Week 55:This week Elder Morgan and I had a couple of great adventures! First off, when we got here the phone didn't have any credits to call anybody, we didn't know where our house was or how to get there, and we didn't know any members who could help us (and even if we did, we had no way to call them).
Luckily, the Zone leaders helped us out and we got a hold of the 2nd counselor of the bishopric and he came to get us and our bags and then showed us where we live and how to get to the chapel.
Everyday after that has been spent walking the streets with a map in our hands because we need to learn more about the city and where everything is! Luckily this is a much smaller area than Ourinhos! Ourinhos was a whole city to learn, this time it's just one part out of six (cause there are six wards in this city).There is an entire section of the city that it shows on the map, but when we got there...it was just jungle! There were a couple of dirt roads and we saw one or two houses here and there are these little dirt roads, boy were we surprised! I have a funny video of it but it's too big to send.
We had a lot of possibilities to take to church that we met this past week but nobody was there when we went before church to get them.
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| A whole bunch of Snails! They are an invasive species so we're supposed to kill them all! |
We were going to try and confirm a girl, Cheyanne, that had been baptized a few months ago but she didn't want to go that day and we were planning on sacrament being last so we thought we could get here at about 10:40 and she'd only go to sacrament meeting. It turns out that sacrament meeting is first in this ward and so we had no way to help her get confirmed this week.
Hopefully we can convince her to go next week!
The ward members here seem really good and we've even marked with some already to leave with us this week! Hopefully that means our investigators will feel more welcome and want to be baptized even more!
Week 56:
Dear Family,
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| Elder Morgan making apple pie/pastel |
Cheyanne didn't get confirmed :( she doesn't even want to go to the church again cause she's going to a different one and he's really rude to us about it so we haven't been working with her anymore. we got a kid, Gabriel (16 years old), to go to church with us but he missed sacrament meeting so in the books we have a zero for this Sunday, again. I don't really know if he liked it cause he really wanted to get out of there quick at the end of the meetings....so...we'll see what happens!We know a few of the bigger roads in our part of the city. Though we still have to use the map for anywhere we go because all the roads have such weird names!
They do celebrate Christmas here but it's not nearly as big. They still have Santa and a little party and stuff on Christmas Eve. Last year the family I was with, opened their presents on Christmas Eve but it might have just been because we were with them and they wanted us to open our little boxes with a tie in them...I don't really know.
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| A monkey!! We're going to the zoo next p-day! |
Thanks for the love and support!
Elder Haws
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!! We're Wizards! :)
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