hey family!
So I´m basically super happy today. We had transfers today, and things happened a lot differently then I thought they would. Elder Fisi has 6 months in Geisel, and he´s going to stay there for another month training an American elder. I only had 5 weeks there in Geisel, but I ended up getting transferred to another mission in Joao Pessoa, Jardim Veneza. I´m here with one of my best friends from Mamanguape, Elder Simpson. He was called to be senior in this transfer, so we have about the same experience in the mission, and we´re going to work really well and really hard together. I´m super excited for this transfer.
So yeah, like you guys know, I was robbed last week, and I´m sure you´re dying to know how it was, so I´ll tell you now.
It happened last p'day. On p'days we play soccer and write emails and go to the store. That morning I had my backpack, camera, ipod, soccer balls, and the last of my money with me. I had my camera and ipod because I´ve been backing up all my pictures on my ipod to be safe. That afternoon, we went back home and I dropped off my camera, and then we went back out to work at 6:00. We were going to go return some stuff to the members. We had borrowed some soccer balls and a guitar. Here, it´s already dark at 6, but we weren´t thinking it would be that dangerous at 6 in the afternoon. As we were walking we entered into an alley. When we were in the middle of the alley, two guys with hats on and guns came running in from in front of us. I was thinking, "They´re either running away from someone, or they´re running at us, in which case, we´re screwed..." They ran us up against the wall and started yelling, "Throw it all on the ground! This is an assault! Everything! Backpacks, wallets, cell phones!" Elder Fisi threw everything, including the guitar, which made a horrible sound when it hit the dirt. I just kinda froze and put my hands in the air. They took my backpack, which had my ipod and some soccer balls from a member, and they reached into my pocket and grabbed my wallet, which had the last of my money, and my mission card. They took everything from us, except they left the guitar on the ground. Luckily, the guitar didn´t break when Fisi threw it, so we were able to return it to the member unharmed. As they ran away in their flip flops, I felt pretty angry, and I felt like that for the next couple days, but now I´m feeling better. The things they took really don´t have that much worth when you compare them to the things that are really important. I like how my investigator put it who was confirmed this week, "They took your rings, but they left your fingers." I know that the experiences I´m having here in Brazil are worth way more than the things they stole.
The next day we ran into 2 little boys and they asked, "Can we ask you a question?"
"Sure you can..."
"Were you two assaulted last night?"
"uh, yeah, How did you know?"
"Because we saw your ipod, and we were watching videos of you last night. They´re trying to sell it for $R70"
"Oh, that's cool. Tell the guys that stole it that they can keep the money, and the ipod, but i´d like my wallet and backpack back."
"ok..."
we never got our backpacks back though....
So yeah, that was my week. I don´t have an ipod anymore, so if you want to send me cds that would be cool. Any motab is great. There is a showtime cd that they made which would be neat to have. Singles Ward, Best 2 Years, Hometeachers soundtracks would be great too.
I love you guys all a lot, and I look forward to writing more to you next Monday and talking to you on Mothers Day! I´ll try to get skype figured out here so that I can see you and talk to you!
Love, Elder Forsyth
No comments:
Post a Comment