So last Monday, we did what we'd
been wanting to do for like forever, which was make muffins/cupcakes,
and go around our little apartment building giving them out to and
meeting our neighbors! It was really cool, and we met two really
awesome women (and their families) that we hope to be able to teach!
Haven't made any more progress on that yet though. But I have lots of
other people to talk about today!
So right now we're teaching 3 families: Isadora and her parents, Uanderson and Fabrícia, and William and Vanessa.
So
Isadora is a 14-year-old that we met on the street, and marked down to
visit her and her friend. Her friend wasn't able to make it, but we
taught her and her dad, and it was really cool.
Uanderson and
Fabrícia we have been teaching for a couple weeks now. They're recently
married, even though they've been together for a long long time, and
super receptive. The only problem is that they both work a lot. Fabrícia
works night shifts, and then also works day shifts more or less 1 out
of every 3 days, And Uanderson works all day long every other day. So
you all can imagine that math that goes in to figuring out when we can
teach them, and when they can come to church!
I think I talked
about William last week, but I'm not sure. He and his wife Vanessa
were a reference from some members of the branch, because they recently
lost their son to cancer. We taught William last week, and then came
back and taught Vanessa, because William had to work last minute. It was
an awesome, but crazy stressful lesson. She most definitely felt the
spirit, but has some pretty strong religious beliefs that she's scared
to let go of. She literally told us "if you only believed in this one
small difference, I would definitely join your church!" without us even
mentioning anything about baptism! She told us flat out that she wont
ask God to see what's right, but that she will read the Book of Mormon,
so we'll see how that goes.
We had a zone fast this week,
and saw some amazing miracles! Including finding another legally
married couple that accepted a baptismal date! Their names are Danilo
and Milena. I wrote them all out in my journal and then I forgot to take
a picture! But I'll try to remember and send it next week, because I
don't have much time.
We worked so so so hard this week,
inviting people to general conference, and we had so many people
interested! We spent all of our free time before and during the sessions
calling everyone reminding and asking if we could walk them there, and
everyone said they were coming, and then didn't show up... So that was
pretty disappointing, especially because there was a talk that was
especially for each one of them.
Disappointments
aside, general conference was 'freaking awesome!' as my brazillian (yes, she really does say 'freaking') companion would say.
Seriously. Mind blowing. And 12 temples!! One of which will be in
Brazil!!!! And it will be sooooooo good for Minas!!!! (A bit random, but
I swear I saw Emily Blanchard in the MTC Choir. Is she in the MTC?!) I don't want to spend tooooo much time, so I'm going to write you
all a letter about the stuff I thought was cool and what not, and send
it to you next week!
Oh hey, and just a random news flash: Our
mission added a new area this week! Our 4th state. :) We are now
responsible for a little bit of Bahia! (the state where the new temple
will be built). And we are going to do splits there in about 2 weeks :)
Ok, I think that's all the exciting stuff. My companion and I think we ate a
bad piece of pork this week, so the past 2 days have been a little
rough, but not too bad. And it was general conference, so at least we
weren't on the street.
But anyways, love you all! Have an awesome week!
-Riah :)
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