The companionship
is great! Sister de Jesus only has 6 months on the mission and she
still has a lot to learn but she's a great teacher and we have a lot of
fun! I'm really happy right now. Everyone in the house is awesome, and we do all the
grocery shopping together and it's just so great.
I am SO
excited for conference! It's the best two days on the mission. After
conference I always feel like I can keep going. This week is going to
fly because we have to go to Santarém for zone meeting and then we have
conference. I was thinking the other day that it would be totally okay
to end my mission here in Oriximiná. I can't imagine knowing another
ward or people here in Brasil. I just really love everybody here. And
all the members want me to end here. More because most of the young
women want my skirts haha
This week was a
week of challenges. Seriously. Probably the hardest week I've had on my
mission. To start off with on Monday I had an ingrown toenail that hurt
really bad and a member dug it out for me. I cried a lot haha. The
activity we had in the park with the members resulted in a lot of
contacts and referrals, but when we went to contact the addresses....
all but one were wrong. Wednesday nobody wanted to accept a baptismal
date and we had to drop our four awesome investigators that are just not
progressing. They all have a testimony and come to church but just
don't want to get baptized and aren't married and aren't ready to do
anything about it. Our other baptism unfortunately fell through because
his dad didn't allow it.
So there's the
challenges. Now for the blessings. Gabriel, my investigator from the
other side of Oriximiná, FINALLY decided to get baptized! It was
awesome! Also, in the midst of all the crappiness that happened this
week, we were sitting on a bench resting our legs when one of the
members walked by. he's this cute little old man and he told us that he
wanted to invite us to his birthday party. it was so sweet. so we went
and we had our own little table and yesterday we ate cake :) We also
have an awesome investigator that is progressing really well. She's on
track to get baptized next Saturday. Also we had a miracle! One of the
members is always bringing her neighbors to church. They're 10 and 12.
She talked with their mom and she said it would be okay if they got
baptized! We're hoping this Saturday.
Funny stories from this week.
We
brought a baptismal record to fill out with one of our investigators.
we taught her the plan of salvation and told her that the baptismal
record is her passport to the celestial kingdom. She then goes..... "I
have to take a plane to get there> Because I'm afraid of airplanes." I
was dying. She's hilarious.
we were eating
lunch at a member's house and she told my companion that her husband
made the beans. Sister de Jesus hated the beans. She said that it wasn't
very good. So she goes on talking about how the member's husband can't
cook. Suddenly he shows up and Elivana (the member) says "Bruce, she did
not like the beans". Sister de Jesus goes on to explain that it
basically was water and had no beans in it. Then Bruce says "Well, it
wasn't me who made the beans". Sister de Jesus...... "uhhhh who made the
beans". Bruce: "Elivana". We were DYING. I've never laughed so hard in
my life. Good thing Elivana wasn't offended. It was hilarious. She
explained that they didn't have enough to make the beans perfectly so
that's why they were the way they were and she's pregnant so it's really
hard for her to cook with all the smells. Oh it was so funny.
Also we have açai in the fridge. I'm always happy when we have açai.
Well that's about it for this week.
Love you!
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