It was a long long busy week, but a good one too. I like training, and it's been going pretty well, even though I've been doing pretty much all the talking. It's still ridiculously hot, and I was absolutely certain we were going to have a surprise rainstorm yesterday, so I lugged around my overly large umbrella the whole day, and nothing happened. But hey, murphy's law. I'm positive that it WOULD HAVE rained if I didn't bring my umbrella, so I guess it was better the way it was. And actually, based on all the lightening I saw last night, we just weren't quite within the boundary of the storm. Shame....
Nothing super exciting happened this week, unfortunately. There was a wedding, but we couldn't go because we have work to do (wow, imagine that!) and I didn't even get to congratulate the couple because they were gone on a honeymoon (strange, I know haha). But we have a couple of ward activities, another wedding (this time we're invited because it's a combined wedding and baptism) and some really awesome Almoços coming up, so I'm excited! Oh, and we did play a hilarious round of "Who am I?" (you know, with the person stuck to your forehead so you can't see it but everyone else can) with the ward for our monthly missionary activity. It was doubly hilarious because I made the cards, but also because our ward is ridiculously competitive. "No! you can't ask that! It has to be yes or no! And you can't give tips!" or "you waited to long to come up with a question so now it's my turn!" and this is from the adults! But, lets move on to more serious stuff...
Yasmin, Carol, and Rosa were our miracles this week. Carol didn't come to church, but her mom and sister did, and we're super excited to keep watching them progress! Carol is 14 and Yasmin is 10, and they live with their mom, Rosa. We "knocked" on their door trying to find someone else we talked to (who lied about his address. It's amazing how many people do that) and Carol right away was like "wait I'll unlock the gate and let you in!" I still have no idea why she wanted us to come in, but they have been serious miracles. Carol especially has such a desire to learn more and more and more. She always has super awesome questions, and was on cloud 9 when we gave her her very own Book of Mormon! We jumped for joy the day Rosa decided to participate, since she was just watching in the beginning. She doesn't outwardly show as much interest, but she's starting to confide more and more in us, and is thrilled we're teaching her daughters, and is inviting all of her friends and neighbors to listen in too. It's awesome!
We are still working very diligently with Ivan and Enilda. They didn't come to church again :( but are totally seeing the difference that the gospel brings in their lives/home, and had a super awesome experience with the Book of Mormon! Ivan had a bit of a slip back into drugs and alcohol, which caused quite a bit of friction between the two, so I would appreciate some extra prayers in their behalf! They day we went to teach Chastity (they're not married, but they're working on that) and the Word of Wisdom (because we knew Ivan was having problems) was a pretty awful day for them. They had obviously been fighting all day, and even in front of us, but we waited for them to calm down, and then we taught. And wow, it was a beautiful lesson. There really is nothing better than the word of God to help people in their difficulties!
We also started teaching the family of Dona Leila, who is a reference from our beloved Sara (mother of our recent converts, Wanderley and Aliny), so I'm hoping that goes well!
Don't have pictures this week, but I hope you enjoyed the hundreds I sent last week!
Love you all! Have a great week!
-Sister Kirkham
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