Family!!
As Zone Leader President Torgan likes to take away our P days and he gives us 2.5 hours on Tuesday for email, shopping, and cleaning, so if I don't email on Monday, it should come on tuesday or wednesday.
Brazillians are the coolest people ever, their accent is so out of place, but it's ok, dad and I will have fun with that when I get home. They like to screw up our language though because we will use phrases that work in brazil but not portugal like in brazil it is dar faca and in portugal it is dar facada and then portugal doesn't even have the word fubeca
In this area I will go to the office 2 to 4 times a transfer and the Lunds (an older couple) goes and gets our mail for us every once and a while.
So, This week we got hosed out of our baptism this week. The guy said he was baptized, but we had doubts, so we went through the church records and found a guy with his name but a different date of birth and a different country of birth. the record said he was born on 15 may 1973 in France and his documents say that he was born 16 may 1961 in Cabo Verde, 12 years different. He said he was baptized 6 years ago and the record said 11 years ago, but the strange thing was that his mom and dad's name were the same. So we called president and he said it sounds like a brother or sister that used his name. We got permission to baptize him. So we marked, interviewed and had him ready for baptism right after church. They announced it in sacrament meeting, we got him in his whites, I got in my whites, and then about 5 minutes before the guy that gave us permission pulled the permission and told us that they decided it is the same person and he can't be baptized. So we have a meeting with them tonight to tell them 2 things (under direction of the Mission President, and as Zone Leaders) that 1, if they want to wait, they can, but don't give permission, and 2, the mission has the keys for baptism, so the only thing they can do is verify if he is a member, they can't stop a baptism in the middle of the first talk, it will be fun. President Torgan said if they want to talk to him, to give them his personal cell phone number and he will have a chat with them. (President torgan is 6 ft. 6 in and is huge, a former member of the brazillian military, and a brazillian senator, in other words. . . the portuguese are scared of him, he also said that brasil always wins the wars against Portugal jokingly). I have a hard time telling the members that, but that is what I have been asked to do, so I'll do it.
I don't think anyone knew about daylight savings time, because all of our investigators showed up to the church an hour early.
I am just shocked at the difference of life in our "little africa", it is the poorest place, but the happiest place I have ever been. I have seen Marijuana, Heroin, and other drugs there and it is sad to see how lost those people are, but then there is a group of super humble people that are infested with fleas. Our mission president said that if we are obedient and keep our covenants we will never have fleas where we have our garments, we might have them in other parts of the body, but never where the garments are.
Zone Leader is tough, especially when we have so many disobedient missionaries. We are in a 4 elder home, and walked in and saw our District leader and his comp sleeping in the middle of the day. It is so sad to see how the little things make all the difference.
Talk to ya later,
Elder Hope
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