Weather still cool...

Another cold week.

Ha, I feel bad for my comp. because every night he goes to bed looking like he’s going to leave for a Klondike campout(pants,sweatshirts,gloves,beanie) even though it’s only about 14 Celsius in the house. He’s really missing that Northern Brazilian sun right now…

This week, my comp and I have got to go help the other Elders in the district with some of their work. Unfortunately, with us losing a bunch of areas and missionaries, there are two newbie’s together as comps. (One Elder has about 6 months, and the other is only in his 3rd week in the field), so we get to head over there and help them with some stuff. The Elder in his 3rd week has had 3 companions in 3 weeks because of all the moving around that’s been happening. Poor guy never gets a chance to get used to anybody. His name is Elder D.S., and it turns out that he’s a rugby player and a big NZ All-Blacks fan. He plays on some local team in his city in southern Brazil (which is pretty rare, as rugby isn’t very popular here). I think you’d like to meet him someday, Dad. He wants to buy a ball here at the store, just that it´s about 130 Reals. Maybe we could get a game started some P-day...heh.

We found a bunch of good people to teach this week, but unfortunately everybody really good isn’t married, or has a family who doesn’t like the church and ends up scaring the person away. We found this really good guy named Fe... who actually asked during the lesson “You know, I’ve always really wanted to know, with so many churches around here, there must be just one that’s true. But which is it?” His wife also just had a baby, and he asked “Where was she before she was born last week?” Two questions that we, of course, love to hear. We had a great lesson with him, but unfortunately right as we were finishing, his uncle (a minister) showed up. We just passed him on the way out, but he didn’t look too happy to see us. Anyway, long-story short, Fe... told us later that it would be best if we didn’t come back. Definately a low point on the week.

On a higher note, Se... (our investigator that needs to get married and stop smoking) managed to stop smoking this past week. He had been cutting it down to about 2 cigarettes per day for a while now, but finally decided just to stop altogether. Now we just got to see about that dang marriage…

For P-day today, we’ve got a nice basketball game lined up with the whole district. I haven’t actually played basketball since I left the MTC in São Paulo, as it’s kind of difficult to find somebody who has a good basketball (or a bad one for that matter) and even harder to find a court with hoops. (They have a lot of basketball courts here, just that kids like to hang on the hoops instead of playing basketball, and they’re always broken.) We’ll see how it goes. We usually play Brazilian's against American's when it comes to sports, which means that we lose quite badly when it comes to soccer, so I figure we might do well today in basketball. (Actually, there’s only 3 Americans, Me, Elder Han... and Elder Har....)

Sáll from me today.

´till next time!

-Elder =w= Heperi