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Sunday, December 25, 2011 by Sora Jay

Is anyone on right now? Our phone number isn't working.



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Sousa

Monday, December 19, 2011 by Sora Jay

Querida família,

This week went well, but this branch is a litte difficult. Yesterday 37 people went to church and everyone said that the attendance at church has been dropping every week and that the branch will be closed. The members are depressed so we need get them excited and lift their spirits. This should be the best branch in the district because it was the first, the zone leaders work here, and the district president lives here, but right now it is the worst branch in the district. We talked with the District President yesterday and he showed that in our branch 3% of the members were visited this trimester. I think that I might stay here until the end of my mission and I want to see the chapel full before I leave.

They had a big "March for Jesus" for three days in the center of the city this week and one night we had to walk past to go home. A group of youngmen called us over and wanted to argue with us. I get so mad when people start talking crap about the church and the Book of Mormon. I think it is one of the only things that gets me mad, because the people have no ideia what they are talking about. They never went to church, never talked to the missionaries, never read the Book of Mormon and just regurgitate a couple of scriptures from the Bible that they heard from their pastor and don't understand. But, I didn't fight, I walked away, and when I got home put my matress against the wall and beat the crap out of it.

We brought a man named Paulo to church yesterday who is 26 or 27 and is about to finish his masters in Geography. I like teaching people that are inteligent and study. The church meetings were really disorganized and the teachers aren't very exerienced, but I was still able to feel the Spirit and I think he did too. We went to his house Sunday morning to take him to church and his aunt said he had left already. He went to church half an hour early and got there before most of the members.

Tomorrow will be our Christmas conference with some other zones. Elder Walton and I are in charge of the games and President Hall is going to let play wii. I hope they have Super Smash Brothers and Mario Kart so I can destroy everyone.

They are doing three seperate Christmas Conferences this year so that the missionaries don't have to travel as long and every district has to make a dessert. They did the conference in Nata already and almost all of the missionaries got food poisoning and threw up afterward. Can't trust food made by Elders.

Gotta go,

Elder Jay



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skype

Monday, December 12, 2011 by Sora Jay

Hey, we can use skype to talk to you on Christmas. You guys just need to make a Skype for me to use and then send me the username and password.



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brazil

by Sora Jay

Querida família
 
It has only been a couple of days since the last time I wrote, but a couple of cool things have happened. We are teaching a deaf man that has already gone to church a couple times and his baptism is marked for the 18th. The only problem is that we don't know sign language. He doesn't even know sign language that well. We have been teaching him using pictures and paintings and some signs that we have learned, he also has a friend that speaks a little bit of sign language. On friday we taught the Word of Wisdom and the Law of Chastity. It was a little difficult, but it was really funny. Try teaching the Law of Chastity only using signs and paintings from the church.
 
On Saturday we went to the new group that opened in Pau dos Ferros. It isn't actually in the city, it is in a little town a couple of miles away where only five hundred people live. We passed all of Saturday teaching there and stayed the night. I took some pictures of the house where we slept, it is actually a meat locker and no one lives there. There were nooses hanging from the cieling where the hang the animals, but they would work to hang people as well. There were freezers full of dead animals, a table saw to chop up the animals, and a couple of giant knives. It was all dirty and creepy so we slept in hammocks in front of the house, it was the first time I slept outside during my mission and it was actually pretty cool, except that there were dogs barking all night. We got up about five Sunday morning and some guys arrived with a giant dead pig and hung it up in the house while we took showers and got ready to leave. I took some pictures.
 
Sunday we had a region conference for the northeast of Brazil. So everyone went to the chapel in Souza where we have satelite. They rented a mini-bus to take everyone from Pau dos Ferros to Sousa so we rode in the bus with the members and some investigators. We got in Sousa, ran to our apartment, changed clothes, shaved and went back to church to watch the conference. Elder Cook and President Eyering spoke and they talked a lot about pride. It was really good. Afterward the sisters had a baptism and our investigators from Pau dos Ferros got to watch it. Right now there are only 8 members in Pau dos Ferros, but I think I will stay here for a while, and I want to see a branch there.
 
Now it is P-day, and I want to sleep...
 
Love,
Elder Jay



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RE: URGENT ASSISTANCE NEEDED

Sunday, December 11, 2011 by Sora Jay

Hello,

I am Capt. Jennifer Richards,an Australian nurse working with NATO, my late husband made some good money through oil deals in Iraq and deposited the money in a Bank in Europe before he died of cancer.Based on my job and how the money was made,i can't come out openly to claim the money,so i need an honest person that will go to the Bank were the money is deposited and claim to be my late husband's business partner.

I shall authorize as my late husband's partner,immediately you accept this proposal, Because i am the only person that can present the partner of my late husband to the Bank, you will contact the Bank and ask for the release of the Fund to you as the beneficiary with their details which i shall provide to you later. I will 40% share of the total sum for partnering with me.

The exact amount deposited inside the Bank by my late husband is $12.5 m Usd.I want to invest on Real Estate business and willing give you 30% for your expertise in the field.

Looking forward to reading an immediate positive response from you and our unit's satellite phone is strictly monitored,so it is best we communicate through email due to the secrecy about this transaction.

Regards,

Capt. Jennifer Richards

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Re: URGENT ASSISTNACE NEEDED

Saturday, December 10, 2011 by Sora Jay

Hello,

I am Capt. Jennifer Richards,an Australian nurse working with NATO, my late husband made some good money through oil deals in Iraq and deposited the money in a Bank in Europe before he died of cancer.Based on my job and how the money was made,i can't come out openly to claim the money,so i need an honest person that will go to the Bank were the money is deposited and claim to be my late husband's business partner.

I shall authorize as my late husband's partner,immediately you accept this proposal, Because i am the only person that can present the partner of my late husband to the Bank, you will contact the Bank and ask for the release of the Fund to you as the beneficiary with their details which i shall provide to you later. I will 40% share of the total sum for partnering with me.

The exact amount deposited inside the Bank by my late husband is $12.5 m Usd.I want to invest on Real Estate business and willing give you 30% for your expertise in the field.

Looking forward to reading an immediate positive response from you and our unit's satellite phone is strictly monitored,so it is best we communicate through email due to the secrecy about this transaction.

Regards,

Capt. Jennifer Richards

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Transfer again

Wednesday, December 7, 2011 by Sora Jay

Querida família,

I was transferred again after only three weeks in santarém. Now I am a zone leader in a city called Sousa. Our zone is three cities, sousa, Pombal, and Cajazeiras. Also we are opening a group in a city called Pau dos Ferros, when we baptize there we are going to do it in a pond. It's going to be super cool! We are going to be the first missionaries in this city and we are going to bring everyone to church. Sousa is really hot, just as hot as Mossoró.

On monday I got to go to the zone leader coucil, it was pretty cool. We ate really good food in a chinese restaurant and we had açai. They also sang a song to all the new zone leaders that goes like this but in portugues: Elder Jay, who doesn't want Elder Jay, we need a baptizer, a faithful friend just like you and me Elder Jay! It was really funny.

Here in Sousa there is a couple missionary that got her 3 weeks ago, they are going to help alot in the local leadership. Also I think I will be able to use skype in their house to talk with you on Christmas.

Gotta go,
Elder Jay



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