January 23 2012

Colton at the Sao Paulo Temple on his P-day

January 23 2012

My dear beautiful family!!! 

This week it was alright we really didn’t do anything!! Hahahah oh I heard that you contacted the Mission President?? My companion one night said, so the Mission President called me while you were in the bathroom and he said that your mom contacted him!! He was like what are you telling your mom in your emails I am like everything and he got really nervous because he probably knows that he is in it!! So what did we do this week?? Tuesday I had to go to the federal police to sign documents and get official in Curitiba! Wednesday we went to lunch in the farthest south region of our mission after my companion explained to me that we had to go give a blessing to a guy that got robbed the night before and was badly beaten! And this dude was the son of the lady that gave us chicken feet (chicken feet not good like little meet if that mostly cartilage its wonderful not!) so we went to the lady’s house that gave us chicken feet and was waiting there and apparently she said to my companion could we wait there for awhile so my companion said yes, well we ended spending from 3 in the afternoon till about 10: 30 at night there, we were just sitting there! My companion was watching movies on the TV and I thought if he was doing it I would to! We watched some Christmas movie and Batman begins! I really don’t like movies in Portuguese it makes my mind hurt! She did order us some pizza to have it was alright I wouldn’t say it was my favorite pizza I have tasted down here! So between three days of not making contacts and trying to teach we had 60 contacts to make and about 10 lessons to teach! Oh and her son didn’t want a blessing he said he was fine! I saw him and I didn’t even see a bruise! Um so that was Wednesday well Thursday came around and my companion had to go to the mission office for a district meeting so I buddied up with Elder Sudweeks! He is from Highland he was super cool we walked his area and made some contacts and that is about it! But it was so nice to speak to some one that can understand and speak fluent English!! Hahahaha! Friday we needed to get like 80 contacts to just catch up and have it return to being normal and I was talking to a lot of people my companion was not and so we rounded out the day with 25 contacts 20 of them were mine! Saturday I told my companion that we need to catch back up or we were screwed so we busted hump to get her done! Saturday we had a baptismal interview for one of our investigators and he passed and the person interviewing him was like ok who do you want to baptize you?? He said he wanted me to baptism him!! I heard this and I was like what that is not possible I have only borne my testimony to him like 3 times! But ya he wanted me to do it! So Sunday came around and I forgot I had to teach gospel principles and teach our celestial families everyone thought I did well, I failed terribly!! It was hard to prepare for it because we had maybe like one study session this whole week! Then after church we had a baptism! It was really cool, the water was freezing cold and I felt bad for Carlos because I had to dunk him in this freezing cold water! I did it perfect the first time in Portuguese which was pretty cool I will send pics today!! Um so we cleaned the apartment and I can live in it now! Well basically it was me that cleaned it because my companion does not care to clean!! So ya I wasn’t to happy! What do I buy?? I buy chocolate frosted flakes and milk and eggs and bread and bananas yes I have had peanut butter every day for breakfast! I have a bowl of cereal 2 slices of bread with peanut butter and bananas on it and drink tons of water! That is really what I buy for food it’s kind of sad I know!! So ya that is it for this week I love you guys so much I think about you guys all the time and pray for you guys always you guys mean the world to me and I love you so so so so so very much!!!

Love, Elder Gray 

Carlos, Elder Gray's first baptism