7/18/11

Hi Everybody! This week was a pretty normal week. We had some challenges and some success, but overall, we´re still excited to work this next week and see what we can change here in Canguaretama. We worked a lot this week making a lot of contacts, and finding new families to teach. We found some good ones too! One young couple we found belong to the Jehovas Witness. They gave us a pamphlet about their church, and we gave them some stuff about our church. We studied their matierials, so that we´d know how to do a good bible bash with them... hahha.. just kidding. Yesterday we ran all over the city to get our investigators to go to church, and hardly anybody went. We ran around from 2:00 until 5:00, even though church started at 3:00. we found Roniele at 4:30 and ran her to church to get confirmed. Then after the meeting we walked her home. We´re going to have to visit her with some members for her to stay firm, because right now she´s still really new and doesn´t have many friends. After we walked her home, it was dark, and getting late, and we didn´t know what else to do for the day, so we started to walk around looking for men to talk to, because we´d only taught 6 new men in the week, and we wanted 8. As we were walking, Elder Ferreira saw some men in a house watching tv. He noticed that the Brazil soccer game was on, and that they were having a shoot out to finish the game. I thought it was a good chance to make a contact, but Elder Ferreira was a little embarrased to go over there during the game. I asked the men watching the game who was winning, and they invited us in to watch. We watched the last 30 seconds of the game, then taught them a lesson. It was great :) I felt like it was a really good example of being in the right place at the right time, being focused on the work. We´re to return there next week to teach the whole family. Other than that, its been a pretty normal week. We´re still feeding the monkeys that visit our window, and they´re getting a little more courageous. Maybe next week they´ll starting eating the banana out of our hand. Thanks for all your letters and prayers. I hope that Emma and Josh and Ben get better soon with their wisdom teeth. I love you guys so much! Love, Elder Forsyth