I'm just comin' here to come down

Hi guys.

This week was pretty uneventful. We're still trying to find some good investigators. It's really difficult to find people at home, though, especially right after lunch. Although we have taught a lot of lessons, very few of were to people who sincerely wanted to receive the gospel.

Actually, we did teach one man this week who had wondered why there are so many different churches in the world today (most people just go to the one that's closest to their house, or they go to the Catholic church in the center of the city because it's big and pretty and old and everyone's Catholic so it must be true). But this particular man happens to be illiterate. That's always a tough problem to face, because I think it'd be pretty difficult to gain a testimony of the Book of Mormon if you can't read it. He said he would definitely go to church with us this week, but he didn't. Oh, and I think he was a little bit drunk when we taught him. Hungover, maybe.

I heard that there's a lot of rainfall back home. I actually heard that from a Brazilian, so it must be raining a ton if it was on the news down here. It's been raining a lot here, too. As much as I love having a break from the blistering sun (you should see the tanline on my neck), the rain makes missionary work really hard. No one is in the street when it's raining, and no one wants to let you into their house when you look and smell like a wet dog.

We're still having a tough time working with the members and the leadership here. We had an activity this Friday that produced a pretty good turnout. There's a sixteen-year-old member named Marco who basically does everything here. He goes along with us almost every day to teach people, and he shoulders the burden of planning and carrying out all the activities because there isn't an activities committee here for some reason. This week's activity turned out pretty well -- we just played games and ate some refreshments at the end. I took a bunch of pictures while we were there so we could make a poster the next day and put it on the church bulletin board. We're trying to make the activities more visible to everyone so that people will want to go. Anyway, we put the poster up on Saturday. I asked Marco yesterday if he thought the poster was a success, and he said that the branch president was irritated about it because we didn't ask for his permission before we put it up.

I'm just trying to do my best, I swear! I think my companion and I are going to meet with the branch president this week so that we can talk to him about everything. It will probably be a little tempting to voice my frustration and criticize him and the other leaders, but my companion and I talked a little about it last night. We're just going to continue to have an attitude of helpfulness and fulfill our responsibilities.

Anyway, in case you can't tell, things were pretty slow this week. Hoping I get my Christmas package at zone conference on Thursday.

The Church is true,
elder wigginz