Well last week Tyler didn't really write us anything to post! Here's today's letter:
I apologize for last week's letter! That survey we had to do took almost half of my time on the computer!
This past week has been insane!
First off, I didn't really say anything about General Conference last week cause I didn't have time but I liked it a lot and it's easy to tell that at least in the U.S. there are problems with women right's and attitutdes and stuff. We don't seem to be seeing anything like that happening here in Brazil. i really liked President Uchtdorf's comment about "why would anybody want to join your church??" The one where he starts out talking about all of the activities that members of the church are involved with!
We also had zone conference on Friday with President Genaro and that was so great too! We had to leave here on Thursday night like we always do for meetings that start early the next morning. So i left the house Thursday morning and didn't get back until Saturday night! The zone conference ended at 5:30-ish but we got a surprise because we had broken the record of bapisms in a month! We got to watch 17 miracles!! If you haven't seen it, you really need to! But do it in a more comfortable location than on a wooden church pew in a really hot chapel while wearing a suit in Brazil! It was a great movie though and the only one I've seen in a year now! So because of the movie, we missed the only bus that goes to Ourinhos that we can get at nght and had to stay in Marilia for another night. On Saturday morning we found out the sister in our district had an interview and so we were going to catch a bus to Assis, the city that they work in, and then go to Ourinhos after but we already have four appointments marked for Saturday. So i went with one zone leader and Elder Halpin with the other. Elder Halpin went bck to Ourinhos and I went to Assis because I have been in theis district the longest and know the areas the best. We went and did the interview and the lady went in not wanting to be baptized really because of a bunch of Adventista 7th day church people have been going to her house every single day after the sister missionaries to try to have her not get baptized. They felt the spirit really strongly though and still wanted to baptize, so we baptized her that day! I was the one who got to baptize her too!! So that was a great Saturday!
We've done a lot to get the ward to like us here including making cookies and stuff! It really really worked! But the whole purpose of getting them to like us more was to get them to help us more and they still aren't really doing that...but we'll keep at it!
Also, I was walking down the street on..Tuesday, I think, and a parrot said hello to me and said good afternoon! Though it was in Portuguese, I looked around to see who it was that said something cause it sounded like a regular person but then I saw the parrot in the tree and it was kind of making noises still so I knew it was him! Later that day, anothe rparrot said hello also! That's never happened the whole time I've been here in Brazil and then it happened twice in the same day!
We got five people to church again this week, it is so nice to finally have people go! It's been a while since I've had a lot of people who actually wanted to go to church! One lady (Regina) even gt up and bore her testimony even though it was her first time visiting the church! It was awesome! She was pretty funny up at the pulpit cause she told a baby to shut her mouth during the middle of her testimony and kind of just talked about us the whole time rather than Christ, but we'll help her learn how to do it right!
Well I tried really hard to do a better email this week so I hope it was interesting! Have a great week, everybody!
Com amor e muita agua
Elder Haws
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