Don't Be A "Fubeca"!

"Oi!

Alright, this is my typical day:

I wake up at 6:30 and do 30 minutes of exercises, stretches, and get ready until 7:30 when we can eat breakfast. At 8:00 we have to be completely ready (as if to leave for work) and at our study tables studying Preach My Gospel. We start with prayer. At 9:00 we have companion study where we start with a hymn and a prayer. We practice teaching during this time. At 10:00 we have 30 minutes of language study, read the B of M for 10 minutes, read PMG for 5 minutes with a pencil in our mouths to help develop the accent, and 5 minutes of grammar study (5 minutes of grammar study is almost worthless). 10:30 on the dot we are out the door!

We pass the day visiting those we've marked, those we've planned, and talking with everybody in the road. We don't generally knock on doors unless we sense an opportunity. We eat lunch at 12:00 until 1:00 with the members and then we're out the door again. We can eat dinner from 5:00 until 6:00, but we never do...we're too busy. We get back at 9:00 or 9:30 at the max if we're teaching a lesson. We plan every half hour period of time of the next day from 9:30 until 10:00. 10:30 Lights out and in bed.

Tell the laurels and priests during missionary week that they had best learn to keep this schedule otherwise they'll be what we call "fubecas" or lazy disobedient missionaries. The best thing they can do is learn the discipline necessary to keep this schedule and be 100% obedient.

Wednesday we met an elect woman, Vania. We had a family night with her and a member family and she started to cry and tell us how she was lost in her life and how she wanted to change. We returned the next day and she accepted baptism for the 28th of March. We returned the day after to teach her about the Atonement and the Word of Wisdom and she stopped smoking and drinking coffee that day. She went to Stake Conference and loved it. Monday we were on our way to her house when the member family called us and told us that she had found a great new job and that she would be moving the next day...to a city on the other side of the state! The member was like..."Was it too good to be true!' I just laughed because I couldn't believe it! I learned from this that because we had nothing to do with her moving, this is a trial of our faith and if we do our part we'll baptize a lot at the end of this month. It just had to be!

Sunday was stake conference and E. Claudio M. Costa came to reorganize the stake presidency. He is my guess to be the next apostle It was a great conference. We had five investigators there. Our numbers are usually higher than that. The stake president was someone that nobody knew, which is good because that means there will be a lot of changes in this stake that needs change. Another interesting note is that the ward mission leader of Elder Carvalhal and Elder Barreto was the only person to vote contrary to the sustaining. I've never seen anyone vote contrary before. He was interviewed by the area seventy that was with Elder Costa and he left the interview crying.

Last night I was in a division with Elder George in his area and we taught a man the first lesson. I taught the part about Joseph Smith and the first vision and after I read James 1:5, he said that the night before he had prayed to God for help to be put on the right path and that an angel appeared to him. He was scared, but the angel asked, 'Why are you scared, didn't you ask for me to come and guide you?' I believed completely what he said and quoted the Book of Mormon, that angels are sent to prepare the hearts of men for our message, and then I could prefectly transition into the first vision. He accepted baptism and now Elder George will baptize him.

I love you and am happy. Ate mais! Elder Christian