Feliz Natal (Merry Christmas)

Levi tells me that it´ll be Arizona and BYU. G´luck to them, and currently I´m an Alabama fan. (Down with the Utes!)

So, my prediction was right. Elder O. left, and I´m here with Elder Rebelo from somewhere in the north of Brazil. He´s a nice guy, and speaks English pretty well. I thinks that he speaks better than any other Brazilian Elder that I´ve run into. He said he just read and studied a lot, so the promise of learning English is true. But as a result, he knows a lot of funny things to say, like “Don´t go after those wicked women” and stuff like that.

Welp, it´s been a week of much tracting. The whole mission is currently in an immense effort to find and focus especially on families, so we´ve been in search of some. We found many who were interested in the message, but nobody yet who´s made the effort to come with us to church yet.

The search continues...

On Wednesday, this guy... stopped us on the road and said he´d like to receive our visits. Apparently he had been visiting with the missionaries and even had a baptismal date marked when he moved here, so he lost contact with the missionaries. We set up an appointment with him and invited him to church. Turns out he showed up yesterday and everything. His name is A..., about 29, and likes to study Hebrew. He asks everyone that he meets if they speak Hebrew and will say a few words to them. He´s a little odd, but a good guy. We tried to pass by his house later that day to see how he was doing and feeling after church, but unfortunately we couldn´t find his house. We walked up and down the whole dang street many times, but unfortunately the number system of houses is quite weird in the city. On many streets, you get to just choose which number you´d like, instead of being in order, which means that sometimes house number 34 will be next to house number 567, so it takes a while to find a house at times. It´s a bit stupid with the numbers, but we´ll keep up a diligent search for him.

In other news, the championship game between São Paulo and some other team was on yesterday, which made it quite difficult to find people to listen to the message instead of watching the game. Those that did listen either turned out to be drunk (I´m getting better at telling the difference between a drunk guy and other types of crazy), Pastors who just wanted to teach us some stuff, or both. One lesson we taught was to two people in their driveway, and my comp had just about finished explaining about the Book of Mormon, but for some reason the other guy who lived there got angry and came out and yelled at us, told us to go to heck, and many other words that I didn´t understand. Heh, it was one of the times where we weren´t well received. At least, in my experience here in Brazil, usually the missionaries get pretty well treated, but I guess not always.

Welp, that´s all from my front.

Thanks again guys, and a Feliz Natal to everybody!

-Me