Elder Répri

How crazy that BYU football sounds. Thanks, as always, for the continued updates. I predict that this year BYU will go undefeated, win a close one against the Utes, get a shot at the Natl. Championship, but will be kept out of it by some BCS computer calculation. Then people will revolt against the Great and Abominable BCS system, and then great will be the fall of that system. Just a prediction from the field...

The highlight of this week actually happened just last night. The day had been a bit hard for me. For what reason, I don´t know why. Maybe the move of P-day to Monday made my body think that it should feel burned out by Sunday. We were trying to meet our goals for the week, as Sunday arrived and we were still 5 new investigators short. We visited many references, but not a single one was home, which was more that a bit discouraging. Our last visit of the night was a reference that was about three months old, but we had never managed to find this person at home. We decided to just leave them if it didn´t happen this time. Anyway, we knocked on the door, and this guy answers. He´s about 55, and his name is a bit complicated (I think its Lorivão or something like that). He told us that his wife was already in bed, but that we were welcome to just come in and talk to him. After a few minutes of conversation, (He told us that he was “Non-practicing Catholic”, which is probably the most common type of religious person that we encounter) we shared the first message about the Restoration with him. He seemed to show interest and made some good comments during the lesson, but above all I felt the Spirit pretty strongly during the lesson. We didn´t leave a Book of Mormon with him as we had run out, but he said that we were welcome to come back and visit again. Although, as he said, he didn´t think that he´d be interested in changing religions as he was born Catholic and after 55 years doesn´t know if he wants to leave to something different. From my perspective, the Spirit was saying something else during the discussion. Nothing too big and amazing, but a higher point in my week.

We return tomorrow to teach again, so everybody pray that he responds to what I believe that he´s feeling.Everybody's excited for conference, although we might not get to watch the Priesthood session as it finishes quite late. I´m hoping though. General Conference is a big help to the work, I think, as sometimes people have a little harder time wrapping their minds around the concept of a modern-day prophet.

Also, I guess the dollar went up or something, because lately our money that we receive from the mission every two weeks for food and stuff has went up. Horray for more little packages of frozen Açaí in my freezer!

´Till next week kids!

-Elder Répri

(I want my nametag to say this so that everybody can have an easier time pronouncing Heperi. I tried it out on a Brazilain and he said it perfectly.)