Another Email - 9/27/10

Sent: Monday, September 27, 2010 8:38 AM
Subject: Re: hey

The Master Plan is the following

Week 3 (of the transfer): work with the key teaching group to prepare them for baptism in the 3rd and 4th weeks of October. Find new investigators to not leave the area as barren as when I found it. Enjoy General Conference. Try and Baptize during all this madness of elections and the what-not.

Week 4: Bring a bunch of investigators to church again, principally those key investigators who are preparing to baptize. Find news, Try to Baptize, keep teaching the greenie what he needs to do.

Week 5: Baptize and bring to church the key group for next week.

Week 6: Tell my greenie that I will soon lay these bones in the cold tomb, and go all the way of the earth, enjoy the festivities, baptize for the last time on the mish, and leave the area better than I found it.

Week 7: Ó, Gloria.

When I get home, then, we can sit down and work on these papers. I dunno why I want to go to Brigham Young yet, I just feel like that´s the next step for me, you know? I mean, I love Washington (and Goiás, haha) and it´s my home, up in the frozen north, where my mountains and my ocean and my forests and my family and friends are, but I feel like at some point I have to go to Utah, sit at the feet of the prophets and learn from them. I also feel that if I go there, I can make it 10 times harder for me to run the risk of falling away from the church after the mission, which has always been a dread of mine (because everywhere I´ve gone on the mission, there seems to be 3 of 10 missionaries who come home inactive.)

As for things going down, that´s kinda funny. Here the technology is permanently fritzy, the records are a mess, and almost no one knows how to mess with these things, so basically it´s up to the force of will of the leaders if they´ll do these meetings or not. Here it seems that the great are great and the not so great, well, not so great, haha.

Thanks for the support and help in everything. Send my love to everyone back home, a big hug to Matt, who needs it, let Katie know I had a crazy dream where I was at her wedding the other night, and send Colin on a mission (and send Megan to get married already, haha!)

Love,

Bryan

The Prodigal Son.