Weddings and Stuff

Sup yáll.

This week was pretty cool. The conference Elder Natã Tobias was good. We all got to go up and shake his hand before the meeting. He said that he has some family/friends living in Provo, but couldn´t remember exactly where. He actually did pretty well on pronouncing my name correctly. When I shook Sister Tobias´s hand, she asked where I was from, and when I said “Provo, Utah” she looked surprised and said “No way! You don´t look it Elder!” I laughed, because I´m used to that reaction from people, just not from General Authorities wives, ha. The conference was great, and I learned a lot about how I can improve my teaching skills.

As for our investigators, two of our families are at a standstill because we´re trying to see what we can do with getting them married. We just went to the marriage place (I don’t know what you call it) today, and while they can get a discount for them because it´s a religious thing, Unfortunately it´ll take about a month to go thru, and it´s a bit expensive, so we´ll see what we´re going to have to do. One of the guys, named Se..., is so determined to get baptized this week that he says he´s going to move out of his house and live with his brother while he´s waiting for the marriage business to go thru.

On a sadder note, the really great family that we where teaching, Ad..., Lu... and Ka..., decided that they don´t want to be baptized anymore. They where all progressing really well (Lu... is already in Alma) until the Word of Wisdom lesson. They told us that they were happy with the lifestyle that they were leading, and Lu... told us that she´d rather die than stop drinking her beer. (Very encouraging hearing that) So…unfortunately they´ve decided to stop investigating for a while. It´s kind of sad, as both of them have already prayed and received an answer that the message is true, they just lack the desire for now.

It continues to be nice and chilly here in Londrina, which sometimes makes people unwilling to come to the door when we show up, but when we do manage to get in, it makes teaching twice as effective as usually everybody stays in the house on cold days.

So, Levi´s getting started on the mission shopping, huh? Good to hear that he got them Ecco shoes.

Welp, sáll from me. Till the next time.

-Elder Heperi