Sunday, December 26, 2010

Year Two, Letter Seventeen

CHRISTMAS!


Hey there!


okay...scripture: it has to be Luke 2.


um more news? i don´t think anyone will be able to handle this. so

lauren...that whole thing about how you didn´t want more transfers?

yeah that wasn´t a wish that was granted. i wasn´t transferred! but

elder standard was. yeah. president took the pleasure of informing me

that i would be opening an area. so standard went to marília or

something. and me? i received the new missionary. his name is elder

ferreira. he is from pernambuco. he is 20 and has been on the mission

for 4 months. he is...i dunno. he is short. like way short. but i

basically said alright man we are opening an area. we don´t have a

thing to start with. we are gunna have to work. a lot. ok? and that

was that. so we are gunna work. a lot. kinda interesting. president

has really thrown me for a spin quite a few times.


thank you for those that participated and provided their scriptures. i

will study those this week. alright for some other little updates. i

got one package from mom and dad on saturday when

elders ferreira and calvacanti got here.

i don´t know when i will get letters or anything else.


i don´t know why i haven´t send pictures home. it takes forever on the

computers and i am afraid to send the memory card home

like i did last time.


i LOVED the Christmas letter. it was hilarious. as always. you guys

are not empty nesters. not at all. you guys are spectacular.


Lizzie got to the CTM this week?! or to chile? why did it take so

long? i thought she left several months ago??


mom the christmas conference was difficult. the sleeping conditions

and such were...crazy. but we managed. certain people slept on the

floor...others slept outside. lol


the work here is still rough. we are working with a few people. i

think i finally was able to get through Indianara´s head. we basically

told her that now that she knows what commandments she needs to keep,

if she doesn´t keep them, she doesn´t have the right to receive

revelation from the holy ghost. so i told her that she needs to talk

with her boyfriend about marriage seeing that they are living together

for 4 years now. i felt the spirit. i know he guided me as to what i

needed to say.


other than that...we are just trying to find people to teach. we will

have more updates soon but this time of the year is TOUGH as nails to

teach. the people don´t really listen ya know?


and now for the important info....the phone call!


okay. so you will be calling to the chapel here! the number is:


45 3223 5065


you will have to do the country code and such. you guys can call

around 4:15 here. so i think there is a 5 hour difference between our

times right now. so you would call at 11:15 AM in arizona. it will be

on saturday. i hope that is all the info we need.


we are working with a few families here, but the majority are all

catholic. we will see what happens. generally they don´t like the idea

of commitment. the catholic church is so lenient so it is tough

sometimes. but we are working.


i am super psyched to talk to you guys this weekend. it is gunna be so

cool to hear your voices. i wonder if Jackson will speak to me? haha i

hope that everything goes well with the phone call. thank you for your

letters. i love hearing about everything going on at home. i hope you

are all super psyched for christmas!


oh yeah! i got electrocuted this week! it was crazy. this electric

fence had some crazy freak-out session and it ended up hitting me.

some houses have some protective electric fences and one of them

popped and hit me when we clapped at a door. talk about crazy. i went

kinda numb for a few hours and had a way bad headache and i was way

tired/weak. but i am good now.


i am super psyched for this weekend. love you all! peace!


elder scott ghormley

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