I can't believe it's already half-way through the first transfer! Some days are great and others are terrible. But even 50 bad days are worth it if you have 1 good day after! Brazilians are crazy. The guy Jose Carlos that we are trying to teach (he wants to start his own church) decided to bring a few of the neighborhood kids to his house and we taught them yesterday. It made my day go from downright terrible, to amazing! They are Taina, this girl who's 22ish, with corn rows and probably 6 feet tall, which if very unusual here. Bruno, who is really fat and says he is a homo even though he doesn't want to be. And Carol, who just kinda sat there and listened to everything. They are great people and want to change but said they didn't know how. They committed to start praying every day and we have an appointment with them again on Wednesday! Afterwards, Jose Carlos said that he wants to fill his garage with people for us to teach and said to be there at 5 on Wednesday before our appointment with the other three. Its so weird but so awesome at the same time.I can see it going really well or really horrible..i guess I'll have to let you know next week!
We finally got somebody to go to church with us! The chapel is such a long way away from their houses that it's hard to get them to come. We got him and started walking to the bus stop and then found out he had a car! We asked why he didn't say anything about it before. He said: "You guys said you'd pick me up and then we would ride the bus, I thought you wouldn't want a car!" So we went back to his house and drove to the other member's house who we were helping get to church and then made it at like 8:40! Church starts at 8:30 and if we rode the bus we would have gotten there at like 9:15 or 9:30. He seemed to like it but took off right after. It was over so we could ask him too much about it that day. Oh this is Everton, BTW, who we found out is actually Everson. It's amazing the things you can learn about a person when they home for a second time. This was the second time we saw him since the day we met him because of the rain. We also learned he has two kids with possibly two different women but we aren't sure yet.
We also had a weird experience with Jennifer who was so hammered on Wednesday night that she opened the front door and slammed her bottle of wine or whatever on the floor and it shattered all over the place and then she started yelling about how this guy was calling her a liar. After she calmed down a bit, she looked at us and asked us why were in her dream at 6 o'clock that morning. She said we were telling her that she could do it. We asked her what she meant, what we were saying she could do, but she couldn't really give a straight answer, it was something about her changing her life. It's kind of cool because she actually called us over, she was the one who initiated conversation with the missionaries a few weeks ago, so we know that she actually does want to change. Because of all that we couldn't give a lesson that night so we went back on Saturday and we realized that even though she is crazy, she has such a good person inside. The only problem is that it is deep. Really deep inside. But I'm so excited for her and her husband/boyfriend, people don't usually get legally married here. His name is Lazoro and he reads the Book of Mormon and understands sooo well! It's so awesome but he has to change before he can get baptized-either split with Jennifer or get married, whatever he feels is right, even though he has two kids with her (aged 8 and 10) so we know what we want him to do but that's not our place to say.
The shower electrocutes you here. They don't have water heaters but just use a shower head that can heat it up a bit really fast and if you touch it in the wrong spot it shocks your hand. Also one time the water wasn't falling in droplets but was a continuous stream and I kinda felt like I was getting shocked...nothing too strong but I definitely felt it. It makes me worried but I haven't heard any stories and all other missionaries say it's normal. So I guess it's just suppose to help us wake up or something?? haha
The picture is of me punching open my first coconut for some coconut water!
Well that's pretty much how my week went! Hope you're all doing well!
Tchau,
Elder Haws
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