Week 18 December 14, 2009

Hello family!!!!! How is everything going!!!! Gosh it was so good to here from all you guys this week and it sounds like everything is just fantastic at home!! Cold but good!!! Haha!

About next week, I wont be writing until Tuesday!!! We have P-DAY NATAL with the mission!!! President is doing a party for the missionaries on the 21^st, so that will be SO cool, I can’t wait to tell you about it. This week on Thursday, we have a Christmas Conference and then on the 20^th we have a special Sunday and then on the 22^nd we have a family night with the ward, where we will eat and stuff and hangout and we will play musical chairs, I think, and do some other stuff… so we have a lot planned for these next couple weeks!!!

So this week was pretty crazy!! We did a lot and YES we moved but not on the day we planed!! The weather here is sooo crazy!! It can be sunny and clear in the morning and then a crazy storm 2 hours later so we planed to move on Thursday, but it rain for 2 days!! So we did it on Saturday and it started to rain half way threw, so all of our stuff got all wet, so we slept at the zone leaders house that night which was fun!!! But ya we have a new house and it’s SO awesome!! We actually have a kitchen and a bathroom and stuff, which is nice!!! Hahahaha!!! And the family that lives there is awesome too!!! I think we are going to do a family night wit them on Saturday so I'm excited for that!!!!

So, since we needed to move and we planed to move on Thursday day, and it rained, so we didn’t have any appointments on those days so we didn’t really work A LOT this week, which was hard, but we work!!! Don’t get me wrong, it just wasn’t the same and my comp was sick on Tuesday so that was hard too… but it was a week that came and went… this week went by sooooooo fast!!! I don’t know where it has gone!

This week we also had conference!!! Which was amazing it’s always nice to see the President and his wife and the AP’s!! We learned how to teach and how to challenge investigators, and how a message without a challenge was a pointless lesson… there always needs to be a challenge, which is backed up by your testimony!! It was such an amazing day!! And after we had the conference we did like a white elephant type thing… we made cards for a missionary that we drew the names out of a hat and picked a tie for them. And then sat in a circle and gave it to them!! It was so fun!!! The days just go by SO fast I swear!! Its already the 4^th week in this transfer and these next weeks are going to fly too, wow!! So ya conference was just absolutely amazing!!!

Our people that we are teaching are doing really well but we have a rule that they need to go to church 2 times before they are baptized and since it’s a holiday month, there are parties every Saturday night, which go all night long, so they don’t come to church… so really they are not progressing… but they are at the same time if that makes sense but we just need to keep working with them… work, work, work and pray and fast and rely on our Heavenly Father… that is about all that we can do!!! Oh and love them!!! That is a big one ha-ha!! But the work is going pretty well too!!!

Funny story for the week… we were walking to an appointment and we saw these people freaking out on the side of the street and we were going over to see if we can help of what was going on… well guess what… there was a huge swarm of ANGRY bees attacking everyone and yes… we got attacked too I have bee stings all over my body which kind of stinks ha-ha but whatever right… all part of the experience… my comp got it way worse hahaha… but it was pretty funny!!!

So for this week to come… I am starting a division with the zone leaders tomorrow morning which is pretty cool!! We finally move and I have to go stay with someone else ha-ha whatever… but ya… so I will be staying with a Brazilian this time because elder Burham is now LZ A which means he comes to my house… so that stinks but it should be fun!! 3 days there and return for 2 and then off to p-day natal!!! Then its pretty much Christmas!!! And here in Brazil the 25^th really isn’t as big… it is the 24^th at 12 am! Which is the big night!! So we get to stay out until 11, which is kind of, cool… late huh hahahahahahhaah!! But ya it should be really fun!! I’m excited to tell you guys all about it!! But remember I won’t be writing until Tuesday now ok!!

So family!!! I love you all so much and I hope that everything is going just great preparing for Christmas and stuff!!! I hope that you guys have a fabulous week!!! Love you guys with all my heart!!!! This Church is true!!! Love you all!!

Elder Wiscomb

1 Corinthians 4:10-13