But
we walked quite a bit this week, and let me just say, I´m pretty good
at singing "if you´re happy and you know it" in Portuguese AND Spanish.
Also, I´ve learned that it is impossible for me to roll my "r's" so this
whole Spanish thing is a lot more difficult that I thought it would
be... (but really- somehow I just can´t do it.)
Monday-
I baked cookies for Sister Loyola´s birthday. I´ve made better. We also
found a young woman of 21ish anos (I´m not even going to change that)
named Nathália, who was pretty interested in the Book of Mormon. She
said that she would go to church... hmmmm... we marked to return the
next night to teach her.
Tuesday-
was pretty normal. Up until about 7 o´clock at night when this MASSIVE
Storm passed though. We actually passed by the church to use the
restroom and refill our water bottles (the church is a safe, clean pace
to do so) when the storm started. there was wind and rain and hail
(weird for brasil) and lightning and thunder and the power went out.
Also, the youth were there for seminary, and one of them ran to close
the outside door of the church, and she slipped and fell and cut herself
really bad. She ended up going to the hospital to get some stitches...
Anyways, after about 30 minutes, the storm died down and the power came
back on, so Sister Loyola and I headed out. We passed by Nathália, who
wasn´t there, and while we were leaving her house, all the power went
out AGAIN! And it started raining hard. We opened the door of a beauty
salon to see if we could take cover (and maybe get some contacts/teach a
mini lesson) but do you know what the owner told us. "no- I was
planning on leaving soon- you can´t come in here." AHHHHH!!! so there we
were in the middle of the road, almost pitch black, and it´s raining
and the wind is crazy, and I was a little afraid some tree was going to fall on us. But we booked it to our apartment building (20 min away) and
ended up teaching a woman who lives the floor under us- so it ended up
being good.
Wednesday-
we decided to check out an area that I´m pretty sure no missionary has
gone before. We walked and walked and walked and tried to get some
contats and whatnot, but nobody was interested and nobody said that they
would come to church. So we learn from experience to never go there
again.... But ALLL day, we say tons of trees in the road that had fallen
from the night before- there was actually quite a bit of damage. I´m so
grateful that we were protected.
Thursday-
ZONE MEETING!!!! Mom and Dad, I got your HAND-WRITTEN LETTERS!!!!!
Thank you soooo much!!!!! (Ah! I´m so proud of you!) We also had a
wonderful teaching practice that all our zone participated in! It was
really really inspiring. I won´t go into details, but at one point, I
felt like I needed to ask a question that was off topic. It was quiet
for quite a while, but I just had a feeling to ask this question, and so
I did. And it was PERFECT!!!! I was able to figure out what was the
problem with the investigator. This was really comforting to me- knowing
that I do have a right to recieve revelation- the spirit Knows the
investigator, and while I don´t, the spirit will tell me what to say.
Friday- normal.
Saturday- we had interviews with president Genaro. BEST INTERVIEW EVER!!!!!!
Sunday- remember Nathalia from monday?
We passed by her house so see if she would come, and when we got there,
she was waiting for us with her dad AND grandfather. and they all came
to church and stayed for the full 3 hours. MIRACLES HAPPEN!!!!!!!
Today- I will read the book of letters that mom sent me from my missionary cousins!
Love you all! Feel the spirit and uplift someone today. I read this morning that charity is a commandment.
Sister Eliason
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