Boa tarde família e amigos!
What a week! All kinds of ups and downs. First, Sunday night
last week we were running home (literally running, our appointment went late
and we wanted to get home before 9:30 to be obedient) and a little girl
hollared after us. We stopped and she directed us to a lady that wanted our
attention. Turns out the lady was a former investigator that hadn't been
baptized because she was drinking coffee and some other things but we went back
monday and had a great lesson and since the ward already knew her and she'd
already been to church and was now choosing to keep the commandments she
accepted to be baptized on Saturday!! It was a miracle! Then came the day of
the baptismal interview. We got there and the house was wild and kids were
yelling and her boyfriend showed up and chewed her out for meeting with us and
the interview didn't even happen. So tough. Then the last few days her
boyfriend has stood guard at the house so we couldn't go teach and answers the
phone for her to say she's not there just to keep her from being baptized. It
was rough but it was still cool because she stood up to him and told him why
she wanted to be baptized so I think she still will join the church it will
just be a harder road.
This week was also cool because a young woman in the ward
invited her friend to meet with us and we taught the Plan of Salvation and it
answered the questions she has about life and then she came to church and after
church asked us for a Book of Mormon!! SO SWEET. Elder Paixão will teach her
tomorrow with our Zone Leaders while we are on exchange so hopefully that will
be sweet.
We also had a mission-wide conference this week and got to
meet with our Mission President, President Martins. He is way funny. I still
didn't understand everything he said but he talked a ton about baptism. Baptism
is our focus because baptism helps people progress and grow. It was sweet.
As far as the language goes it has it's ups and downs. We
were with an investigator the other day and he didn't even look at me because
he assumed I couldn't say anything after I stuttered over a sentance but then a
member asked me if I was from Rio de Janeiro and said I already speak
awesome!!! hehe I had her fooled.
I love it here, the language is hard but I'm growing and
learning and starting to see blessings unfold.
~Elder Della-Piana
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