the floor was so dirty that a mop wouldn´t do much. so i was on all fours with a scrub brush and a bucket of soapy water. lol that sucked. good thing i had 19 years of preparation for moments like these.
wanna know something excellent that i realized yesterday? we were eating lunch. rice, beans, chicken, spaghetti, and tomatoes. so we were eating and without even thinking, i got some tomatoes, loaded a bunch of them on top of my chicken and rice and beans, and started eating. and then i realized that i wasn´t doing it just because i needed vegatables and because i knew it was healthy...but because i was actually, legitimately liking it. like....it had a good taste. and i kept eating...and ate all those tomatoes. are you guys realizing how big of a moment in my life this was?? i didn´t even have to go to italy to like tomatoes. maybe it has something to do with the brazilian tomatoes?? i dunno...
so. we are working with juliano, ana paula, and eduarda still. we are going to try and make a baptismal date probably towards the end of june. that means they will have to get married and probably stop drinking (because i don´t know if they are still drinking alcohol). we found a family of 5 who were way interested, but they need to get married as well. we are going to go there this saturday. we also found another family of 3 that we are teaching. i made a contact with a man named josé a few weeks ago and we went to his house and he welcomed us in. and then showed us his book of mormon. and doctrine and covenants.
and pearl of great price. and the liahona magazine. and the tithing and fast offerings that
he will be paying at the end of this month.
yeah, talk about crazy. he already has a testimony about everything, but he isn´t baptized because he isn´t married, he drinks a little, and he doesn´t feel like he would be able to stay strong in the church because he sees how many inactive members there are. so we are going to work big time with him. any ideas? we also are teaching two young guys - Gabriel and Lucas - that are 17 years old each. they both accepted a baptism date and they said they wanna go to church this sunday. so lots going on. like i said, we are working our butts off and basically starting the work over again in another area. but anyway.
how is the office coming? how was tara´s surgery?? i hope that her surgery went well. that is awesome that JP went by the house. if you see him again, tell him hi for me please. everything is going alright here. just working to see some progress. that is awesome that the suns tied the series. do you think it would be wrong to pray that the suns can beat the lakers??
i hope not...cuz i am gunna.
anyway! so that was my week. and now, my comp is dying from hunger. so we are gunna go eat something. i love you guys a ton! i hope everything is going well. i am gunna keep at it.
love and miss you all!
OH AND FAVORITE SCRIPTURE! D&C 25: 2 and 15
love!
tchau!
elder scott ghormley
hiiiiii dad, mom, stuart, morgan, blake, lauren, and the soon-to-be baby in morgan´s belly. <----this list was done in order of age.
so this week was good. elder santana is from Bahia. he is great. we have been getting along great. his last couple companions were big slackers. this morning, i told him that every p-day, we clean the house and i asked if he would be willing to help. he just goes, "wait...are you asking me? or telling me?" and i was like, "uhhh...i am asking"
and he just looks at me and says, "you know that you are senior companion, right?" i just cracked up. i just told him that i don´t and would never command him to do anything and that i would just ask him and the decision would be up to him. he just looked at me and goes, "yes, i can help you clean the house. i am just surprised that you are asking and not telling me to do something." and i just told him that i was having a good time being able to work with him and that he was helping me a lot and he told me that it meant a lot to him when i said that. the only problem? the poor guy is dying here. we work our butts off and when we get home, we plan for the next day and then he just falls into bed and crashes. he told me that he is working harder this transfer than ever before. when he was at the first lunch with Rosangela (a return missionary in our ward), she asked how he was liking it and how he was liking me as his comp and he just looks at her, then me, and pauses, and then says, "he likes to work." she just started laughing. but seriously, he works, but it is tough for him to keep up. i think it was hard for him because he was accustomed to working with slackers and now we are moving to another area in the city to work and it is pretty rough. he just needs a few minutes every now and again to recover. but he is cool. this morning i finished my winter cleaning of our house. it included scrubbing the floor of the kitchen. we don´t have a mop. and the floor was so dirty that a mop wouldn´t do much. so i was on all fours with a scrub brush and a bucket of soapy water. lol that sucked. good thing i had 19 years of preparation for moments like these.
wanna know something excellent that i realized yesterday? we were eating lunch. rice, beans, chicken, spaghetti, and tomatoes. so we were eating and without even thinking, i got some tomatoes, loaded a bunch of them on top of my chicken and rice and beans, and started eating. and then i realized that i wasn´t doing it just because i needed vegatables and because i knew it was healthy...but because i was actually, legitimately liking it. like....it had a good taste. and i kept eating...and ate all those tomatoes. are you guys realizing how big of a moment in my life this was?? i didn´t even have to go to italy to like tomatoes. maybe it has something to do with the brazilian tomatoes?? i dunno...
so. we are working with juliano, ana paula, and eduarda still. we are going to try and make a baptismal date probably towards the end of june. that means they will have to get married and probably stop drinking (because i don´t know if they are still drinking alcohol). we found a family of 5 who were way interested, but they need to get married as well. we are going to go there this saturday. we also found another family of 3 that we are teaching. i made a contact with a man named josé a few weeks ago and we went to his house and he welcomed us in. and then showed us his book of mormon. and doctrine and covenants.
and pearl of great price. and the liahona magazine. and the tithing and fast offerings that
he will be paying at the end of this month.
yeah, talk about crazy. he already has a testimony about everything, but he isn´t baptized because he isn´t married, he drinks a little, and he doesn´t feel like he would be able to stay strong in the church because he sees how many inactive members there are. so we are going to work big time with him. any ideas? we also are teaching two young guys - Gabriel and Lucas - that are 17 years old each. they both accepted a baptism date and they said they wanna go to church this sunday. so lots going on. like i said, we are working our butts off and basically starting the work over again in another area. but anyway.
how is the office coming? how was tara´s surgery?? i hope that her surgery went well. that is awesome that JP went by the house. if you see him again, tell him hi for me please. everything is going alright here. just working to see some progress. that is awesome that the suns tied the series. do you think it would be wrong to pray that the suns can beat the lakers??
i hope not...cuz i am gunna.
anyway! so that was my week. and now, my comp is dying from hunger. so we are gunna go eat something. i love you guys a ton! i hope everything is going well. i am gunna keep at it.
love and miss you all!
OH AND FAVORITE SCRIPTURE! D&C 25: 2 and 15
love!
tchau!
elder scott ghormley
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