Year Two, Last Letter

It is my last P-day. The internet deal is quite easy to explain. But

it is all good. This is the last time that i will be able to email you

while in Brazil and the last email as a missionary that i will send to

you all.

Scripture: 2 Timothy 4: 6 - 7, 16 - 18

Wow. I don´t know where to start. I want to tell you all that I love

you so much. There really isn´t any amount of words that i can use to

describe how much i love you all. I want to thank you all so much for

everything. The support and the love that you have shown during these

last two years was and is crucial to my success.

Thank you all for the happy birthday wishes. My birthday was entirely

too lame here. But I got that little package. It was good.

This last transfer has been so full of...everything you can imagine

concerning difficulties with a companion. But I will be able to

explain better in a few days. The good thing? Me and my comp are

solid. We are friends. Although you would never imagine it possible.

We have found some AMAZING people. People that I won´t ever forget. It

sucks that I will have to leave before seeing their progress. But I

know that this is how God needs it to happen.

Sounds like life at home is just as louca as ever. But what can ya do?

I am psyched.

I have no idea what is on the to-do list when i get home. Lots of

stuff. That is all i know.

I have my interview with President tomorrow and then we will be

getting the plane on wednesday.

I know that this is Jesus Christ´s true church. I know it. I know that

the Book of Mormon is true. Jesus Christ is our Savior. I love Him and

I know he sacrificed Himself for all of us. These two years have been

some of the best and worst, happiest and saddest years of my life. The

mission has been amazing. I loved it. I know that I have lots to do in

this work even after being released.

I am so psyched to see you all. It still hasn´t hit me that I am going

home. But i am sure that, before showing up in sky harbor, i will be

able to feel it a little more. I want you all to know that i love you

guys. thank you for EVERYTHING. Never give up on the gospel. Never

give up on Jesus Christ. He never quit on us, so we can´t quit on Him.

We MUST endure to the end. I will see you guys in a couple days.

Seja a diferença que você deseja ver no mundo. Amo vocês.

Elder Scott Ghormley

Missão Brasil Londrina

2009 - 2011

"Retornar com Honra"

Year Two, Letter Forty

hey there!

scripture: Moroni 10: 3 - 7 A promise from a prophet of God that has,
quite literally, changed my life. And it has changed the lives of
millions and millions of people who wanted to know one thing - the
truth. I love the Book of Mormon. Through experiences that I will hold
sacred throughout my life, I can bear my testimony that the Book of
Mormon is true. If anyone honestly seeks a testimony of its divine
nature, with faith in Christ, they will know that it is true.

alright so things are going good here in Vivi Xavier - Londrina. as
good as they can go i guess. my comp and i are getting along a little
better. what elseeee. so we have an iron. solid. and we got our
washing machine fixed. even tighter. and now everything seems to be
going well in the house. the neighborhood isn´t the best, but it isn´t
the worst. we live on a fairly busy street. we found out at our ward
counsel that we are working the most populated area in Londrina. The
city has more than 500,000 registered habitants. Our area, which is
one of 12 areas in the city, has nearly 20 percent of the population
of the city. so one area - Vivi Xavier - that has one companionship is
responsible for nearly 200,000 people. talk about nuts. but it is
cool. we are basically excited and that is that. we announced
yesterday that we will have the Domingo do Amigo (Sunday for Friends)
in our ward on the 19th of June. so we are letting everyone prepare
friends and family to come to church and have a ton of people here.
the bishop loves us. i bore my testimony in sacrament meeting
yesterday and i talked about repentance. I indirectly directed my
testimony to the members and told them that if they didn´t stop
worrying about things that had already happened, and didn´t forgive
one another, they would continue living in sin. i explained that those
who didn´t repent and forgive others had no part in the atonement of
jesus christ. and then i realized how complicated repentance can
really be, but how worth it it is.

interesting comment: the chapel is right between two evangelical
churches. they play rock music, scream "hallelujah," and try to take
away the spirit from the sacrament meeting. lol

as for me? well Lauren, my shoes are...destroyed. but i am good. my
feet are holdin up. and my nails aren´t becoming ingrown for now. so i
am goin with it.

Aline, Jessica, Renato, and a few other investigators came to church
this week. Aline and Jefferson are married officially, and Robson and
Jessica are married now, as well. Renato is going to be the next on
the list. I have learned to love people more on the mission. I have
already grown to love these families a lot. Aline and Jefferson are
such an awesome family. Now we are just working to prepare them for
baptism and to have an eternal family one day.

i hope mom is feelin better. did the virus go away? that must have
been nasty. i am so grateful that God has blessed me so much with
health during these last couple years. i can´t believe how good my
health has actually been.

i hope that the internship goes well for you, blake. what exactly does
the job include? what do you have to do?

i hope that the bench works out well for ya, dad. :) i hope you don´t
hurt yourself. i can´t even imagine how many projects you end up
having per week. and i hope that you are able to have an awesome trip
and meeting in florida. humidity really does suck. lol. as for your
new missionary comp...Rud Hefner is such a great name. I want to give
this guy a high five just for having that name. But even though he
isn´t as good looking as your last comp (aka - your wife), look at the
bright side...i have NEVER had a comp that i found attractive.

mom, i know it must suck when no one is at home to chill with. but
look at it this way...in a few weeks, you will be sitting there
thinking to yourself, "wow...life was so much more chill when this kid
was in brazil."

yo moe and stu - how is the new house?! do you guys feel old? i feel
super old. i am gunna be 21 this month (as Lauren was so kind to
remind me). and as morgan so lovingly told me, i will make everything
go all wacky with the kids of our family. you guys are all even
numbers and i am an odd one. it isn´t my fault that mom and dad
decided to have me a year early. lol. i am excited to go visit you
guys one day. is jack liking the new place?

guess what! i ate subway for lunch today. such a blessing of Londrina.
big cities = american restaurants.

anywho. i am not sure what else to say. i think i am good. i am still
not trunky. i love you all a ton. i hope that you all have an awesome
week. and that everyone is healthy. you are always in my prayers.
SEMPRE. love you all. tchau.

elder scott ghormley

Year Two, Letter Thirty-nine

e ai família

scripture: 3 Nephi 21: 25 - 29, 22: 13 - 17

so to answer some questions:

the house is a mess. disgusting. we went to town on it. probably the
first time in about 2 years. the iron doesn´t work. so i just put my
shirt in the bathroom and take hot showers and let the steam help a
little bit. the laundry machine doesn´t work. we have been waiting for
a tech support to come to our house since thursday. clean clothes?
difficult. but i am washing by hand. the two bathrooms had drainage
problems. so they smelled like a sewer. but i called a plumber and the
house owner and got it taken care of. now we just need an iron and a
washing machine.

for my homecoming talk (WOW, TRUNKY) i don´t really know when the best
time would be to give it. how long are we gunna be in montana? did you
say that we are going to leave the week after i get home?

i have received some info from friends and stuff. i am gunna be so far
behind all of them in school and stuff lol. but whatev. the majority
are just wanting to know what day i come home and stuff. it will be
weird to see what group i fall into when i get home. a bunch of my
friends from before the mission are still psyched for me to get home.
as for girls? eu não sei de nada.

the ward is incredibly dispirited. like...super discouraged. the bishop
is nearing the end of his service. he is already bishop for 5 years or
something. he is even more discouraged because the leadership is not
supporting him. yeah. we visited him on saturday and basically said
alright well we are here to strengthen this ward and make it grow. so
what do you want us to do, bishop? he was super psyched. i gave him a
big hug and just said that we would do our part and if he needed
anything to count on us. his wife gave us some strawberry pie to thank
us. the bishop was super happy. so let´s see what we can get to happen
this transfer.

mom...pretty soon it won´t be so quiet alright? i will be able to make
some noise and make sure you guys know that i am there. :) then when i
start dating (if that ever happens), there will be people at the house
fairly constantly. but i don´t know who i could date.

hey stuart...yeah i liked the letter. is thor seriously a movie? was
it retarded? or was it good? or was it good in the Fast & Furious
meaning? you and moe excited to leave? and chill in gilbert? but
opening is alright. i will get to the one little problem in a sec.
dude...i have hardly bought anything to bring home. like seriously
nada. SO THIS IS FOR EVERYONE: is there a certain cool thing from
Brasil that you would like me to get for you? stuff is pretty freaking
expensive here. so i dunno. but if anyone wants something, tell me
soon! i am pretty psyched to meet my nephew. but he can´t scream at
me. lol

as for other stuff:

the d-backs are tearing it up?! sick!!

the one little problem that i was talking about is my comp. i guess i
judged early. he seemed cool. he still is okay. but he is what i call
an ´´EU´´ missionary. ´´eu´´ means ´´I´´ in english. so what makes him
an eu missionary? he LOVES to talk about himself. he is very prideful.
he is the guy that says that he did everything to make a baptism
happen. or the guy that talks constantly about how his life was before
the mish and how every girl wanted him for his body and stuff....only
he is serious when he says that. i pretend to be interested for about
30 seconds and then i just start nodding my head and saying
´´yeah...hmmm...cool´´ at certain periods of the conversation. but
whatev.

so we have found some cool people. we have three members who are
dating non-members. yep. so this last saturday we were able to have
one of the weddings :) Jefferson and Aline were married! Aline isn´t a
member. But she is way cool. We obviously don´t know them very well.
But they seem promising. We also found Robson and Jessica. Jessica
isn´t a member. She came to church yesterday. We have their marriage
marked for this Saturday. We just need to help her build a testimony
before being baptized. We also have Renato and Anelise. Renato isn´t a
member but he seems really cool and sincere. We still need to mark
their marriage. Anelise´s mom hates Renato because he has had a
sketchy past; but we are teaching him. Good stuff. We are also
teaching this 16-year-old named Mateus. He is cool, but he has some
big problems with word of wisdom and law of chastity. but we are
preparing him for baptism, as well. He went to church already, too. So
this is what we are working with after one week. Let´s see what kind
of progress happens.

ummmm that is really all i got for you guys. let me know the answers
to the questions i asked. especially if you want me to bring something
brazilian home. lol

i love you all. i still have lots of time on the mission. so don´t
start any countdowns yet. i hope you are all great and that the gospel
is constantly the center of your lives. gotta go. peace! tchau!

elder scott ghormley

Year Two, Letter Thirty-eight

Hey everyone.

Scripture: Alma 31: 31 - 35. We need to trust in God. In EVERYTHING.
there is no other option. That is how we overcome.

So i can´t fully or honestly describe how I am feeling right now. As
we say in portuguese, "A ficha não caiu." Or in English, "It hasn´t
hit me yet." The last transfer has started. It is official. And not in
the way that we all hoped.

I was transferred. I said bye to everyone in Cascavel. Elder Griner
will receive an elder who has been out for 7 or 8 months. As for me?
Well, what do you all think happened? Judging by the past? I have
never worked in Londrina as one of my areas on the mission. My last
transfer will be in Londrina. A poorer area of Londrina. And it looks
like God isn´t letting me off the hook either. The name of the area is
Vivi Xavier. It was closed. Guess who gets to open it? I guess that
seems to be a talent that God blessed me with. So I arrived on Monday
night and picked my comp up on Tuesday before lunch. His name is Elder
Prado. He is from Goiás. He is pretty tight. And he saw a picture of
Lauren. And fell in love. He says that my sisters are "princessas." I
told him that both are off limits, but he seems to think that only Moe
is because she is the only one who is sealed in the temple. He already
tried to convince me to give him a picture of Lauren. We are opening
Vivi Xavier and the house is a mess here. Pretty nasty. But whatev.

ADDRESS:
Salim Sahao, 660
Londrina - PR, 86083-050

We didn´t get to have our interviews with President, so that sucked.
No one got to explain anything to him. But whatev. Now we just gotta
work our tails off here. Our area seems okay. We have nothing to work
with. We are starting from ZERO. So let´s see what we´ll get.

I said bye to Raulino and Elaine. I told them that i better be at the
top of the list of people to receive pics from their baptism. Marcos
and Gisa - the family that gave us the reference - said that they want
to come visit me in arizona in about 5 years because they want to meet
the people who raised "such a great missionary like [me]." hope i can
make you guys proud :)

I bet your class on sunday was bomb mom :) I love teaching about
baptism. I just don´t like shoving it down people´s throats like some
missionaries. i hope that connor can start thinking seriously about
the next few steps in his life and why a mission is essential to be
spiritually prepared for those moments. i know that dad, blake, and
stuart wouldn´t be who they are today if it wasn´t for their missions.
and i know that who i am has completely changed. i wonder if you all
will see a difference. lol

sorry that i was late to get the email to you. i love you guys a ton
and thank you SO much for all the support and advice. you guys are an
inspiration every day for me. everything that i am and everything that
people respect me for is all because of the gospel and the example
that you guys gave me in living it. i know that the gospel is true and
that Christ is our Savior. if it weren´t for that knowledge, i don´t
know where i would be in life right now. but i know that it wouldn´t
be as good as where i am now. i love you all. have an awesome week.
tchau!

elder scott ghormley

p.s. i hope that i don´t get lost here!

Year Two, Letter Thirty-seven

heyyyy

kinda in a hurry. my time is running out.

scripture: matthew 25: 34 - 40

so this is the last week of the transfer. which blows. everyone is
saying that i am gunna be gone. i hope not. we have interviews with
president on friday. i guess i will have one chance to show him why i
need to stay. the assistants are retarded though. you remember how
when they came here, i told them that they couldn´t just force our
investigators into baptism? yeah, well, they went and told President
that i wasn´t dedicated to our purpose as missionaries to baptize and
said that i am not a very good example to elder griner because he
needs to get it into his head that we need to baptize. and apparently,
i don´t give him that motivation. while they were here, they got home
way late. they got home at 10:45 one night. so we knew they were
going to come back to our apartment, but we didn´t have our cell
phone because i left it with the other elders, so i couldn´t call to see
where they were. so we waited for them to get home. they told us that
we were breaking rules. so they told president that i am not keeping
the rules because we weren´t in bed before 10:30. so they basically
are trying to screw me over. i really dislike missionaries like them to
be honest. so i don´t know what is going to happen.

me and griner are good. he is kinda scared about the possibility of me
leaving. kinda sad, too. he said that he is afraid that the assistants
screwed both of us over because now president is going to want to make
him companions with "a missionary like one of them (assistants)." so i
am praying to stay. a lot. and i will directly ask president on
friday. i am so sick of drama. i thought the mission was supposed to
be to serve Christ, not to be a tattle-tale and try and screw other
missionaries over. Trunky comment? If there is ONE thing that i am SO
excited to not deal with, it is the constant crap from assistants. i
am so ready to not have to look into a little white book for
everything.

but i am happy. and healthy. i am good. don´t worry about me.

we had a family home evening with raulino and elaine and we watched
"Joseph Smith: The Prophet of the Restoration" with them. SO GOOD. It
was the first time in forever that i have cried while bearing my
testimony during a lesson. Yeah...talk about emotional wreck right? i
am going to be that person who always cries while bearing testimony at
home. jk. but it was way solid.

i can´t believe matt and preston are home. nuts. i can´t believe that
david hamblin and david peifer are gunna get married already. holy
crap. don´t worry mom, you have my promise. i won´t get married quick
at all. i have lots of stuff on the to-do list first. and that is
crazy that i will be at TJ´s homecoming.

jack is crawling? great. moe and stu are moving? sad.

well i gotta run. the time is outtt.

love you guys. i hope i am writing from cascavel next week...

elder scott ghormley

Year Two, Letter Thirty-six

yesterday was so bomb!

hey lauren! HAPPY BIRTHDAY THIS WEEK :)

I loved the phone call. so great. i loved hearing everyone again.
including jackson for the first time! i miss you all so much! but i
still have some work to do out here! Elder Griner loved you guys. He
said that he already knows you guys are "so tight."

SCRIPTURE:

1 - Ether 12: 4, 6 - 9 Our faith is our anchor. And that gives us hope
for a better world. So bomb.

2 - Ether 12: 26 - 28 We don´t always know the purposes of God. We
don´t wholly understand our weaknesses. But with our faith (our
anchor), we come unto God. Then, He makes us powerful in our weakness,
even unto the confounding of men. Faith, hope, and charity brings us
unto God, which brings us eternal life.

I forgot to mention that i had one more ingrown toenail torn out last
week. It felt great. It almost tickled. Not. I wanted to die in that
chair. I can´t wait to get the surgery done to remove this ingrown
nail forever. But at least the doctor really likes me. She is pretty
cool. She is a member´s aunt.

Ummmm what else. So the phone call was bomb. Better than skype i bet.
Because we continued the tradition. I don´t ever remember talking to
blake via skype. so the tradition had to continue.

dad - sports in AZ suck huh? oh well. Life goes on. We need to golf
soonish. And fly fishing will be an adventure. trunky? i think not. i
am so glad the lakers got swept. SO GLAD.

mom - it was one of my best mother´s days ever. :) the book of mormon
reading is awesome. you pick up so much stuff that you never saw
before.

moe and stu - jackson is already swimming?! nuts. he will be so big
when i see him.

i am so happy that i got to talk to everyone. it was so fun. keep
praying so that i can stay in cascavel if it is God´s will. And pray
so that our investigators can progress. especially elaine. pray for
her to feel more secure and have the desire to be baptized, as well.

i love you all! i don´t have much to say today! have an AWESOME week.
i know i will have a high goin for me from the phone call. tchau!

elder scott ghormley

Year Two, Letter Thirty-five

wow. well lots of news from the home front. osama was assasinated
finally? great. Presidente told us today. we have received new
commands in all areas that have muslim colonies - meaning, my city,
Foz do Iguaçu, and other muslim cultural regions. we need to have an
emergency pack ready and a local member aware that at any time, we
could show up at their doorstep to spend the night to avoid our homes.
we need to take different routes home at all times. we need to avoid
any large area that could bring unwanted attention. we can´t speak
english commonly in public. we have to be ready for any revengeful act
from muslims against americans. good thing the majority of our mission
doesn´t have muslims. just cascavel and foz do iguaçu.

we had stake conference this weekend. super amazing. guess who
presided...PRESIDENT MONSON! and Elder Holland spoke as well! The
catch? it was just through satellite. but still...so tight. i loved
the talks. amazing. we had a spiritual feast. lol

raulino and elaine are good. they are set up for saturday. but the
baptism could be sunday. we visited them yesterday and elaine was
resting because she hurt her back really bad.

me and griner are bomb. like...seriously so legit. we are working our
butts off. pretty difficult. but we are doing well. we are pretty bomb
friends already. i am really helping him with portuguese.

i love the book of mormon. i started over and finished first nephi
today. why was nephi such a baller? to those who don´t understand
"baller," why was nephi such an absolutely amazing person? is there
ever a moment where he isn´t the best example ever? i want to be like
nephi.

dad - the t-minus was completely unnecessary. haha. i hope jake starts
to get back in gear. i will get on his case when i get home. wow...i
can actually say that? "when i get home?" weird. i hope you kill it
in the golf tourney. i bet i will need some lessons.

mom - griner is good. he teaches well. very basic. but well. i love
being his trainer. thank you ALL for your prayers and your support. i
know God is blessing us. i hope everything went alright with you and
dad in the photo shoot. i wanna sleep at 7:00 sometimes. lol but it
doesn´t work out.

stu - i am so not skeletor. and i don´t know why i haven´t sent photos
home. my camera is back getting fixed. which blows. and don´t try and
make me trunky. it is impossible. literally. i bet the fast and
furious was just as epic as the others right? amazing acting? hot
girls? lol but i don´t work very much in the favellas morgan. just
sometimes. griner needs to get a little scared. lol but i will get
home soon-ish. but i don´t know if i will be able to make fun of
people. i am gunna be weird bro.

moe - HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!!! Stuart, too. You guys are old. lol. 3
years?? long time. but it is awesome huh? is jack really gunna eat
sand? that would blow. haha but he can get his stomach pumped :)

lauren - you are going to move again?! wow. and tell me some stories :)

blake - conte algumas histórias também. como tá indo as coisas com....a vida? :)

MOTHER´S DAY CALL! i will inform you later this week. we need to
confirm it still.

i love you guys. a ton. i miss you all too. have a bomb week for me. i
will need to get the info from the secretaries about coming home. they
haven´t sent it yet. tchau. amor.

elder scott ghormley

Year Two, Letter Thirty-four

hey everybody. so for the first time in three weeks, i have p-day.
normal. great.

scripture: psalms 23

news:

Elder Griner and I are great. We had his first baptism of the mission
this week. Eduardo was baptized on Friday and Confirmed on Easter
Sunday. Sweet. He was super happy. He is way mature for his age. Johny
was interviewed and will receive the priesthood the Sunday after Stake
conference. We are working hard with lots of people, but there is one
family that is at the front of the list. Raulino and Elaine. We taught
about the Plan of Salvation. Such an amazing lesson. We marked their
baptism for the 7th and they accepted. Now it is just work, work and
more work. I love this family.

Elder Griner is still struggling with the language - and i just keep
helping him realize that that is how it is. He speaks well for a
greenie. I will continue helping him with his Portuguese. It is so
easy to just speak English sometimes, but Portuguese is essential. We
are already great friends. We work a lot and he is definitely keeping
up. I am the one who is dying. His shoes are still in perfect shape.
haha. But we are working a lot. And he is really excited to be in the
mission that he was called to. I would love to finish my mission with
him. There is a possibility for that to happen. Dad, he is from the
Granite South ward in Sandy.

Um President Tavares was serious with the 100 baptisms per week - 5200
per year. My math might have been a little off the first time. lol.
But this week, we achieved 38 baptisms. The most that this mission has
ever achieved in a week. On average, an awesome month would be more
than 100 baptisms. We had a goal in our mission to get 125 in a month.
So i guess i need to look at this from another point of view. It is
possible. I believe in miracles. I know that God wants us to be able
to do this. So I guess we just have to believe that it is possible. So
i ask for each one of you to pray. Ask God to help our mission reach
this goal. I don´t know what we can do, but i know that God will
prepare a way. Pray so that this week, we can have more miracles.

Easter was good. I taught our Gospel Principles class. Quality. Um the
meetings were good. Catholics don´t really know why they celebrate
Easter here, but they do. Getting drunk. Having cookouts. Inviting the
family over. Sometimes, if they are able to arrange their schedules,
they find time to go to mass for an hour. And then get drunk again.

I want my mission to be a moment that i will never forget or regret in
my life. I just want to give my all.

I will get to talk with you guys in a couple weeks huh? it will be the
last time that people will be excited to talk to me on the phone.
haha! no one will ever gather around to call scott again.

I hope Jackson gets around to crawling soon. And that he says hi to me
when we talk on mom´s day. I hope he liked his easter basket morgan.
lol

Say hi to everyone for me i guess. Thanks to colleen for trying to
send me a package. too bad brasil sucks with mail. i hope everything
is going great with everybody. hey blake...você aproveitou o dia do
beijo? acho que vc nunca teve essa oportunidade em Brasil...haha

LOVE YOU GUYS! HAPPY EASTER FROM BRASIL!

elder scott ghormley

Year Two, Letter Thirty-three

This is gunna be super quick.

HEY everyone! what is uppp? so i have had lots of stuff goin on. i had
to go to londrina last monday. on tuesday, i had training all day long
and then we found out who our comps are. my comp is bomb. his name is
Elder GRINER. do not pronounce like "green." all the brazilians
pronounce it like "green." He is my first utah companion. He is from
Sandy, Utah. Yep. he is from the missionary factory.

We got back on tuesday at midnight. We worked on Wednesday. Griner
served for a couple weeks in texas because he was waiting for his
visa. apparently he worked in the biggest slacker mission of all time.
the stories that he told me were...awful. but he is super stoked to be
working with me. i am giving him the rundown on things. he is speaking
well for a newbie, but he still has lots to learn.

We are super good friends already. We are teaching quite a few good
people. Eduardo has taken some big steps and his baptism is marked on
friday at 6:00. i hope it all works out well. raulino and elaine are
also doing great. they are progressing a lot. their son asked to go to
church even though they weren´t going to go on sunday. their son...is
6 years old. yeah. that was a big step.

we had a fireside in cascavel with president tavares. it was about
missionary work. and that was cool. raulino went. then we went to foz
do iguaçu yesterday for a zone conference. which is why i didn´t get
to use internet. president told us that we would have to sacrifice a
p-day. which makes two in a row for me. but we get a couple minutes to
send emails home.

president wants us to baptize 100 people this weekend. he said that
the mission is supposed to have 100 in one week. and that after, he
wants us to baptize 100 people weekly. that means that in one
year...our mission would baptize 52,000 people. so of the average
300,000 converts per year, our mission is supposed to handle one-sixth
of them. i have faith.....i guess i need LOTS of faith......

i guess me and griner are doing good. we are becoming closer friends
every day. i hope we have a super good transfer and that i can be an
awesome example of a missionary to start his mission off.

i love you guys a ton. florida sounds like it was pretty fun. you were
running how i have been running lately to get buses and taxis and all
kinds of stuff. i am super psyched to see morgan and stuart´s new
house...and their new pet turtles. i bet they will go emo because you
are leaving morgan.

anywho. i hope everyone has an AWESOME day. and week. love you all. peace!

elder scott ghormley

Year Two, Letter Thirty-two

FIRST! MOM, i sent the scan to your email at work and home. i could
only open the word version. so i signed it and scanned it. i hope that
it will do..

alright. i am literally going to fly here.

scripture: 3 Nephi 12: 43 - 48

alright so we arrived at the end of one more transfer. i am flying
because our bus to Londrina leaves at 12:00 today. we didn´t know
about transfers, but i was just preparing myself to be transferred
because we all know how my luck is with transfers. so i was saying bye
to everyone that i love here in Cascavel. Johny and Moira were super
sad this weekend because the Bishop told them that unfortunately, I
would probably be heading out. On sunday, we got the phone call. I
will need to go to Londrina today with Elder Piano. And we will both
be taking our bags. Only thing is...he will be taking all of his. I
will be taking a bag for the night. And then I will have a training on
Tuesday. And then I will return to Cascavel with my "son." Greenie. I
am training again. I don´t know who my comp will be. But I know that
Elder Piano will be headed to Presidente Prudente.

Johny and Moira were confirmed yesterday. That was great. Johny had
his first interview with Bishop about the priesthood. They are so
awesome. When we were saying bye, still not knowing who would stay or
who would go, he just said that he and his family will never forget
what we did for them.

This week was crazy. Just running all over the place. The last week of
the transfer is always nuts. But i am good. And healthy. I am walking
fine now. I don´t know if I will be able to keep up with the newbie.
He is gunna get here with rocket-boosters in his shoes. I have my
camera back. That was an expensive little fix. But the camera is in
great shape. Is it possible for a camera to have a software update?
because there are all kinds of new things on this camera that weren´t
there before. but they are definitely good things.

i am interested at the fact that sports seem so odd to me now. the
masters sounds like a let down. and the diamondbacks are definitely
needing a change for the better. and football might not even happen?!
i am so out of it.

morgan! where is your new house going to be? and why are you already
saying that there is room for one more baby?? I HAVEN´T MET THE FIRST
ONE! please, take your time. lol.

alright, well i am already running. i love you guys. a ton. pray so
that the missionaries that are showing up in Cascavel can be ready to
work. and that my comp can be super excited for the work :) and
mom...i think you were thinking of elder hardyman. from idaho. and
yes, that will be me. i go until the end. you can be sure of that.
love you all. tchau

elder scott ghormley

Year Two, Letter Thirty-one

Wowzers. Very, VERY busy week.

scripture: 2 Nephi 27:23

Where to start. Hmmmm....

Health:
Alright, well I definitely wouldn´t be able to walk the entire day
with that boot on. It just wouldn´t work out. Thank you for the
thought, but you don´t need to send the boot. I will finish
physiotherapy this week. Then, i will just continue doing exercises and
stretches. I will have to continue working, so I guess that isn´t much
of a choice.

April/Conference:
I can´t believe it is already April. But at the same time, I can. haha
that makes sense. April has been great so far. We will get to the why.
Conference was spectacular. I didn´t get to watch anything in English.
I understood everything, but it is annoying to listen to the
translator´s voice and not the person who is actually talking. It
isn´t as good. For example, when President Dieter F. Uchtdorf cracks a
joke about people sending text messages saying, "It has been 10
minutes...why hasn´t he said something about aviation?!" everyone who
is hearing him understands the joke. But then there are those people
watching and hearing in Portuguese...and they don´t understand why
there is a 20-year old American missionary cracking up in the middle
of the chapel with an investigator next to him. Good stuff, good
stuff. How do people not understand these jokes?! Just a side thought.
Anyway. So I didn´t get to watch all of conference. I didn´t get to
watch the Priesthood Session :(. I was present at all of the general
sessions, but I didn´t get to watch all of conference. I loved a talk
on Sunday from Elder Paul V. Johnson. But a lot of the time, i was
running all over the place trying to organize some other stuff.

Wedding/Wedding Party
What other stuff you might ask? Well. We had a wedding on Saturday
morning. :) We went to the cartório with Johny and Moira. Everything
went smoothly I guess. They showed up late. haha but other than that,
we had the wedding! Johny was hilarious. When people started asking
how it all went, he said, "I guess it is like a shot....once you look
to see what happened, it is already done." Haha it was hilarious. it
was so fast that it seems pointless. but we all know that it is a lot
more important than the 15 minutes that we spent in the cartório. the
bishop was like, "don´t worry, this wedding is only to follow the laws
of the country. what really matters is what will happen in one year
when you and moira enter the temple of God to be sealed for time and
eternity. you can be sure that it will be a lot longer and more
important than 15 minutes." and then the difficult stuff happened.
they decided to have their party on Saturday night and the bishop had
promised them a little party in the chapel. the problem? we didn´t
know about the party until Thursday. Yeah...there was LOTS of running.
we had all the responsibility of a party for them on our shoulders. We
talked with organizations (relief society, quorum, ward mission
leader, etc.) but even so, we didn´t have many results. But we had
lots of faith. We kept going and preparing and talking with people and
we pulled off a little party for them. Johny told me right at the end:
"As if you hadn´t already done enough for us, you guys put this
together for us. It was so much better than I though it would be.
Thank you for everything." Yeah...we are super heroes. We just don´t
use capes and funny masks. I don´t have that many pictures. Because I
didn´t have my camera. One of my favorite parts about the party was
something I heard Johny say. He was talking with an uncle of his about
the wedding and he said they got married so they could be baptized.
Then his uncle asked why he would do so much just to be baptized. And
Johny responded, "We need to do this. We spend our whole lives looking
for something better, searching for the truth. If you found the truth,
what would you do?" And when his uncle looked a little confused, he
said, "I found the truth. We found the truth that everyone looks for.
How could we not follow that?" good stuff. we got a few addresses from
his family. Oh and Dad...you kinda got me with your April Fool´s Joke.
Like, 65%.

White Clothes:
So on Sunday, I didn´t get to watch all the sessions because I was
running all over the place (including to the other chapel) to get
everything prepared for something more important than a wedding - a
baptism!! So we got everything set up and I went with a guy from the
ward to get baptismal clothes from the other ward. SO great. I missed
conference, but i got to participate in something unforgettable to
Johny and Moira...and to me. I got to baptize Johny and Moira on
Sunday night after the last conference session. Amazing. Moira was
scared...even Johny was way nervous...but everything went smoothly.
Several members stayed after the conference to help with the baptism.
Great.

Other Stuff:

So, what is the story with tyson now? and what about connor? what
happened with him when he went up to utah? that must have been rough
to hear the stuff about mission service.

I wanted to know my blood type just to know. Who knows....someone will
need O+ blood one day in Brazil.

I want to go to Florida with you guys and play golf. Why didn´t I get
the invite? I guess the Waterfalls were pretty great...but that
doesn´t mean that I can´t desire more. We went because we baptized
more in our district than any other zone or district. So we went and
Foz went with us. We soaked people in the waters of baptism...and the
waterfalls drenched us. That was fun. good thing I didn´t have to use
my camera to take pics. it woulda got way wet.

I definitely miss those waffles on conference morning. dang...trunkyyy

so i don´t know what day i will go home. i will call the secretaries today.

how did things go at ASU? what will my new major and stuff be? were
you able to talk with the people there?? need to know.

so i love you all a ton. this email is way long. i hope i covered
everything. have an awesome week. let the spirit of conference stay
with you at all times. when the choir sang "the spirit of God," i felt
the spirit so strong. i remembered the first time that i ever went to
priesthood session with dad and blake as a deacon. everyone sang that
song standing up. that was one of the most spiritual moments of my
life. i felt that same spirit this last Sunday. it was an experience
that i can say that i was overcome and full of the spirit. the feeling
was indescribable. i love conference and i love the gospel.

elder scott ghormley

Year Two, Letter Thirty

Don´t worry. I am okay. Everyone take a deep breath.

Yeah. so okay. what is goin on with everyone? is everyone happy? healthy?

Scripture: Moroni 7. good stuff.

So I had physiotherapy all last week and it will continue this week.
Based on the X-rays, a stress fracture that happened when i was still
at home (one of the many times that i came home with a rolled ankle
that i never let heal) became inflamed and irritated. It happened
because of the impact combined with weight and a shoe that isn´t built
to walk thousands and thousands of miles. So, the stress fracture that
had partially healed before the mission was going to fracture again.
Thankfully, it wasn´t able to fracture because I noticed the pain. So
all of this adds up to what?
1. I am currently doing physiotherapy.
2. I am not supposed to walk, but I kinda just laughed and told my doctor
that this wouldn´t be possible.
3. I took medicine last week and I am
currently using two machines to decrease the inflammation and pain.
4. I am still wondering why this happened after a year
and a half of my mission.
5. No one needs to worry...I am taking care of business.
So, I will continue working and I will probably finish my pyhsiotherapy
next week. I brought my ankle braces that i used to play basketball
with me. So if there is any necessity, I will use them.


Dad-

So that is awesome to hear about your project, Dad. I hope that you
are able to rock it in Florida. Maybe the humidity will help you to
feel a little closer to your son in Brazil.

Is Scott excited to go to the temple? Why has it taken so long? Was he
doing the preparatory class? Has Katy gotten better?

I am super sad that i wasn´t able to help pull weeds. I bet Lauren
would have helped pull at least 79 of them. I have gotten used to
Brazilian weeds and service projects...meaning that Arizona weeds
won´t even compare.

I am gunna be honest. That was a blow to the gut when you said that
Tyson came home. WHAT HAPPENED?? How did he give up after so long?
Hasn´t it been 6 months already? Did he come home because his friends
were giving up? I need to write Jack. And Hyrum.

Mom-

Hey Mom, how was that conference? Did everything go well? As for
dinner reservations...i can mark my reservations right now. I will be
eating dinner frequently in your kitchen...in a while.

I will not give my opinion publicly about that thing that you said
about that one thing. If you understand my meaning. But i think i will
agree with you. Whatever is best is what i am rooting for. So i hope
that everyone can be happy.

What is Clear Channel? Why does Stuart want to work there?

I AM SO PSYCHED FOR THE WEDDING!!! Johny and Moira were getting kinda
nervous but I got Johny on Sunday and took him into the bishop´s
office to get everything settled. We are gunna have the wedding on
saturday at 10:00 AM. and then we are going to have conference on
saturday and sunday and so they are going to push the baptism to a day
during the week. and then we will have a little party for them and
invite everyone from the ward. it will be good. unfortunately i will
not be able to dance with anyone. maybe i can do that one chicken
dance from all the church dances from back in the day?

This nonsense in Libya is definitely annoying. I hope that they get it
under control quick. Because the USA doesn´t have enough money for
more wars.

Moe-

So jackson got his first taste of a milkshake huh? boa sorte. já era.
he will only want chocolate now. that is why i blame dad for my sweet
tooth. i am 100% certain that it was him who gave me a taste of
chocolate or ice cream when i was 6 or 7 months old.
but what can you do?

If you think your legs are white....what would you call mine? that was
just a rude comment. all around rude. and just so you know...i am the
only person you know that LOVES mondays. because it is p-day.
missionaries are the only race of people that like mondays. woohoo!!!

Lauren-

i hope you get the email i sent to you.

Blake-

eu acho que você precisa tomar cuidado. e o elder piano quer falar
para você que você precisa tomar cuidado com suas danças da pizza. se
vc conseguir entender, pode me falar. porque eu tô por fora agora. mas
eu amo vc. e seja feliz.

so i am super psyched for conference. last one of the mish. but that
means that it will be the best. and i will be able to be more
spiritually prepared.

oh yeah...i forgot to explain why we are using internet today and not
yesterday. so it goes like this. yesterday, we had to leave at 4:00 AM
to get a bus at 5:30 AM to Foz do Iguaçu. Right around 8:00 AM we were
at the terminal and getting another bus. Right around 8:40 AM I was
changing clothes and putting on some comfortable walking shoes. And
right around 9:30 AM I was on the trail of one of the natural wonders
of the world. If you weren´t able to understand, I saw the biggest
waterfalls of my life yesterday. :) It took a year and seven months,
but i went to the Falls. And holy crap....they were AMAZING. Like,
WOW. Email definitely doesn´t do them justice. I had so much fun. We
saw the biggest waterfalls on Earth. And there were lots of people
from other countries. An elderly gentleman from England didn´t
understand all the other missionaries speaking in portuguese but then
when i asked if he needed help in english he looked at me and was
like, "Why don´t you speak English ALL the time??" And I really just
wanted to tell him that he had a weird accent. I figure that is what
people told me for the first 6 months in Brazil. He deserved the same
thing. But instead, i just took a picture for him. And there were 3
girls from Canada - a set of twins - that really liked talking with me
and an elder from California. So we just told them to have fun in
brazil and we booked it...President was watching. haha but we weren´t
flirting. it is very difficult to talk about the gospel in english
now, though.

but anyway. i took lots of pictures even though i didn´t have my
camera. i will get all those pics don´t worry. i gotta go. i love you
all. have an awesome week. peace out :)

elder scott ghormley

P.S. I need to know my blood type. thank you :)

Year Two, Letter Twenty-nine

hey there.

scripture: Ether 4: 17 - 19

so that is bomb that BYU got back into basketball. it has been a while
since they have been active there. i hope they do well.

the doctor took some x-rays and said that there is a possible stress
fracture in my left ankle. i am taking some medicine called celebra. i
don´t know what it is in english. today i have physical therapy
(physiotherapy) in a clinic. i don´t know if it is actually fractured.
on wednesday, i will go to the university here and i will go to the
physiotherapy center. i think that i will be fine. don´t worry about
it for now. i think that if it was fractured, i would know. for now we
are working.

johny and moira went to church this last sunday. raulino and elaine
went as well. i am super psyched for them. keep praying for them.
they need to stay strong.

me and pianoman are good. we are working well together. he is way
timid. he doesn´t take the initiative. so i have to do everything when
it comes to planning. in the lessons, he doesn´t do much to break the
ice or to get friendly with the people. he just teaches the part that
he needs to teach and stays super quiet. but we are good friends. he
doesn´t cause problems or anything.

my camera broke. something happened with the zoom or something. so i
left it in a shop to get looked at. they are going to give me a quote
today. is that the right way to use the word "quote?" haha but i hope
that it is something cheap to fix.

that is cool that you got your project done dad. how are the results so far?

what is going on in Libya? what is the purpose? why are there forces
from the States and Europe going against them?

morgan, i liked jack´s pictures. does he use a tie already? he could
teach a few kids in the ward here. the majority of the kids don´t even
know how to behave. it is kinda annoying. lol but what can ya do? we
have one of the biggest attendance rates in the mission. i think it is
the biggest. so we have lots of kids running around causing
distractions.

ummm well that is all for now. i am trying to stay focused. i am
tired. and hurting. but i hope my ankle will be better. and i hope
that i will be able to sleep better. i think i am going to make
brownies today. everyone deserves something tasty.

i love you all. i hope you all have an awesome week. peaceeee

elder scott ghormley

Year Two, Letter Twenty-eight

hey everyone.

so this week is gunna be super quick.

scripture: Mormon 9. The whole chapter is bomb. I loved it.

so the new guy is Elder Miranda. He is Cavalcanti´s comp. He is a
little odd. in some ways. but he is alright so far. he has some odd
tendencies. but we are all chill. me and piano are still tight.

ummmm this week was great. on friday we went to the cartório with
Johny and Moira. we marked their marriage for the 2nd of April. we
taught them about temples, eternal marriage, and eternal families last
night. the president of the quorum and his wife went with us. great
lesson. especially since this last weekend was the temple weekend for
the stake. so they were both excited to talk about their experiences
and stuff. good stuff. johny and moira are awesome. their two
daughters are 4 and 2.

we had to travel to londrina on friday night because on saturday, we
had a meeting with an area seventy. his name is really odd and i
forgot it at the moment. but it was a good conference. sister tavares
gave my favorite talk to be honest. it was about faith. it was a great
talk. she was talking about the fruits of our missions and how they
depend on faith. good stuff.

i had the worst haircut up until this point in brazil on
thursday. i had to cut my hair for the conference. but now i am just
sad that lauren can´t buy a ticket to brazil and back to cut my hair.
lauren! don´t lose your hair cutting abilities. i will need them.

my ankle starting hurting really bad outta nowhere last week. along
with my ingrown toenails, that means bad news. the fungus/disease in
my toes is micose. meaning that it is slowly eating away at my nails.
i bought some medicine, but i don´t know how long it takes to get
better.

i don´t really have a lot of new news this week. we taught an awesome
lesson last night. this guy named Luciano had prayed to know how to
change his life and what he needed to do to become better on saturday.
and on sunday we showed up. he was crying as we taught him about the
restoration. he told us that he knew it was a miracle and that God
wanted him to do this. He has problems with alcohol for sure. that
much is a fact because he told us last night. the guy has had an
incredibly difficult life. like, he was a drug-dealer, he was already
in prison. he has already used lots of drugs. but he was an awesome
guy. so we will see where that can take us.

but i am good. i am jealous that Dad gets to play golf. i am glad that
Dave got my letter. i hope that he can come back to church. i'm glad
that you are getting that project done dad. i bet it will be
spectacular when it is finished. what is it exactly? haha

i am glad that people are getting over that cold. sounds nasty. i saw
little Jackson´s nose in that picture and it looks like he was
suffering with a very, very runny nose. i hope that you can lose your
3 pounds Morgan. We had an arm wrestling tournament on our way home
from Londrina. It was like a 8 hour trip, so people decided to have
fun and arm wrestling was our resort. i lost one time. My final
record was 17 and 1. My loss came at the very end. after i had beaten
EVERYBODY, who comes to the plate? the idaho boy. he reminds me a lot
of TJ. but my arms are still tight. i guess that means the gym will
destroy me at home.

megan is back on the radar eh? hey blake...cuidado com [essa moça]
menino....sua alma está em jogo. If you can tell me from what movie
that phrase comes, i will have to buy you ice cream when i get back.
lol

well...being the only american has definitely showed me one
thing....my portuguese is bomb. like, spectacular. people don´t ask me
if i am american anymore. they know i am a foreigner. but they
generally ask if i am from some other south american country. i just
tell them that i am from rio grande do sul. and that i am a gaúcho.

soooooo i guess that is all i have to say for now. i really want to
play golf. or any other sport really. basketball. or football (the
REAL football). baseball. fishing. i hope that the PGA is interesting
this year. i am curious to know what it will end up like. does tiger
woods still exist? what happened with him? is he going to be a threat
at any other point in his career?

well i love you guys. i thank you for all of your prayers and for your
support and for everything that you do to help me. i hope you have a
tubular week. say "oi!" to people there. love you all. peace!

elder scott ghormley

Year Two, Letter Twenty-seven

hey there everybodyyyy.

alright so scripture is: D & C 123: 7 - 14 talking about the
persecution that the saints suffered in the beginning of the
restoration

so we had transfers today. elder fellows left. there will be one more
brazilian getting here tomorrow. elder cavalcanti is pretty concerned
because everyone says that this elder that will be getting here is a
little feminine. as in..way gay. i dunno. i never met the kid so i
have no clue. but whatever. me and elder piano are gunna be here for
one more transfer at least! i will be in the house as the lone
american. oh well.

i had to go to the podiatrist again this afternoon. my nails are just
bleh. she said that when i get home i will have to do that same
surgery that dr. shockey did on my toe. i guess it would make
things a lot easier. she said that he did the treatment perfectly. so
i guess i will do that when i get home.

i guess the final decision for school will have to be a transfer
early. i will tell the secretaries that i will be going a home a
transfer early. so mom, that is my answer. i will be coming home in
the beginning of july.

i am sorry that you guys had so many problems with all the rain and
gutters and stuff. i hope that you both get better. i hope EVERYONE
gets better! everyone has colds. so mom, dad, morgan, stuart, jackson,
and everyone else with colds....GET BETTER! :)

i hope that denver, jackson, and tyson are all good. jackson sent me a
message this week. he is alright. he is a great missionary. i will
need to get in touch with tyson. i hope that their family is okay. i
hope that they can all find strength in the gospel.

joão´s baptism was great. he didn´t like the cold water. haha but it
was great. the whole family went. the ward fell through. they didn´t
help very much with the baptism. the bishop is doing so much stuff all
by himself and both of his counselors and our ward mission leader
all dropped out. but we are going to have a family home evening
tonight with joão and the family.

we are still working with johny and moira, but this transfer, we will
probably handle everything with the marriage and baptism. pretty great
huh?

we taught raulino and elaine and elaine said that she wants to take
things slowly. i guess she got scared when anatholy (our elders quorum
president) started telling them that they needed to be baptized that
weekend that he met them. yeah forcing baptism on someone is pretty
ridiculous.

i hit 1 year and 6 months this last weekend on saturday. dang. i guess
it has been a while huh?

stuart...i am not skeletor. it just isn´t the right word choice. but
thanks for the info about wonder woman. that will be an excellent tv
show. big crowds.

blake...freak man. i haven´t been getting your emails then. i wasn´t
saying that you weren´t writing. i just figured you were busy or
something. but this is the first email i have got from you in a while.
do you send them to this email all the time? dude...i was thinking
about an email that you sent me a long time ago. i think i was in the
ctm still. but you were talking about having fun and being excited on
the mission. dude...people just aren´t excited. i don´t know why. but
it is so annoying. i mean people worry so much about sucking up to
president that they are afraid to tell him that we aren´t out here to
NOT have fun. we are supposed to have fun. that is a necessity. but
anything you can imagine to do for "fun" is prohibited. i dunno man.
but what can ya do? i just keep going. and i will keep working. it
isn´t like we can change much about that. anyway. how is school going
man? what are you studying to be now?

lauren...i was super happy with the news that you sent me :) keep
doing your best and working hard. i guess i will be coming home in
july. thanks for reminding me of harry potter. that will be nuts. lol.
i don´t really maintain contact with the guys. it has been a long time
since i have heard from them. but i hope they are all doing great. how
is work goin for ya now? and friends and dating and such?

well i am good. i mean i am tired. and it is hot. but i am healthy.
and me and piano man are doin alright. i hope that i can have some
more success this transfer. i guess i am gunna head out for now. i
love you all. thanks for everything and the support and stuff. i hope
you have an awesome week and you all get better!! tchau!

elder scott ghormley

Year Two, Letter Twenty-six

wow...well this is gunna be quick.

scripture: Luke 10: 2 - 3, 9 - 12

i can´t believe that Grant died. How is Denver? any news about him?
and what about Jackson and Tyson?

So this last week was busy. We had a flood in our house. We had to
call the plumber to fix it. The one drain in our apartment clogged and
so the kitchen and laundry area were under water.

So i was thinking a lot about school. I still don´t have an answer. I
have talked with lots of people. President was here for interviews. My
interview was fine. This was the biggest topic. He let me talk with
you guys about school to resolve everything. it still is in the
process. I don´t know what to do.
elder yuma wants me to stay till the end. but his school doesn´t start
until september. i have been studying my patriarchal blessing. based
on certain things that i read and felt, i believe that i need to
follow those feelings. i am planning on coming home a transfer early.
it is definitely not what i want to do, so it is still subject to
change. but my preliminary decision is that. i will be coming home one
early. otherwise, i wouldn´t even be able to breathe between school
and mission. so i think that is the best option.

my toes are okay. i went to the podiatrist. i have a fungus on the two
big toes and an ingrown nail on the right one. it was ugly. good thing
the podiatrist was super cute. it dulled the pain a little bit. i am
sure it was because of that. but don´t worry. i didn´t flirt or do
anything. i figured that the moment wasn´t right. i mean...she was
cutting and it was hurting so bad.

we have joão set for baptism this weekend. the bishop almost cried
when we announced it in sacrament meeting. he never imagined that this
would happen, but we reactivated João, his mom Roberta, and his
grandma Genesí. Bomb. we are super psyched about that. Bishop called
president to ask him to leave us all here for this next transfer. he
loves the 2 companionships here.

johny and moira are great. we just need to finish the things with the
marriage and then we are set. i am super happy for them.

indianara got rid of that dude who she was dating. so we have a potential there.

me and pianoman are good.

i hope that you guys aren't working too much in the yard now. sounds
pretty busy. golf season is under way! woohoo! i am going to miss my
last masters :) and the NBA all star game sounds nuts.

well i gotta run. sorry for the short email. MORGAN! yes, i liked the
valentine´s day email. especially since it was my last valentine´s day
without a kiss :) haha but i am glad that you are doing well! will you
take me to that steakhouse? i am also going to cut my hair! all 6 mm
of it.

alright i love you guys. i think that my decision with school is the
right one. every one is free to send me advice. this week i will
probably have permission to check my email one more time. i will ask
president. so everyone can give me their bit of advice. i love you
all. thank you for everything and for the support. have an AWESOME
week. peace out! tchau

elder scott ghormley