And Sister Barbosa
Hey you guys!
Sadly I have no
super exciting news to display this week. We had kinda a weird week with
meetings with other leaders in the mission and Presidente Gomes. Also we had a
sick day because Sister Barbosa got super sick so I got to have the (hopefully)
once in a lifetime experience in a South American hospital. *cringes* But
seriously we spent about 6 hours in the hospital just to get these weird pains
in her back and chest checked out and they immediately hooked her all up to
bags of liquid and needles and all sorts of stuff I detest. Note to self,-never
ever get sick in Brasil and give in to going to the hospital. Ever! I felt like
dad the whole time when mom was in labor just eating a Snickers in the corner
because I wanted to help but was seriously so grossed out the entire
time.
So this week was
sad because Eliziane decided she doesn’t want to be baptized right now. She
told us (on the day we took the elders to do her interview) she didn’t feel prepared,
but also she didn’t have a desire to be baptized. That she knows everything
about the church is true and there doesn’t exist another true church of Christ,
but doesn’t feel like she has a desire to be baptized yet.... what the heck. I
was very confused. Luckily Sister Barbosa is mature and calm and tried to
reason with her and could do it without raising her voice or crying which I
could not. But I will learn one day. For now she wants to continue going to
church and ´´preparing herself´´... yeah keep on preparing for when Christ
comes back and condemns everybody.. Ok that is what I said only in my head not
to her. But we will work with other people now. Sad to watch people negate
their spiritual witnesses but it’s all part of their choices!
But oh one fun news
is I got my Valentine ’s Day package yaaaay!! Sadly most of the goodies are
eaten by now or have been taken to ´´borrow´´ by Brasilians... but I loved
everything. Especially the beef jerky heck yeah! There was a man in the branch
that had been asking me for some so finally I could help a brotha out! It’s
funny I was remembering how when you’re little, you chuck the card in a present
and go straight for the present, but now here I look at the presents really
quick and look for the cards from you guys haha.
So we found out
this week that Irma Maria is still legally married to a man in another state
from 20 yrs ago even though she lives with another man now... sad to say that
is not uncommon haha. Just means that now baptism will have to be put on hold
and do a huge legal process before we can have that happen. Yay for legal
marriage people!
That’s about all I’ve got from here in Estancia, transfers are next
week, the 15th, so we´ll see if I stay or get to go to a big city or
even a ward!! But all in the Lord’s plan :) Have a great week you guys. I love
you lots!
Sister Walker
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