Elder Bryce Whitaker: Already Half Way (with this transfer)

February 18, 2014

This transfer is flying by. my comp and i have already been together for three weeks and it feels like nothing. crazy.

but i am now in a trio. we got a brand new elder from brazil. elder da Silva. he is a goofy bugger but funny. man he likes to ask questions. he is trying to learn spanish and also wants to learn english so he asks how to say something in spanish and then in english and why we do this and where are we going and why and oh boy hahaha its funny. but he is a really good Elder.

WE HAD PEOPLE IN CHURCH!!!! WOOT WOOT

so wednesday we decided to go back for a contact that seemed way too pumped to see us the week before so we decided to find out why. so we went and found him and his señora there. so we taught them and at the end i did the baptismal invite. well only to find out HEY the lady is already a member. hahahaha gerrr. but the guy isnt. the only problem. theyre not married and he came to our lesson saturday drunk as a monk with a skunk. but yeah. well somehow, i dont know how, they came to church sunday morning!!!! ha super cool!!! so we have a lot of work to do with them but i think that we will be able to do it. oh. names, marcelo y Mielta. Mielta is the member i committed to baptism. haha

then we have rodrigo. he is an eternal investigator that is now beginning to progress. super cool. he has better studies than i do. haha seriously the guy is going ape on his reading and all that. but he too is living with a member.... ugh!!!

so this week we had zone conference with was fun. Elder Johnson was there and it was super fun to see one of my old bros again. other than that the week went pretty chill. until this morning.

i have a super funny video but i dont know how or if i can send it.

we were cleaning the pench this morning and Elder da Silva was like, ahhh there is a mouse under there!!! ....and so it begun. we started pulling out everything in the kitchen. i stood back with our broken broom(the same broom which we broke trying to kill a different mouse like two months ago.) well it came flying out, we all started yelling, i was chasing it around swiping at it. well it then ran to our bedroom. so we pulled out everything and it came out again and this time

made contact. well it was a tough bugger and guess what. it is now living in this giant hole i have under my bed..... we moved my bed.

haha but it was a really funny half hour.

we found some cool people. and i am really starting to feel how it is when the Spirit starts talking through you. i asked an investigator if she thought god was perfect. haha she looked puzzled and was like.... idk

(I don't know)

no one has ever asked. and then i started talking and seriously i taught myself. it was really cool. it happened a couple times last week. but i am trying to work hard and do this work right. having fun=)

love all of you!

Besitos

Elder Whitaker