11/8/2010

Mom told me not to kick any frogs, but I didn´t get the email until it was too late. It was super funny though. It was pretty late at night, and there was a huge frog in the road. This frog was a little bigger than both my fists put together. Elder Lima and Elder Souza were walking in about 30 feet in front of me, and I just nailed this frog. It went spinning in the air like a helicopter, then hit Elder Souza in the back! In the moment, it was so funny! The frog hopped away, but I couldn´t stop laughing for 30 minutes straight. I´ll try not to kick any more frogs.

This week was Elder Cook's birthday. We made him pancakes and eggs for breakfast, then we had a festa with cake and ice cream a couple days later. I´ll attach some pics.

Man, the other day we had a weird lesson. The day was kinda slow, and so we were doing door to door contacts. Some lady who was totally plastered opened the door and invitied us in. I said, dude, this chick is totally wasted (in English so the lady wouldn´t hear), and Elder Cook said, I know, but we can still teach them! I said, I guess you´re right, but you´re nuts... it was basically an excuse to get out of the sun for a few minutes. We sat down and started talking with this lady. She had a husband home who was even more drunk. We started teaching the 3rd lesson, which is about the gospel of Christ. (faith, repentance, baptism, holy ghost, endure to the end). It was tough because they kept rambling about weird things, but in the end we invited them to come to church. The lady said, I like my church, because we can drink if we want, we can smoke if we want, we can do this if we want, we can do that if we want.... I was about to say, ´ você pode ir para inferno se você quer...` you can translate that online if you want, but I think you can catch my drift.

I still haven´t had much luck in the area of baptism yet. Nildinho still won´t come to church, and Rafael, who I though was really great, is talking with different pastors now, who are totally ruining our work. It's annoying. I know that all the other churches have part of the truth, but really, as a missionary I´m finding that every other church is just a stumbling block on the true road to salvation. It's frustrating, but you can´t do much about it. Our other investigators are doing well. I´ll just continue working hard. The language is coming along still. I´m comfortable talking with people, but I still get lost a lot if the conversation isn´t about the church.

I love you guys, and i hope you have a great week.

love, Elder Forsyth