April 1, 2014

April 1, 2014

So, Elder A. was hit by a car yesterday and I’m currently with him here in the hospital. Blah, blah, blah. April fools!

All right, usually I would start this email saying something about the mission or baptisms or whatnot, but I will start by saying WHAT DA HECK? Boston is coming to Utah with the Doobies? And I’m going to miss the show by two months. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAA HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!

Sigh, major bummer. Send me some pics, I guess.

Anyway, mental breakdown to the side, I’m doing well. I like it here in Canela. We baptized again, next week we will go see the Parque do Caracol, and I’m coming up on my 18-month mark. So far so good. I’m still learning a lot from the ex AP, and I had forgotten how much better it is to live with four elders instead of two. I am liking this area a lot, and I hope I can stay here for at least another transfer. I have been moved around a lot recently.

This week we baptized the mother of the children we baptized last week. We got the week of excellence, and we already have people lined up to be baptized this week too. The branch president here is great, and he supports us in everything we do. The members give rides to our investigators, there are activities regularly in the ward, the members like us, etc. This might turn out to be one of my favorite areas. I’m already enjoying it quite a bit.

I saw all of the pics of my new niece. She looks like a beautiful bundle of pure joy. What day was she born? I’m totally jelly. Now everyone will forget about me for sure now that there is a new member in the family. Oh well. I guess I’ll just have to find someone else to baptize—not much else I can do, I suppose. Isn’t Emily’s honey bunches of oats coming soon too? Talk about trunky. It is weird how much is happening back home. It makes me feel like singing with Joe Walsh, “Everybody’s different, but I haven’t changed.”

So yesterday was the last day of the month of March and the mission had a goal of 209 baptisms for the month (which would be a record breaker for our mission). We closed Sunday with 206, which means we needed three more to get the goal. So yesterday Elder A. and I took off running all over the zone looking for people who had potential to be baptized so that we could interview them. We spent the whole day doing that (thus my lack of emailing) and, at the end of the day we ended up in the area Sao Fransisco de Paulo, where Elder D., my former zone leader from Novo Hamburger, is currently working. He had a few people who had potential, so we interviewed them and, after heading to a nearby river (see photos), we baptized them—all three of them, that’s right, three. You know, it kind of feels good being part of the team that saves the day.

Well, that is about it. I gotta go.

Love to all,

Elder Morris