hello family and Friends!
First off, Nicks home! I obviously wasn't there but I can imagine how exciting that was. Tell nick "sup" for me. With a head nod. You don't have to worry about me being skinnier, I'll be fatter for sure (already am).
It's already been another week! Crazy. This week has been a lot of work. We've been really trying to find new people to teach so its been just contacting for hours every day. In this sun, it sucks! We've been working in Jari a lot still, and I'm really starting to question whether the people there actually need to be baptized... they are almost like children. I've been thinking a lot about how different my mission is than missions in the US. PMG has a lot of stuff about finding out the religous views of the people before you teach (do you beleive in god and things like that) but we already know the beliefs of every single person here. It isn't about IF they believe in god, it's about what church they belong to. The main struggles we have are trying to make the people understand that they need to be baptized with correct authority, and that they need to stop drinking coffee. Man, everyone drinks coffee. This week has also been tough because our investigators are just not progressing. Like I said, we've mainly been trying to find new investigators, and our 20 or more contacts per day has finally paid off. For the first time ever, one of our contacts came to church. Usually, you invite the person to church and they say they'll go and don't. But this time a girl we talked to actually came to church! She's 13 and came all on her own too! E. Alcantara and I were so suprised when she came. Her mom said that she had a devil in her and that she needed to go to church so I guess that was her motivation. I hope we can baptize her!
One thing that I seriously need to work on is my eating habits. I wish that I was more like I was back home, not eating that much. But here, I can pack down the food. So I've started limiting my eating for the first time in my life cause I think i'm getting fat. You'd think with all the walking I do i'd at least stay the same, but guess not. Any healthy recipes would be much appreciated. I sure could use a worm right now (like Parker). I'm ALWAYS hungry. It's very strange and unnatural for me. But that's how the mission is I suppose. Pretty much everything is strange.
Not much other than a lot of work has happened this week, so I don't have any crazy stories. Well I guess one night I had to fall asleep to the sound of a cat giving birth. That was lame. But that's about it for me. Talk to you guys next week.
Elder Odom
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