Hey Mom and Family, 11-26-12
Thanks for the email! This week was
good! I ended up going to an area called Jacaré in Jundiaí with Elder Gustavo,
elder Duffy's old companion after me. I'm stoked! Elder Gustavo is hilarious;
it's going to be a fun transfer (unless they transfer him early some
missionaries are going to go home before Christmas, so there's a big chance).
Anyways I got here on the Tuesday, and I was pretty sick due to something I ate
(I met up with Elder Duffy and we ate at outback). I was throwing up among
other things. It looks like some elders left some skateboards here so we've
been waking up early every day at 6:00 to skate at a park close by. We need to
do our daily exercises every day anyways, so we might as well as skate. It's
actually more of an exercise that I thought. I get back sweaty every day at
least (not saying too much).
Anyways, this area's amazing. We seriously
don't walk at all. The most efficient way to work here is to stay outside the
church and do contacts. The church is on a huge avenue where everyone walks.
When someone stops we invite them into the church, if they enter we invite them
to go to a meeting on Sunday and we mark an appointment to get taught inside the
church. If they truly are God's elects then they will do all that we ask them
to do. Last transfer they did this and they baptized a ton. It's nice because
if they get taught in the church than they will never have those distractions
like TV or kids or the phone or something.
If we ever need to walk far, we just
hitchhike. When we hitchhike usually the first car we ask stops. They are
always from our area and we get to teach them and invite them to church. It's
the easiest but most efficient way I’ve worked on my whole mission. I really
want to stay here for the last 3 months.
The ward is great! A couple years
back an old mission president burnt all the wards on the mission saying that
they should be like the ward that I’m now in. It's true though, they all care
about us, and it’s cool. They give us references every time we see them, they
invite us over to eat, they give us rides, and just help. It's great! Anyways,
mom, I hope you like Preach My Gospel.
My favorite chapters are 6 and 4. Anyways, I hope things are all going good up
in the States! I love you all!
Elder Williams
Hey dad! 11-26-12
I liked the pics. This week was way
good, it sounds like it was pretty good for you to in Tucson. Well I had my
transfers and I love my new area, it turned out that I wasn’t transferred to
Ouro Verde afterall, but instead I went to Jacaré with Elder Gustavo. It's
pretty legit; he's one of the funniest companions that I’ve ever had. The
ward's great and I like the zone a lot.
What's the trip looking like for
after the mission? What are your guys' ideas? I completely forgot that it was
turkey day this last week. They started a black Friday here for the first time
last Friday and everything was super cheap. It was a hit and I think that Brazil
is going to keep doing it from now on. Anyways, Christmas is coming up, I haven’t
a clue what I'm going to do to celebrate, and our plan is to baptize someone on
Christmas day.
Anways, I just realized that I’m
heading home in 11 weeks; it's going by so quickly I can't believe that I'm
already almost at the end of the mission. I'm now one of the oldest persons on
the mission. Crazy huh? Anyways, Love you dad!
Elder Williams
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