We´ve been working super hard this week, but we haven´t seen much improvement in our area. We walked to 10 peoples houses Sunday morning, and none came to church.It´s really bad when you don´t get people to church, and we really haven´t brought an investigator to church in 3 weeks. It´s really frustrating, but I´ll just stay patient, and do what I can.
With one new investigator, we taught the first lesson, then taught him how to pray, then asked him if he would pray for us before we left. He said sure. Usually our investigators need help their first time praying, so we speak and they repeat, but this man said he didn´t need that. We kneeled, and he started to pray. It was a really quiet mumble, and it started getting quieter and quieter until it stopped. We kneeled for 5 minutes, then Elder Cook asked, still praying? he nodded yes. 5 more minutes of silence later we asked again, finished? He shook no. We were on our knees 10 more minutes after that waiting, then Elder Cook just said, AMEN. And the investigator also said, amen...whew.... we had been on our knees for 20 minutes, and I think the whole time he had been waiting for us to finish his prayer.O ur knees were sore afterwards.
the other night we were walking home and walked past a hooker in the street. she said she was willing to give me a deal because i´m tall, thin, white, and hansome (her words not mine). her price was 2 reais. that´s equal to a dollar. it was kinda gross. i didn´t realize you could get an STD for so cheap. needless to say, we joked about the experience for the rest of the week.
Today we didn´t get much of a p-day because we had to clean the church with the elders quorum. I have a few photos from that, but I think I´ll send them next week.
I love you guys, and I´m thankful for all your emails and letters and prayers. It really means a lot to me. I haven´t heard much from any of my friends in Pleasant Grove. I don´t have any of your email addresses, or normal addresses, so shoot me a line, and i´ll definitely reply.
Love, Elder Forsyth
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