eu novamente não sei o que aconteceu esta semana

 

  • Mon, Apr 24

  • This week was honestly busy enough that i didn't even realize that pday was coming, it feels like i just showed up to today, pday came without me even seeing it coming,


  • the majority of this week we spent in amparo, it was a week of us just walking and delivering books of Mormon, we had a lunch with members were we just talked about differences between life in Brazil and in the us, many of you may remember a conference talk where eating avocados with sugar was considered really strange and unordinary, well this week i learned that to Brazilians its not only completely normal to eat avocados with sugar, but even more interesting they feel the exact same way we felt in that talk, they find it really really really strange the idea of eating avocados in any salty way (guacamole) or any other way than a sweet sugary way, i still haven't tried it out yet but maybe i will soon, in the end I'm just sad they don't eat guacamole here, maybe I’ll have to learn how to make some, if you got a simple recipe send it over


  • this week we also hit the most amount of lessons I've ever had in a week, even more than last week so that was also really cool, 


  • the house in amparo is really interesting its nice, super echoey, and at night with the lights off it's so dark you can't see your hand in front of your face, which has made for some good pranks, and scares, and the bed has nothing at the end of it, so I've been able to let my feet hang off the bed and have been having the best sleeps of the mission, 


  • one day our lunch canceled on us but luckily our neighbor who is a recent convert and loves the missionaries more than anyone else I've ever met in the mission, really wanted us to visit super super super badly, so we went and visited her, and ate cake with her, unfortunately we had to tell her we had to stay outside and had to eat the cake outside with her to not break the mission standards, she wasn't super happy about it but we visited her and ate some cake for lunch, she's in her 60s or 70s and while we were eating cake she's talking to us and we see her chair starts tilting slowly and slowly until it breaks and she very slowly starts falling towards the ground as she talks to us, elder Garces caught her and we got her a new chair and then we kept talking, 


  • really the biggest day of the week was yesterday, 

  • After lunch the member invited her friend to come listen to us give a message, and her friend also brought their 13 year old son, and the members daughter brought her friend who is 14, and we taught them all the restoration of the gospel all together with the same members we ate lunch with! We then even got a baptism date with a friend who is 14. Her name is Karen and she will be baptized on Sunday! The members were also super helpful, they drove us back to our house to grab our bags then drove us bags to jaguariuna to drop off our bags at our house, then drove us to our family night we had in jaguariuna! which was incredibly helpful, it was the branch president who helped us out and i had a really cool conversation with him about missionary work in the car,  and how awesome it was to get a baptism date with Karen, then we had the Family night with some members from jaguariuna and Grazi and Vando, Elder Garces made arepas (bomb venesualan food) with the members while i repeatedly beat their kids and grazi and vando in every card game we played, it was pretty fun, the members kid Miguel is my favorite kid I've met in brazil, he's super super confident in everything he does, a different day he said he'd beat me in uno and i beat him 5 times, with every new set of rules he made, he said he'd beat me in soccer but i broke his ankles so hard he sat out of the game, he said he'd beat me in the card games yesterday but he didn't, but it doesn't stop him from trying, we told him he needed to bear his testimony in testimony meeting and he sassily said he would if we did we said aight bet and he immediately backed out, "não não brincadeira" he is so confident and i makes my day to beat him, and it doesn't discourage him at all, nor does it stop his trash talk, i love this kid. we shared a message about the straight and narrow path, and how simple the message we bring to people really is, and how all our messages come together, we had already taught vando everything, so i explained how really the plan of salvation is the straight and narrow path god gave us, and the gospel of Jesus Christ (faith repentance baptism receiving the gift of the holy ghost, and enduring to the end) is how to walk on this path, and that through the restauration through joseph smith, we know this path and can have perfect confidence that we are walking on this path correctly how to walk the path, knowing that really this is the only path to take to receive exaltation, its the only path that leads to the celestial kingdom, its the only path that leads to eternal families and happiness, that through a testimony of the book of Mormon we can know its the correct path and that all these things are true, irmao laerte and irma tamiris shared their testimonies, and we marked a time for all of us to go to the temple together, and irma tamiris came in clutch and said to vando if you get baptized before you can go into the temple, which brought me to say that Vando your ready to get baptized when you want to, you can get baptized in 4 days if you want, and he decided he wanted to get baptized this Sunday, which was super exciting, really what helped more than anything i think was when we truly understand the plan the straightness and narrowness of the path the whole plan of god seems really simple that there truly is only one way to walk and the plan is already perfect and prepared we just have to walk on it, 


  • yesterday was super exciting to get two baptism dates for next Sunday, we are also trying to have three more baptisms with these two this week, we are trying to help Teresa with her goal to get baptized this Saturday, and we are hoping to help the friend of Karen get baptized this Sunday as well, as well as the 9 year old son of some members who decided to start coming back to church, 

  • so pray for 

  • Teresa 

  • Vando

  • Karen

  • Akemi

  • and the 9 year old son 

  • so that they can maybe get baptized this week, and be available to be taught and have hearts ready to accept the gospel!

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