June 4, 2013
calma-se!
its okay people. its okay. shhh.
everything will be alright. yesterday i got on to email and 15 min in the
server for the whole city went down. sooo we couldnt email. dont worry i still
love you all! and im emailing today. so goodmorning :)
Hello familia! Whats up! So
first things first, mom it’s okay if there’s not stuff on the memory cards
and sticks. Whatever, I just want them. Yes, perfect, the 32 gig cards and
then two thumb drives. Perfect. I don’t think they will open it if you send it
in the small ones like you have been doing. Just send like a t-shirt too and
wrap those in the t-shirt. Yeah, send some cash in between the cards. I was
thinking about that this week. And President Kretly talked about how we need to
have a reserve fund. So yeah. Btw, I got your package of the spices this week.
Thank you. But now, don’t send anymore spices. I’m good. And I also got letters
from the Beehives (thank you!) and from Troy. Troy you rock! Seriously, like
best writer ever. How’s the job situation? And you have the cutest family ever!
You look like such a happy father! I can’t wait! Haha and yes, for sure about
living by you because of a (something, something) haha I’m down.
Catie!! Ha! Salt lake! Dang that girl
hasn’t written me once on the mission! Somebody find out her and Brooke and Emmy’s
emails. They all told me that they were going on missions but idk what happened
after that!
Ha, mom you are so cool! You watched
all the Fast and Furious with Darin! Wow. Haha Elder Brown and I saw the movie
poster for the new one. It looked cool and so did the one for The Lone Ranger.
You are such a cool mom. But yeah, Darin you better read a ton of scriptures
after that. I’m scared to watch movies when I get home. I think I’m going to
invest in Clearplay. Seriously.
Dad have you heard of Continental
Outdoor or Big Media? Those are the big billboard companies here. And wow, they
are exploding. I’m seeing new billboards pop up all the time!
Okay so my week. Wel,l President
Kretly came this week and we had an all day training on Friday and then on
Saturday we had baptisms and such. Brazilians….. idk about them. Haha no jk. It’s
so difficult being on the other side of the continent and and trying to run
things over here. Let’s just say its not working out that great. It’s actually
quite a long story that I will tell you when I get home. But the Brazilian
couples fed us after the trying and we all got sick that night. Everyone. Same
thing happened last zone conference when they cooked. Sooo yeah. I think Sister
Kretly got kinda upset at that. Well,
Elder Brown and I have a new fire in us and we found like 5 families to
teach in one night. It was sick. Although I think I’m ready to go to a new
area. Eventhough I love Benfica.
Funny story time!! So we’re contacting
and we were walking and everything was going great. I’m happy, the people are
happy, and were contacting the houses down by the coast. And this one guy was
outside his house and I smile and waved and said tudo bem?! (the most common
Portuguese phrase ever… ) and he flipped! He started yelling at me and telling
me that tudo bem is for kids and all this and did he look like a kid. Blah blah
blah. He’s like “am I older than you? Am i?” and I was like yes… and then he’s
like then you show me some respect!! Like just went off on me. Elder brown is
just sitting there like oh che. Haha and I was like but everyone says tudo bem
don’t they and he was convinced that it was just for kids(and this guy wasn’t
even like well-off or anything. And he was like 30 yrs old max) anyway I told
him sorry and to have a great day. Then I walked away.. but man, if I wasn’t a
missionary I would have laid some Portuguese throwdowns on that guy! Oh I was
restraining myself sooo much. I wanted to just rip into him and tell him he was
a stupid Angolan who didn’t know Portuguese. That’s pretty common of them
actually. They don’t speak it right. But I didn’t. So I guess this story is for
Darin. HahHhahahaahahaha!
Another funny story. We were at Irma Dove’s
house. She is a great member whose story is amazing. She is a champ. Anyway her
“kids” were playing in the dirt and then they started to jump on us and get our
clothes all dirty and she got mad at them and told them that we had to wash our
clothes all by ourselves. Haha and her oldest son started telling his sister
“yeah they don’t have a woman to do it for them!” hahaahahaha it was sooooo
funny everyone just busted up.
Spiritual experience time. So Saturday
Elder Brown and I went out contacting. Our whole day had fallen through. Which
was way annoying. So we went to go see an old investigator. He wasn’t home. So
then we walked a little bit and didn’t know what to do so we asked each other.
Since both of us didn’t know what to do we knew we needed to pray. So we did. I
offered the prayer. As soon as I started to speak this guy came out of his
house and was like che como entao! I finished the prayer and then he’s like
were you praying for me?! Haha and were like yeah! So we talked to him and got
his contact info and what not and he’s got a family and all that jazz way
qualified. So then we walk around the corner and I get the ever so slightest
feeling/thought to knock on this door. Obviously, it was the spirit. So I
knocked on this door. And boom! Golden family, married, don’t have a church,
have cutest kids, good work, smart guy, wants the best for his family. I’m just
like oh my gosh, I have the best thing possible for your family!!! So anyway
from there on out we just found families after families that night. It was
Saturday so that helped. Haha one house had a ton of balloons so I was like oh
it must be a birthday. So I was like Elder Brown, go tell the person Happy Birthday
and he’s like idk they’re probably going to get mad. But I was like. no, come
on. Haha, turns out it was this man’s 2 years old’s bday. Haha She was so cute
and as we showed interest in them and excitement for the baby his heart was
softened and he invited us in to talk and have cokes! Legit huh? So people, the
Lord does answer prayers. Just remember to show your faith. How do you show
faith? By action!
Well, that’s pretty much my week…. We
went to the Reedy’s house today. An American family! Wow, I felt like I was in
the states again. It was weird. And I played basketball and freaking beasted.
Like holy cow unstoppable :)
I heard the MTC is freaking nuts now.
Crazy! Glad I’m not there! Wow it’s June. What the heck?! Weird. Wel,l I love
you guys like crazy! Fica bem. Amo voces.
Elder Tingey
PS. Im a Portuguese beast now. Haha
jk. But for real.
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