It
is SO cold here. People look at my like I am crazy when I tell them I
am from Utah where it snows, and I am freezing. Humidity is the worst
thing that was ever created, I don´t want to say God created it
accidentallly cause I think that might be blashpemous but I have not
discovered its hidden purpose yet other than to torment me relentlessly
from the hours of 7 p.m. to 8 a.m. I finally broke today and went and
bought a new Shower Head and a heater for our house. It´s brutal.
This week was good, it passed really fast. We went
to Caxias and did our division there, (-1 degrees) enough said. I went
with Elder De Jesus who had no idea about anything in the area and we
were far from anything I recognized, so.... we knocked doors from the
hours of 2 until 7:30. Then we went to our appointment at 7:30 which
fell, so we did contacts. BEST DIVISION EVER. Seriously, if you have
never tried to convince staunchy catholics to leave their warm house and
come out to talk to strangers in the below freezing weather for 6 hours
straight you have got to try it! It´s a blast.
Anyways we got home from Caxias for me to quite
literally "jump" in and out of the shower change clothes and get on a
bus to Canoas for another division. This one went a litter better, and
wasn´t quite as cold. Except that we got fed "muscle soup." I´ve learned
to be much more tolerant in all aspects on the missoin, but I don´t
reccomend it. (Neither do i recomend knocking doors in Caxias all day in
the freezing cold, that was a joke, but I´m not as funny as I used to
be)
We have cool investigators. We are teaching a lady
named Mathilda (name has been changed) (the area seventy is really
cracking down on not putting details into your emails, as if you guys
were going to remember that her name is really Rubia...) that is the
lady that had the cool dream. Anyways she is progressing super awesomely
and now our biggest barrier is Alcohol. Long story short she texted us
yesterday after us having taught the word of wisdom and told she drank a
beer and she didnt get any pleasure out of it, it had a wierd taste. i
can´t express how many times that has happened on my mission be it
Cigarettes, drugs, or alcohol. We marked a baptismal date with her for
the 8th of July, now we´ve just got to get her rich doctor husband to
fall in the water with her. He (She) accidentally blurted out in the
last visit that he is a mason, so I told my companion It´s simple, we
just drive him by the temple, tell him he CAN´T go in and see what
happens until he gets baptzied, and he´ll beg US to get wet.
We also have a cool dude named Carlos that we are
teaching that is a total rocker! He plays lead guitar every saturday
night at shows that go until ilke 5 in the morning and he still comes to
church at nine! What a boss! His baptismal date is marked for the 24th
but he´s starting to feel a little uneasy about it but im not worried,
the ward loves him and we´ve already done visits with like 5 members.
Vinicscius (the lawyer that travels to the U.S. and São Paulo) and
Marcia are doing well but just too hard to find!! That´s the problem
with well educated people, they are busy and dont just sit at home. He
told us the last time we visited him and asked him if he had read and
prayed that he is "fleeing from the answer", because he knows it will
require changes in his life. I love intelligent people. His wife has
already read to chapter 21 in 1 Néfi and described in detail Lehi´s
first vision, I love intelligent people.
The mission is good, life is good. I have enough time to teach the elects and enough money to buy a coke a day so no complaints.
Stay Classy, read the Bible. (And when I say the Bible, I mean the "Bible of the Mormons," as they say here.)
Pictures of our the Last churrasco for Sister and Prezz.
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