As always, thank you so much for the support and prayers! You guys are awesome!
Good news! I´m pretty much over my cough!! I took last P-day and rested a lot and I´m feeling much better :)
This
week was a pretty tough week when it comes to the work. We were
supposed to have two baptisms yesterday (Kat, who just got married, and
her daughter), but they said they don´t feel ready and would like to
wait at least another month, so that was tough. Haven´t been able to get
a hold of them all week.
The next day, we
visited Ria, the woman who I had a great lesson with about families and
how they can be together forever. She dropped us and said that she loved
the lessons, but just doesn't want to continue right now. We convinced
her to just come to church once, and she said she would, but she never
showed up.
Sid, (my favorite old Brazilian man
in the whole wide world, who has such a strong testimony and is working
on quitting smoking,) told us this morning that he´s moving to another
place in Brazil for a little while. I had to try pretty hard to hold it
together. I´m gonna really miss him. In our last lesson, we were talking
about heaven and eternal families, and he said something like, "I
really hope God is kind to me so that the two of you can see me in
heaven and I can thank you for everything you´ve done for me." He is
truly just an elect human being.
We were super
excited for our English class this past Saturday! We spent a couple
hours planning out the perfect lesson, making little invitations to give
to people and setting up the church. All the members seemed so excited
and we passed out probably 40 or 50 invitations. We were expecting a
huge crowd and we were looking forward to it all week. Saturday came,
and only on person showed up, a member. We were pretty crushed. But it
was a holiday, and it was raining as well. We´re going to try again this
Saturday.
So yeah, this week was a little bit
harder than usual. But God is still good. I have a great companion and
the members of this ward are super loving and kind. AND! We have one
investigator left! Mar! And we marked him for baptism this week :) He
wants to officially stop smoking, starting today, so keep him in your
prayers please :) He´s a good guy and he´s making great progress.
Other random positive news:
We
had a zone conference this week with President! They´re really cracking
down on all the rules, which is gonna be tough for everyone, but really
good! I love being obedient!! :)
We went to an
authentic Brazilian restaurant this week! I almost tried chicken heart,
but I chickened out...haha get it? CHICKENed out! ;) kkkk but yeah, it
was really good!
Sister Bundy and I went to a
big shopping place today! It´s the biggest mall in South America
apparently :) I got some really cute pants that I´m excited about :)
Also, we bought American cookies, but they were super expensive!! The
whole mall was decorated for Christmas, which was cool, but strange,
because it´s so hot here. Their Santa looks the same, and they still
decorate with snow and bears and hot cocao and everything, so it´s
pretty funny! And they do´t make their own Christmas music. They just
play Christmas music in English. So we heard songs like, "There´s no
place like home for the holidays," and "Jingle Bells." They listen to a
lot of English music here actually. All the stores just plan
contemporary American music. It´s pretty funny when they sing along :) I
makes me really happy.
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I love you all! Don´t forget your prayers!
Sister Doyle
