Numbers first: Our mission has
180 'seats'. About normal-smallish in size. The only real difference is that
our mission is one of the few that weren’t changed at all, so we won't be
getting too many missionaries for a little while. The newbies are going to the
new missions or the missions that recently got split. We are just getting a
little trickle for now. Already knew that :P
I was talking to Elder H (LZ) during our trade a few weeks
ago about the sisters having a part in the mission counsel thingy. Was just
announced today. Now there is a position for sisters that are basically like
'wandering assistants'. Our mission doesn’t have these, but they are kinda
common. These sisters will be going to ALL of the sisters in the mission to
spend a little bit of time training each one and will participate in the
mission council.
Cool stuff. Different though
Transfers HAVE returned to Mondays,
and they are once again six week-ers.
The dying missionaries will now be leaving on the Thursday before transfers, instead of transfer day (WIERD).
The dying missionaries will now be leaving on the Thursday before transfers, instead of transfer day (WIERD).
Oh, and my last senior companion left today. Elder E is
headed home.
Dang... I'm getting old.
AAAAAAAANNNNNNNDDDDDDDD.... Elder
S left. Not super surprising. He was a sad panda though. Didn’t catch his area
name, I got my companion first. HIS name is Elder M. I believe he is from
Recife. He has a lisp. First Brazilian I've seen with a lisp. HARD TO
UNDERSTAND. But whatever. We'll get there :P
He's got about 9 months on the mission, and is coming from
Recanto das Emas JI
talked to Elder M (who was with Elder G this transfer), and he gave me notice
that M was baptized and that C and C Roberto will be baptized soon. YAY! I
worked like crazy with them, they are the reason I wanted to stay there. Sounds
like all is good :)
This week I had a special
combination between allergy and cold-ishness. I got up one day with what seemed
like super strong allergies, but it turned into a cold-like thing. Totally fine
now, but I still have that random pressure in the sinuses... stupid. Can't hear
quite right. VERY annoying. But all is well.
I have actually been feeling
COLD here! 70s would probably just kill me :P
Hammock is bigish. Big enough
for me for sure... But dunno exactly the size.
I DO have pictures. Eventually.
Not many though.
Sounds like everyone is having
a good time at home, that's good (except maybe Blake... but oh well...) our
week was cool. I gave an English class on Saturday, and it looks like it will
be a consistent thing. Look, perhaps I can teach some things, and perhaps I
speak English... but I do NOT know how to teach English. We just kinda played
around with pronunciation, alphabet, numbers, and saying our names. I'll have
to think an awful lot more this next class.
We had stake conference
yesterday. It was cool. President was there. Didn't see the people from Recanto
that I wanted though.
Oh, elder H is somewhere else
now, and Sister T as well. That's sad, she was a fun part of our district (and
she makes cake!) Sister T stayed and now we have some other sister that I don't
know yet, but she knows me. Weird.
Sounds like sister white was
her trainer, so she must have told her something about everyone in the district
from the CTM.
Our LZs are those kind of
missionaries that are somewhat popular, really energetic, and quite funny. I
think they are going to drive me crazy though... Elder Q was already bugging me
yesterday. I love spastic missionaries... J
ummmmmmm.... I think that's it.
I wrote literally non-stop until now, and now nothing else is coming to mind,
so I'll leave it there.
Anyhow, I'll let you read that.
So, Tchau tchau!
Elder Funnell
