[Mom is fighting a cold.] That is what happens to me about every 4 months. I think it is
because of the fans we have to sleep with. They blow on my face and
probably aren't helping me at all. They are keeping me cool though
:)
[On Sunday a speaker talked about how those who pay tithing are such
good stewards of their money, the Lord has taught them to be
so financially savvy that we are living and still saving on
90% of our salary, where other people are in debt and can't
make ends meet on 100% of their salary.] They
speak about tithing here in Brazil a lot. It seems to be that one
thing that people don't think they need to do. When we, the
missionaries, had the meeting with Elder Evan he talked mostly about
how we teach tithing. He said that in one of the trainings with the
1st Presidency, Pres. Uchtdorf talked a lot about tithing. It is the
only way for poor people to leave poverty. I thought that was cool.
I look at how much money the church has to build stuff with 40%
(random guess) of the Church paying tithing. Think of how much we
could help/build temples if 80% or 90% or 100% of the members payed
tithing. There would be no fault of supplies, chapels, temples etc.
It would be cool.
[At the Christmas
party last weekend, Suzanne did a little movie thing where the
current missionaries' pictures were included.] Where did she show this movies thing? I have seen my old mission
picture from the beginning and I am ugly. :) I'm ghastly white too,
but that hasn't changed much. I'll go back to being white in a
matter of days when I get home.
I got the package that you sent. The communist, money hungry post
office made me pay 128 reais or $70ish to get the package. They say
that all packages should be taxed, but they only take a few at
random to be taxed. It got here on the 16th, but I didn't get
it until a few days ago.
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