hope
everyone had a feliz dia das brujas this week!! my companion kept calling it
´´the day of sister walkers´´, but i´m gonna forgive her for that one
eventually.
so this week was the
week of wonders people! lots of cool things happened. For one, we had a really
cool zone conference where presidente gomes and sister gomes came to talk to
us. the stuff they talked to us wasnt exactly super wonderful because get this;
the mission brazil maceio has almost the worst numbers in all of brazil.... lol
awkward. like almost approaching european missions in lowness. so we got to
talk about lots of ways to help that. personally i have lots of ideas on how to
have people work more efficiently, like things including obedience to schedules
and other rules that should naturally apply to missionaries, but i figure its
not exactly my place quite yet to try and fix all that. but whats really great
is that i got a package from grandma and grandpa at that meeting!! ahhh they
are so nice to think of me. everyone was asking how to say my first name haha.
no one was even close. i did get called corny though which sent me into a
spiral of horrible memories from my past life.
anyways, another great
thing that happened was that we got a washing machine!! boooyah, say goodbye to
half washed clothes in a bucket and say hello to a heavily used washing
machine! ahh life is good. also this week, a funny thing in brazil is that sometimes
the water just stops running and you dont really know why but you just gotta
wait til it comes back on. lots of times there’s not enough water to flush the
toilet so you have to pour a lot of water in after you use it but thats no
biggie. the complete drought never happened to our house but in rio das pedras
it happnes a lot. but this week it was our fate. we got home one night and didn’t
have water to shower or anything so we lugged buckets of water from outside
where we filled it with the faucet inside. then i boiled some of it on the
stove and we showered with that water. it was quite the adventure!
but this week we got
some really good lessons with some really great people. wow i wish i could
write about all the people we meet cuhs they all have such great stories! but
this week is the baptism of marcio if everything goes smoothly. this week we
were in one lesson with a guy named ronaldo who is really torn up beacause his
girlfriend left him and took their little baby with her and now he only gets to
see him on the weekends. and we were teaching about why there are lots of
churches in the world since he asked. we had brought his neighbor who’s a
member but is kinda a more or less rambly old woman but she’s still really
nice. anyways i was teaching about prophets and all of a sudden she butts in
and says ´´isnt she speaking so well?? and its a good thing too, because when
she got here no one could understand anything she said!!´´ so kinda got wrecked
by an old woman during a spiritual lesson but hey what doesn’t kill you makes
you stronger. note to self, don’t bring her to important lessons anymore.
this week was my week
of training to be the senior companion which kinda stressed me the heck out.
sister barbosa thought it was so hilarious to sit back and do literally
nothing, which was really dang hard but also good for me to see how many
responsibilities and things you need to remember day to day. but this week i
also got kinda sick and gross like with a bad cold and sore throat so i was
like a hacking old man during lots of the lessons so that was fun. the funny
thing about brazil is that everyone and their mom has a fool proof remedy for
each ailment, when i kept saying it was just a cold and not to worry about it.
they’d say ´´don’t drink cold water´´ or ´´don’t use a fan at night when you
sleep´´ or ´pretty much ´´don’t walk out in the sun´´ which isn’t exactly
possible now is it?! but now I’m better so it’s all good.
today we got to go to
this really cool activity for all the branches in the district at like this
resortish place. it was like a nicer ensign ranch, tropical edition. and they
had stayed there last night but we went just today to hang out and eat lunch
and talk with the members and play games out on the field and play some
noncompetitive soccer. i have never wanted to swim so bad in my life cuhs they
had a nice pool and its steaming outside, but also it was sad cuhs they were
playing just dance and it made me miss our big family just dance sessions
(shoutout to when mom and dad danced to rihanna #nightmares)
i realized this week
that my heart is growing a lot for the people here, which is great because that’s
what I’ve been praying for. I’m gonna be sad when i leave them, or when sister
barbosa gets transferred next week, but i know there´ll be others i need to
meet and help too. I’m really learning to love being a missionary! It’s amazing
to be able to think 100% about others all day long, and do everything you can
just to maybe make their life just a little bit better. I’ve always loved to
serve and help others, and now i know this is the best and most efficient way
you can ever do that. i love you guys have a great week!!
sister walker
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