Home "Improvement?": March 26, 2013

Dear Everyone,

Sorry I didn't email yesterday. We were in Foz do Iguaçu having a zone conference with President T. from 6 in the morning until 10 at night. I was thinking about that yesterday and thought to myself, “Wow, Mom is going to freak out when she doesn't see an email from me on Monday,” so I am glad that Sis. T. let everyone know. This week and this week only, today (Tuesday) is our p-day. It will/should be all back to normal for next week.

1. Do you live right in the city? Is Cascavel bigger or smaller than Bauru? We live in the suburbs, just outside of downtown Cascavel. Now all three of my areas have been in the suburbs. Yes, Cascavel is bigger than Bauru, which is bigger than Apucarana!! I have gone from Apucarana to Bauru to Cascavel—ABC—so the next zone that I should visit to keep up the pattern would be Foz do Iguaçu.
2. Do you walk everywhere or do you also use buses? We walk everywhere and we rarely ever take the bus, only for zone meetings.
3. Are all transfers 5 weeks now? Sis. R. seemed to be under that impression. Transfers are still 6 weeks, but right now they are all messed up to get transfers to line up with when the new missions will open, because some missionaries will be transferring missions. By the way, the official report is that the Brasil Londrina mission boundaries will stay the same.

 (Comments from the pictures in the e-mail:) 

• I dig Jason’s yellow and black shirt, it is pretty dope!!
• Lucky snow!! It’s actually been nice and cool here lately!
• Thanks for delivering the Books of Mormon!!!

As far as emails are concerned I was also thinking of replying by hand if I don’t have time when I am online, so feel free to give my email out to people if they want to write me!

Here is my now much-larger coin collection. Brasil has had so many different coins, it is nuts. My oldest coin is from 1922!!

This photo was taken shortly after our sink exploded and we patched it up really quick. We installed a new sink this past week, so it is all good now, but when it broke, a water geyser shot out and was hitting the wall on the other side of the kitchen. So, that was an adventure!

After the sink exploded, I tried to go up in the attic to turn off our giant water tank (which is up high in the attic in order to generate water pressure). Elder R. boosted me through the access portal to get into the attic and I immediately fell through the ceiling (Elder R. caught me). I don’t know why they have a door to get up there and then no supports to keep you from falling through!!

Oh yeah, all the ceiling pieces fell on Elder R.’s bed!! hehe!! 

Me in some sweet shades I got from a member kid.

We found and caught a snake in a bottle (we didn’t drink the Coca Cola, a member gave us the bottle [it is a mission rule that you can’t drink Coke], but, yeah, he was fun! 

This week was kind of a tough week, we literally had zero investigators up until Sunday night when we found a newlywed couple who are kind of interested. She loves to read so we left them a Book of Mormon and we will teach them again tomorrow so we will see how it goes! Our goal for this week is to find tons of people to teach so we are going to knock on a ton of doors. Our goal is to knock 1,000 doors this week, pray for us so that we can choose to knock in areas where the people will be more receptive to hear our messages!!

There really isn’t much to talk about because this week was kind of slow. We went to this really good pizza restaurant (where a member in the ward works) like 3 times this week ahhhhh... yeah!!! I didn’t eat much else than that pizza this week, so at least I’m not getting fat, but I’m gonna have to be careful and get back on top of doing my exercises every day (great job, Dad, getting to the gym 6 times this week)!

But, yeah, that’s about it! Thanks for the great letter as always!

Ate mais!

Com amor,

Elder Cummings