This week we posted for the last 3 weeks of Jordan's emails (see Jan 23, 16, 9)

 January 23, 2012

Well, this week was weird. We had made some big plans to get people to church and nothing went right so ya. It seems that we try even harder and nothing works and missionaries who do nothing get everything. We are really struggling here. This might be my first transfer without a baptism. But we have six possibilities this week that we are going to run behind.  Well, nothing seems to be going right but there isn’t much to do but stay sort of positive.

Tomorrow we have interviews with President which is kind of weird because it is the end of the transfer. This week we will know where I finish my mission. Most likely I will finish here in Conjunto Ceará so I don’t have much to worry about this transfer. It would be weird if I move areas.

Well, I don’t really know if I have pneumonia. I still cough once in a while but until I get worse I won’t do anything. I just keep going. haha.

We had some rain this past week so it got cool for a little and then gets much hotter because of the humidity. haha so it was nice for a little bit. Be sure when you go to the airport you bring my heavy coat, my really heavy brown one. haha I am going to freeze to death.

So I would like a little update on what I am coming home to... it would be a little nice.

I would like to share some... interesting and rather weird experiences that I have had here this past week. We went to a family of members here and apparently it is not going so well for them. They are fighting and stuff. And I left, to be honest, not that excited about this whole ya know getting married in the next few years. Just seeing them did not give any kind of motivation for anyone to get married. In fact it gave the opposite, that single life would be far easier.

We then went to another family that was recently married. And they were all happy and stuff moving into their new house. It was the complete opposite of the other case.

We then went to church the following day and the Bishop here gave and excellent talk about marriage and stuff. It was all kind of odd for me considering my next stage will be marriage. It was very, very, weird. But ya haha. It is kind of hard to explain.

Hey dad have you started studying about the temple yet??? You should send me some stuff you find.

And is it possible to get a copy of Grandpa’s patriarchal blessing? Or do we need to wait more? And do you know if it is possible to get copies of like my great grandparents and stuff?

Love you all!!!!!!

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January 16, 2012

Well, this week was better. The mission has gotten much harder. We went from a ton of baptisms to very few. Right now our goal is just to have better numbers than the week before. This week we rocked our numbers. Yet no one goes to church so we can’t baptize!!!

Well, this week we are just trying really hard to get people to church.

Oh, I knew about when Dante would get his mission call so I called him. I was so excited to know where he was going to go!!!

Hey so I need to work some stuff out. I would like you to schedule appointments with the dentist, doctor, and optometrist. Basically I need to work out any medical problems I have. haha. I may even need a chiropractor but hold off on that one. So some not so great news, I am possibly looking at another case of pneumonia but I am just waiting to see what happens. But it sure feels like it is. But we will see.

I got a number of things from mission ties but nothing with a picture!!!

Do you all think the package will arrive?

Well, I love you all!!!

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January 9, 2012

Well this week was a very interesting week. So before I start I need to tell you all to not worry. Everything is fine. It has all been resolved. Basically the police, all of the police, here in Ceará went on strike so in theory we went a couple of days with no government.  The force of a government is the police, so they called the military in.  We had the military protecting us, but that was a problem because they only stayed in Aldeota, the rich parts of the city to protect the rich people. So on Tuesday, all of the bandits and robbers came from all over and started robbing everything. When I say everything, I mean everything. They robbed stores, banks, people, busses, taxis.  If it had a possibility of having money they robbed it. There were many in basically gang form that would pick a street and just walk down it grabbing whatever they could. We were walking in front of the hospital when a group of people started robbing the stores in front of the hospital.  The problem was we didn’t really know that all this was happening, so we took off running to get to a members house.  We had gone to our district meeting that morning and everything seemed normal.  So when we get out and everything is closed we didn´t understand everything that was happening.  We were supposed to work until six but nobody left their houses. 

But we are all still fine. 

The Police are back and they received their raise, so everyone is happy.

So how is Brenna, I heard like where she is, is completely under water?

Well, that was my week!!! Love you all!!!