hey there. yeah so this week has been RIDICULOUS. I gotta get this out
way quick.
scripture: D&C 88: 63 - 64
alright so this week has been way nuts. i am sorry, but i probably
won´t respond to a lot of questions. first off, we had our last zone
conference with president and sister leal on friday. they told me to
tell you guys thank you and that they love you for making me who i am.
i am quite certain that they said this to basically all the
missionaries, but they wanted to make me feel special for the moment.
it was such a spiritual but sad conference. we sang "till we meet
again" at the end and they both were up on the stand, breaking down in
tears. i will miss them. to be COMPLETELY honest, they reminded me A
LOT of mom and dad. no wonder everyone said that president leal was
incredibly strict :D please don´t hurt me...but it was seriously
awesome. i loved it. now we just have to know who president and sister
tavares are and how they will run the mission.
ummmm our investigators. we have a good group that we are working
with, unfortunately we have several that need to get married. one is
named roberta and her husband is claudio. that is way difficult. three
kids, but doesn´t wanna marry the guy. she said she only stays because
of the kids. it is sad. she said that at one point, she really liked
him. but she never loved him. so it is pretty tough to teach them. but
that is okay. we are going to teach them a lesson about the importance
of marriage with the proclamation to the world paper. we are working
with Luciano and Marcia and they have major problems with the word of
wisdom. they are big coffee lovers. i used an example from the family
(my mom and her parents) to help them understand that it is completely
possible to overcome the addiction. they accepted our help and the
commitments we made and Luciano said the closing prayer, which was way
spiritual asking for help from God to be able to follow the Word of
Wisdom. one of my favorite investigators right now is Vauldete and her
daughter Soraya. they are amazing. elder barros and elder dos santos
taught them twice before i got here, and when we went there the first
time, barros told me that dos santos didn´t want to teach there
anymore because she didn´t want to hear anything about our church our
anything. kinda sad. we went there. and we are still going there. we
taught her the first lesson about the restoration and she told us the
next time we went there that she knew it was true, but she was afraid
to follow that answer. then we taught the book of mormon. and she said
she had no doubt that it was true. then we taught the gospel of jesus
christ and she said she didn´t even need to pray because she knew
already. on tuesday, we taught the plan of salvation. this is probably
a moment that has completely changed my mission. as i am finishing the
lesson, talking about the kingdoms of glory, she looks me righ tin the
eye and asks, "Do you really believe that this is true?" the only
thing i said was "yes." She looked at me for 15 more seconds without
saying another word, and then asked, "How can I get to the Celestial
Kingdom?" that was amazing to me. as we were leaving, she shook my
hand and said, "thank God that you are American....because you are
very persistent." I was kinda confused, so she said, "the other elder
was going to give up on me. I could tell. He didn´t want to keep
coming back." That was kinda sad...and then she looked at me again and
asked, "Why didn´t you give up?" that was something that basically
changed how i thought. it made me think. before i really knew what i
was saying, i just answered, "we can´t give up on a child of God."
that was all. but it made me really understand the importance of all
this even more.
ummm so we were robbed this week, too. on the 21st of June, we came
home to a house that was completely destroyed. we showed up late with
the other elders and when we walked in, the back door was open and
everything was destroyed. literally everything. the kitchen, our study
rooms, our bedroom, everything. the package that i received on friday
was taken, the study tables were destroyed, my bags (all 3) were
stolen, the boxes that i had, as well. everything. money, clothes,
journals, everything.
everyone can take a deep breath. it was an early birthday joke that
the other elders played on me. they couldn´t wait until the 27th. so
elders galdino and sorenson went home early, destroyed the house, hid
all of my stuff, and left to wait for us. oh my gosh. the best played
prank i have ever seen. they called a sister in the ward to act like
they were reporting to the police. and that they were calling
president leal. oh my gosh. i have never been more terrified. it
lasted for a solid 30 minutes and i was just lost. i had no idea what
i was going to do. elder sorenson was secretly filming some parts.
kinda funny. way funny. i was terrified. they got me so good. we spent
a solid hour and a half getting everything in the house fixed and
organized again. but they got me so good.
as a great side note, i got crapped on again by a bird. that was
disgusting. shirt, hair, backpack, pants, tie, etc. gross. we were in
the terminal waiting to go to the hospital because elder sorenson is
there with a horrible headache, and the bird nailed me. but that is
why the email has been so difficult. elder sorenson is in the hospital
and we have been running all over the place teaching our investigators
and their investigators. so it has been nuts. but he is getting
better. he will be leaving this week i hope. they will be doing a
neuro exam tomorrow or tonight.
me and elder barros are friends. we are doing great and teaching well.
he is a good companion and he is focusing more and more. i am trying
to help him understand the importance of focusing on the mission so
that after the mission, he will be able to use what he learned in his
relationship with his wife. he is still young and learning, but he is
cool. i think that is kinda an important thing to note based on the
situation...it is necessary...absolutely essential...to serve a
mission to me. i know that dad is who he is to us because of his
mission and i know that blake is who he is and who he will be based on
his mission. i know that my mission will make me who i will be in the
future. i don´t know where i would be if dad didn´t serve a mission
and i don´t know where blake would be if dad didn´t serve or if he
didn´t serve. i am so glad that i can serve. i know that i have to
give my all, and that it is tough, but my mission has changed me so
much. it definitely helped me to fix some things and to find who i am
and who i want to be. it has created a bigger vision to me. i think
that is why all the girls are so focused on marrying that return
missionary. he has a greater understanding and a greater vision. it is
definitely something that i will need in my life. i just hope that i
can pass that importance on to my family. know what i mean? cool.
enough of the...whatever type of talk that is.
well sorry the email is short on answers. i love you guys and i read
all the emails and thank you all for the happy brithdays that you all
sent and the songs that you all sung (in horrible voices i am sure).
but i gotta go. i only had time to send a quick email today. i love
you all and hope that everything is going well. elder barros says
thank you for the USB drive mom! he is awaiting anxiously haha. but
anyway. i will keep working my butt off. we might have a baptism this
weekend! a kid whose name is Maycom. we are teaching him with galdino
and sorenson. but that is my news. i love you all! have an awesome
week!
tchau!
elder scott ghormley
p.s. the USA game was BOMB. we watched parts of it in the hospital. so tight!
Friday, June 25, 2010
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Year One, Letter Forty Two
unfortunately this will be a short email.
BUT HI!!!!
favorite scripture: 1 Peter 4: 13 - 19 tight. i like it a lot.
alright everyone hi. i missed you all this past week. it seems like it
has been....6 days since the last time i wrote.
so this business with elder barros. yes, he actually has a fiancée. i
don´t know if he informed president, but yes, they are engaged. he
isn´t the only one that i know of that is engaged. it is weird. but
yeah i was getting way sick of him talking about her all the time, so
whenever he starts, i just tell him that i don´t need ot want to hear
about his fiancée. or i just start talking about our investigators or
what we are going to teach and i just cut him off. but yeah it was
getting annoying. i have never met anyone who talks as much as he
does. he also wants to learn english, but he doesn´t study in his
head. he studies by talking out loud and asking a million questions
while i am trying to study. yes, we have companionship inventory, so i
have already talked about that and set a few ground rules. he likes
me, and i like him, he just doesn´t understand that focusing on the
work doesn´t mean just while we are teaching lessons. but i will talk
to him about what you guys suggested.
we are still getting this area going. the chapel is 45 minutes away
from our area, so it is tough to get people to church without cars. no
one wants to do so much to visit a church and see what it is like just
for the first time. after baptism, it is different. they have a
testimony. but before, it is tough. we had 12 people lined up to go to
church, but a guy in our ward died, so everyone went to the funeral on
sunday because the family aren´t members, so the funeral was on sunday
and everyone member with a car was there and couldn´t help us. but we
are working. we have found some pretty great people with real desire,
we just need to get them to church because lots work or don´t have any
way to get there.
the world cup is nuts. the whole city shut down yesterday for the
brazil game. and then everyone was drunk after, so it was pointless to
work, but we worked anyway. tough luck for us. but whatev. such is
life.
i am not aware of a city camera, and we don´t work in centro. so it
would be tough. we have to take a bus to get to centro. but that is
way cool. i will see if i can find something out.
sounds like you guys are all doing wellllll. how was the PGA event?
and how are things going with the house?? and morgan....you are VERY
PREGNANT. lol i can´t believe that in 3 months you and stu will be
parents. that is so crazy. and those pictures definitely made me
jealous. i wanted to go to mexcio when i saw them. but whatevvv. i
will in a while. and everyone is telling me about the new harry potter
trailers and such. oh my jealous.
alright well i gotta run. i love you guys a ton. i hope you are all
well. til next week.
tchau!!
elder scott ghormley
p.s. HAPPY FATHER´S DAY!!!!!!!!!! (this part is to dad and stuart.)
sorry i won´t be there to take you golfing and beat you dad :)
BUT HI!!!!
favorite scripture: 1 Peter 4: 13 - 19 tight. i like it a lot.
alright everyone hi. i missed you all this past week. it seems like it
has been....6 days since the last time i wrote.
so this business with elder barros. yes, he actually has a fiancée. i
don´t know if he informed president, but yes, they are engaged. he
isn´t the only one that i know of that is engaged. it is weird. but
yeah i was getting way sick of him talking about her all the time, so
whenever he starts, i just tell him that i don´t need ot want to hear
about his fiancée. or i just start talking about our investigators or
what we are going to teach and i just cut him off. but yeah it was
getting annoying. i have never met anyone who talks as much as he
does. he also wants to learn english, but he doesn´t study in his
head. he studies by talking out loud and asking a million questions
while i am trying to study. yes, we have companionship inventory, so i
have already talked about that and set a few ground rules. he likes
me, and i like him, he just doesn´t understand that focusing on the
work doesn´t mean just while we are teaching lessons. but i will talk
to him about what you guys suggested.
we are still getting this area going. the chapel is 45 minutes away
from our area, so it is tough to get people to church without cars. no
one wants to do so much to visit a church and see what it is like just
for the first time. after baptism, it is different. they have a
testimony. but before, it is tough. we had 12 people lined up to go to
church, but a guy in our ward died, so everyone went to the funeral on
sunday because the family aren´t members, so the funeral was on sunday
and everyone member with a car was there and couldn´t help us. but we
are working. we have found some pretty great people with real desire,
we just need to get them to church because lots work or don´t have any
way to get there.
the world cup is nuts. the whole city shut down yesterday for the
brazil game. and then everyone was drunk after, so it was pointless to
work, but we worked anyway. tough luck for us. but whatev. such is
life.
i am not aware of a city camera, and we don´t work in centro. so it
would be tough. we have to take a bus to get to centro. but that is
way cool. i will see if i can find something out.
sounds like you guys are all doing wellllll. how was the PGA event?
and how are things going with the house?? and morgan....you are VERY
PREGNANT. lol i can´t believe that in 3 months you and stu will be
parents. that is so crazy. and those pictures definitely made me
jealous. i wanted to go to mexcio when i saw them. but whatevvv. i
will in a while. and everyone is telling me about the new harry potter
trailers and such. oh my jealous.
alright well i gotta run. i love you guys a ton. i hope you are all
well. til next week.
tchau!!
elder scott ghormley
p.s. HAPPY FATHER´S DAY!!!!!!!!!! (this part is to dad and stuart.)
sorry i won´t be there to take you golfing and beat you dad :)
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Year One, Letter Forty-one
HI EVERYONE! so let´s get going.
scripture: D&C 84: 87 - 88.
what are the updates this week....
my comp doesn´t have a girlfriend. he has a fiancée.
that is fairly common in brazil because he is the 5th brazilian missionary that i know that has a fiancée while serving a mission. so he doesn´t talk about his girlfriend and how cute she is.
he talks about his future wife, how much he loves her, and what he wants his wedding and future life to be like. i don´t really talk a lot. but that causes more problems. because he just talks more. i have NEVER in my life met anyone who talks as much as this kid.
imagine the cliché high school cheerleader in movies who talks so fast and never stops....
he talks more than that. i dunno. it is kinda annoying. but i dealt with elder da silva for 2 and a half transfers. up until now, i have not met one missionary who was like, "oh, elder da silva is way cool!" the reaction i have got from almost everyone? "dude, how did you survive 3 and a half months with him?" so i just figure that i survived that, so i can survive anything. lol
but we are working. hard. we found this guy named Valdir and he went to church and liked it a lot. he was way open and asked us to help him stop using drugs and stop drinking.
i don´t think he is married legally. he doesn´t want to be baptized, but wants to learn about the gospel. so basically, he would appear to be the worst investigator that exists, but he is way cool and he told us that he knows we are telling the truth based on what he felt when
we are there and what he felt during church on fast sunday.
he said he is going this sunday with his wife and daughter.
we also have two familes - Ricardo and Regiane, Luciano and Márcia -
that we are teaching. they are way cool, too. we will see where our work goes.
so i wasn´t aware of a very specific piece of information. i was informed in my interview with president leal this past monday. i am opening this area. elder dos santos was here before me, but he spent 2 and a half transfers flirting with girls and didn´t work. that is why i was emergency transferred, but also, a lot of people were transferred just to change some things up. yuma went to a city called maringá. when i got here, we had nothing. LITERALLY. the area book that we are working with had one piece of paper that had some info about the buses we can use, the members that can give rides, and a final "good luck" before it ended. that was it. then president leal told me that we are opening this area because the elder here before me didn´t open it.
how lucky, right? at least my comp knows where we can eat lunch.
but that is about all he knows, because we didn´t have any investigators to teach.
we are just working and trying to find the best area to work.
my interview with president went well. he trusts me a lot, and he just told me that he wanted to put me in this area because he was going to close it but he wanted to see what i could do in this area with elder barros. elder barros wasn't trained by the way. so i have to re-train him. which has been tough because he has formed some tough habits to break. but we will see.
the house is that one dad. the one that is close to the highway. yes, it is a pigpen.
it is funny, too, because our house is right next to two evangelical churches. hilarious.
they scream and shout and sing while we are planning. so it is kinda funny. but the house is a mess. every missionary just thinks along these lines: "I am going to be here for 3 months or maybe 4 and a half. What is the point doing everything to clean a house just to move to another one that is filthy?" so NO ONE cleans. i am definitely not going to bust my butt to clean the house that is dirty 5 days later. i keep my area and the rooms that i use clean.
other than that, there is no point.
i am incredibly jealous about the golfing experience.
not so much about getting the office finished. as much as i would LOVE to be doing that,
i think i am okay just leaving it to you guys :)
and i wish i could go to mexico, too, morgan. it would be great.
but you would feel better if i was there. wanna know why? you might think you look like the beached whale, but i would just have to stay close and no one would look.
because they would be blinded by my tan (or lack of).
this missionary tan gets better and better every day. and i am quite certain i will need several months in a gym before i will want to swim or go to the beach.
oh! as a food note. i ate liver for the first time. not a big fan.
i will leave that for the moment that i am dying from hunger.
and as another first, i went to a WALMART in Brazil. how cool is that right? i bought a donut. big time celebration. as you can see, my life is full of excitement. and as another first, we were teaching Ricardo and Regiane and a lizard fell from the ceiling and landed on elder barros's head. never in my life have i laughed so hard at someone´s reaction to a lizard.
he screamed and was up jumping around as if he had been electrocuted.
oh my goodness i was dying from laughter.
oh and blake, an elder santana is in this ward. his name is Deriton Santana. He was your LD or LZ in Porto Alegre. he said you were tight and wanted me to say hi.
he served from 2005 to 2007. you were just famous huh??
so this is my life. i hope yours are going great.
i hope tara gets better and that everything goes well.
i gotta run. we gotta go to the city. love you guys!!!!
thank you all for everything!!! tchau!
elder scott ghormley
scripture: D&C 84: 87 - 88.
what are the updates this week....
my comp doesn´t have a girlfriend. he has a fiancée.
that is fairly common in brazil because he is the 5th brazilian missionary that i know that has a fiancée while serving a mission. so he doesn´t talk about his girlfriend and how cute she is.
he talks about his future wife, how much he loves her, and what he wants his wedding and future life to be like. i don´t really talk a lot. but that causes more problems. because he just talks more. i have NEVER in my life met anyone who talks as much as this kid.
imagine the cliché high school cheerleader in movies who talks so fast and never stops....
he talks more than that. i dunno. it is kinda annoying. but i dealt with elder da silva for 2 and a half transfers. up until now, i have not met one missionary who was like, "oh, elder da silva is way cool!" the reaction i have got from almost everyone? "dude, how did you survive 3 and a half months with him?" so i just figure that i survived that, so i can survive anything. lol
but we are working. hard. we found this guy named Valdir and he went to church and liked it a lot. he was way open and asked us to help him stop using drugs and stop drinking.
i don´t think he is married legally. he doesn´t want to be baptized, but wants to learn about the gospel. so basically, he would appear to be the worst investigator that exists, but he is way cool and he told us that he knows we are telling the truth based on what he felt when
we are there and what he felt during church on fast sunday.
he said he is going this sunday with his wife and daughter.
we also have two familes - Ricardo and Regiane, Luciano and Márcia -
that we are teaching. they are way cool, too. we will see where our work goes.
so i wasn´t aware of a very specific piece of information. i was informed in my interview with president leal this past monday. i am opening this area. elder dos santos was here before me, but he spent 2 and a half transfers flirting with girls and didn´t work. that is why i was emergency transferred, but also, a lot of people were transferred just to change some things up. yuma went to a city called maringá. when i got here, we had nothing. LITERALLY. the area book that we are working with had one piece of paper that had some info about the buses we can use, the members that can give rides, and a final "good luck" before it ended. that was it. then president leal told me that we are opening this area because the elder here before me didn´t open it.
how lucky, right? at least my comp knows where we can eat lunch.
but that is about all he knows, because we didn´t have any investigators to teach.
we are just working and trying to find the best area to work.
my interview with president went well. he trusts me a lot, and he just told me that he wanted to put me in this area because he was going to close it but he wanted to see what i could do in this area with elder barros. elder barros wasn't trained by the way. so i have to re-train him. which has been tough because he has formed some tough habits to break. but we will see.
the house is that one dad. the one that is close to the highway. yes, it is a pigpen.
it is funny, too, because our house is right next to two evangelical churches. hilarious.
they scream and shout and sing while we are planning. so it is kinda funny. but the house is a mess. every missionary just thinks along these lines: "I am going to be here for 3 months or maybe 4 and a half. What is the point doing everything to clean a house just to move to another one that is filthy?" so NO ONE cleans. i am definitely not going to bust my butt to clean the house that is dirty 5 days later. i keep my area and the rooms that i use clean.
other than that, there is no point.
i am incredibly jealous about the golfing experience.
not so much about getting the office finished. as much as i would LOVE to be doing that,
i think i am okay just leaving it to you guys :)
and i wish i could go to mexico, too, morgan. it would be great.
but you would feel better if i was there. wanna know why? you might think you look like the beached whale, but i would just have to stay close and no one would look.
because they would be blinded by my tan (or lack of).
this missionary tan gets better and better every day. and i am quite certain i will need several months in a gym before i will want to swim or go to the beach.
oh! as a food note. i ate liver for the first time. not a big fan.
i will leave that for the moment that i am dying from hunger.
and as another first, i went to a WALMART in Brazil. how cool is that right? i bought a donut. big time celebration. as you can see, my life is full of excitement. and as another first, we were teaching Ricardo and Regiane and a lizard fell from the ceiling and landed on elder barros's head. never in my life have i laughed so hard at someone´s reaction to a lizard.
he screamed and was up jumping around as if he had been electrocuted.
oh my goodness i was dying from laughter.
oh and blake, an elder santana is in this ward. his name is Deriton Santana. He was your LD or LZ in Porto Alegre. he said you were tight and wanted me to say hi.
he served from 2005 to 2007. you were just famous huh??
so this is my life. i hope yours are going great.
i hope tara gets better and that everything goes well.
i gotta run. we gotta go to the city. love you guys!!!!
thank you all for everything!!! tchau!
elder scott ghormley
Thursday, June 3, 2010
Year One, Letter Forty
Hi everyone. how are you? so one more time, there is much to report.
We are studying the atonement (or at least i am). this is my replacement for scripture this week.
"None Were with Him" - Elder Jeffrey R. Holland
alright, so the whole ipod business - you don´t have to worry about it. i am not with elder santana anymore. it is just my curse. i got a tight companion in the ctm and now me and elder yuma are like best friends. the curse? i don´t get cool comps in the field. i got elder guerrette. i was only with him for 4 weeks and then i got emergency transferred from Foz do Iguaçu to Ourinhos. Then i get Santana and i finally think that we are going to get going in Ourinhos because i don´t have to deal with da Silva anymore. We were comps...almost 2 weeks. Then I get emergency transferred from Ourinhos to Palmital. It is in Marília, São Paulo. We had three families that we were working with way hard and we had just figured out what we were doing after the changes that i made and now i get transferred. Poor Santana is in Ourinhos. He has no idea what he is doing in the area. he has no idea where members live or how to get around the city. but the emergency transfer just had to happen. so i got transferred into Elder Yuma´s district. the horrible news? he got transferred out. i am so lucky.
lol
now i am with elder Barros. He is from Minas Gerais, but he speaks with an accent from the Northeast. he is in his third transfer and will hit the 4 month point in a couple weeks. he is cool, but he thinks...a lot...about his girlfriend. his trainer was a slacker hardcore. so we have 3 "investigators" that they have taught. and none of them have been taught more than once. everyone says that this area is full of Jehova´s Witnesses, and that it is way tough and no one has had much success here lately. God sent me here. I have a purpose here.
I gotta get to work. I´m sad that right when i started liking my area and i had a cool comp and i was starting to see the seeds start to grow, i got transferred. it is way sad to me. but i just gotta take it as it comes. elder santana called me this morning and i was just teaching him everything about the area and planning the lessons that i WOULD HAVE taught to our investigators if i had had time. he is scared and just lost.
i just have to accept that this is what was supposed to happen.
ummm so that is that. i had to pack everything in like an hour. that was incredibly rough. you would think packing two years into a few bags in an hour would be easy right? it isn´t. especially with dirty clothes and stuff.
can you send me the recipe for the brownies that we make at home?
can you send it in the next email?
the new address here is:
Francisco Martineli 484
Parque das Camelias
Marília, São Paulo
17511-590
that is that.
as a few random side notes:
a bird pooped on my head the other day. we were just walking. open sky, no trees above us or anything. and then i feel something hit my head. i thought someone threw something at me. no one did. then i thought Brazil was able to rain without rain clouds. i am sure it can, but it wasn´t. and then i feel my head. and there was crap. i wanted to kill that bird.
we (when i was in Ourinhos) didn´t have hot water for 4 days. the shower head broke, so it just had freezing - and i mean FREEZING - water. oh my gosh it was awful. it was the first time in my mission that i wanted to sleep without taking a shower. but that is just nasty. so i suffered the coldest shower of my life. for 4 days.
anyway. so as for morgan´s question. i don´t know what happened in my head to make me start liking or eating tomatoes. i had been eating them just because -even though i always SAID that they weren´t healthy - i knew they were healthy.
so i was like, "alright, you gotta stay healthy, just eat them." and then i kept eating and after a few times it wasn´t WAAAAAY bad. and then i just start making mixes with chicken and rice and beans and such and they were good. i think it is because i had a bad experience the first time, and then mom and dad ALWAYS said eat your tomatoes, and i didn´t want to haha.
that is my theory.
as for the birds who have always been kicking up the rocks....that is why we need BB guns.
it is a must. instead, we just had to take the blame. that is rough.
i am really put out right now. lol
anyway. so i am kinda nervous right now. i have to just start over again. in a house with 4 missionaries this time. and this house is NASTY. absolutely gross. it is not a place for an OCD person...or anyone who likes to be neat. and i am NOT going to do deep clean this time. no way.
but i will just go. i love you all! i hope everything is going great.
i hope you all are great and that you guys are all doing well with...the stuff you all do :)
i gotta take off. love you all. tchau!
elder scott ghormley
P.S. my comp, my NEW comp lol, was wondering how much a USB drive is (like the one you sent in the package) in the states. he was wondering if he could have one sent in my package or another package or something because - once again - it is way expensive here. is there a USB drive that is only like 10 or 15 bucks? what do you think? let me know. love you!
We are studying the atonement (or at least i am). this is my replacement for scripture this week.
"None Were with Him" - Elder Jeffrey R. Holland
alright, so the whole ipod business - you don´t have to worry about it. i am not with elder santana anymore. it is just my curse. i got a tight companion in the ctm and now me and elder yuma are like best friends. the curse? i don´t get cool comps in the field. i got elder guerrette. i was only with him for 4 weeks and then i got emergency transferred from Foz do Iguaçu to Ourinhos. Then i get Santana and i finally think that we are going to get going in Ourinhos because i don´t have to deal with da Silva anymore. We were comps...almost 2 weeks. Then I get emergency transferred from Ourinhos to Palmital. It is in Marília, São Paulo. We had three families that we were working with way hard and we had just figured out what we were doing after the changes that i made and now i get transferred. Poor Santana is in Ourinhos. He has no idea what he is doing in the area. he has no idea where members live or how to get around the city. but the emergency transfer just had to happen. so i got transferred into Elder Yuma´s district. the horrible news? he got transferred out. i am so lucky.
lol
now i am with elder Barros. He is from Minas Gerais, but he speaks with an accent from the Northeast. he is in his third transfer and will hit the 4 month point in a couple weeks. he is cool, but he thinks...a lot...about his girlfriend. his trainer was a slacker hardcore. so we have 3 "investigators" that they have taught. and none of them have been taught more than once. everyone says that this area is full of Jehova´s Witnesses, and that it is way tough and no one has had much success here lately. God sent me here. I have a purpose here.
I gotta get to work. I´m sad that right when i started liking my area and i had a cool comp and i was starting to see the seeds start to grow, i got transferred. it is way sad to me. but i just gotta take it as it comes. elder santana called me this morning and i was just teaching him everything about the area and planning the lessons that i WOULD HAVE taught to our investigators if i had had time. he is scared and just lost.
i just have to accept that this is what was supposed to happen.
ummm so that is that. i had to pack everything in like an hour. that was incredibly rough. you would think packing two years into a few bags in an hour would be easy right? it isn´t. especially with dirty clothes and stuff.
can you send me the recipe for the brownies that we make at home?
can you send it in the next email?
the new address here is:
Francisco Martineli 484
Parque das Camelias
Marília, São Paulo
17511-590
that is that.
as a few random side notes:
a bird pooped on my head the other day. we were just walking. open sky, no trees above us or anything. and then i feel something hit my head. i thought someone threw something at me. no one did. then i thought Brazil was able to rain without rain clouds. i am sure it can, but it wasn´t. and then i feel my head. and there was crap. i wanted to kill that bird.
we (when i was in Ourinhos) didn´t have hot water for 4 days. the shower head broke, so it just had freezing - and i mean FREEZING - water. oh my gosh it was awful. it was the first time in my mission that i wanted to sleep without taking a shower. but that is just nasty. so i suffered the coldest shower of my life. for 4 days.
anyway. so as for morgan´s question. i don´t know what happened in my head to make me start liking or eating tomatoes. i had been eating them just because -even though i always SAID that they weren´t healthy - i knew they were healthy.
so i was like, "alright, you gotta stay healthy, just eat them." and then i kept eating and after a few times it wasn´t WAAAAAY bad. and then i just start making mixes with chicken and rice and beans and such and they were good. i think it is because i had a bad experience the first time, and then mom and dad ALWAYS said eat your tomatoes, and i didn´t want to haha.
that is my theory.
as for the birds who have always been kicking up the rocks....that is why we need BB guns.
it is a must. instead, we just had to take the blame. that is rough.
i am really put out right now. lol
anyway. so i am kinda nervous right now. i have to just start over again. in a house with 4 missionaries this time. and this house is NASTY. absolutely gross. it is not a place for an OCD person...or anyone who likes to be neat. and i am NOT going to do deep clean this time. no way.
but i will just go. i love you all! i hope everything is going great.
i hope you all are great and that you guys are all doing well with...the stuff you all do :)
i gotta take off. love you all. tchau!
elder scott ghormley
P.S. my comp, my NEW comp lol, was wondering how much a USB drive is (like the one you sent in the package) in the states. he was wondering if he could have one sent in my package or another package or something because - once again - it is way expensive here. is there a USB drive that is only like 10 or 15 bucks? what do you think? let me know. love you!
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