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
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