Sorry, I didn't bring my camera this week. =( I'll have to try again next time. We had a zone conference this week, but your package didn't get here yet so I don't have it still (the Brazilian post office doesn't bring on more people during the holidays, so things get slowed down.) I’m doing better with the language, I still don't understand everything that's being said.
So, this week was pretty hectic. We didn't have much time to work, because we had interviews with the president on Tuesday, and then zone conference on Wednesday, and a baptism on Saturday, and the English class on Friday, so we've been losing a lot of time. We've been having problems in the area of Interlagos, we only have one good investigator there after this week. We had to cut Sirley because he doesn't really want it now, and Cida again, because she refuses to feel the Spirit. We spent like an hour, doing all we could for her to understand, and recognize that she has felt the Spirit already, but she just wouldn't, (so frustrating) so we're done teaching her too. The good news is, we had a miracle find this week! And had 5 people in church on Sunday!
This week we're going to be working in Araca. It's the area across the bridge from Interlagos. We were going through there on Tuesday night to visit a friend of one of the members here. Cida was with us too, so we stopped at the house of a less active because she needed to use the bathroom. There was someone moving in at the same place, just at the house below them, so we helped them carry their furniture down to the house, after, we decided to teach them a message and marked for a day to come back. On Thursday, Elder Furrows (one of the other elders in Linhares, because we were doing divisions) and I went back to teach them, and the mom of the house (her kids and her grandkids and the whole family, almost, lives there) said that she saw us walk by her house a few times, and wanted to talk to us, but didn't have the courage to, and then she prayed that she could talk to us, and the next day we showed up! It was awesome! There were so many things that had to happen for us to be there, especially since we hadn't really started moving over to that area yet! That was a pretty awesome miracle. She went to church and is super accepting of everything that we taught her so far, but then, she wasn't married legally yet. =( so sad! But the whole family is elect, we have 6 baptism dates marked with that family already. It's going to be awesome. Her daughters, Juciara and Polina, are both accepting, one of the men in the house, Fabiano went to church and loved it (we still need to mark a date with him,) and some of the kids want to go and get baptized with their parents too. SO awesome. Anyway, that's been the highlight of the week.
Oh and it was raining a lot early in the week. We ran through a flooded area, and got drenched in the rain. And for lunch with the president, we ate at a restaurant and just loaded these huge plates, and ate chuhasco? I don't know how to spell it, but its Brazilian food where they have different types of meat on big sticks and they just cut it onto your plate as much as you want. Dad's going to love that when you come and get me haha.
Well that's it for this week. Love you all, sounds like you're having fun! I’m happy here and doing my best. =)
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