12 October, 2015
Frozen Hot Chocolate
This last week had some interesting stuff happen. I
will try to send pictures with this:
Wednesday we got home and Elder Da Hora went to use the
bathroom. While he was "busy" a rat ran from the corner into
our room. We then spent the next 10 minutes trying to kill it, which we
finally did by throwing a flip-flop at it. Here, if you find a rat you
have got to kill it, or it might get other people sick and kill them. It
was a cute little guy, but, he had to go. This is the 2nd rat we’ve
killed here. (I wont send it, but I totally took a picture)
About a week ago we stopped by a soccer field and watched a
group of kids playing soccer for a bit (missionaries cant play soccer, and no
one here plays basketball, so that’s lame). But we ended up teaching them
and a couple of them are looking really good. We talked with the family
of one of them who is also looking pretty good. This is a picture of
Martinez (Mar-cheenz) who I call Tony for no reason.
We also had a mission conference this week with a special
guest. And when we arrived there, it was President Swensen! From
the MTC! And another cool thing, is that President Swensen was President
Fusco's Mission President! So it was really cool to see the two of them
together.
Then after the conference, I decided it was time!
I made frozen Hot Chocolate and Oh Boy! Was it good!
Everyone except Elder Da Hora liked it (which was good for us because we got to
have more) but it was super cool. The guy in the middle is Elder Amaral our new
District Leader who is super cool! He likes to think about crazy stuff
like me, so we get along really well. and the other is Elder Rameirez
from Equador. He's super crazy sometimes and super quiet sometimes, we
get along pretty well also!
The other day we also got to paint a big wall. That’s
all I really got to say about that, but it was fun.
But that was my week! The transfer ended yesterday so
now starts a transfer really special. 3 days before the transfer ends
will mark one year! Me and Wedekind and I are excited! I love you
guys and will talk to you next week!
Elder Biggs
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19 October, 2015
Internet for Just 40 Minutes Now...
Hey, so missionaries have been doing bad stuff on the
internet so President Fusco is cracking down on everyone. For the next 3
weeks we only have 40 minutes of internet time, and if things don’t get better
in 3 weeks it’ll be 15 minutes, then 3 more weeks it’ll just be letters.
But it'll probably stay at 40 minutes. President said that he couldn’t do
that to our moms.
So the biggest news is that after emailing last week, we got
a phone call that said that Elder Da Hora was transferred. He left about
an hour later and I stuck with Elder Amaral and Rameirez (our roommates) for
the next 2 days. My new comp arrived from Crato Tuesday night at 11:30.
His name is Elder Calixto (Cal-ee-stow), hes Brazilian and has 8 months on the
mission, which means I'm senior *what what* He's pretty much Mr
Bean. So we get along really well. He really is though the goofiest
little guy that Ive ever met. He's 21 and is the only member in his
family.
As for things that happened this week, we've been finding
lots of new people to teach and baptize (we've got a few people getting ready
to get baptized this week).But really the only thing worthy of note is that
yesterday we got robbed. These 2 drunk guys assaulted us (with a finger
gun) and we'd just leave but they had me by the hand and had Elder Calixto's
bag before we had a chance to do much of anything. They just took our
cell phone from 2001 but it really leave us annoyed. Today we had a
conference and President laid down the law and cut our internet. Also,
while leaving I ran into Sister Nevin! She didn’t know Portuguese yet so
we talked while walking back to the bus stop. It was cool.
Anyway, there's my 40 minutes. I love you guys and
will talk to you next week!
Elder Biggs
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| Me with Sister Nevin (Sister Nevin is Daynen's cousin's cousin- small world!) |
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26 October 2015
One Year From Today
One year from today at about 10am (give or take 2 hours) all
of you will be waiting at the airport for a tall(er than Tayte), super skinny
Elder in a dirty suit. Elder Wedekind is sitting next to me right now and
told me that we'll be heading home on October 25th, 2016, and that we'll be
arriving one year from today! So... YEAH! We're not trunky!
Anyways, this week went pretty well! We've been
working really really hard. Remember how everyone said the Trindade is
the worst area in the mission? Well everyone is now saying that the
Castelão stake is the worst stake in Fortaleza, and that the Castelão ward is
the worst ward in the stake. So we're trying to change that. We're
working with 4 couples right now who will start the month-long process of marriage
next week. So hopefully here in a month we'll have 8 baptisms! This
week we taught the owner of Milo, the dog who ate my foot, and she was
baptized! I have a goal to baptize 6 more people before I hit 1
year. So it'll be crazy.
Speaking of working hard. One thing we like to do
pretty much everyday is pass by the grocery store here and go to the little
snack-bar (I don’t remember the actual name) in the back and buy 2 Reais of
food and 1 liter of Coke in he glass bottle. Its a good way to relax and
its only R$4 per day.
Well, I'm gonna head out with the whole 40 minutes
thing. I love you guys and will see you in one year. *what what*
Elder Biggs
There wont be pictures today because either the computer or
my sd card is broken. Lets hope its the computer...
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2 November, 2015
Halloween Week
So I had completely forgotten that this week was Halloween
until Makenna told me last Monday. I was like, "Oh Yeah!"
Here they don’t celebrate Halloween very much, but the Brazilian equivalent to
Day of the Dead today. But on the bright side, Christmas season started
yesterday so we totally put up our missionary Christmas tree (I'll try to send
a picture but I'm not sure I'll be able).
So on Tuesday, we had a Seventy visit our mission.
Elder Campos. He talked with us about a bunch of stuff, we had lunch,
then after lunch he started talking about something really important. He
said that the 70 has a training with the Apostles a week before every General
Conference. And usually they all talk about different stuff, but this
year they ALL talked about one thing. The Sabbath. Elder Campos
showed us Exodus 12:13 (switch the word token for sign), and Exodus 31:12-13
(in Portuguese token and sign are the same word). Basically the
destroying angel is out and about now like how he was in Egypt, and in those
days the sign protecting everyone was the blood on their door, but now its the Sabbath.
So I'm gonna really make sure that you guys keep the Sabbath day holy because
IM the first born and I don’t wanna die ;)
But after receiving this we shared it with one member who
then held a family home evening and told everyone, who in testimony meeting and
all the other classes shared again, then in Ward council everyone shared
again. Everyone here is really getting excited about the Sabbath, its
actually really cool!
As for other stuff that happened this week, that’s really
about it. I went on splits with my DL who lives with us, Elder Amaral.
He's super cool and has the same voice as Wacko! Its cool, I'll try
to send a video one day!
I love you guys and am still trying to get used to this 40
minutes of internet. BYE
Elder Biggs
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