This week...it was great! And awful, but mostly great!
Ok, the good part. We went to Olinda for Pday!!! I love that
place. Literally, one of the most beautiful things ever, and Mom and Dad,
you guys should be excited because it´s right where your hotel is located.
We went with a few of the other missionaries in our zone and I got to see
Sister Patino again! AND her companion that she is training...my
granddaughter! Yes, I have posterity. SUPER stoked on that one.
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| My Posterity! Sister Cariola, me and Sister Patino |
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| Olinda is so fun! |
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| Olinda with Piza |
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| Us in Olinda |
We had a ton of ward activities this week, each one better
than the last. We went to Enrichment night where I learned to embroider...and
was actually pretty good at it! Who knew! Then on Wednesday, we
went to Mutual too with a bunch of less active youth. Basically half of
the ward is under 18 because of the child-baptism sprees that used to go down
here with the Elders. Soooo we have a lot of re-activation to do with
little kids, which is soooo difficult! But it´s ok! And then on
Saturday night, we had an AWESOME Integration night! So many members
came! No investigators...yet. But just the fact that the members
are getting excited again is huge progress. And this is just the
beginning! Ahhh love it love it love it!
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| Integration Night |
Ok, now the hard part of the week. I´ll sandwich it in
between the good stuff. So basically everything blew up in our faces.
Like, the night when the water came, I accidentally left a faucet on.
Woops. How the heck do you even know if it´s on or off when the
water doesn´t exist! I don´t blame my self too much. Only bummer
was that when we woke up, all of the water had run out during the night, so we
didn´t even get one day of normal showers! Hooray for the buckets;)
Also, on Thursday night, someone stole our cell phone right out of Sister
Piza´s bag! I was pretty impressed with that one. The sly fox was
quick indeed! So we had a scare there when we got back home at 9pm and it
was gone. We turned the house upside down looking for that sucker...to no
avail. Our poor District Leader, Elder Cuevas, calls us every night to
see if we are alive. And he couldn´t reach us! Luckily our angel
neighbor, Vera, let us use her phone to call Presidente and he got it all
sorted out. So we had to got to Recife the next day to get a new phone.
We planned it all out, got ready and....the buses were on strike.
Yep. BUT they got off strike after lunch, so we were able to head
over there and get a new one after all. Whew! Saddest part of the
week....our perfect Renan came to church with us yesterday. He liked it!
But after Sacrament meeting, he told us that he saw the benefits of
everything, thanked us for showing him a better path, then told us he would
rather learn the hard way. Heart=broken. I was so sure that he
would be our perfect baptism! That was probs the very worst part of the
week.
But...here is the best part! So there is a family in
the ward that has recently started coming to church again. They have a
daughter named Julia who never got baptized. Welp, that is our situation!
We went over to their house this week and marked her baptism. She
was feeling pretty unsure and didn´t want to do anything until after her
birthday...in October. Didn´t like that one, but it was what she wanted.
So we left it marked for Oct.25th. I felt so bad about that
situation the whole rest of the day. What kind of missionaries are we, marking
a baptism so far away! This family needs to be together now! So,
the next day, we went back. We told them how we were feeling badly and
read a few scriptures with Julia. We practiced the interview with her to
show her that she really was ready, and challenged her to be baptized on the
6th of September. And she accepted! That´s more like it!
Hope that all is well there! I´m NOT trunky (ask Piza!
I´m not!) But I am getting pretty stoked to show all this stuff to you
guys! Have a great week, and get ready because it is prettyyyy dang hot.
These days are flying. Also tell Les that of course she´s suffering
without me. It´s like she´s trying to play jump rope with just one leg.
Things work much better when the two are together!
Love love love you!
Sister Dana
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