Estou cansado week 43

 I think this week was good but it's hard to remember, 


Tuesday I made lunch. I made some dank pasta. It's pretty much always good with this pasta, onion calabresa in tomato sauce where you mix in flour and milk, it's cheap too! We taught our awesome family . They have two 25-30 year old daughters who learn super fast, and two parents who are much slower in how they learn. They are pretty awesome and we talked about the priesthood with them, they kinda wanna know everything! Which is good! But it seems they would rather get the answers from us than from God which is the difficulty as of now, 


I also gave my first district counsel in this new area, and this week feels like an eternity. I feel like I've been here a month already.. It was a pretty good district council, we played a get to know you game, that is pretty fun, it's the same game that I played on my second day here in brazil! Elder Bryan organized it that second day here, but this time I did the same thing because he's In my district, and It's easier than making my own game. I felt the spirit particularly strong during the final hymn Hope of Israel (in portuguese) everyone stood up together! 


Wednesday! It's story time! Right before I left the house to go to lunch I felt I should grab my allergy medication I still hadn't opened (the spirit saves lives!) Anyways we had gotten money for lunch but our recent convert offered to give us lunch, I mean we basically made it but I'm still grateful, he had to meats in different bags and he wanted me to mince the garlic and put half in each bag, one bag looked pretty good, (steak) the other I didn't know the word in Portuguese but it also didn't look that amazing either, I wasn't sure I really wanted to know what kind of meat it was but i decided to ask my comp anyways, he pulled out the translated and as I suspected it was it was liver, my excitement about lunch was diminished a little, we also ate some mandioca, but when the member came back after I seasoned them, he decided to ask us which one we preferred to eat, steak or liver? Me and Almeida said steak and the members looked really surprised saying really? I like liver much better!, he ND Almeida cooked the meat in onions and we ate it with rice it was really good, and in all fairness after it was all cooked I couldn't have told you by looking which meat ok the plate was which, but while it was cooking I pet his cat, then while washing the dished scratched my wrist and my neck, Almeida said my neck looked bad, but I obviously couldn't see it, however I could feel it, I however could see my wrist, and let me tell you my wrist broke out in the most crazy hives I've ever seen, my hand looked like a zombie hand, my hand looked crazy, it also didn't feel great either, it was actually really uncomfortable, however I opened my allergy medicine and took one, and after about 10 more minutes it was gone, but my hand really did look like a zombie hand it was crazy, 


Like I knew I was allergic to cats and dogs, but usually it's pretty chill, it's usually only a problem when they scratch and cut me. But this cat must have been built different because I've never had a reaction like that


And I thought it would be the fruits and vegetables in the salad that we made that would kill me.. 


Thursday!!! A day of many visits, but it always starts with lunch, we made, (mostly Elder Almeida,) salgados, however his were a little bit different, and you guys don't even know what salgados are, so imma call these scone calzones, first we made the dough, and I don't know how to make scones but they tasted really similar, 1 kilo of flour, 2 eggs, a packet of yeast (maybe a spoon), 2 spoons of salt, a little sugar on top of the yeast, mix it all together adding water as needed, we then kneaded our dough until we had a fat dough ball, then we made little balls rolled them flat using a 2 liter filled with water, then we put some cooked up calabresa and onions on it, folded it in half, closed up the edges it now looks like a calzone, then we fried it in oil, and I call them scone calzones, they were amazing, 


Other than that we knocked a bunch of houses looking for people who were already taught who supposedly live there, no one answered I think we ended the night with pizza 


Friday!!

Basically we just taught that one family again this time with the parable of the rubix cube, and Raquel for the first time ever said a prayer!!!, I've never seen someone with so much fear to say a prayer, I had just finished testifying that we all have steps of faith we need to take to move on towards perfection so we can live in the celestial kingdom, and then it was time for the prayer, every member of the family has said a prayer already except her, so we all tried putting it on her, she told us no, I then asked if she wanted to become perfect like the cube, and live in the celestial kingdom? She said yes, then I said we'll then you have to take a leap of faith and say a prayer (Almeida cringed), she declined then Almeida said he would help her, she declined then he said she can just repeat the words he says, she then accepted and said a prayer!!!


We ate lunch that day with the elders of the mission office at a members house that was pretty fun and Almeida got a bunch of Rubio cubes from his mom, and I figured out without instructions how to solve his triangle Rubio cube, that one made me feel like a genius because neither of us we able to figure it out, and with every cube there are algorithms to learn, and we didn't have the algorithms, but I discovered them all by myself!! The same thing happened with his other cube he got a 3x3 twisted cube we ran into a problem, and I 2 times figured out how to solve it, it also happened with his 4x4 cube he got, 


Notes: on Sunday our lunch was 2 Street outside of the mission, and it was an hour and a half walk back home, so I did all my checkup calls with everyone in the district and the zone leaders 1 street outside of the mission in a Park!


We also saw a capybara climb out of the river and it had a gnarly bloody hole in its back, something took a massive chunk out of it 

 



























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