Adventures in Laundry: July 1, 2013

1 July 2013

Dear Everyone:

1. Are you counting D. and C. (from Bauru) as two of your 17 baptisms? I only have 15 on my list. Of course D. and C. are my baptisms!!! (The reason I asked this is because D. & C. are a married couple that he was teaching, and would have baptized, if he had not been transferred that week from Bauru to Cascavel. I did not know if the fact that they were baptized after he left Bauru counted as being his specific baptisms.)
2. How did you fare with the parents of the girls you baptized this week? With the mom, I woke up every day at 5:30 to call and remind her not to drink coffee and she was really good and didn’t drink and was praying a ton and reading the Book of Mormon at like 4 in the morning, and was getting ready to be baptized this week, but Saturday night they had to go to another city because a relative had an health emergency... Sai Satanas (Get Out, Satan), but we will get her this next week, the dad is really timid and isn’t reading right now, so it will take some more time with him.
3. How close to 200 baptisms did the mission come in June? We baptized 168 in June which at least was a new mission record!
4. When do you expect to meet President Genaro? We might get to see him this next week if he actually gets around to doing zone conferences like he plans, but we will wait and see, he has a TON of work to do to learn how to run a mission, it should be fun!!
5. How are your garments and socks holding up? Socks and garments are fine! I´m a little low on deodorant, last stick was opened this week. Also, if you are going to send a package, American snacks are always welcome!!! Tipo (?—no idea what that is—Marie)... Cheez-its, um... holy cow, I’ve forgotten a lot of snack foods!!!!! NOOOOO... well in any case you know what ones I like, so surprise me!!

This baptism picture is actually from last week’s baptism. 

This week was lots of running around, lots of miracles found that then fell to pieces on Saturday night. We had 3 people lined up to be baptized, 2 more for the zone leaders, and all 5 fell through... it was kind of hard but we will just keep going!! This week was tough because of the Confederations Cup. For some reason, no one wants to hear about the gospel when Brasil is playing Italy or Spain... strange... So that was hard because 3 days this week there were big soccer games and it was hard to teach, but the finals were yesterday, Brasil destroyed Spain 3-0 and now we are in the clear to find lots of new investigators!!

I´m sorry to hear that lots of the inactive people in our ward are so anti-Church now. I know how it is working with less active members. A lot of times it takes forever for them to come back and lots of times it is for the stupidest reasons that they stopped... but it is really great to see them back at church when they do return so that is good!!

Other than that it was a pretty normal week, we deep-cleaned the entire house this week, destroying the black mold that has been growing on all of our tile walls, and getting rid of 1-inch or 2-inch thick mold from the backs of the cupboards!!!

Oh, and this is how we roll on p-day: chimarrao (drink), chocolate, Monopoly Deal (super fun!!), and we heat a ton of hot dogs and eat them with French bread!!! Yeah, we are super cool… J

I LOVE HUMIDITY AND COLD!!! It would be so nice, though, to have a clothes dryer or even just heaters!! This is what happens when you dry your socks in the microwave and put them in for too long. Yeah, we are that desperate to dry our clothes here, it has been raining so much that nothing dries!!

I think that´s about it for this week!!

Love you guys!!

com amor,

Elder Cummings