Monday March 5, 2012

Dear family and friends,

This last week we ended up marking that "lazy" investigator for the 24th of March and he is actually pretty excited for it. His name is Sandro and he was marked for baptism last transfer but he had problems with smoking and told us that he likes smoking and wants to continue. I told him it was really stupid to smoke (I even used the brazillian phrase Burro para carumba) and he seems to like the frankness. I sometimes feel bad being so direct, but now we have that relationship where he teases me all the time about me not being able to date and kiss girls. . . .don't worry, I have already spoken with him about the law of chastity, and he agreed with me.

Last friday we found a guy named Jarom. (his real name is Gilherm), but we call him Jarom for short. He came to church and we taught him after church and he asked us if he could be baptized. He said he felt so good in church and really wants it for his life. He asked about the minimum requirements, and asked us if we can baptize him next sunday. We will be teaching him every day and it is possible. We told him about the importance of baptism and he said that is what he wants in his life. I did a fake baptismal interview with him and I learned that in church he got super confused with Joseph Smith and the Temple and is convinced that Joseph Smith saw god and Jesus in Madrid while he was dressed in white and married in a temple in New York to someone for eternity . . . so we have to fix that too. But it is cool that he doesn't Smoke, Drink, Drink coffee (he doesn't like coffee or Black tea) and he also doesn't have any girlfriend or anything to break the law of chastity and has said that he is still a virgin . . . more info than I wanted to know, but I found out anyways, which is super uncommon here. . . . sad, but true.

Elder White and I got kisses from a black lady this last week, which is technically against the rules. It was an accident, but hey!, she's a new investigator! We told her as missionaries we can't give kisses, and she was sort of embarassed, but it's all good, she invited us to eat lunch with her next saturday.

This last week we had a Zone Conference with President Torgan, where him and his wife both called us to repentence for playing a game called Magic. (I don't know what that is, but we repented for it)

Well I will talk to y'all next week

Elder Hope