Sorry
we're on so late!! It's been a crazy day. This week hasn't honestly been
all that productive. Lot's of running around, and lots of teaching, but
not a lot of people progressing. Can't count how many lessons we taught
this week that didn't end up going anywhere. But anyways, seeds
planted, right? And this week we're going to use our time (on the street
anyways. We've been very creative with our time in the house, as you'll
see by the pictures) much better this week, and have better stories to
tell :P But at least this week we both started writing in our journals
again! Won't say how long it had been since I last wrote though, cause
it's pretty embarrassing.
In general, this week we cooked a
lot less, partially because we ran out of flour at the beginning of the
week, and partially because we were working on other stuff, but we did
get super creative with our juice intake! Basically, I had told my
companion like forever ago about this spinach and lime juice that this
member makes, and she finally tried it and loved it so then we bought a
bunch of spinach and have been trying to use it all, together with
various combinations of apples, oranges, and carrots. Don't judge until
you try it, cause it was all really good! this week we are going to mix
in pineapple, too.
As I hinted last week, we made a board
game! I was planning to write out the rules (in English--we already have
them in Portuguese) to send to you all, but I didn't have time, due to
our crazy day today (more on that later). But anyways, it's awesome, and
we've already played it 4 times in the past 2 days, changing the rules
slightly depending on the circumstance, and really seeing some miracles!
One
of these miracles was a baptismal date with Olivia. So Olivia actually
lives in our area, but we didn't know that, so she was going to the
other branch (she's already been 4 times!) and being taught by the
elders. She's seriously awesome, but loves to talk (and her mom talks
more) so long story short, they hadn't been able to mark a baptismal
date with her. We knew she wasn't super comfortable with us taking over
teaching her, so we basically created the board game (Jogo da Vida) to
gain her confidence--and it worked!!! Seriously, it was awesome :)
Before
we went to teach Olivia, though, we finally managed to teach Sara,
which is also a miracle. Her husband Romario works with the branch
president, and was a reference from him. They've already been to chruch a
couple times, but stopped progressing, and kind of put off
investigating the church right when I got here. But anyways, long story
short, after a lot of patience and a couple of crazy children, we
managed to teach her on Saturday (we played Jogo da Vida with her too
haha but this time we tied it more into eternal families) and she told
us that she wants to be baptized, but first she's going to read the Book
of Mormon and get an answer that it's true. And then at the very end,
she thanked God in her prayer for sending us right in the moment that
she was needing it! There's just about nothing better you can hear as a
missionary :)
Just some other fun stuff. I was asked to give
the training this Tuesday at district meeting--and the topic was "use
your time wisely." Heaven knows I needed that topic! I had some fun
sending the elders on random useless errand to demonstrate the need to
prioritize (one of them was pretty annoyed with me by the end haha) and
then we brought french toast and strawberries for our treat :P Also,
Saturday morning we played a couple quick games of ping pong at the
chruch with Mauro and a couple others. I'm not as bad as I thought I
was! Ok I'm still bad haha but all the practice at the institute in
college has definitely paid off haha.
So that brings me to our
crazy day today. Not sure if I mentioned, but we had this old wooden
table that we realized was being slowly eaten by some sort of
insect/worm. It's been on our list to throw away for quite a while, but
we never had time. And today was the day! We manuvered and manuvered and
manuvered but that stupid thing just wasn't coming out. (Don't ask me
how they got it in there in the first place!) soooooooo we ended up
breaking it a little bit. And then a lot. And then it broke more while
we were trying to carry the pieces out. So then we had a teetering stack
of smaller pieces that we managed to carry out the house and down the
street and up the little hill and then it finally fell over in the
middle of the street (I screamed and dropped all of it. My comp was not
too happy hhahhhaha). So yeah, that was fun :P and then we were finally
leaving and our neighbor was like "hey wait I have time right now to
hang your new curtains up!" and we were like "uhhhhhh ok..." (THAT was
an adventure too hahhaha. It even involves a lizard) so then we actually
left like 40 minutes later but my comp had to mail a package home,
which also took forever. So yup, here we are!
I'm running low
on time, but I've got pictures to come and another great week ahead of
me. We're gonna work super hard and be super productive and I'll tell
you all about it next Monday :P Love you all!!!! Hugs and kisses :)
-Sister Kirkham
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