9 November 2015
SEND MORE PEANUT BUTTER!!!!!!!!!!!
So last P-day we invited Elder Wedekind and his comp to
finally make Missouri Cookies. I was way nervous to mess up but it actually
turned out REALLY good! And the best part is that I only used half of the
peanut butter! So I can make it again! But send more, because
that was good!
Other than that this week has been a pretty good week.
We've been working like crazy and having lots of success. We have a few
rules here from President that are 1, mark 4 baptismal dates every day.
And 2, invite 40 people to church on Friday and Saturday. Last week we
invited 40 people and had lots of people at church. This week we worked
crazy hard to mark 4 dates every day and because of that were blessed to meet
tons of new people. But we didn’t invite a lot people to church, and
because of that we had almost no one at church, which ruined a TON of the dates
(because you need to go to church two times before baptism). We're
learning in a very real way to be exactly obedient. President told me
today that I need to be 100% obedient starting today. Which I am to
everything in the handbook, but definitely can improve in the counsel that President
gives.
One other cool thing to add. We marked a date with
this kid who seemed a little emo, but whatever. Then after we marked the
date, another (raging fruit basket) comes in, kisses him, then leaves.
And we're like, dang it, he's gay. But we're still teaching him, so Ill
let you know how that goes. But wait there’s more. We found 2
lesbians while knocking on doors who are atheists. But their super
cool, and found the Book of Mormon really interesting. It’s cool because
I’ve had tons of atheist friends so I knew how to explain things to them.
Alright, 40 minutes is up, but I love you guys and will talk
to you next week!
(6 weeks til Christmas)
Elder Biggs
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16 November 2015
Good Week
This was a pretty good week. Already the 5th of the
transfer, which means next week someone might be transferred. In our
house there is me and Elder Calixto, Elder Amaral and Elder Ramirez. In
this instance, I'm Elder Johnson, and Calixto is Elder Vanpelt from the Best
two years. Then Elder Amaral is one of the coolest missionaries Ive ever
met who is also our District leader, and Elder Ramirez is basically Barney from
the Andy Griffith Show. So, yeah!
Last P-Day, me and Amaral played ping pong just about all
day, until it turned into Mortal-Combat-Ping-Pong. That was fun until we
both hurt ourselves (seriously...). Another cool thing was that we had
headed to a favela to teach someone and their grandpa had been burned their
trash (which is normal here) so naturally we helped (see first picture).
Wednesday was Elder Ramirez' birthday so me and Calixto went home about 10
minutes early to set up a surprise party for him. Cake, candles, coke,
Christmas tree, it was cool!
So this week we had been teaching a couple young men when
their sister and 2 of her friends showed up. One of the friends told us
that she was baptized, had been praying and thinking the day before what God
wanted her to do, and she found us. We told her that she had to come back
to church and that her sister (one of the other girls had to be baptized.
They both went to church yesterday and she is excited to be baptized!
So that was my week written in like 40 seconds! Oh,
one more thing. Here in Brazil the sewage isn’t under ground in a lot of
places but just flows on the side of the road (gross right?). Anyways
almost a year has past and I have never step or tripped in the gutter. Well what
do you know it? 2 days ago we're leaving a house and FWOOP! my foot falls
in the gutter and I fall flat on my face! I ripped my pants on the right
leg and hurt my knee, but we were in a hurry, so I just kinda jumped up and we
kept going. Good stuff :) And yes, I washed my shoe :P
Alright I gotta go. I love you guys and I'll talk to you in
5 weeks!
Elder Biggs
Fire! The fire actually got so big and so hot that 1)
I wasn’t able to get any closer, and 2) the neighboring buildings fire alarm
went off. It was AWESOME!
Me with Hulk. I know we look alike, but Im the one
with the zits.
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23 November 2015
One Year!
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| Me with Hulk. I know we look alike, but Im the one with the zits. |
So this last week I finally hit the one year mark! It
was super cool because Elder Wedekind is here in the same district. A
member in his ward invited us to her house for dinner and we had barbeque and
burned a shirt (that Wedekind found in his house). Also I discovered
that the rule of the mission isn’t that you cant EAT Oreos, just that you cant
buy them with mission money. So I bought R$10 of Oreos which won me a
free Oreo BAG!!! Its awesome, because its a bag, but with Oreo! Im
not sure Ill be able to send pictures, but I'll try.
A couple other things, they cut our power on Monday, so we
went a few days without energy. That was cool, sleeping without a fan to
keep the mosquitoes away. Another thing was that we had interviews with
President. Now this is rare, Ive only had 3 interviews with him in 1 year
(excluding the first day in the field). It was really cool, and afterwards
we had a training with him. When we started the interview, President
Fusco said that he was sick, I was too, and afterwards I ended up getting
really sick. Im not sure what it was exactly. Probably just the
cold (for the millionth time.) ut Im still sick and my voice is crazy
weird. But gotta work, so, doesn’t really change anything.
The only other thing is that we baptized this week. I think
I talked about this last week, but 2 girls found US in someone’s house and said
that one was already a member and the other was baptized, but lost the records,
so we went ahead, reactivated one and baptized the other. They're both
super excited to come back to church, it feels like 2 baptisms.
Anywho, Im just about out of time. I love you guys and
will talk to you next week!
Elder Biggs
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30 November 2015
Surprise
So this week has got a couple surprises. Tuesday, the
package arrived which I opened and read all the letters. Thank you so
much, I really liked it. I didn’t open any of the presents yet, they'll
wait until Christmas.
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| Elder Rodrigues and I |
The other thing. I received a phone call from our zone
leaders that Elder Calixto was being transferred, and that I was going to
train! So we headed over to the stake center here and found a big group
of new missionaries including lots of Americans and another Elder
Rodrigues. Anyways, we did a lot of training without know who our comps
would be and I slept with them at the mission house. I was called the big
brother because I was the oldest missionary in the house. The next day,
we arrived at the stake center and they announced the companions. I was
one of the first ones < "Elder Biggs will train Elder...
Rodrigues" And I was like, "No WAY!" So I now have 2 Elder
Rodrigueses (Remember, Hod-ree-gez). Anyways, training is really hard,
but its also really cool. He's a lot like me, having a little hard time
adjusting but is doing ok. He was with his family just 3 weeks ago, so
its a little different for Americans who already have a month down.
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| Our baptism this week, Wesley, who was baptized by his uncle |
A couple other cool things. Our Zone Leader Elder
Padilla went home this last week so our new ZL is Elder Camargo! We had a
great chat about his son (who he trained) Trindade, and how to train and
stuff. Super cool.
Also, we found a pug, like super pug, like all those rolls
and stuff, at a investigators house, and his name: Mike! They even
called him Mikey! I tried to take a picture but we ran out of time...
Also, we were eating lunch and there was something a little
strange about it. I asked and they told us what we were eating, and guess
what it was. Pork Blood! Like the kind that Rhett and Link
ate. It was pretty nasty, but I ate 2 times anyway.
One more thing. Last night, we were heading home and
another drunk dude with 2 other drunk guys tried to rob us last night.
hey were like pass you hone and your watches, and we were just kina like, he doesn’t
even have a gun. So I said ok, then we took off running. When we
got home we found Amaral and Ramirez and told them, yeah we almost got robbed
again, but I just barely got this new cell phone, I will not give it up again!
So yeah good stuff.
Ok, Gotta go, Love you guys and I'll talk to you next
week!
Elder Biggs
-Elder Rodrigues and I
-Our baptism this week, Wescley, who was baptized by his uncle
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