10/26/11

Holy Cow!!!E.Forsyth‏ What a week! I got a call Monday afternoon that I was getting called to be a trainer. We spent the whole rest of the day saying goodbye to people, and packing Elder Santos´s bags. We got to sleep late, then we had to wake up at 4 for me to travel to Joao Pessoa. When I got there, I had training all morning. Then we had subway for lunch (for the first time in over 16 months). then our new companions arrived, and we had more training. My companion is pretty neat. He´s from Sao Paulo. His name is Elder Kutomi. I was in the MTC with his brother. I thought that was pretty cool. He's 18 years old, and reminds me a little bit of Ben. He's a little shy, and you can tell that he´s a little nervous, but I´ll do my best to help him out and show him the ropes :P The good thing is that we should have a few good baptisms this month. We had 3 men at church this week, and all of them can be baptized this month if they accept the invitation. All of them are Washingtons friends. We also are helping a woman get married, so that she can be baptized. I payed for the marriage, but her husband said that he would pay me back. They´re super excited. So after we had all that training, we went to the Presidents house to eat, and all the new missionaries bore their testimonies. (there were 17 new missionaries! the biggest group in the mission). All of them were super nervous, and all the Americans were struggling with the language. I couldn´t believe that I was exacly like them last year. So much has changed in the last year and 4 months, and things will continue to change until the end of the mission. At the end of the day, we slept with 30 elders in a house in Joao Pessoa. It was rough. I didn´t sleep much, and we had to wake up early to return to Natal. We didn´t have any problems with the travel though. Everything went smoothly. Now we´re back in our area. An area opened in my district, so now I´m the district leader for 6 missionaries. I only know one of them. I´ll have to get to know the others, and hope that they´re good. haha. I´m looking forward to training. It will help me remember what it was like to be new, and will help me be a better example in the mission. I love you guys. I got some letters this week. One was from a girl that I didn´t get to baptise in Canguaretama, but she got baptized after I left. She wrote a really nice letter thanking me. I thought that was really great. I hadn´t received letters in 3 months, because the post office was on strike. I love you guys. Thanks for your love and support and prayers. Keep choosing the right, and keep writing. :P Love, Elder Forsyth