Ok so just so that you all know, Im going to skype you at 5:00 my time and so i think thats 1:00 your time, I have a nice family that is going to let me use their computer and so im lucky. If Skype isnt working Im going to find a pay phone and call you collect from it so be prepared.
So this week...I think im going to tell you a wonderful story of why you should carry two umbrellas (guardar chuvas)
So me and Elder Adhans were walking and looking for a house and thought that the alley it was in had two entrances. And so we were walking down this canal and a dog came out and started barking at us. Ive gotten used to having dogs bark at me and so this wasnt new and my companion kept walking. (He taught me to just ignore them). However i dont like strange dogs very close to me and I had my umbrella in my hand (closed of course) and so i flicked it at him (it didnt hit him), as a warning of back off. So it got back and went back underneath the house it was near. Well the path we were walking ended and so we went and turned around to go back. Once again the dog was there barking under the house, so i had my umbrella in hand ready to flick it him again if he was going to come close to me but since i was leading this time he didnt. However when my companion walked by the dog it ran out from under the house and kept barking at him and scratched his leg since it had its mouth open and put some small holes in my companions pants. Dont worry it was only a superficial scratch and i dont think that it bled at all, if it did but it was still enough for us to have to get it checked out. Me flicking my umbrella at the dog it might have made it feel threatened but I dont think so (just a possiblilty). So the moral of the story is: always make sure you and your companion have umbrellas in your hand to ward off weird dogs.
Tuesday:
I was on divisions with elder shepherd in his area and so I spent the night there. We tried contacting past investigators but most didnt live there any more and so we planted seeds in the peoples hearts and got a bunch of new investigators.
Wenesday:
The dog incident occured.
Thursday:
The highlight of the day was that i found a new part of my area that is pretty cool, and also a fun sushi restaurant, the only bad part was that there werent that many people in this new part out in the streets but i want to teach at least one person from there sometime. Oh and me and elder adhans had Brazilian hamburgers at a bakery that we like and so that was good. Theyre different, because they dont use ground beef and they put a fried egg in the burger. Overall it wasnt bad but it is very different than the burgers in the US
Friday:
We practiced as a district for our musical number that we are singing tomorrow at the Christmas Conference and taught people, it was good.
Saturday:
So I started the very painful process of correcting my poor grammar during my language study. I had another division with elder shepherd in the morning while elder adhans and elder nunes went to go interview an investigator in our area since there wasnt time for an interview friday. The baptism of our investigator was supposed to be that night but got moved to the Sunday after church and is now on hold for a while because his father wants to make it a big occasion and didnt give us a date and so currently its in limbo. Oh and today was my four-month-on-the-mission-aversary
Sunday:
We had the primary program and so that was great and i found out that next week we are meeting with the other ward and are only having sacrament meeting at 9:00 next week on Christmas. We had the opportunity to watch the First Presidency Christmas Devotional however because most of it was in portuguese i wasnt able to understand very much. I understood the words but the sentances didnt quite fit together. I never thought of how much i would miss hearing the prophet and the apostles until now.
I know that its Christmas time but honestly it hasnt really felt like Christmas because i havent been with you all but dont worry we will all have many Christmases together in two years when im back. I hope taht you~.re all doing well and i promise that ill get some letters out to you today since i didnt send any last week.
I love you all very much, and Merry Christmas!!!!
Elder Eric Alan Olsen
So this week...I think im going to tell you a wonderful story of why you should carry two umbrellas (guardar chuvas)
So me and Elder Adhans were walking and looking for a house and thought that the alley it was in had two entrances. And so we were walking down this canal and a dog came out and started barking at us. Ive gotten used to having dogs bark at me and so this wasnt new and my companion kept walking. (He taught me to just ignore them). However i dont like strange dogs very close to me and I had my umbrella in my hand (closed of course) and so i flicked it at him (it didnt hit him), as a warning of back off. So it got back and went back underneath the house it was near. Well the path we were walking ended and so we went and turned around to go back. Once again the dog was there barking under the house, so i had my umbrella in hand ready to flick it him again if he was going to come close to me but since i was leading this time he didnt. However when my companion walked by the dog it ran out from under the house and kept barking at him and scratched his leg since it had its mouth open and put some small holes in my companions pants. Dont worry it was only a superficial scratch and i dont think that it bled at all, if it did but it was still enough for us to have to get it checked out. Me flicking my umbrella at the dog it might have made it feel threatened but I dont think so (just a possiblilty). So the moral of the story is: always make sure you and your companion have umbrellas in your hand to ward off weird dogs.
Tuesday:
I was on divisions with elder shepherd in his area and so I spent the night there. We tried contacting past investigators but most didnt live there any more and so we planted seeds in the peoples hearts and got a bunch of new investigators.
Wenesday:
The dog incident occured.
Thursday:
The highlight of the day was that i found a new part of my area that is pretty cool, and also a fun sushi restaurant, the only bad part was that there werent that many people in this new part out in the streets but i want to teach at least one person from there sometime. Oh and me and elder adhans had Brazilian hamburgers at a bakery that we like and so that was good. Theyre different, because they dont use ground beef and they put a fried egg in the burger. Overall it wasnt bad but it is very different than the burgers in the US
Friday:
We practiced as a district for our musical number that we are singing tomorrow at the Christmas Conference and taught people, it was good.
Saturday:
So I started the very painful process of correcting my poor grammar during my language study. I had another division with elder shepherd in the morning while elder adhans and elder nunes went to go interview an investigator in our area since there wasnt time for an interview friday. The baptism of our investigator was supposed to be that night but got moved to the Sunday after church and is now on hold for a while because his father wants to make it a big occasion and didnt give us a date and so currently its in limbo. Oh and today was my four-month-on-the-mission-aversary
Sunday:
We had the primary program and so that was great and i found out that next week we are meeting with the other ward and are only having sacrament meeting at 9:00 next week on Christmas. We had the opportunity to watch the First Presidency Christmas Devotional however because most of it was in portuguese i wasnt able to understand very much. I understood the words but the sentances didnt quite fit together. I never thought of how much i would miss hearing the prophet and the apostles until now.
I know that its Christmas time but honestly it hasnt really felt like Christmas because i havent been with you all but dont worry we will all have many Christmases together in two years when im back. I hope taht you~.re all doing well and i promise that ill get some letters out to you today since i didnt send any last week.
I love you all very much, and Merry Christmas!!!!
Elder Eric Alan Olsen
legal Elder
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