Week 64

Monday, March 4, 2019

Hey Family! This week was Carnival... Not going to lie... I don’t like it very much. All of our investigators go to the beach and leave us with no one to accompany. So we did a lot of work trying to find new people. Here is an over all of our week.... 

Monday: We picked up my new companion and then went to downtown to take Elder Sater to the medical to have a few exams done. We also had a Family night with Bishop and taught his friend who also invited her friend. Ironically the friend of the reference had more potential and we continued teaching her and her 10 year-old son. Her name is Suzane. 
Tuesday: We started our day early by trying to bring a coffee substitute for an investigator and then worked in the area lunch would be. After lunch we accompanied all our of dates for baptism and then went to the chapel to prepare an activity for the 43 Venezuelans here in the city. I got to DJ at the activity and we served authentic special tradition foods from there and had a powerful testimony meeting in Spanish. Gift of lounges is crazy! 

Side note: Today I started Reading the Defense of truth. Greatest thing ever. Its two missionaries being challenged by leaders form all the churches trying to prove the church and book of Mormon false. But the missionaries can prove all the doubts wrong using the bible and logic. I’ve found it super helpful in teaching investigators. Here everyone uses bible like deodorant... 

Weds nay:  Sad News... my camera broke. But here there is a sight like craigslist and I was able to buy another camera super cheap that Works great. It’s a film Fuji semi pro... Have no idea why it was cheaper than all the others but it Works great and is tons of fun. 

Thursday: So Thursday night is the pre-night to carnival... So it’s always a little crazy and dangerous. But don’t worry mom, we didn’t see any action. But what did happen was a major storm that wrecked a ton of roads and killed a lot of people’s power and knocked over a bunch of stuff. We were literally in the middle of a lightning and thunder storm right over us. I’ve never seen lightning hit the ground before. Also we got drenched because we didn’t have umbrellas and the sky threw everything it had at us. 

Friday: Today I did a division with Elder Nasilai Who was the number one pick in college football before he came. He turned down all the schools to serve a mission and will play for BYU when he gets back. I was already a DL of him in Colatina so it was really fun to see that I would live with him again. Super Great guy!

Saturday: Running around like headless chickens trying to get somebody to church...
Sunday: Happy fast Sunday! Hope all the boys remembered to use the fast Sunday ties. 
Over all this week was busy and flew by. Only five more weeks in this transfer. We have five dates for these next two weeks. If you could all pray for Rayanne, Ciça, Lucas, Suzane and Paulo I (as well as them) would appreciate it! I love you all tons and hope you all have a great week! FELIZ CARNIVAL PRA VOCÊS!!!  - Elder Lee