Coming to America

Yeah, so I got called to be a Zone Leader, which means it´s yet another episode of “what-the-heck-am-I-doing-here?” in the life of Elder Heperi.

Ha, but seriously I was way surprised, but it´s going well so far. My comp. is Elder Argolo from São Paulo, and actually he´ll be going home with me as we´re from the same group. What´s more, is that he also passed thru Adamantina. The guy´s a trooper, as he started his mission there AND stayed there for 6 months. We´ve had fun trading stories about what when on there, ha. The zone doesn´t have hardly any greenies, and I think about 4 Elders are going home with me.

Also, I got transferred from Londrina. I´m now in the city of Apucarana (Ah-poo-kah-rah-na) about an hour or so to the south of Londrina, so I didn´t go to far away. It´s just a branch here, (the branch is Branch America, funny enough. I´m already back in the states apparently), but, it´s growing pretty quickly. I was actually really surprised that I was transferred, as I had only been in my area for 2 transfers. It was pretty sad, as I had gotten to like the ward and my comp. a lot. Ah well.My area here is really good.

The last Elder here with my comp. was Elder J. Johnson, the only other Elder in the mission from Provo. He finished his mission last week, and should be up at BYU right about now. Anyway it makes it easy for me to introduce myself to the members and investigators. When they ask me where I´m from I just say “I´m from the same city as the last guy that was here.” And then everybody acts like they can remember the name “Provo”. (Somebody asked me if I was from “Povo” which is people in Portuguese.)
Apparently they were baptizing a bunch of people this last transfer, so we´ve got to keep up the pace.

I´ve been a bit sick since Tuesday. It´s just a bit of a head cold, but of course people have the tendency to think that it´s the pig virus. Anyway, I´ll be in bed the rest of this P-day getting better. It´s a good record for me, as I´ve almost been able to go the whole 2 years without getting sick enough to stay in bed.

The medicine that I´ve been taking works pretty well, just that it makes me incredibly sleepy. I actually fell asleep for a little bit in sacrament meeting yesterday, which was pretty embarrassing with it being my first week.

Welp, that´s all from me.

Till next time.-Elder =w= Heperi

P.S.
Give my congrat's to Cassidy on her mission call.