It won´t smell like teen spirit anymore...

Happy "20th" Birthday to Luke.

At least for me. As of right now (email received May 14, 2008), I´ve got less than 48 hrs. to get all that teenage angst out of me. Here´s hoping that I can do it.

Yeah, that phone call was good. I appreciated hearing from you guys. (On a side note, everybody´s voice sounded like I remember, except Lauren sounded older).

Oh yeah, turns out I didn´t get transferred. Há, I will officially spend 6 months in my first area. Elder Johnson left this morning, and my new comp is Elder Cassio. (Isn´t that a brand of guitar?) I haven´t met him yet, but he should be showing up in about an hour an a half. He´s going to be the district leader, like my trainer Elder Moraes was, which means that we can use our cell phone to call people instead of having to leave the house early in the morning every time we need to call someone! (All the cell phones are blocked so that you can only call Pres. and Sis Leal and your District leader. But Zone leaders and DL´s know the code, so hallelujah!)

Sometimes Elders go a little stir crazy being in the same area for a long time. The Elder that was last in this area here for 6 months was itching to get out, so I hope that I don´t get like that. I like my area, and as dinky as my house is, it kinda feels like home now (sorta of).

As far as the work goes, we baptized Graz... on Tues. (Elder Johnson did it.) She accepted our invite on Saturday and really wanted to get baptized before Elder Johnson left. So we called the bishop and arranged the baptism earlier. It was way cool, and now her whole family are members since she got baptized. I´m glad that we found her.

As for Pat..., she showed up to the baptism and really enjoyed it. We extended the invite to her, but she said that although she doesn´t doubt that the message is true, she still doesn´t feel prepared to get baptized. I don´t doubt that in the end she´ll get baptized... I just hope that she decides to do it before this next transfer ends. (She´s got 6 weeks, that´s plenty of time, right?)

This past week, Elder Johnson introduced me to what may be the best thing I´ve ever had. We were eating at a little hamburger/juice place, when he suggested that I order a certain type of juice/smoothy-thingy. It was Banana, Milk, and one other fruit that I´ve never heard of and don´t know the name of it in English or how to spell it in Portuguese, but it´s pronounced “Ah-sigh-eed”. From the picture, it kinda resembles a blue raspberry. Anyway, I ordered it, and it beats the heck out of any Jamba Juice or anything that I´ve ever had. (On a side note, it kinda reminded me of that shake thingy that you used to make, Mom. Remember “Purple Cow”?). To sum it up, I think I´m in love with that little blue fruit.

Well, I think that´s it. Till next week.

Excelsior!

-Elder “still in his first area” Heperi

P.S.
Happy birthday to that skinny blond boy who wins those beauty contests and who is older than me by only 6 hrs, Mat6t Karlsven. I hope you do everything on Friday that I can´t.


P.P.S.
Video Below: (Tracting in Awarua... I mean Bauru, Brazil.)