We discovered a lot more of Linhares this week, including a bunch
of mysteriously dead vultures, lakes that aren't full of plants, LOTS of
cool wildlife (herons, storks, seagulls, weird duck/bird combinations,
and maybe a very large rat), and lots of people of other religions that
usually don't like us, but that we ended up teaching. For example,
Friday night we knocked on the door of a Seventh-day Adventist family,
and they let us in, and we shared a short message. The old grandmother
went off in a hilarious rant about the sabbath being on Saturday and
people not reading the bible when we were in the middle of explaining
Jesus's baptism, which was a little confusing, and then she made her
granddaughter change into a skirt before saying the closing prayer,
which was a little funny, but then in the middle of her prayer we were
like "OH! Their sabbath starts Friday at sundown!" So then it all made a
little more sense. We were pretty embarrassed to not have
recognized, but at least I don't think we were interrupting or anything.
And then that same night, we were sharing a message with a woman that's a
member of this other popular church that was created here in ES and her
(drunk) catholic husband comes over and starts very slowly and calmly
ranting quite extensively about how most Christians don't accept his
baptism but he doesn't need another one. And then he compared all the
different christian denominations to types of beer 😂😂 We laughed about
that one for quite a while.
Ok, in serious news, we
are teaching this really cool 19-year-old named Breno. He's progressing
really well, and is friends with a girl in the ward, so that's going to
be a huge help. (Also, they would make a really cute couple, just
saying...). He's super smart and understands everything really well, but
he wasn't feeling so well yesterday so he didn't go to church. But he
will!! Everyone please pray that he can recognize the spirit answering
his prayer, and that he will accept a baptismal date! (We invite him
every time and he says "yes I will definitely be baptized, but not right
this minute").
Also, pray that we can manage to find and
teach Lorena. She's also really awesome, but work as a nanny and doesn't
have a cell phone, so it makes it really hard to contact her!
We
honestly didn't have all that productive of a week, since we were
focusing on taking care of the sisters that we're responsible for, but
this week should be much better! Love you all!
-Sister Kirkham
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