okay,
we found Carol. She is ELECT. that was probably the best thing that
happened this week. We were knocking doors (much to my chagrin) looking
for new investigators, and as we were passing a house, my companion
said Elder, We HAVE to knock here, this house is the color of
key-lime-pie. Well, we knocked, entered, began talking about prayer,
and the mom started burning the catholic church about repetitious
prayers (we read Mateus 6 together) Well, after a half hour, we decided
to briefly explain the restoration. Our LZs (*zone leaders) decided to
teach us a new method of teaching about the restoration using a
timeline. Well, I tried doing it, but Butchered it. Anyways, after an
hour and a half, we left the house dis-animated. We returned taught
about the Book of Mormon two days later with a member, who decided to
explain for 25 minutes why he as a home-teacher refuses to enter a house
with only a woman, as a base for the principle of Elders. Yeah, it
went south from there. The mother understood almost nothing, but the
daughter told us that she wants to go to church, so we organized a car
ride for her (they live on the other side of the city) Well, the member
didn't píck her up on Sunday,
but she rode her bike to the church, made a friendship with another one
of the young women, and when she said that the other young woman said
the closing prayer, she felt somebody give her a "Big warm friendly hug"
but there was nobody there. When she took the sacrament, she felt that
same sensation, and as she left, she felt a peace that touched her
heart. She asked if she can be baptized next Sunday.
We almost cried when we heard this. The mom started to protest, but
we used Check-mate techniques to calm the mother. It worked splendidly,
she already signed the baptismal permission form, and we will return
tonight. I'm pumped. :)
I love the sweater, it's my warmest sweater. Thanks :)
I
made stir-fry today, thanks for the taco seasoning I use it almost
daily :D The Brazilians here in the south hate spicy food, they love
garlic and onions. If you want to season your beef, salt. ONLY salt. and
only on the beef, nothing else. Thats about it.
I had a really funny experience this week....there
are a couple of really funny geeky men in my ward here in Osório, and
they know about combat dive school, so when they asked what I did in the
Army, they were quite surprised, and they asked me if I could kill them
with a toothpick. I looked at them and said, well, depends, do you
want to die by a toothpick? Probably would be very painful, and its not
very missionary-like. They started bouncing off the walls with more
questions. Mostly about guns that they've been using on video games.
Kind of annoying and kind of hilarious.
We also received 2 references this week for guys who
have "served time" yeah. One of them actually has interest. The other
ended up ditching us while his snakey 15-year old sister listened
intently to my blue eyes trying to explain about the great apostasy.
funny stuff.
OH MY HEAVENS how can I forget? the Purple!
Last
week we decided to pull a small prank on my companion (the district
leader and I -we 4 live in the same apartment) He likes to complain,
so we decided to give him something to complain about. Sunday
night, I took a shower and afterwards, put a little bit of dry paint
powder in the shower-head. My companion normally takes the first shower
in the morning. Well......it didnt take. Nobody knew why. We all took
showers like normal and nothing happened. Well.....Thursday
morning, I woke up and took a shower, and in the middle of the shower,
the shower-head made a funny sound, and sploosh! Purple. Everywhere, and
worse of all...its more permanent than Sharpie. Until this morning,
nothing fell from the shower head that wasn't completely purple. This
morning, I dismantled the shower (its an electric water heater head
because we don't have hot water here in brazil) got shocked some 3
times, and spent half an hour cleaning the dumb thing. my backside and
legs are COMPLETELY purple to this day. luckily, the only drop of purple
paint that got on my head yesterday rubbed off after 30 min. of
scrubbing. I am now missing a small portion of hair and skin on my
head, but nobody can tell because my hair is already really thin.
anyways, we are going to work double double super-duper hard this week, like normal. :D
Fique firme
Amo Vocês,
Élder Eliason
(Elder I-lai-são)
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