8/29/11

Aqui em Parnamirim. Carta de Elder Forsyth‏ Hey you guys! This week was a pretty good one, with a few ups and downs. We had a mission conference that I liked a lot. President Hall talked a lot about charity, and the reasons why we serve. We watched a movie about the Prophet Thomas S Monson. It was nice to have a break from normal work. Last week we taught a ton of lessons, and found a lot of new people, but in the end, everything fell through, and no one went to church, and no one was baptized, and no one was confirmed. This week was the opposite. With the conference, we didn´t teach so many people, and we didn´t find so many new people, but we still managed to baptize a 9 year old boy, Neto, and confirmed Viviane, and we had 5 investigators at church. That made me pretty happy :) I´ve been a little sick and tired this week, but I´m getting better now. I´ve just been a little congested. I thought it was pretty strange though, because exactly one year ago, I was also sick and congested. I was just reading about it in my journal and I thought it was a strange coincidence. I guess it has something to do with the changing seasons. I had a pretty terrifying experience this week. I put my shoes on to leave the house, and I felt something in the bottom of my shoe, but I thought it was just my sock folded over, so I didn´t think twice. I sat and waited for 10 minutes for my companion to finish getting ready, and when I went to stand up I felt the lump in my shoe wiggle. In a milisecond, I took off my shoe and threw it accross the room. It hit the wall, and a huge cockroach ran out under the table. I couldn´t believe it. He´d been there chillin in my shoe with my foot for 10 minutes. We don´t usually have any cockroaches in our house. That was the first one I´d ever seen. It freaked me out though. Work is going pretty normally here. I´m starting to look forward to Christmas, but thats still a few transfers away. Tell Stephanie HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!! for me. I can´t believe how old everyone is getting. She´ll be 9 years old now! I love you guys, and I hope everyone has a great week. I miss you. Love, Elder Forsyth