Year One, Letter Thirty Six

heyyyyy everyone

scripture: Mosiah 18: 21 - 22. it is talking about the church members,
but i am pretty sure in my case, it is referring to my companionship.
i am still having patience and struggling to develop those christlike
attributes, but it is...annoying in many ways. but i have two weeks
left of this transfer. so i will fight it out.

mom - as for that package that you were talking about last week...i
don´t have lots of ideas. maybe a tie? deodorant? one of those
washclothes that you sent at christmas? the exfoliating kind? pics?
toe/finger nail clippers w/ a file? yeah, i actually take care of my
nails, but the nail clippers i have are awful. and one of those oil
vials that you got for me before i left? a guy in the ward asked if he
could get one and i said i would ask how much it was. would that be
possible? um if it is possible, i would like to have the next suns
game sent to me via package. because dad and blake´s description was
just....oh it made me jealous. haha. but mom, i do not - DO NOT -
need: chapstick, sunscreen, bugspray, or itch cream. lol i have lots.
and you can cancel that skinID account. i will start again when i get
home if i need. but it is just too expensive, so you can cancel that.
and whatever else you feel would be necessary/cool/delicious? lol i
made browines this morning. they are delicious. but i am going to give
them to a lady in the ward. but the few that i had were good. nothing
compared to the kind i make at home, but i am not at home. so i gotta
deal with it.

but this transfer ends May 19. so it won´t get here at the end of this
transfer. the next ends June 30, so if you wanted, you could send it
likeeeee towards the end of May? or maybe like may 25? that way it
should get here by the end of the transfer. you can track it so that
you can know when it clears customs and such. but that might be the
best idea. you can decide. you guys are probably smarter than me about
these things. i just know the dates of the transfers.

the suns beat the spurs!!!!!! oh that is splendid. i am glad everyone
enjoyed the weekend at home! sorry that i wasn´t able to provide the
entertainment at cards or beat you all. :) that is cool that Adriane
will send a CD out to the missionaries. that is way cool. and i am way
sad to find out that Connor won´t be coming out to the mission. that
really hurt to hear that. how are Doug and Mendi with that?

dad - like i told blake, i always think about what it would be like to
be your companion or his companion in the field. i always think about
it. it makes me desire and strive to be better. it makes me think to
do things in a way that would make you guys proud of me. that is
something that would be so cool to do. that is why i was psyched when
blake said that he might come back to his area during my mission and
then come to my mission to go work with me for a few days. but i dunno
if that is allowed or possible. i would have to ask permission from
the president. and yes, i am positive that i will be staying in
ourinhos. the address (mom) is Pará 316 Ourinhos, São Paulo. i don´t
know the whole address and everything right now. i already sent it to
you guys once, so you will find it in one of the last emails. but i am
pretty freaked right now, because i will be senior and maybe trainer
the next transfer, and ourinhos is huge.

ok as for the phone call on mother´s day. they moved it. we aren´t
allowed to call on mother´s day anymore....ok so that was a joke. you
probably hate me now. but it´s cool. i will call you guys on saturday
to let you know what we are going to do. and then we will plan for
sunday. i will try and call around 5:00ish our time to get one of you
guys at around lunch time. i will call to one of your cell phones. and
mom, you can conference them in, but i don´t know how. and i don´t
know how i can call to them after. i would have to call them and they
would have to call back i think (i am talking about the girls/stuart).
so if that would be possible, then yes, i can call them.

i got grandma´s gift card by the way. i sent her a letter back. has
she not gotten it yet?

um ana paula and juliano are great. he just travels a lot, but they
are doing everything to get marriedand baptized. we can only teach
them when he is home, so it is very sporadic, but we will get there.
we have a few good prospects right now. one guy (espedito) bore his
testimony in church. that was crazy. he talked about the first time he
saw missionaries and how everyone was cussing them out in santa
catarina. he actually said the cuss words. thank goodness it was in
english and i was the only one who understood. he is having trouble
believing the book of mormon, so that is tough. we´ll see what we need
to do.

cool thing that i learned. read 3 Nephi 10: 16 - 17 about the prophets
Zenos and Zenock. then you will know why they aren´t in the bible.
they testified of the book of mormon and the people of the book of
mormon. like, specifically testified. so they were removed from the
bible by a certain other religion (the great and abominable church) so
that the bible wouldn´ttestify specifically of another peopleand
another testament of christ. yeah, that is nuts. but what a cool thing
to learn.

anyway. i gotta go. i am so glad that i can serve a mission. i love
you guys and thank you for the example that you are to me. can´t wait
for sunday!!!!!

tchau!

elder scott ghormley