This transfer has been CRAZY!! My companion is one of the
most excited missionaries I've served with so far and so we are always doing
crazy stuff to work in our area and help the rest of our Zone at the same time.
This week we had two exchanges with other companionships and one exchange with
members for my companion to leave the area and do interviews. We also had a ton
of help from members to be able to bring lots of people to church on Sunday.
Maria de Jesus (that's her name)
This week our baptismal service was really special. I
attached pictures so that you could all see her. She was being shy but in the
picture when it was just her I managed to get a little smile out of her (Good
thing I learned from the best, i.e. Gandpa Thompson). Maria is 79 years old and
we found her knocking doors. Saturday morning we stopped by Maria's home to
confirm that everything was all set for her baptism. When we stopped by she
wasn't home so we went back that afternoon and she was home. When we asked her
why she wasn't home that morning she said that she had gone to buy a white
towel for her baptism the next day. We were worried she wasn't going to be able
to bend well to be baptized so we left the font very full and had her sit in a
chair and my companion, the bishop and I put the team effort together for her
to be able to be baptized. It was really special.
Other happenings:
- We hugged a drunk guy that inturrupted us in the
middle of our contact. And he stayed talking to the guy we had talked to
pointing at us and saying "Imagine two of the best guys in the whole
world, it's THOSE guys." Just because we hugged him. My companion shot him
down whe
- We cooked for ourselves for lunch on Sunday because
bishop's roof fell on his kitchen.
- I got to do one of the coolest baptismal interviews
of my mission with a man that before he met the missionaries hung out with the
drunks in the town square but now is clean cut, going to church and is alcohol
and tobacco free because of the missionaries bringing him the Gospel.
- There's a family we're teaching that wasn't awake
when we stopped to bring them to church but once we woke them up got right up,
got ready and went to church!! It was even better because the husband didn't
want to go to church when we talked to him earlier in the week but he ended up
going!!
As always a great week from Brazil! Hope you all have a
great week!
Elder DP
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