Hey Mom and family, 4-25-12
Thanks for the email.
Did you get my birthday present??
I sent one to dad as well. I hope
you guys got back home alright. It must
be even lonelier now without me. Yep you
guys probably didn't think that you guys could miss me anymore than what you've
already gone through. Well I'll send a
picture of me and a part of my zone.
It's cool, we're gonna be able to Skype for mother’s day. It'll be legit.
So this week was pretty good. You know how I said that we're going to the
English School to use the computers right?
So one of the teachers came up to us and asked us to come to one of her
classes to help teach English. So now
we've got a sweet deal where we come, we do our English classes to people of
all age and then we take their addresses, we give a quickened first lesson and
leave. We're becoming really
popular. Everyone in the street is
starting to wave at us and like us. It's
reminding me of when Ammon served the king.
We don't have a king, but we have many higher class people that we can
serve by helping their kids and even themselves learn English. Plus they're figuring out that we're normal,
and that we do normal things. Also the
mayor of the town is LDS so we're trying to set up a deal that will allow us to
talk about the church by using the media.
We scheduled lunch with his dad tomorrow, so I’m excited to see how that
goes. You guys should pray for us here
that that can go through. If it does
we'll set up radio and TV stations and do interviews of us and other
influential members in the town and try and have our own religious show that
can play every single week.
This past week we found “Leandro”. He's new here and he came to work (like
everyone else, our town is just a sleepy town; everybody works outside of
it). Anyways, he wants to change and be baptized
but he's having some problems with smoking.
You guys could help out with some prayers there as well. It's cool how we found him. We were walking on the street and we were
kind of in a hurry going towards the church.
Two dudes walked by us and I started feeling uneasy that I shouldn’t
talk to them, so I decided to talk with every other man on the way to
church. The next guy I talked to was
Leandro and I invited him to be baptized.
He accepted and started saying how God has done so much for him that he
might as well as do something for Him in return and be baptized. So he went to church and liked it a lot.
Last week we did another in-home BBQ. We've decided to have a BBQ every p-day
night. It's really cheap here to have
one. It's just 5 bucks per person to
fill up on meat. (Brazilian BBQs don't
really eat a whole lot more than just meat.)
Sometimes they have rice and beans and maybe a salad, but usually it's just
meat from the grill. Last Sunday we did
a contact with some kids that had a new toy.
Apparently they liked us, so they just gave the toys to us. They are cool! I call them the “Clacky Balls” although they are really called
"bate-bate" or in other words "hit-hit". (Real original name.) Basically it's a little plastic thing that
you hold in your thumb and your index finger.
It's got a string with two balls attached at each end. And then... you hit them together. The point is to just make a sweet up and down
motion with the balls without stopping.
They get a lot of inertia and I’m not too good at it, so my wrist and
fingers are killing me for how many times these balls have hit me.
Yesterday we went to another area to teach one of our
baptisms, Vinicios. He lives in the
middle of nowhere and we had a ride to take us there. He was getting home late so we decided to
play some soccer. We realized how bad we
really are, two dumb Americans kicking around a ball. Anyways, I ended up trying to jump a wall to
get the ball that we kicked way away and I ended up not clearing it and
falling. Luckily there was a random pile
of sand on the other side to catch my fall.
My hands got all sore and have some scrapes. I guess if that sand wasn’t there it could've
been worse. It shows me the random
tender mercies from God. I guess He's
always looking out for me, even though I may be a little bit stupid. Anyways, I hope all is well there in the
Oregon. I love you guys!
Elder Williams
Peter's Zone!!
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