[On January 22, Riley forwarded this message he wrote on January 2. I put this in its chronological position on the blog.]
This week went by really fast! The time has just been flying! We did pretty well this week with teaching with members, and we actually got some investigators to church! How exciting! Haha Well I guess I'll start with the biggest events of the week. My birthday was Saturday, kinda lame. Haha It was just like a regular day, and because it was fast Sunday, I couldn't eat anything after lunch. Lame. So I made a cake the night before from a mix thing, and it was pineapple flavored. It was pretty good. We ate cake in the morning, right after personal study. (See picture). We used a match for a candle, so I didn't really have to blow it out. And luckily, the last missionaries left some chocolate frosting in the fridge for my birthday cake. After all of our studies, we went to lunch. The member who was supposed to make us lunch knew they wouldn't be able to, so they gave us R$50 to buy lunch. We found out that there is a REAL Subway here, so we went there! It was a real Subway! Looked exactly the same, and they even had the cookies! (Cookies are pretty much unheard of in Brazil. It's an American thing. Just to give you some perspective on price, a combo with the 30cm(foot long) was like 20 bucks each. After Subway because we were still looking for a little more before the fast, we went and got some soft serve ice cream. That was basically it for my birthday. The rest was all normal. And people here don’t get it. We were teaching this family that is really awesome, and they like talking to us, but then they said, yeah we know God might have something more for us, but I don't want an answer to our prayer about it because we're comfortable where we are. Lame.
For new years, basically everyone travels and has parties at the beach. Well at least here anyway. A lot of people left to either the beaches, or to the bigger cities. I was asleep before midnight, (because I’m a good missionary) and didn't hear their celebration at all. My companion woke up and said they were honking and shouting and shooting off fireworks. I must have been out pretty good.
The other good event this week was yesterday. The bad news was that we found out that our group is being closed and becoming a part of the branch again because there isn't enough priesthood support there. =( The good news is that we brought our investigator, Serlei to church. He was a little drunk from the night before, but he never drinks and he felt really bad about it. We still let him get interviewed by the other elder, and he told him that he had a huge desire to be baptized and wanted to keep all the commandments. Wow! So he has a baptismal date for Sunday, we're going to try and visit him every day this week to keep him ready.
We really need to find new investigators this week. Our pool is dying down because people don't want to put any effort in. and one investigator who has tons of potential, and three kids of baptismal age, is never there now when we schedule. Lame. So hopefully we can't find some other good people to teach. I think that's about it for the week. Oh, and one day it rained really hard for the majority of the day, and I don't have an umbrella so I got pretty wet. =)
Looks like you guys are having fun! I can't go on youtube [we sent him a link to a video of our family singing “Happy Birthday” to him], but I have been looking at your blog.
Thanks! I love you guys, I’m working hard, and the days are passing pretty quickly!
até próxima semana!
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