Novermber 21

Hey Mom,

Sorry i didnt get a chance to write you last week. My companion had some trouble sending a reimbursement and i had to figure out how to make it work. By the time i got everything sorted out the time was up. Rosy is not ringing any bells in my head right now. I hope Colby doesnt have any complications with the wisdom teeth. Those were no fun to deal with when it was easy. You know its funny i miss Colby more than i thought i would. Im not really sure why. 

I was kidding about the movies. Dont stress it. There are very few things that will make me come home. Pretty much anything short of a crippling accident or some sort of disease isnt going to cut it. If i really feel that bad about a movie i will just buy it and watch it here. But im not doing that dont get me wrong. Yeah i heard all about Butthead winning again. Stupid electoral votes. As far as the scary country goes though the US is weaksauce compared to Brazil. I get a chance to watch the news every now and then at a member or investigators house and its not pretty here. This country is corrupt until the core. There are murders daily in every city and corrupt politicians stealing huge sums of money all the time.

But enough of the bad stuff. Things are going well here. We know the area a lot better now and are working with a few people on getting them baptized. There are a ton of less actives that wont come to church for who knows why. But we are working our best to bring stability back to the branch. The leadership is kind of picky about who they give callings to. We explained to them very gently about everybody needs a calling and everything. But they just dont trust a less active to do the job so they put more callings on the few members that are active. This puts a huge burden on everyone and causes trouble. The Lord does not let his people be baptized into a disfunctional branch or ward. So the baptisms stop and who gets blamed? The Elders. Then people start to not give references because they think the Elders arent working and then the elders really do stop working because they dont have support of the members. Then guys like me get put in to the middle of this mess to sort it all out. Fun stuff huh?

But things are going well. I like my companion and we are trying our best. Yesterday we had a fun time. We went to visit this member ,A young woman who is 18, that lives in the middle of nowhere. She is the only member in her family ,for now, and rides a bike about 3 miles to work and school everyday. Then we started to leave the house and it started raining very hard. We arrived in the actual city and the dirt roads looked like rivers there was so much water. We were soaking wet and covered in mud so we decided to call it a day. Its good times :)

Tell Joe i said hi as well. Did you end up giving him one of my ties? If you havent yet please do and apologize for me not getting it to him sooner. As far as who i am writing to the list hasnt changed. Since i got transfered to the middle of nowhere i have only gotten two letters. One from Joci and the other from Sister Bettridge. So i am still waiting for some news from home. Because we are in the middle of nowhere we got permission to watch Ice age 4. It was pretty cute but not as good as the others.

Love you mom