Fancifully writing...
Hey all my fambly! I love to open up my inbox on P-day and see it full to the brim with communications from my dearest family members. Thanks guys for making it a good P-day.
I’ll get a move on to write about my week and then, (taking a page from Brendon’s book), I wanna respond to you guys individually.
Pamela is super elect and will be baptized this Saturday! We’ve been spending a lot of time at her house because her mother Nadir refuses to stop serving us all kinds of cake and snacks and chocolates. Her mom has a lot of potential (as an investigator) but because of her responsibilities in another church she may need a bit more time (and a lot more cake!) But she is really proud of the changes her daughter is making.
Man, Pamela is awesome. She fasted this last Sunday and already placed her tithing in an envelope to give the Bishop after she is baptized. Woah!
Earlier this week her cat bit me on the hand and another separate visit her dog just went crazy and bit me on the SAME hand IN THE SAME EXACT PLACE as the cat! It’s not really that bad, my hands scabbed up and are already mostly healed, but I’m scared of what might bite me there next! We had a cool visit with Nadir and Pamela last night as the power went out and we taught a lesson by candlelight. Very cool.
Andressa is set to be baptized on the same day, and she is still elect as ever, but she’s had a couple difficulties. We had a huge problem when we figured out that the neighborhood they had moved into was outside the area, and Andressa’s mom says she won’t let her daughter be baptized in another ward because her relatives live in our ward, and we kind of had to really explain the situation to a lot of leaders in order to get them to let her be baptized in our ward.
We saw a little tiny mouse run under our couch the other day after returning to our house for the night (a little bit late, unfortunately), and although I was completely beat and wanted to sleep, Elder Malheiros has a phobia of mice (which my friend Elder Anderson had informed me of in his last transfer with him) and insisted that we moved all the furniture and that I kept guard of our bedroom door as he stood aware with a broom shushing me as he listened for mouse noises. We had no luck (and didn’t even hear anything afterwards), so that lasted for an hour and I left him in the other room hunting the mouse as I went to sleep.
The great map of the "Kingdom of Elizabete" is taking form… It should be my biggest map yet because the member behind whose house we live in has a computer and a scanner so I went ahead and printed up a map that should be a full meter in length. It only lacks being laminated and later I’ll have to make an index to post next to it.
Um, I don’t really have any other novelties for all y’all. I’m eating very well (but don’t understand why I’m not gaining any weight!), staying warm (with my fanciful scarf that I learned to wear in a more masculine manner), having fun and doing the work. It’s so great to see so many happy people around me because of the gospel, and surely this should be enough of a testimony as anything, that Jesus Christ is guiding his kingdom here on earth in our days. Sometimes I don’t really understand why I’m blessed so much, sometimes it seems too much to take in. Surely one of my reasons for such happiness is all of you guys. I’m not trunky but I think my homesickness has strategized to come in really quick, strong strikes before I expel it. It’s manageable, and it’s well, well worth it to see the happiness of everyone around me and to feel that too for them.
I’ll write to everyone separately now. I love you guys! Have a good week!
Right now we'll go to an recent convert's house where we watch church videos and drink soda and eat pinions (boiled seeds of giant pinecones, tastes like boiled peanuts actually) before ending our Pday.
Elder C. Carpenter
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