Me and Elder Lima at the baptism 2 weeks ago. The girl is Karina, and her brother baptized her.
Me messin' with a football.
Graffitti downtown.
Me and Elder Stowell in Londrina. Elder Stowell is from my group and this was the first and only time that I saw him in the field, as he went to the other mission soon after.
A Zone activity 2 months ago.
Well we've reached the end of yet another transfer. Today we find out about transfers, but I don´t think it´ll be until tonight. With a big group leaving, a smaller group coming in, and the missionaries from the other mission being moved around, it´s all up in the air as to where everybody is going.
It was a tough week as far as our investigators go. Basically all of them decided that they didn't want to hear the message anymore and told us not to come back. Also, we were encouraged by President to... review our teaching pool. The quest for these next few weeks will be for new investigators... who are willing to learn.
We finally got ourselves involved in the Ward Council meetings. Yesterday was a big meeting about how everybody can help the ward to grow, and more importantly, stop shrinking. Frequency is a little low a lot of the times, and yesterday I think there were less people in the chapel here than I was used to seeing at the branch in Adamantina which was a little scary. A nice thing though is that the ward here seems willing to go out and fix it, which is good.
Sounds like everybody is nice and nervous about the pig virus (swine flu). Elder Han... from my district got sick with some throat sickness this week (not Swine Flu), so Sister Loeal had him just stay at home the whole week, and forbade him to leave the house. As she put it, “The last thing we need is somebody thinking that the Mormons have Swine Flu, then nobody will let us in the houses!” He called me this week and was going a little stir-crazy, poor guy.
So the mission shopping is wrapping up for Levi, huh? That´s funny to think that he´ll be outta there in a month or so.
G´luck with that stuff.
Sa'll from me for now, til next time.
Elder =w= Heperi
It was a tough week as far as our investigators go. Basically all of them decided that they didn't want to hear the message anymore and told us not to come back. Also, we were encouraged by President to... review our teaching pool. The quest for these next few weeks will be for new investigators... who are willing to learn.
We finally got ourselves involved in the Ward Council meetings. Yesterday was a big meeting about how everybody can help the ward to grow, and more importantly, stop shrinking. Frequency is a little low a lot of the times, and yesterday I think there were less people in the chapel here than I was used to seeing at the branch in Adamantina which was a little scary. A nice thing though is that the ward here seems willing to go out and fix it, which is good.
Sounds like everybody is nice and nervous about the pig virus (swine flu). Elder Han... from my district got sick with some throat sickness this week (not Swine Flu), so Sister Loeal had him just stay at home the whole week, and forbade him to leave the house. As she put it, “The last thing we need is somebody thinking that the Mormons have Swine Flu, then nobody will let us in the houses!” He called me this week and was going a little stir-crazy, poor guy.
So the mission shopping is wrapping up for Levi, huh? That´s funny to think that he´ll be outta there in a month or so.
G´luck with that stuff.
Sa'll from me for now, til next time.
Elder =w= Heperi
