5/30/11

Oi todo mundo!

This week was pretty great. It flew by super fast. We've been working a lot trying to find new people to teach. We taught more than 27 lessons this week, and found 26 new people, but still we didn´t have any investigators at church. We´ll have to keep working and see what we can do.

The good news is that we reactivated 5 people who haven´t been to church in a long time. One lady hadn´t been to church for over 2 years, but now she´s come the last 2 Sundays in a row by herself. I feel like she´ll stay firm in the church this time. It makes me happy seeing people's testimonies grow. So many missionaries just think about bapisms, and not about enduring till the end, but I know that baptism is just one of our purposes as a missionary.

In our searching for investigators this week, we came across some crazies. We went to a crippled ladies house, who is probably 4 feet tall. We asked her who could say the opening prayer, and she said that she could. It turned out that this woman had a very different idea about prayer than we did, because next thing I knew she had stood up, put her hand on my head and started to sway back and forth and yell, "DEAR JESUS! I KNOW THAT THESE ARE YOUR SERVANTS, BLESS THEM! HALALUJA! GLORY TO GOD!....." It was hard for me to stay reverent, but this kind of thing happens sometimes in our lessons... we were going to share the message of the resoration, but after that I just shared a verse, and Elder Ferreira said a reverent closing prayer and we left. I don´t know what kind of priesthood she used, but her blessing made me feel a little more happy and laughing afterwards. I don´t think we´ll return for a little while. She´s a wonderful lady, but...yeah...

Another drunk man in the street started speaking a little English and Spanish with us. In Spanish he said, "You guys are very HOT :)" Then we said, "Uh, we can still understand you.." and he got embarassed.

I can´t think of much else we did this week. Elder Ferreira is turning 20 today. We´ll have a party tonight for him :P I´ll try to take some pictures for you guys. I love you, and I´m glad that you guys are all having fun now that summer is here. For me, it´s been summer for a little over a year now, so I´ll be excited for when I can see snow again. Winter 2012.

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Love, Elder Forsyth