Monday, November 26, 2012
Laughing myself to death
Thanksgiving is what I love to do!
This years thanksgiving turned out to not be all that special. We were
super pumped to be going to eat at an older couples apartment in the
temple, but when we got there we found out they had to work and just
wanted to give us money. So we ended up eating our Thanksgiving feast
in the temple cafeteria. Rice, beans, beef and potatoe Suprise!,
fruit, and a cup of juice... but we made some cookies to make
ourselves feel better. I still need to make the pumpkin pie Mom sent
em materials for.
I am still in Sousas with another new missionary, Elder Hale. It is
his 2nd transfer on the mission and had the first part of the training
done by one of my friends, Elder Heilner. Elder Hale and I have hit it
off great. He´s from Bountiful Utah, and is fresh out of High School.
He is a pro golfer and ping pong player, and has the cutest dimples
ever. His Dad was a mission president in Florida and is personal
friends with President Uchtdorf. Our mission president called me on
Teusday and said that I will only be here for another 4 weeks and will
be emergency transfered before Christmas because of flight problems
for the Elders going home. So now I have only three weeks to finalize
the investigators for baptism. Speaking of which, Tiago marked his
baptism for Sunday at 5 pm! (Air Punch) So that will be cool and we
have a bunch of others for the weeks to come.
This week we did a whole bunch of tracting and contacting. We entered
a ton of houses, but than every person either was soft in the lesson
or in follow-up one, much to our disappointment. We had some very
entertaining lessons to say the least. One of our investigators has
had some serious problems with the law of chastity in the past, like
five children with five different people, and was telling us about it
in front of his 9 year old son who just looked at him in horror. We
were cracking up afterwards. Another investigator told us that she had
been rebaptized in the Jordan River. My companion is still learning
the language and understood this as Jesus was baptized there so just
kept on teaching. I looked at the member, Kaie, who was with us and we
both just cracked up and the Spirit just went right out the window. We
were practicing using a video camera this week to give better
critiques, but we could not look at one another without dying. Its
gonna be a great transfer.
I love you all and miss you all and hope you know I am healthy, happy,
and hard at work. Hope your holiday season is full of love and
laughter as I know mine will be. Who can´t be happy making cookies and
gingerbread houses?
Come on really,
Elder Healy
P.S. I´m gonna be in a choir and I can´t sing!
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