Week 21

Monday, May 7, 2018

This week was super full and fun! The highlight was the baptism that we had on Saturday may 5th. But what is cool is that I was baptized 11 years ago may 5th and it was my fifth baptism on the mission on the fifth day of the fifth month and it was Becca’s birthday too ;)

But we baptized Dianna Fraga Pires who is with 9 years. Her father is brothers to the bishop. The Father, Welington went inactive for 10 years and the rest of his family is active and amazing in the church. So imagine the surprise of bishop when I told him we were baptizing his niece. He told me that it wasn’t possible that they had already tried. But the lord had been working with them and gave us the perfect set up. I love the family so much! Welington also is a pro at guitar and they have been teaching me a little. For the baptism I played with my comp a special musical number that I wrote comping I like to look for rainbows. I also made cookies and Jell-O (cause everyone here loves Jell-O). Everything went perfect. But because she was a convert baptism we had to wait until Sunday to confirm her. So as we waited for them to show up they didn’t and my heart fell. But as we said the opening prayer they showed up. So this is cheesy I know... but I opened my eyes to see my family walk in and sit down and everything ended up perfect. 

Another bonus to this week... So our investigator Ana Rita is a principle for a school. And one night I taught her a lesson and she cried and loved it so much that she brought me and my comp to give a lesson to her whole school! I was thinking 30 people but it ended up being over 300. And I had a cool blue tooth microphone and walked through the crowd giving an inspirational speech. Then after that, we visited every classroom. They had never seen Americans before and it was really the weirdest thing. We were like rock stars. Kids legit tried to get our autographs... But the best part was that Ana Rita loved seeing her kids like that and now likes us even more. She is really a blessing in our lives. I think that a lot of times people forget that missionaries aren’t the only ones who are capable of blessing people. They receive so many blessing from non-members. But this week was good. I made some steak and brownies, crapes, and am learning guitar still. 

Big change that happened is transfers are no longer 6 weeks. President will randomly decide when we have transfers, which is honestly kind of hard for me. But it makes sense because unfortunately we have people who know they don’t have time to baptize so they don’t work. But my son and I will use this as an excuse to only work harder because we don’t know when we will leave. But just this for this week, I’m excited to skype you all this next week.