The Greatest High

Whattup Spirit Junkies, 

As I sit at my slightly cluttered but mostly organized desk covered in books of scripture and laser-engraved knives, tastefully decorated with a singular potted plant, I sip my coke zero out of a plastic cup and eat air-fried chicken nuggets out of a plastic bowl and realize... 

That's it. I peaked. 

Nourish and Strengthen

Well anyways, heres what happened in the last two weeks.

Two tuesdays ago, we had lunch with our favorite recent con Ana, and she invited her aunt to come and eat lunch with us. We took the opportunity to teach her some cool stuff and she also asked us to give her a blessing, which was very spiritual. Then we went back, did weekly planning, and then got caught up in a meeting with our bishop where he printed off like 400 names of people for us to visit. There are a lot of inactive members in the ward wow.

Wednesday I went down a crazy rabbit hole in my studies about dual snake symbolism and if Jesus was married. Pretty interesting.

Also we tried to contact a guy who was Jehovahs witness and he was like "wow you guys are super cool can I just ask you one question?" and I literally had a vision of the future but I just let him continue and he asked the classic "what's God's name?" and I was like "well, Jehovah is certainly one of them" and then he was like "oh..." and then he went on a complete non sequitur tangent about something in the bible that I don't remember.

Jesus was married rabbithole

Sweet Spirit

Thursday we visited our friend Izla and talked about the Book of Mormon and apparently there's a ton of ads about the book of mormon on instagram and stuff? Telling people to put themselves as media references for the missionaries? I cannot confirm this. Also, apparently the ads are always sister missionaries :(

On our way home we had to go down a giant staircase and at the bottom there was a guy and a girl hanging out so I was just like "oh whatever" but when we walked by them I noticed 

1: the girl was definitely a prostitute

2: the guy was separating out something that looked like vanilla protein powder to give to her

How wholesome is that! The brazilian distribution of health supplements is so gracious.

On friday we spent the whole day scheduling lessons for saturday. Also we got lost in the hills for like 2 hours and found these crazy favela ruins overlooking our whole area, felt like are really bizarre dark souls area. Also at night we found some people to talk with and when we were leaving they were like "well you guys can come back but only if you answer our questions about seers and demons" and I was like "Elder Medeiros time"

Dang, Fetch, Oh My Heck

Saturday apparently I got sister norris'd because I woke up with a mysterious knee pain that kept with me the whole day. Also I was in the middle of a fast and also also it was blazing hot so... nearly died going through our packed schedule. Like seriously I have no idea how I made it we had to cross our whole area like three times. Also literally everything fell through so we had like no lessons. But I sure felt good about persevering!

Spirichal As Me

Sunday we had to wake up early to make it to a bishopbric meeting at 7 am to tell them about a training we want to give to the members on how to fulfill the baptismal covenant by being witnesses of christ, when the bishop asked for his councilors opinions one shrugged and said "whatever" and the other said "well i'm not gonna give the training so I don't care." Lets gooooo

And nobody came to church, but I got to play piano in sacrament! Also we spent like 2 hours after church talking to Samira about whether Celestial Bodies can eat and sleep (they can eat, but they can't sleep- also my favorite doctrine is now that food obeys a celestial law and is therefore a celestial creation. Also also, we're gonna have wine in the millenium)

After lunch and english class we had a ward activity where we talked with Samira again about more deep doctrine. Also we spontaneously went to visit our friend Sara and had like the most spiritual lesson of my mission. 

The next p day we hung out in the church and got free stroganoff lunch.

Love Me but Dont Show Me

This past tuesday, we did some epic weekly planning and had a family home evening. I spent like an hour talking to Elder Record about portuguese tips. It's kind of weird being old. Also, at night, our power went out, so we did the logical thing and broke the door open on the elder who was showering in pitch blackness. Finally got to make good use of my flashlight too. Thanks dad.

Word of Wizzum

We had a seriously sick training from our AP in district council on the sacrament and how to invite people to come to church. After that I got to go on a division with out ZL and my homeboy Elder Rowley, father of my monkey brotha. Very dope. Elder Rowley also busted in with a military regimen to help Sara overcome some difficulties with smoking and drinking, and we taught about the sacrament like 5 times.

The rest of the week basically nothing happened lol, lots of lessons and calls and things falling through and also being sick. The other two elders in our house are completely dead - they caught whatever thing I had a couple weeks ago. Also, yesterday, we had like 8 hours of meetings, which was cool cuz we got to relax a little but also... meetings.

Additionally, I sniffed some glue last night and went down a Chiasmus rabbit hole, thanks my family for handling my insane ravings. I love the Book of Mormon. Like, really.

B-Side

So that's about it. Apologies for my new inconsistent emails - I was busy eating stroganoff and practicing with my bladeless butterfly knife last week. Also, writing emails is hard. Also, I'm lazy demais to write emails every week.

But yeah! Hope you all have an excellent week!

God is Good,

Elder Ebbert