Email - 10/11/10

Sent: Monday, October 11, 2010 9:35 AM

This week was pretty crummy for me, but I won´t go into details. After all, who likes to hear a sob story, huh? E. Botão and I are still working, trying our best to save the area, if not the ward, from extinction. I admit there are days when I feel a bit tired, but I´m surprised by the fact that I´ve still got a good few kicks left in me, hahah. After all, they say that with my time there are a lot of Elders who simply stop working. A perfect example would be the one who was here before me.

Oh man, I am SO gonna catch a cold just as soon as I get home, hahaha. But I want to say that I also count my blessings. This week the Lord protected my companion and I greatly, and we are so very thankful for your prayers on our behalf. My testimony has grown much stronger during this past week of small results and great tribulations.

Colin´s gonna work at the TRS, eh? I hope he can cut me some deals, hahaha. I doubt it. But it´s good to hear that he´ll be working. After all, in today´s economy work is work and money money, since it´s all hard to come by.

My last day will be the 24th, unless Pres. lets us travel sooner. But any way the cookie crumbles, the 24th, Sunday, is the last day of "work" in the ward. I´m mostly excited because I´ll be getting the heck out of this ward. I try and get used to it here, but I´ll be honest. I just want these next two weeks to fly by as fast as they can. I´ll try my best to find a baptism until then, but I admit my hopes aren´t at all very high.

Bikes are better than nothing, right? I´ve had 2 years of walking from one side to the other of every town. I am SO gonna learn to drive when I get home.

After today, yes, there are only two more e-mails, maybe just 1. I say 1 because the 25th MAYBE is travel day from Minas to Goias, in which case I will use all the remaining time left to me to visit people I know in Goiania. I really wanted to go to Anapolis, but I don´t think it´s a very viable option, given my location. But whatcha gonna, do, huh?

In any case, it´s the 5th week of 6. Passing this week and the next one, and I´ll be free from Minas Gerais. I hate this attitude, but hey, I really, really want out of this place. I dunno why, it just rubs me the wrong way here.

17 days and we´ll see one another face to face, hahaha.