Halloween Highlights

11/4/2008

Well this week is all pretty much a blurr except for halloween.  So....shall 

we begin?  The day started with personal study instead of the typical breakfast 

then personal study.  This was because E Greener was finally leaving this week, 

finally because half his district was already gone, so we rigged it so we could 

have breakfast with him.  That was excellent cause we got Gilehermie (an instructor) 

to sit with us and he´s hilarious.  All the sister missionarys wore white shirts 

and ties for halloween, and a few (like 2) elders wore like three ties which they 

thought was pretty funny, but really ...it wasn´t.  And the instructor we were 

sitting with kept calling them jerks in his english accent.  Pretty funny. 
   The rest of our study time flew by, i´ve been playing the piano quite a bit 

this week because its just comforting and fun, and so before we knew it we were 

out prosilyting again.  We finally went to a knew place, speaking of which, this 

week.  It reminded me alot of France actually, with a little Manhatten mixed in. 

Of course there were plenty of people and we ended up talkin to a lady who go 

very excited and ended up giving us the kissy cheek thing at the end of talkin 

to her (our instructor wasn´t to thrilled about that.  Funnier still was we 

hadn´t understood half the things she had said, but someday we might lol. 

Over all prosilyting was prolly the best yet.  Me and Duerden handed out more 

cards than everyone else, not to brag, but that was cool, with a totall of 43 

pass along cards distributed.  PRetty much everyone was able to hand out all 

there cards tho, we had just grabbed a couple extra.  
  About the portuguese tho, def understanding more.  It just when people talk 

fast i start thinkin about the first things they said, tryin to figure it out 

and then i miss all the other words.  But...better.
  Da Luz brought us in candy that night, (not half as good as american candy) 

but we had a fun time.  Then around bed time a whole lot of missionaries came 

through the hall all dressed up as different things.  The best by far was a 

creative fellow who had taken apart his fan and was using the cover as a turtle 

shell, hense a turtle costume.
  O that reminds me, the night before we had been up taking pictures with 

Greener and company.  Aparently we were to loud because suddenly out of no 

where the president comes walking down our hall, never really making eye 

contact with anyone, and just politely says (all in portuguese) lights are 

suppose to be out, right elders?  doesn´t ever even stop walking, just 

continues there the halls.  Suprisingly he didn´t come up halloween night tho.
  Here´s sometihng fun and interesting.  37-C another district that arrived 

the same week as us, has two people in it we have ties to.  The first is a 

young man by the name of E Christian Workinger, from San Diego.  YOu guessed 

it, he knows the nuckols as i learned this week.  We reminised about Jeffery 

and Steven so that was cool.  Then an E Seastrand went to the same highschool 

as Treny English i havn´t really talked to him, but thats just a fun little 

connection.  Small World
  Sunday was yet again another excellent fast and testimony meeting, i hardly 

made it through my testimony as i was already all choked up from listening to 

E Olson´s.  Then that night a local Stake President gave a wonderful fireside 

in which he had brought a whole bunch of items from his mission.  He had a 

brasilian on the stand who he handed everything to and asked him to confirm 

it was used and then would ask him to smell it.  He ended with a shoe and of 

course everyone laughed.  Then he told the story of his first day in the field; 

they mised the bus, had to walk home, got there at midnight, the bed was broken, 

the other elders in the aparement were sick and need a blessing then the bed 

broke again then there were cockroahes and lastly the sick elders need them to 

go get some stomach drugs.  By this time it was time to get up and go about 

the work.  The entire talk was very insightful and up lifting.  I can´t wait 

to get in the field
 
I love you all
 
Until Next Week
E Neuberger