So family! Are ya´ll ready to help the missionaries?? Pretty sure that was definitely a focus this time! Especially Elder Ballard´s talk... That was the best, and exactly right! Please please please help the missionaries! We need it!
This week was kind of rough. It is hot as Hades here, seriously. Like, all the water that was in the streets is drying, and the fishies and froggies that were living in the water are dying, so that smells real nice! I don´t really know what has happened lately, but we are having a pretty hard time getting lessons, and an even harder time getting baptisms. Guess we had a time of feast, and now is the time of famine! So we are knocking a lot of doors and walking a LOT. But it is character-building stuff:) Sister Patino is such a champ. She never complains, ever! And she just loves the mission and is always happy and ready to do whatever we need to....I love her!! She was really made to be a missionary and she is learning super fast. I reallly like to do training, because we both learn a lot and improve our teaching and everything!
So we have this investigator, Messias. Dad, I really think that this one is my Julieta! He is incredible. He loves everything about the gospel and always talks about how it will be after he is baptized and all of the stuff that he wants to do! But his only problem is that he works a ton, and still has not been able to make it to church. We are praying really hard about that one and I know that the Lord will prepare a way for him to get there. He is so ready...after every lesson I just want to say a prayer of gratitude!
Oh, funny story. So in between the sessions of conference, our zone had 4 baptisms! And that was really cool! None of them were ours, but that´s ok. Our building is the stake center, so it was Candelária´s (us) to fill the font and get everything ready. Welp, I did! But then one of the bonehead elders decided that the font wasn´t full enough, so he turned the water on again...and forgot. So during the baptism, another elder calls me over and when we get to the girl´s bathroom, which is connected to the font, it is completely full of water! Sisters to the rescue! All of us started cleaning up like mad and the rest of the baptism went on like normal. We got most of it cleaned up before the actual ordinance, but then every time someone got the dop, a huge wave of water rushed in under the door and we had to clean it up all over again! Ah well, no baptism is perfect.
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| Baptisms from this week |
Also, this week I decided that I wanted to be a true Brazilian woman and use a toca when I sleep. It is this hideous thing that you put on your head at night and it keeps your hair straight for the next day. Pretty sure I don´t need it, but you only get to be Brazilian once, right? I am embracing this culture. It´s really ugly. Oh well.
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| The Toca |
Welp, famdamily, it sounds like you are doing well. My prayers are with Sue and Mundy. That is some really hard stuff, guys! But I know that everything will be exactly ok, because Heavenly Father knows his children! Send me lots of pictures of Maddie´s reception...what the heck, that is so weird that she´s gonna be hitched. But it´s cool! I love you guys so much and I am so happy that everyone was safe from the car accident! Have a good week and remember that you have a responsibility to share this gospel!
Love,
Sister Dana
