Nov. 4, 2013

Woop Woop ... (say it in a high voice and really fast)

 

Yea... this woop woop thing is what we do at the apartment when we have a victory, whether it be we had a good missionary day, someone bought chocolate, or when someone is finished baptizing the lamanites. (the lamanites one has a duel meaning.) hahaha!

Thanks everyone for the happy birthdays. It made life just that much better. I´m not going to lie I was a little trunky yesterday. I was thinking about how much has changed since i´ve been gone. meaning how i dont have any single brothers anymore, and how the we have pretty much a new house a new sister in law and a new mom. yea... I was longing a little bit for my family. But dont think that means that i didnt work!!!! haha!

Its pretty cool to hear about all the stuff thats going on at the house. the new theatre system at the house of kyle (thats how they speak here... when i get home dont be suprised when i say the house of someone and not someone´s house.) the chuck being just as cute as ever. and the normal business of everyone else. I hope you know how much a love and miss you all. =)

So for news from me not much happened for my birthday in all honesty but the day before was pretty stinking awesome! we had two baptisms. one of which was a huge suprise. we´ve been teaching Liria and Vitoria for about 3 weeks now and they were super excited to be baptized. Liria was absolutly ready to be baptized. but her sister, vitoria was a little skeptical still. so we interviewed liria and said we will prepare vitoria a little more. Then the next day comes, (saturday) and we get all set up for the baptism of Liria, and then her sister Vitoria spoke up and said that she wants to be baptized too. So luckily we had the ZL´s there and they were able to interview her at the baptism. she passed and we were able to baptize both of them. It was a really interessting day.

for my birthday I recieved some chocolate from the members which made me laugh super hard. I was very grateful for it. I had too avoid a few hugs from the miamaids. there is one with a slight crush on me just cause my eyes are super bright. just about all the brazillians have really richly dark brown eyes. its actually really cool looking. but for them its normal so the bright eyed elder cornwall is slightly an attention grabber. A blessing and a curse at the same time. but this little girl (14 years old) always likes to find me and talk. I´m still not much of a conversationalist in portuguese. thankfully I was able to avoid the attempts of hugs. i´m not sure if it was a blessing or not but I can say i held true to mission rules. haha!

Well I think thats all the time i´ve got to write to you guys. Thanks so much for the happy birthday wishes and news from home. It was great to hear from the whole family. Thanks so much for the support! I´m sure you all know how much it helps with the work. Well buh-ba-dee-ba buh bee ba bee da, Thats all for now Folks! (trumpets in the background)

Elder Cornwall