Week 48

Monday, November 12, 2018

This week has been nothing but rain every day. I love rain but it makes missionary work a little more complicated. We had one day where nobody would let us in because we were wet and the rain is horrible to clean up after with all the mud and earth here. But this just goes to show the importance of preservation. The last door we knocked happened to be the family that let us in and became new investigators. This week was hard because we had to let go about all of our investigators and start from nothing again. The Area book is full of great people but doesn’t have any addresses... Moral of the story future missionaries... fill out the whole paper ;)

This week my pet tarantula is still alive after not eating for 7 days... we feed him but the bugs and him become friends. Doesn’t make sense to me. Also this week I bought some sick soccer shoes. It will make all the future p-days a little more satisfying. My pet tarantula is still alive after 7 days without eating... I don’t think he will ever die. I also made a coca cola cup from a glass bottle using rope and finger nail polish and fire to cut it. We also taught at an English school to get references... it was really fun. I was having a hard time only speaking English though. I would start and end in Portuguese... And one professor who lived in Boston asked why I had an accent... So there’s that... 

In all honesty this week has been pretty hard. All of our appointments fell through and rain kills the work because nobody wants to stop or let us in. But this has helped me appreciate the ministry of the savior and helped me too realize that it was never easy for him. And as Elder Holland proclaimed, Salvation is not a cheap experience. 

Our goal is to work a lot more with members here in the area. With all the difficulties that this area has we have so much potential. We just have to wake up some people and help them see the light of Christ. Sorry this week was short but not a lot of excitement. Rain, knocking doors and waiting for the blessings that are arriving. But love you all and hope you all have an amazing week! 

Challenge: Invite one person to church with you or present them to the missionaries... let me know how it went!

Love, Elder Lee

Week 47

Monday, November 5, 2018

So this week was very exciting in the field of wild life... While walking to an appointment I saw a little channel of drain water because this city is a mountain city... And low and behold inside are hundreds of cat fish... so we decided to catch one. I waited with hand in the water to remember that they bite and grabbed one quick. We carried it all the way to our dinner appointment and gave it to the member. She was super excited and gave it a tank and feeds it. The name is Nemo.... ha-ha it’s about a good 10 inches.....

     And then Sunday night while returning to our house my comp screamed and yelled at me to come back... I returned and asked what happened... turns out I almost stepped on a freaking bird eating spider tarantula. This thing was huge! But because we didn’t want it to eat anyone we did the city a service and caught him... brought him home and made an aquarium... His name is Aragog. The best part was seeing my comp, who is huge and ripped, screaming over and over... he doesn’t like spiders... 

But that was the wild life excitement this week. As for the work we are starting to work more with members here.  They are difficult but children of God and I look forward to spending more time with them. Here in Espirito Santo (the state I live in) churches are more common than McDonalds.... Serious... there are ever 20 meters. They are like a business here. But anyways there is only one true church being the Church of Jesus Christ so we have our work cut out for us. 

My companion is super great and loves Coca and Soccer more than anything so he is easy to keep happy. I really like him. It will be hard to separate. His name is Elder Ferreira. He is less crazy than me but is willing to go along. Ha-ha he hates stairs but climbs them all day to keep me happy. We are a great team. And he is helping me a ton with Portuguese. But that’s about it for this week. Love you all tons and hope you all have a great week!!!! 

LEVI!!!!!! JET!!!!!

First thing... how are you guys!!! Second thing what the heck! A back and spring? Not even I can do that. And jet you got baptized! Man a live everything happens while I’m away... But hey guess what! The other day I went fishing with my hands and caught a cat fish.... and the next day we found a tarantula... we also caught him and he is in my house... hope he doesn’t get out... ha-ha but I love you guys! Have fun and keep being awesome!!!!

And my comps name is Elder Ferreira. He is really cool. He is super good at futebol and loves Ranaldo like you Levi!!!! 

Love you both!!!!

Elder Lee