My week was really good!! We had success in
teaching new families and I had some new opportunities that I've never had
on the Mission before!
First on Monday in the
morning, we had a mission choir practice where we are basically going to
be traveling throughout the entire mission singing at all the different church
houses for Christmas! It is turning out really good and I also have a
speaking part because it literally is a full program with narrators,
solos - all that fun stuff. I have to say this:
E agora depos de muitos
testemunhos que se prestaram dele, este é o testemunho. Último de
todos, que nos damos dele. Que Ele vive! por que O vimos, sim a
direita de Deus, e ouvimos sua voz testificando que Ele é o unigênito do
Pai.
It's from Doctrine and Covenants 76. I didn't have it memorized on Monday and Sister Cabral didn't like that too much so everyone who
didn't have their part memorized had a coming to Jesus meeting with her
after. We sat there in the chapel until we had everything memorized.
To pass it off to her, we had to take the microphone and say it to her, but she was smiling the whole time and you still had to keep a straight
face. I didn't do very well at keeping a straight face, but she let me
go thank goodness.
On Tuesday, I had a really
strange experience with some young boys in the favella here in Santos.
We went on a division in the afternoon with a companionship. We went
up onto the moutain that's basically a giant favella. Just climbing up
the thing, we walked by the drug traffickers that are the bosses of the
mountain with walkie talkies telling the whole place who is coming and
if its the police. It was nuts!! When we passed by, they were
smoking pot like it was a cigarette - just taking a smoke up there in
broad day light. Up there, we had a baptismal interview that my
companion did which didn't pass, unfortunately. The craziest part of the
whole experience was when we were messing around with a soccer ball. I
was spinning it on my finger, showing them that I played basketball when a
kid that had about 8 or 9 years old came running up to me. He
said "troca" which means trade or change. Then he held out his
hands and he had 3 cigarettes. He wanted to trade 3 cigarettes for the soccer
ball that we were messing around with!! Can you believe that! I was in
shock and told him I don't smoke. My comp just started laughing
because I was in so much shock . The Brazilians all seemed like it was a
normal thing for a kid to do this, but for me I was just about knocked
out. The kid then ran off mumbling, but we heard him say what kind of
guy doesn't smoke!? We need to talk to him about the word of wisdom!
Wednesday
was super cool because I had lunch just with President Cabral. Just hm and me!! He asked if I had lunch and I told him our lunch fell through so
he asked if I wanted to go somewhere. He didn't really need to ask, but
of course, I said yes hahah. It was really cool; he asked me some
questions about why I was on the mission. He asked about my family and then
he talked a little about his conversion experience. It was super
special. The funniest part was when he asked me if I had a sister with
18 or 19 years. I said yes. He said okay, what I need you to do now is
send her email to Kevin ( his son that's serving in Knoxville, Tennessee). I asked why and he said I'm a little worried about the kid. I
just started laughing and he's like, you think I'm joking, but this stuff
is serious. I still kept laughing because he was half smiling at the same
time. Really cool experience!
Thursday we
found a new family!!!! Their names are Diomar and Nez. They are very
cool and very smart people. They were a referral from the stake
president! We taught the first lesson with them and
we felt the spirit really strong!!! They accepted to be baptized on
the 9th of November! They said they will go to church tomorrow and hopefully we can integrate them a little bit with some families in the ward!
Friday,
we had two missionaries go home for medical or other reasons and let me
tell you the worst part about being the executive secretary is when you
have to call the mother of her son on the mission and say he's coming
home. I was shaking this week because literally, I didn't know what to
say. You could tell the mom was devastated. It was rough.
The rest of the week was pretty normal. I'm doing fine. My companion and me are getting along a lot better which is good.
Yeah I don't have much else.
Ill be back in an hour we are going to go give a blessing to the sister's investigator and then we are coming back!!
Eu amo vocês!!!!!!!!!
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