Forgot to use the ol alphasmart again this week. It's work all day so when we get home, I crash. 1 1/2 hours is not enough free time each day. Especially cause I like to excercise at night cause I'm too tired during the morning.
Anyways, this week has been some tough work. But that means it was a good week. Since it's the end of the transfer in one week, we need to really work our butts off so that all the pesquisadores can be baptized in time. Speaking of baptisms, we managed to baptize 2 more on Saturday! Edson and Natalia. They were a bit tricky because they don't really understand much. But we just taught them like we teach the little kids and it worked out. I'm pretty happy with our work this transfer. Although the beginning was all work and nothing to show for it, we finally saw the fruits of our labors in the form of 9 pesquisadores at church on Sunday. Our goal is 8 baptisms this transfer because we'd like to get 6 per transfer and only had 4 last transfer. So 12 in 2 transfers would be awesome. That means we need at least 5 of those 8 to be baptized. It's a lot to want but we'll work our hardest to make it happen.
During one bomb lesson we were giving about the BoM, this drunk guy came up to us and started going off about something. Obviously I couldn't understand what he was saying as his speach was slurred and I already have problems understanding sober people. One girl we were teaching said something to him that really ticked him off cause he started yelling at her and trying to get in her face. Elder A and I had to box the guy out and I was real close to giving him a nice elbow to the face. So annoying. This is why we need to follow the word of wisdom, kiddos.
Today we're going to have a Pday with the entire zone and pres and sis chamberlain. Last zone conference, Pres. Chamberlain authorized playing soccer as long as he's there to watch, so everyone is pretty excited. I don't really care too much because i'm not a huge soccer guy but it'll be fun to talk to everyone.
That's my update this week, Até mais
Elder Odom
In response to your emails mother and father:
But I can tell you that Cali is not that hot also. In comparison to the weather i'm in every day, nothing seems hot there. And about the phones and iPads... It's definitely crazy how different the missions are. But I realized through watching the district videos that you can't even compare them. Literally every aspect of a stateside mission is different. They only send the best of missionaries to Brazil. Here we don't need cars or bikes or nice weather or iPads or smartphones or apartments that are nice... We survivor off of the spirit only. (I'm kidding, every mission has different difficulties) But i'm glad to be here, even if it is hard. And i'm praying for ben. Hope he's alright.
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