I have missed everyone so much, this week absolutely flew by! It was crazy feels like yesterday that I
had emailed you.
Ok so here is the week's report:
So our meeting house is pretty nice, Most of the time we don't
have electricity but we have a generator and we can get air conditioning some
of the time. So that's good, we have about 150 people that come to church
in the Cassequel branch each week. So it's pretty big! We do meet a lot of people from the Congo
and they speak french. So we try and communicate the best we can and try to
tell them about the church it's really fun.
So I can skype you all for Mother's day this coming Sunday.
We had a great day when we were leaving the house and walking
through Cassequel, I noticed that there was a big smoke cloud rising in the
distance, apparently someone had set the entire pile of trash on fire.
They burn the trash to get rid of it here, something that I learned.
Anyways gave a recent convert a blessing today. The next day she was healed and
felt perfectly fine. We were able to find a lot of people that wanted to hear
about the church today. It is hard to find families that are married because it
is very difficult to get married here. There are a lot of expensive
traditions and on top of that the people need their papers which they usually
don't have. So anyways also taught 4 lessons and we introduced a lot of
people to the church that want to be taught. We did divisions the next
day and Elder Stuart was sick so I studied the Doctrine and Covenants then we
switched back that night and I was back with Elder Montgomery.
We have 4 Elders in our Apartment. Elder Clifford who lives
in our apartment made a full turkey for all of us for lunch, it was
so delicious. We had vegetables and rice and turkey, anyways super cool meal.
Some of our appointments fell through so we talked with some little
kids...super cute! I love the kids here! The kids followed us all down the
street, anyways super cute! After Cassequel we decided to go to
another area Rocha. We visited Joao and Paula, Two investigators who will be married
on the 16th and one baptized on the 18th. Such an awesome family! They have been working(trying) to get
married for 4 years now and we get to see the results! I also lost a bet with Elder Montgomery that I couldn't talk about Texas for
a week!
Friday (sexta fiera) morning we went to go fill up the baptismal
font. Yet again the missionaries have to do this so for 2 hrs. we bucketed
water from the well (tank) to the font. I got blisters all on my hands
from pulling up the bucket out of the tank. anyways so we finally got
that all filled, after that had lunch with the family from Portugal. They
are the only ones in the ward from Portugal. She cooks so good. Great
meals sempre!!
Sunday was awesome. Gave Yuri my Suit to use for church
because he didn't have a suit to wear, also I bore my testimony during church
it was awesome. I was super nervous but I just got up there and
introduced myself. Super great experience I feel that it brought me closer to
the members. They all know who I am now. We gave 4 blessings that day.
Then we went to the Lacullets for lunch. We broke our fast there. Super great
meal I love eating there. She always cooks great meals, we gave her 2
daughter's blessings. After that I gave a street guard a protein bar
because he was hungry and working a 48 hr. shift. He was really appreciative
and glad I could help in anyway possible. P-day was great and we went to the
campo de futbol to play soccer, got really sunburned and the went shopping and
we got a ton of American good stuff. Gatorade $40.00 for 15 so expensive here
because everything is imported. We also found Cinnamon toast and Pop tarts. Well that
was the week...did a ton of work. I love you all sooooo much I can't wait to be
reunited!
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