I hope you all are doing well! Right now we are at our ward mission leader’s house and it’s raining a ton. We are waiting for it to stop and then we will go send emails. This week I maxed out on some lifts to see how I’m doing physically and it was a lot of fun!
We have had a traveling elder here at the house this week. Right now I’m talking in English and the other elders and the ward mission leader are laughing at me because they can’t understand me! (this is a voice recording and mom transcribed it)
Monday we visited Rebecca and Matthew and they are super cool. We then saw the new Venezuelan family here and my companion fixed a problem they had with their phone and then they fed us dinner. Super awesome and humbling. They are wonderful. Tuesday we visited Marcus and talked with her mom a lot and got to know her better. She hadn’t been supporting her son learning about the church, so it was good to get to know her better. It went well. We visited Louisa, and her dad is a super strong Catholic but she had gone to church with her mom for years, an evangelical church, but her mom died and her dad won’t allow her to go to any other church now but the Catholic church but she doesn’t want to go there. Crazy and sad. We shared a scripture with her and prayed with her. Wednesday we saw Marcus and his sister and Andrea, a less active member and it was really wild. Her mom answered the door, Andrea lives in the back, the house is trash, it’s awful. I couldn’t imagine living there. We shared a scripture and prayed with her. I’m glad to have been blessed with my blessings. THere are whole lot of people here living in crazy poverty and they don’t have anything. We again visited Clebur and Jessica and Clebur has received answers to his prayers but he hasn’t come to church yet, really sad. Their dogs are huge and scary. And the also gave us cake which was super good.
Thursday we had interviews with President. Always great to talk to him and get advice and counsel. He told me he was super proud of me, glad for all I’m doing. Super awesome to hear. He wants me to work on “missionary of excellence”, a program of doing certain things (reading, memorizing) to becoming a better missionary. It’s a great program and I’ve been working on it. That night we had an “integration night” at church. It was the birthday of one of the Venezuelan kids. When we got there and said hi to everybody, I looked over at the piano and 2 kids who weren’t members were there helping the boy with the birthday on the piano. The birthday boy has a birth defect with his legs and he can’t walk or play very well. It was neat to see the kids helping him. We sang hymns, had some happy birthday singing and signs, and some of the leaders walked with the boy (Rafael) and sang to him and he was SO happy and members had bought him a few gifts and he was so happy! So cool! The birthday party was super awesome. Super great. Everyone was happy and there together.
Friday we went to visit 5 people that my companion had contacted during divisions one time. We didn’t have the opportunity to talk with any of them. We walked up a hill, a side street, the worst and trashiest place I’ve seen in my life. It was like a cul-de-sac of little houses, all touching each other, all have gates in front, it was awful. Everyone was smoking or drinking, trashy houses, drugs, really sad!! Like I said it was probably the worst and poorest place I’ve seen in my whole life. That evening we visited Rebecca again and taught her. Saturday we saw Antonio and Bruno. Antonio can’t talk or hear well either. Interesting and super tough to talk to him, he seems super cool and he came to church this Sunday! We taught the Restoration to Bruno but it seemed like he was on drugs when we taught him….. Sunday I bore my testimony. Super simple but it was good.
This p-day we had a zone basketball game, super fun, 4 on 4. And then we got Brazilian ice cream, purple, with fruit, granola, milk, and we made food: pasta with tomato sauce, boiled eggs, meat like sausage, all mixed up together. Super good, we eat it a lot. It is still raining a ton. That’s the week. I hope you guys are all doing well. Saturday we find out about transfers. I might be getting transferred. I’ll figure out for sure this Saturday and I’ll tell you next P-day. I love you guys and hope you are all doing well!
Elder Anderson
picture captions (but no pictures were attached to his email....!)
photo 631 - Probably the best thing ive bought during my mission
Photo 633 - my companion ate this off the floor after i said id give him 6 reais for it
photo 641 - a bridge between 2 neighborhoods
photo 647 - açai with the Zone!
photo 649 - Food ate the house!
photo 650 - our ward mission leaders Rottweiler
photo 2940 - Elder: Martins, Me, Lira, and Murray!
No comments:
Post a Comment