June 18, 2012
Hey mom,
This transfer has been really
interesting. I was supposed to be with
an American (Elder Harris), but an Argentine elder in the MTC gave up and so
there was some confusion during the transfer. I’m with Elder Vale who is
from Belém. He is serving here for about a month because he had to return
from Chile to have surgery on his knee. He will be returning to the
mission soon. We are working a lot with less active members and trying to
help the ward make some really big changes. The bishop works on Sunday,
and only comes every once and a while when he isn’t working, his first councilor
in from the sticks has a super thick accent and combined with poor reading
skills doesn’t really work to direct the meeting. And the second councilor’s mom
is sick and he stays with her in the hospital almost every Sunday. So
without the leaders setting a good example, the ward’s attendance is low and
people are starting to let the kids go wild and almost everyone is getting up
in the middle of the meeting to leave or talk to others... Yeah, so we
are changing that.
Good news. We have a ton of golden
investigators!!! I’ll send another email latter today because I am going to see
a dermatologist today about a possible staph infection!!
Love you!!!
A little later that day….
Thanks, Dad, for the email. I just got back from Belém. I saw a dermatologist about this weird rash
that I have had for almost two months now. It’s red and itches. I
thought it was a bacteria but the dermatologist said that it was some sort of allergy
and that my clothes (specifically garments) were not helping because the
climate is really hot. So I’m going to trade soaps and see what
happens. She also prescribed a whole bunch of anti allergy and healing
skin creams that turned out to be really expensive. So I’m not sure if I
will buy them or not. She also said that where I work there are quite a
few cases of leprosy! She recommended that I stay healthy and maybe get a
vaccination. It was interesting.
We had tons of miracles this week at
church. We had four families that are super excited about church. They all want to get baptized and stay, and
they all want to get married. We had 9
investigators that are of baptismal age at church! The only problem
is that it will take at least a month to marry each one in the Cartolio (civil). That stinks. We are going to have to
learn how to work with the Cartolios.
I’m working hard and love you
all!!!
Ben
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