Ferraria Week 11

So this week was transfers, because it was a five week transfer. I am staying in Ferraria with Elder Armenta. We didn´t work as well this week, and we had some problems getting from one place to another because of the size of our area, but everything is okay. We finally did this thing with contact paper that all the missionaries here do with our daily planners. They cut out pictures from what I think is the Ensign. It is called the Liahona here, so I don´t know for sure. It could just be called the Liahona in the states as well. Anyway we put those pictures on with glue then we use the contact paper to make them stronger, and so they will stay.

This week we have done a lot of walking. When we go from one end of our area to the other we generally try to take the bus, but on Saturday we missed the bus, so we had to walk for almost 2 hours to get there which took up a lot of time in the day. 

I have learned this week that we need to be better at taking control of the conversation, because we have talked with a few people that really like to talk so we stayed there longer than we should have. It is hard trying not to be rude, but at the same time talk about the gospel, and still talking about their lives as well. We are working on that, and the study we have been doing has helped out as well.

So I will be wearing crocs for the next transfer, because of my foot. We went to the doctor this week, and they said that they won´t have to opperate on it, but it will take about a month and a half to heal, so I have to wear crocs for this whole time. I cut the socks that were just normal black socks so that I can still wear socks. I have to keep the toe uncovered.

I am still trying to learn portugues, but it is hard to always talk in portugues when your companion speaks english, but we are trying to not talk in english. 

I am trying to get the first group of letters finished (the list of people that you sent me with mom) so that I can send them, but it is hard when p days are really busy. 

I will end with an expansion of the analogy of the wise man and the foolish man. When we read the story of the wise man, and the foolish man sometimes we miss the point that both of them took the time to build houses. If we only are founded on Jesus Christ, but we don´t take the time to build our testimonies then it won´t help us at all. So we need to take the time to say our prayers, and read our scriptures. When we do this, we build our house brick by brick day by day, and THEN we can withstand the temptations of the devil. I know this is true because I have seen it in my own life, and in the lives of my investigators already. 

I love you all, and I am so grateful for your support.

-- Elder Pettingill

Pictures: So there is a picture of the Ward Mission Leader, and a recent convert, the 50 cookies that we made, some before and after pictures of our hair cuts. One of the recent converts cut our hair. He is in one of the pictures (he is the one that looks older). He also showed me how to cut hair with scissors.

Ferraria Week 10 and Mother's Day

This week was a good week. I really enjoyed my skype even though it was only 45 minutes. I know that if I got more time I would still want more time.

So this week we got our water back! Last Friday, the one from last week, we lost our water because the bill somehow never got paid by the office. Then on Saturday, which was the p-day of the secretaries, and assistants, we called them because it wasn´t until late on Friday that we lost it. They told us to use our emergency money to pay it, and that they would reimburse us. We went to a place to pay two bills for water, this month´s, and last month´s. We got to pay this month´s, but last month´s we couldn´t because it was expired. So then we called the assistants again on Monday, last p-day, and spent almost the entire p day trying to get our water back, and at the end to the p day we still hadn´t been able to pay it, but we knew where we could. So then on Tuesday we paid it, and the company said, through the secretaries, that they would turn the water on the next day. So the next day we woke up, and still didn´t have water. We ate lunch, returned, and still didn´t have water. We were going to Santa Angela that day so we wouldn´t return until that night. So we waited a little more, and still didn´t have water. We did our work, and when we were walking home we were just wishing that we had water. We got home, and we had water! That is it, but then we both proceeded to take showers. We survived this by using our water bottles to get water, at the church, and we used this to shave (just me), brush our teeth, and sometimes wash our hair (I did it once; I don´t know how many times Elder Armenta did it, but he got his hair wet every day.) We went 5 days with no water. The end. 

This week we had a division with the district leader Elde Quarezma. It was really good, we learned a lot about teaching people, and not lessons. Also we worked a lot more this week on finding new people which was good, and we met our goal for new investigators for the first time for me. We got to teach a lot of starting lessons, as well as helping people understand things. I learned that if someone doesn´t believe that Joseph Smith was a prophet, and if they don´t have a motivation to listen to us, then they won´t go anywhere.

I have already learned so much, and ran into problems. It is hard to help people come unto Christ when we have three different areas to work. We have been trying to work more in Santa Angela, and Ferraria. Santa Angela only has two members, and both are recent converts. We have already found so many great people, and I want to help so many people. It is difficult to remember sometime that people get to choose, and that we can´t force them to understand what we understand, and to help understand that their lives could be so much better. Also it is hard to always remember that I am not perfect, and to give myself a little break sometimes.

Concering families, we had an interesting experience with an investigator named A. He is from a big family, but he does like to visit his family, and he doesn´t really like family reunions. He has a brother that lives close to him that he wishes lived farther away, but at the same time family is really important to him. The problem is that when he is with his family, he is worried about saying things that could offend them, and that he could get a bad relationship with them. I thought while we were talking, that is very sad, that you can´t trust that your family will understand you. I think that should always be our goal. To have a family that we can trust will love us enough not to be offended. I have been reading from Teachings of the Presidents Joseph Fielding Smith, and I think that he is a good example of the type of relationship that we want with our families, even though it is not always possible. One of his children, in the book, said that he would never scold them or hit them, but that he would only say ``I wish that my kiddies would be good,`` and that because he had so much love for them it worked.

Also here I get to see a lot of families that aren´t perfect, but they still have so much love for one another. I also see families with problems, and that these problems pull the family apart. I am so grateful for a wonderful family that is such a great example of what kind of family I want to have, and that has prepared me a lot for now and the future.

We have talked a lot about faith this week, with members, with investigators, and just me thinking, and I will end with Alma 32 because I don´t know exactly what scripture it is. All I know is that without faith we cannot get anywhere in the gospel. I like to think of faith in an example. Faith is standing at the edge of a cliff, and believing that there is a bridge there, but in order to truly have faith you need to step off the cliff. Sometimes that is how it is for us. We have to step off the cliff, and believe that Christ is there to catch us, and to hold us up.

I love the gospel, and everything that it brings into my life. Even the trials.

--Elder Pettingill

Pictures: One of these is of Elder Quarezma, and me during a division this week, one is of a cool full moon thing we had. Another is of us being happy, and getting water again. Another is of my coffee cake, and my last breakfast with it. The other two need more explanation. There is this thing for coins outside our house where sometimes the guy has pokeballs in them. He doesn´t have it out a lot, and I wanted to buy them, but it takes two reais ($.32) so I had been saving all the reais that I got to buy these pokeballs. I bought twelve. So there is a 'before I bought them', and an 'after I bought them'. They will be presents for my companions, and people when I get home. Also there was one day we had to wait in the church so Elder Armenta played the piano, and I drew him playing the piano on the chalkboard.

From the skype

Ferraria Week 9

This week has been hard and a little frustrating, but it has also been good. We have been having problems with getting new investigators, so this week we really focused on finding some new people. Also we switched some focus on the areas we have. We have three main areas, Compo Comprido, Dona Fina, and Santa Angela. With Elder R Santos we focused more on Campo Comprido and Dona Fina, but now we are focusing more on Santa Angela than Compo Comprido. The problem with Santa Angela is that it is a long way away from the chapel, and so it takes some time to get there from Santa Angela so a lot of missionaries didn´t spend a lot of time there. We have been working there more this week, and have found some great people that we will begin to teach. 

I am still trying to learn more portugues but it is hard with Elder Armenta because we tend to speak a lot of english, and so I don´t learn more portugues. I will focus a lot more this week with that. 

The members here are great, and they always offer to help with anything. We have a list of the members here, and I don´t know if it is similar to the U.S., but there are a lot of members that are either less actives or we don´t know what they are. We will be working on that as well. 

The weather here has been weird, because it keeps getting cold then hot again. 

The area here is pretty big, and it good in general. The people are more open in this area than in other areas. It is generally safe I think. The unsafe part is Santa Angela, because it is pretty poor. Also I found out this week that most of our area is not actually in Curitiba; it is in Campo Largo, which is a different city. I thought that was interesting. 

The church is good here, and we don´t really have to do anything besides sit and listen. Sometimes we have to go to other meetings, but generally we don´t participate a whole lot. 

I also found out that this transfer is only five weeks, but Elder Armenta and I don´t think that we will be transered although it could happen. The time passes by so fast it is amazing. 

So I tried the chocolate chip cookie recipe with adding chocolate powder stuff instead of vanilla, and they were good. One is in a picture where I put two together to make a s`more. We made s´mores this week because I got a big bag of marshmallows from Easter, and I have wanted to make s´mores, so we heated the marshmallows in the microwave, then scooped it onto crackers and cookies with chocolate. That was fun. 

Anyways thank you all for the prayers, and for the emails that I get. I am very grateful for the support that I have here.

I will end with a scripture Alma 37:37

Alma is a cool book because in portugues Alma means soul so this is the book of the soul. Anyways this scripture talks about prayer, and the importance of always praying, and praying frequently. Heavenly Father is our actual father, and so he wants to hear from us. He sees everything that we do, but it is not the same as actually hearing us talk to him. When we do this he pours out blessings upon our lives, and in every aspect. I have really felt this here. We pray so much, because we really want help with our lives. We are still children to Heavenly Father, and so he will help us out.

I love you all so much

-- Elder Pettingil

Pictures:

Me and my companion

My bowl of mini-wheats from my package

Ingrown toenail

Crocs

New district

S'mores ingredients

Eating s'mores

Picture of what I am going to look like at the end of my mission, drawn by the daughter of a member who is taking the discussions and will get baptized soon

Ferraria Week 8

So sorry about last week. We had to go to the hospital and didn't get to email until Tuesday morning, but we only had time to do our letter to president then the power went out, and we so couldn't email. We went to the hospital because I got an ingrown toenail. I did things to help with it but it wasn't getting fully better so we went to the hospital, and they told me not to wear shoes.

I am typing this on a member's phone because it is a holiday here so ALL the internet places are closed. We normally email from a LAN house which is where you can pay to use the internet. 

Also for the last week I have been using crocs that I bought because I was not allowed to use shoes for a week to let my foot dry. I will send some pictures next week. I bought the crocs because for one day I was using my flip flop and a normal shoe, but it hurt the rest of my body when I walked. I think it is better now.

So first off I will answer what I remember about some of the questions. It is hard because I am writing this on a phone.

I did get the package (thank you mom!) I really enjoyed all the things that you sent in it.  

First off my new companion and padrasto (stepfather) Elder Armenta. So last time when I said that he speaks English that was an understatement. He is 99% fluent. He was born in Mexico City but lives in Chihuahua. His stake is basically a Utah stake in Mexico so he went to a church school, and the temple is closer to his house than ours is to ours. One ward in his stake is of Americans, and so he learned English very well. He didn't know Portuguese before the mission, and so he is more comfortable speaking in English than Portuguese. So it hasn't been the best week for speaking only Portuguese. He has one month more than me in the mission, but his estimated date for going home is the same as mine. At the zone conference we talked with someone that said that they think we will both go home somewhere around December 24 so before Christmas. He plans on going to BYU-I after his mission so we might room together. We get along great. He is like me where it is hard to talk with people, but he doesn't talk a lot when he gets comfortable like I do. It has been hard to not slack off a little bit when it gets dark. We are trying to stay focused, and do everything right but because both of us don't have a lot of time it is hard. We are really focusing on trying to be obedient in all the mission rules. Having him as my companion is pushing me to be obedient and follow the schedule as much as possible. We are learning together how to do everything.

I would like to also retract any restriction on food I have said. Anything that is from home is welcome. Especially candy. I don't buy candy here very often, and generally it is chocolate. But not peanut butter chocolate, they don't really have that here. So just any candy or food is welcome. Thank you so much for the packages you already sent! I appreciate them a lot. Also I love getting letters from you all. I loved the letter Anna sent, and that is awesome that she, and Jeffrey are learning Portuguese. I will try to send some letters soon. It is really busy on p-days sometimes or I don't have the materials to write letters, but I am in the process of writing some. Also I would like to say that both me and Elder R Santos love the Legos that you sent in my birthday package. 

So on p days other than email we do laundry in our house, shop, generally after email at a big super market they have. It is funny because only the small ones have vanilla extract. Apparently it is not a common thing here. Then we take a bus home. With Elder R Santos we would then play war (a knock off version of risk) with one of the recent converts here until we had less than an hour left, then go home, and finish the other things that we need to do. Right now I I think I will be writing letters, sleeping, and making something cookies or coffee cake, and just resting in general. We also might explore the stores here which I never did with Elder R Santos. 

  

I have felt the spirit so much this week, and I have learned a lot. Sorry that I didn't talk about my week as much, and sorry that I didn't send any pictures. I will send a lot next week. I am excited for Mother's Day, and I am so grateful for your support in my life. Thank you all for being great people, missionaries, and/or future missionaries. It has already been great to be able to serve the Lord here in Brazil, and I have learned so much. 

Elder Pettingill

Ferraria Week 6

This week was long, and short at the same time. We had transfers, and Elder R Santos got transferred. I am here with Elder Armenta, who has one more transfer than me, so this will be exciting.  My companion is from Mexico. I asked him if he speaks any English, and he said yes. I don´t know how much that means. I can communicate pretty well in Portuguese most of the time.

Questions:

Santa Angela

-We have 3 main areas here: Santa Angela, Ferraria, and Campo Comprido. We live in Ferraria which has a second part, São José. Campo Comprido goes right up next to the sisters´ area, and has the chapel. We work there on Sundays, and Tuesdays. Santa Angela has about two members who are both recent converts. We work there on Wednesdays. Ferraria is bigger, and very hilly like Santa Angela. Compo Comprido is not hilly. We live in Ferraria, and it is about an hour of walking in between the areas.

  -Easter here is celebrated with chocolate, as in the pictures I sent. They do have Easter eggs as well, but they are all chocolate, and they don´t paint eggs. They do have a special Easter meal, with family, but I don´t know if they have a specific meal for this. Easter is on Sunday, but also Friday, and Saturday so almost everyone has work, and/or school off on these days.

-The weather here is cloudy, and sometimes rainy. It is very hard to tell what the day will be like. It changes every day.

This week was my last week with Elder R Santos. He was pretty sure that he would be transferred, and so he trained me as if he would be transferred. We had a division on Wednesday, and this helped me realize that when I am with Elder R Santos, I rely on, and follow him, and don´t take the lead a lot, but when I was with Elder A (the Elder I had divisions with) I took the lead more because I knew the area better than he did. With Elder R Santos, he knew the area better than me, so I followed his lead. I think this is why I will have another trainer, because the Lord knows this and wants me to progress as much as I can.

During the week Elder R Santos worked on making me do the 'how to begin teaching' so that I am better at it, and so I can do it without looking to him for help. It has been hard, and I am still not an expert at this. I don´t even think I am an amateur. The combination of not being confident in Portuguese, and not having a personality that makes talking with people easy, makes beginning teaching hard for me. I think that I am ``fluent`` in Portuguese, meaning that I can have conversations where I don´t have problems. I still have a lot of conversations where I have problems understanding people, or communicating exactly what I want, so maybe not. Whenever people ask me how is my Portuguese, I always say ```melhor, sempre melhor`` which translates to better, always better.

We had Easter, and Elder R Santos said that holidays are not good for knocking doors. I think that they are because people are in their homes, and so we can talk with them, and make an appointment to visit another day. This week on Saturday we went to an appointment, and the family was busy so we knocked the door next to them, and met a man named M. We talked, with him, and taught the Restoration, and he was focused on what we said. During the lesson I could feel the spirit very strongly, especially during the first vision. I think that he will be a good investigator, and I think that he will accept, and fulfill commitments.

Easter was good, and I liked being able to remember the Savior more. The church put out some videos for Easter. I don´t know all of them, or if there are more than one, but the one I know is ``He Lives`` if you all haven´t watched it yet, watch it here. It is a very special video, and helps us remember the Savior. I have been listening to the conference talks on the ipod you sent with me, and one talked about the Savior´s atonement. It talked about how if Christ had sinned even one time, or if he had not atoned for all our sins, then everyone no matter how good they are would be doomed to eternal torment, and they would be forever in Satan´s power, BUT because he atoned, and because he was perfect he saved everyone from this fate, and he made it so that even the worst person can have a state of glory. He made it so that we can return to our father in heaven, and that we can live again. I am very, very grateful for his sacrifice, and his love, and I want others to be able to realize the love that he has, and had for us. I hope you all had good Easters as well.

-- Elder Pettingill

Here are some pics. One is our my division with Elder A this week, and others are of the Easter package given to us from the ward we are in. Also the lego sets from my birthday package. 

Ferraria Week 5

So first off, questions->

-For division, I think that we normally start at night and end at night, but so far we have started in the mornings, switched companions, then ended the next morning. It is a little bad because we don´t have time to study when we do this. 

-My portuguese is better. That is what I say when people ask me. I can communicate well sometimes, but my biggest problem is understanding what people say. Members that we have lunch with say that my portuguese is good, but that is only because I didn´t have any problems with them. 

-My standard meals are usually cornflakes with a banana cut in and some sugar added. I like this, but they only have corn flakes, frosted flakes, and their version of coco puffs. So I am content with this meal. Lunch is usually rice and beans, some meat of some sort, salad, and another thing, usually some kind of pasta. Dinner is usually the same as lunch, but slightly smaller when we have it at a member´s house. Otherwise I have a ham sandwich which does not happen very often.

and now onto my week.->

I bought the things to make treats this week so that was fun. I made chocolate chip cookies on Monday, and coffee cake on I think Tuesday, but I am not sure about that. I brought the cookies to my district meeting, and they all liked them. My companion really likes the cookies. They have some chocolate stuff here, so I am going to try to make some with it so they will be chocolate chocolate chip cookies. I made coffee cake, and my companion liked it, but not like the cookies. We had divisions this week as well, and so my companion for division (I will go into more detail later) tried it, and liked it as well. I do want to learn how to make the pudding here which I like, and they don´t have in the states.

We did a lot of knocking doors this week because it has been hard to find people who are there for the appointments we set. It has been frustrating as well because it is hard to teach people certain days because we only have certain days that we work in one of the 3 main areas we have. I came up with another analogy this week, and this one is about joy. Our lives are like a bucket, and joy is water in the bucket. The world shakes our lives and creates waves in our buckets where our joy goes up and down, but through the gospel of Jesus Christ we can pour more water into our buckets, and increase our average level of joy. We can pour more water in by living the gospel of Christ in our day to day lives. There are other things that increase our levels of joy, but the gospel of Christ is the only consistent way that always works. 

We had divisions this week, and I stayed for the first time in my area. It was with Elder Fuzaro who is the Zone Leader, and has I think about 1 y and 7 m on the mission so he is experienced. It was really a great learning experience. I learned to focus on the spirit, and not on portuguese when I teach, and to always want to find people to teach. That means when you are frustrated that all you have to do is knock doors you need to still be excited. I also learned about things that we should be doing when we plan activites. For example always have people that you don´t have an appointment with that are in the area that you can try and contact. It was a great experience, but because he spoke English (he is not Brazilian) so I had trouble always talking in portuguese. I also learned that I need to learn the streets of all of my areas so that I don´t have trouble finding a place, (that happened during the division). The main reason for the division was for the baptismal interview with J. We had a little trouble though, because Elder R Santos forgot to give me the keys to the chapel, so we had to call a member to help us out. This division was on Friday-Saturday so I didn´t get to open my presents in the morning. 

Saturday was my birthday, but it didn´t feel like my birthday, for most of the day. We had 4 appointments, and all of them fell through, and the other people that we tried to talk to couldn´t talk with us as well. So we went back to the house to prep, and study for the baptism. We went to the church, but we couldn´t get the water heater to work so the water was cold. The baptismal service was cool though, and I got to baptize J. It was awesome. before, and during the baptism I was focusing on the words, and doing in right, but when he came out of the water I felt a wave of joy come over me that can only come from the Lord, and I knew that I had helped J come onto the path of salvation. I forgot an extra white shirt so I rolled the sleeves up and sat there a little wet. After we went to E´s, and talked. Then we got a call about a referral that they wanted us to go visit. They picked us up, and it turns out that it was a party for me. It wasn´t very big, but it was cool. They had a cake because they forgot about fast Sunday, but they gave me half to take home. When we got home Elder R Santos just went straight to bed so I didn´t get to open my presents until Sunday night. That was okay though.

The Fast Sunday was cool because they give shorter testimonies, and a lot of people bear them. Some families go up together. It was cool, and confirming J (My companion did it) was cool as well. 

So interesting fact. Pineapple in spanish is slang for iniquity. I learned this from a spanish speaker. 

Thank you for the presents, and here are some more pictures. One is of Santa Angela, and another is of Elder Pr, and me during a division. The others are of my little birthday celebration for myself with the presents. Thanks again. I love you all, and I am so grateful for your support. 

--Elder Pettingill

Ferraria Week 4

We didn't get an explanation of this photo. Maybe it's a mannequin pose? I am guessing it is the new missionaries that came to the mission with Elder Pettingill. The Mission President looks like he could be one of the missionaries! Can you find him?
He is on the second row, farthest right. 

First off I will start with questions.

-I don´t know why the week felt so long last week, different days feel different lengths. 

-We don´t get to go to the Priesthood session because it is from 9-11, and we have to be back by 10. 

-Conference was good, but it was hard to understand a lot because It was in portugues. I was able to understand enough to take notes. I remember that I liked the talk by Elder Ballard about the Holy Ghost, and the talk by Elder Cook.

-I got one letter, and I have been told that they have a bunch for me. 

-It feels about 70 here. although with the sun and walking it gets hotter, and some days it is colder than 70. 

-My apartment has gas stove/oven, bathroom with a shower, sink, and toilet. We have hot water in the shower because in Brazil they have shower heads that heat the water. We don´t have a lot of things to use to make food, but we have a blender, and a griddle/toaster thing. 

-We will have fast Sunday this week. It is a little sad, because in Brazil they fast from lunch to lunch so I will be fasting half of my birthday (Apr 8), and I will have divisions the day before. 

-So as it turns out my body likes the food here. I have not had any problems except when I eat a lot of snack food that I buy for myself. 

-One note I would like to make is that since there are a lot of dogs here I have a new appreciation for Mozzie´s size. Most of the dogs here are small and/or skinny. There are a few that aren´t but those are rare.

On to my week:

Monday: We played war (a knock-off of Risk, I don´t really like it) with some recent converts, M and J. They are part of a family that was baptized in the last transfer. Then we taught E who is also a recent convert who was baptized in the last transfer.

Tuesday: We had a zone/district meeting. We met as a zone then split into districts. It was a little funny because at least one of the zone leaders was not there. I had a division (splits) with one of the missionaries that arrived with me. It was a good experience, and helped me learn about leading, and not just following my companion. It was with Elder Pr. I got to see Pres. e Sister Cuvelier because the zone leader went to the temple with them. (I don´t know the exact situation, but he got called about a day before telling him that he was going to go to the temple). That was cool. The zone leader is also my ``Great-grandfather`` I don´t know about other places, but here you trainer is your father, so he is the trainer of the trainer of my trainer. 

Wednesday: Had a new missionary meeting so I saw Pres e Sis Cuvelier again. We got taught about not lowering your standards, and also not following your companion, because you have the same calling, and authority as him. Went to an area called Santa Angla and had three good lessons. One with J, the investigator who is planned to be baptized on my birthday. I forgot to tell you about this, but we had a baptism that was technically in our area, but the sisters found her, and taught her, so I don´t count that as my first baptism (it was my first Saturday here). Anyway J is my first baptism, and it will be on my birthday! So I will have a least one birthday present from here. We also taught a family that wants to be baptized, but the parents aren´t officially married so we are working on that. We also taught a first lesson with a family, and invited them to be baptized. The Father was hesitant, but the others were not. Those were good lessons.

Thursday: made some contacts for on my birthday, and taught the NTM-person who lives with a member- who owns the bakery next to our apartment. 

Friday: I don´t remember much about this day

Saturday:

Conference. We had lunch with members at 11 then went to the chapel for conference. In between the sessions we went to a bakery and got a snack. Then went back to the Chapel for conference again. We taught E again, and did some studying after returning to our apartment.

Sunday: Lunch with a member where I got to see some videos about EFY in Brazil which was cool. We had conference again, and J came. I am very glad that we got to hear from President Thomas S Monson, and I actually got to understand all of what he said because of subtitles. We taught J in between the sessions which was good. Then listened to the last session of General Conference. I learned that when an apostle can speak a language, they record it in the language beforehand then play it while the apostle speaks. I also learned that Elder D Todd Christofferson is the only apostle that can speak Portuguese. So that is cool.

I love hearing from you all, and it is cool that Jeffrey, and Anna are learning Portuguese. So I learned in the CTM that where you go determines when you report to the CTM or MTC. I just thought that was interesting. Elder R Santos thinks that he will be transferred this transfer, so we will see if I will have two trainers. So pudding here is not the same as pudding in the U.S. Here it is a cake like thing with some caramel liquid poured on it. Also they have a word here for some one who is doing iniquity. Fubeca. Fu for fumo which means smoking, be for beber which means drinking, and ca fro castidade which is chastity. I thought that was cool too.

Thank you all for your support, and I am doing well.

-- Elder Pettingill