These are the physical things that happened this week....
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A kitten climbed up my pants while I was teaching a lesson. (it was
surprisingly fast) and when it got up to the upper half of the calf, as I
was trying to get it out, it hung on. By its claws. >:( that was
pretty funny for all of us. Except for the allergic reaction afterwards-
Mom, yes, Im still allergic to cats.
We were victims of a Drive-by shooting. They shot us with rubber bands. funny.
My
companion, who doesn't eat a whole lot of sweets, got a huge packages
filled with cookies and wafers, and more cookies, and a ton of ramen. =
HAPPY DAY
I got a blue card (dear John in portuguese) Thanks
:) you know who, My companions couldn't stop laughing with the quote:
"You know I hate it when you cry." again, thank you.
We had lunch in a Pasteleria that is owned by some members,
(a restaurant of pastels. like closed semi-hard shelled tacos, with
whatever you want in it). They gave us Churrasco e pastels. I almost
died, I ate 2 pastels (the size of my FACE) that were full of
strawberries and white chocolate. my mouth is still watering. SO GOOD,
afterwards, they told us that we could have anything in the restaurant
for free whenever we want. My companion got some ice-cream and we got
some candied coconut. Its pretty awesome.
okay, Spiritually:
Eder,
our incredibly elect investigator that I found last week (my contact on
the road) was almost baptized yesterday, but he had some problems. He
is super ready to be baptized, but has only 1 problem, everybody has
only 1 problem..... He likes to drink. His parents died 2 years ago,
and to evade the pain, he drinks. A LOT. Well, we visited him, worked
with him, he quit for 5 days, super super excited and such, but Friday
night was the birthday of one of his friends. We were going to visit
him and make sure that he was still clean for the interview Saturday,
but unfortunately Elder R. Santos got really sick, and we had to stay
in house and avoid the pouring rain. He went to the party, and without
thinking accepted a beer and began drinking. Well, halfway done with the
beer, he realized and remembered, but got so sad that he finished the
beer......and 19 others. Went out, found a "woman of the streets" and
yeah....it just goes downhill from there. We remarked for this weekend.
He's still an awesome guy, he's 35 and completely ready. Just needs
some refining and polishing.
We had some problems with Natalia, Luciano, and
Sonia. They had a really hard time understanding that they can't be
sealed to their kids without them being baptized (kids age 15, 13, and
9) who live with other parents. Normally this wouldn't be a problem,
but then runs the other questions, of hey, they have other fathers and
mothers, who would be sealed to who???? with this, coupled with some
other things that happened (super-gung-ho home teachers that want them
to progress fast and accept all of the deep doctrines of the church, bad
gospel principles class, etc....) They ended up being so offended that
they decided and told us that they never want to set foot in the church
again and that neither us nor anybody from the church is welcome in their
house again. Yeah, this week was rough.
anyways, I know that the church is true, in any
local in the world, it's true. People are weak, and can be false, but
the doctrines are pure and true. Continue on :)
Keep your stick on the ice.
Elder Eliason
Quote: Absolute faith is not knowing that God can, but that God Will. (Henry B. Eyring)
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