Zone Divisions

Last Thursday, Friday, and Saturday were spent on division in Itú and Sorocaba. 3 days in 3 different areas is pretty taxing on the body. But at least we were able to get the divisions done with all the Interior Zones for this transfer, now we will just stay here in the Capital.

After almost a 4 hour chain of bus rides getting back home on Saturday night my companion who only has 3 weeks left in the mission said "Dude, you know I don't like to say things that make you trunky...but I am SO glad that is the last time I ever have to do that." But after a good night's rest of 5 hours of sleep and the beautiful alarm clock ringing in our ears at 6:30 am it seemed like paradise was almost in our grasp.

It was really cool on Saturday because we went to Zona Trujillo and my companion stayed with one of the ZLs in that area and then the other ZL and I went off to one of the other areas in the zone to do a division: Julio de Mesquita. And for those faithful blog readers that name might sound familiar because that was my 2nd area on the mission where I spent 6 months of my life.

From 6 months until I had almost a year on the mission my time was spent walking the wonderfully organized streets of the Big Julio. It was probably the area that I grew the most on the mission. I spent 4 and a half months with 1 comp there too (Elder Affonso) which was the longest I spent with 1 comp.

It was really strange to do a division there, but really cool because I was able to go back to see some old recent converts and I got to talk to the bishop for a while. It was even cooler because I was able to do a division the division with my good buddy Elder Bird who played on BYU lax with me. He has over 8 months in the mission now and Julio is still his first area. It was really fun to do the division with him and I saw that he is an awesome missionary. He is speaking the language amazingly and cares a lot about his investigators. It was fun to remember the good ol' times on the lax field too.

I said "It's so crazy, imagine 2 years ago when we were together coaching lax at the BYU Lacrosse Camp, would you have ever imagined that 2 years later we would be walking the streets of some city in the rural part of São Paulo, Brasil called Sorocaba together speaking another language?" Crazy indeed.

Then on Sunday and Monday we had meetings with President and started our trainings for Zone Conference that is this week on Tuesday (yesterday), Thursday, and Friday. We are really trying to help the missionaries in the mission get over their fear of inviting people to baptism. Yesterday was a really good conference and I hope the next 2 are going to be good as well.

4 and half months left...it's coming! Love you all!

-Elder Brent Parsons