Year Two, Letter Twenty

Hey everyone. This email is probably gunna be really quick.

Scripture: 3 Nephi 11: 32 - 41

okay so this week was hectic. on wednesday night i was told that i
would be travelling to Londrina. so on thursday around 11:00, I was on
a bus headed to Londrina. after a 9 hour bus ride, we got there. i had
some legal problems. i had to go with the secretaries to the federal
police station for visa issues. i didn´t have an official protocol.
yikes. so i went to get a protocol and to renew my visa but they told
me i couldn´t without a record of the old protocol. so i had to go to
the civil police station to make a report and then return to the
federal to get a new protocol. lots of running. but that was okay. on
friday night, we were back on a bus around 22:30 and on our way home.
we got back around 5:00 in the morning on saturday and we had to work
the whole day after.

but i am totally chill with that. because i am just loving this area
and our investigators. we have a guy named Isaías. That would be
Isaiah in english. He is a prophet. lol but anywho. he is tight. he
went to church twice. he is marked for baptism this saturday. we
taught him the word of wisdom and last night, we showed up at his
house and he gave me a big bottle of whiskey. i was like uhhh?? but he
goes, "I am not drinking it. I just wanted you to see me throwing this
crap out." So that was great. He watched Eliane´s baptism last night
and is way psyched for his now. we are also teaching 3 young men
(rapazes?) named Wesley, Eduardo, and Lucas. they have all gone to
church and wesley said he wants to go every sunday and Lucas did too.
they are both right around mission-prep age. their brother-in-law is
the young men´s 1st counsellor. awesome. we are teaching quite a few
people that are just way tight. i am loving the work in this area. we
only have a district in cascavel. that means that we only have 3
companionships and we don´t have anything to do with a zone. but we
have already baptized more in our district than the zones, which have
around 9 - 12 companionships. president is thinking about opening up a
zone here.

HEY! DAD, MORGAN, AND STUART! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!! save some birthday
cake for me :) it has been a while since i have had cheesecake. :)

i have talked with president about e. ferreira and he just told me to
fight it out and that he is my comp because i can help him. i know
that i can handle it. we gotta work. we have to get these people
prepared for baptism. so he doesn´t have any other choice. i guess
that is one plus of being the senior comp huh? just go and he has to
follow if you are doing the right thing.

dad...thanks for thinking of me on the first tee. i will think of you
the next time i play golf, as well. that will probably only be in my
dreams for a while though. let me know how alta mesa was.

as for my teeth...i am just using regular colgate toothpaste and a
toothbrush from oral b. i floss and use listerine, as well.

blake has a new girly?! oh wowzers. that is cool. i hope
that he doesn´t get too owned when it comes
to sports. that was a joke.

lauren, if you win the biggest loser, will you split the 2 grand with
me? for being your inspiration?? cool thanks!

morgan...i still have trouble rolling over. don´t give jackson a hard
time. but i think i have trouble because of the bed i sleep on. and if
i roll over, i will fall off. so all in all it just wouldn´t be a good
idea for me.

who got the coolest present for the birthday? i prefer the one dad
will get. but that is because no one has told me about other presents.

anywho. i gotta take off. i love you all.

sounds like mom and dad give a killer lesson at church. i wanna see
this class. anywho. so that is all for this week. love you all! stay
classy, san diego! man...too bad no one lives in san diego! stay
classy, mesa and provo! tchau!

elder scott ghormley