My Shoes Are Too Ugly

Well, I´d say that this week was pretty eventful. On Thursday night, the Zone Leaders called and said that I was going to have an emergency transfer, and that I needed to be packed and ready to go by Saturday morning! We knew that someone in our zone was gonna have to be moved around, (some Brazilian Elder was having heart problems and had to go home, but this was his last transfer anyway), but, it didn´t occur to me that that someone would be me. So we had to cancel some appointments for Friday (Including a FHE meeting with some inactives that are really nice), so that I would have time to pack. I spent sometime saying goodbye to people, and was almost done packing on Friday night, when the phone rang again. And guess what? The ZL said that I was NOT going after all. Pres. Leal had changed his mind. Ha ha, sheesh! I was relieved though, (though I still haven´t unpacked everything yet) because I didn´t wanna leave my area prematurely. Anyway, we only have two weeks left in the transfer, so I´ll see what happens then.

Oh yeah, I forgot to say congrat's to Britney on her wedding. You´ve been mentioning that in your emails, but I always forget. Hope the wedding goes/went well! (Did it happen yet? I forgot.)Also, I forgot to say congrat's to Josh Loner for gettin´ his call to Fortaleza. Talisa wrote me about that a couple months ago, but I kept forgetting. I hope you enjoy the heat man, and just make sure you keep your sanity in the MTC, it doesn´t last forever! The other American district that flew in with mine was a Fortaleza district, so ask any and all American Elders you meet if they know an Elder Heperi.

Zone Conference was two days ago in Marlilia, which is always fun because we get to take a van ride for a couple hours thru Brazil, and see some other missionaries. I saw Elder Monterossa there, and it was sweet to catch up and see how he´s doing. None of the Brazilians believe that he´s American because his accent is near perfect in Portuguese, of which I´m very jealous. And on the way up and back, we got to watch two movies. On the way up we watched "Alvin and the Chipmunks' (It´s translated as "Alvin and the Squirrels" in Portuguese, because no one knows what a Chipmunk is, and a few people know what a squirrel is from T.V. There are no squirrels here.), and about 2/3 of "Bee Movie". Both bootlegged and in Portuguese, but very enjoyable nonetheless. The only bad part of the day was that the secretaries in Londrina miss placed our letters, so while I got both packages (Tell Tota thank you for that package as well, I really appreciate the razors. I loved the pics that you got. I haven´t even seen half of those.), I probably won´t get those letters for a little while (possibly three weeks). Thank you to any and all who wrote me, and as soon as I get ém I´ll try to send a reply.

We had to cut some investigators this week because they were not progressing anymore and always had some excuse why they couldn´t attend church or receive our visits. One old man that we were teaching wouldn´t come to church because he thought his shoes were too ugly for the chapel, and as he put it, "Do you think the Lord had ugly shoes? No, so I can´t either."

I think that´s it for now.

Well, as always, stay classy Provo.

Excelsior!-Eldah =w= Hepdizzle