Hey Fam,
I’m super sorry that the last letter did not arrive, that’s
super lame. It’s weird because I don’t know how to tell if the letter arrived,
because on my emails it says that the letters were sent. But don’t worry I’m
doing great!
In fact I’m doing too great, the demons have not been able
to control me lately because I’ve been wearing my glasses. We have been
teaching a man who wears sunglasses inside his dark home. I never questioned it
until he mentioned that we were smart people. I was flattered of course and
then I asked, why? Apparently demons only can control you through your eyes, so
we have to wear glasses to protect our eyes from the demons. To me that sounds
reasonable of course, because we do the same by putting tinfoil on our heads to
protect us from the aliens trying to read our minds. Us smart people take
precaution of such things as mind control and eyeball possession.
We’ve been recently working in neighborhood called The 17 de
Octubre. For some reason most neighborhoods are named after a special Argentine
date. This is the same in every city, street, and neighborhood. But 17 de
Octubre is the coolest of neighborhoods. I would actually define it as a
Brazilian New Orleans. The houses first off are just built like Brazilian
houses; if you look up Brazilian neighborhoods online you would probably get
the picture. But every time I go down the streets of 17 de Octubre, jazz is
playing from all directions. There’s this fella that’s always playing the
saxophone on is 2nd story apartment. But it’s not really jazz that’s playing, its
bossa nova. Guys you got to get into bossa nova. Its Brazilian jazz, and it’s
tooooo fresh. And everyone that lives in bossa nova town is so cool. They just
give us food and stuff all the time. I’m a bossa novian. There’s like no
graffiti laws, or no one cares, because there’s so much graffiti there too, but
it’s not that crappy graffiti, it’s the good stuff, and a lot of it is racist.
Speaking of music. Somehow I got a new "calling"
in the branch and I’m now the designated music conductor in the branch. The
first day I showed up to church I was asked to direct the music. And because of
mom, I’m way good at waving my arm around, and everyone was so impressed that I
am now forever the guy who waves his hand around while singing great tunes.
Osvaldo passed his interview for baptism and should be
baptized this Saturday, he asked me to baptize him because apparently my
companion can’t lift up that kind of weight and everyone in the branch is way
old, so it was unanimous… only Elder Greene’s long arms could baptize a man
such as Osvaldo. But I am happy to do so. He’s really excited. It’s really
weird because he understands all the doctrine, but at the same time cannot
answer basic questions such as, what did Jesus do? The thing is though, he does
know what Jesus did because he tells us, just not when you ask him in a
question. He actually has not told his
wife and kids that he is going to be baptized, so it’s kind of questionable if
he will be baptized if he doesn’t tell them. Because we think it’s a very good
idea not be baptized in secret. He’s got some family issues and is scared to
tell them, so that’s what we are working with this next week.
That’s all the good stuff this past week I’ll send you some
great picks.
I’m totally psyched out of my mind to be getting some
Torchys Tacos when I get back, hopefully the line still isn’t too big!
I love you guys!
Elder Greene
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