"These guys are crazy!" :)
Tuesday-Happy 16th Birthday
Elisabeth!!! :) We had district meeting and it went super well! :) I was
not nervous one bit and I felt extremely comfortable, it went great! I gave a training
lesson on how to use time with wisdom.
Elder Hunt brings treats to his district meetings for his group to enjoy.
Elder Hunt and Elder Burt are great friends
That afternoon I did a division with Elder Burt and it also went very well.
We found a ton of new investigators,
marked many baptismal dates, and most importantly, helped a ton of his current
investigators progress, closer and closer to getting baptized.
Wednesday-We worked really hard with our
area book today. We found some ancient investigators who had been to church
before and were really receptive! :) We had more great lessons that afternoon,
helping our investigators progress and progress! That night we had a lesson
with Michelle, a very elect, prepared 19 year old girl. She accepted a
baptismal date for March 1st and when the lesson had ended, she revealed that
she had made us dinner!!! It was great!
:)
An investigator bought us pizza!
Thursday-I went back to Cantareira to
do more interviews for Elders Zenteno and Messick. Elder Zenteno came to our
area to do interviews for us and I went and did interviews for them. I had 3
awesome interviews that I really enjoyed, including one with an old woman who
is AMAZING; she will be a huge force and help for that ward. Overall I had an
amazing time doing interviews in Cantareira!
But unfortunately we are having ghost
problems again. Mysteriously popped balloons, strange noises, things ripped off
of walls, and to top it all off, Elder Cerantonio awoke in the night and had a
ghost at the foot of his bed staring right at him. Things have not been good in
the house.
Go Timberwolves!
Friday-It was a long, hot and uneventful
day. Except we taught Michelle the Plan of Salvation and she really liked it! I
was super excited for my birthday for the upcoming day! I always love birthdays
and we had planned to have a baptism and order pizza. The Elders in the house
say they have a great Key Lime Pie recipe! I’m pumped!!!!!!
Saturday- Today was the worst birthday
I've ever had in my whole life. We had a baptism planned for an
investigator who I absolutely love named Hugo, who it has taken a long time to
be baptized and he was 100% ready. Both of us were in our baptismal clothes and
then something happened with our zone leaders and they decided that he couldn’t
get baptized. Hugo, my comp and I were very sad.
Then we were late for lunch and the
woman who made it got upset and said that she will never make lunch for us ever
again.
Then more bad stuff happened and we
tried to visit Hugo, but he is mad and sad and doesn’t want to get baptized
anymore because he’s offended due to what happened.
I tried to do a baptismal interview
for Elder Burt, but the person wasn’t home; we just got into a huge argument
with the person’s mother who we wanted to interview. We walked out of the deep,
dark huge favela with tears, feeling defeated by this day. Happy Birthday, Elder Hunt.
Merry Birthday Elder Hunt
Pizza to celebrate Elder Hunt's 19th birthday
To try and make it better, we ordered
pizza and ate the key lime pie, which was delicious! :) But more problems ended
up coming.
The guys made him a Key Lime Pie for his birthday
"Elder Burt made these scones because he loves me."
Sunday-We had the baptism of Luciano, a man
who has known the church since he was 13 years old (now hes 41.) He told us on
Sunday that he was so excited for his baptism the next day that he couldn’t
sleep and that he stayed up reading the Book of Mormon all night. He explained to us all that had happened in Alma chapters
7-11:) He's awesome! :)
Luciano on his baptism day
After the baptism we started having
many problems with our ward and stake leadership, but things will get better, I
hope.
Silvano, an awesome guy in our ward
Elder Hunt with Elder Cerantonio
Monday-We had a zone activity and played
volleyball and basketball.
Other news, my district baptized 5
people this week. As for right now, the zone has baptized 23 people this month,
and out of those 23, 16 have been from my district! :)
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