Hello-
So this weekend has been and is Carnival. Everything is closed and has been since Saturday at about noon. It´ll all open back up at about noon on Wednesday. We were really lucky to find a LAN house that is open today! Because of Carnival, the chrurch was practically empty yesterday! We had our four investigators there and there were probably 15, MAYBE 20 members. Plus all the youth went on a trip/camp thing out of the city for the week of Carnival like usual and so it was only older people.
We´ve been having difficulty with several of our investtigators lately. They were all becoming eternal investigators. One of them always has an excuse why they couldn't go to church that week. This last week one of them actually had a valid excuse though. They were at the bar, of course (everybody has a bar within like 100 feet of their house) and some sort of problem happened between a random person and the bar owner because he wasnt paying for his drinks. A friend/neighbor of our investigators went to help the bar owner get this guy out of the bar and he got stabbed by a big knife right in the hip! This all happened Saturday night. So our investigator took him to the hospital and were helping him out and that's why they didnt go to church!
Also, we thought that some of our investigators, this ´´couple´´, were boyfriend and girlfriend cause they look a lot different but live together and stuff. But when were found out they werent dating we were only a little surprised cause he acts kinda gay. Turns out that they are just tbest friends and he had family problems and needed help so she let him move in with her and her family. I dont think they can be baptized while he continues to live there but we´ll see if they ever actually go to church before we worry about that problem.
This week we baptized two of Guilherme´s cousins! Adrian and Eduardo! It was great! I don't have any photos to send because I dont have my camera.
This next week we already have two more baptisms marked. One of Saturday, Everton, who we´ve been tryingt o baptize for forever! The other is Gabriel. He lives just three houses away from the church and really is excited to be baptized. He already has invited a lot of people to come and see it!
On Sunday, it was pretty cool after church; we had THREE different people call us over to talk to them. One of them said that her mother in law does voodoo and took dirt from the cemetary into her house and apparently thats a really bad thing to do if you ´´cursed´´ it or whatever and so we walked back to the church while she drove near us (there was no man in the car and so we couldnt enter, luckily we were only leaving the church after the baptisms and were only about 2 blocks away) and talked with her and the bishop and stuff and then we gave her a blessing. She promised to go to church next week and we´re going to pass by this week to tell her about the restoration fo the gospel!
Plus there was a lady that lives in our area but went to the church in the center of the city and she really really liked it. We taught her and her husband. He´s got sooooooooooooo many doubts but she already went to the church and loved it and wants to go again in our ward and take him with so he can see what its like. He used to be Catholic but after doing a whole bunch of research he realizes how wrong the Catholic church is and also discovered that there are tons and tons of churches and he says that he lost all of is faith because so many people teach so many false things and false doctrine. I know that he´s going to love church next Sunday and we will be prepared with answers to every doubt that he has.
Lots of miracles this week and its easy to tell the the Lord repares people for us to teach. He is hastening His work!
And I think thats about all I have to share this week!
Love you all
Elder Haws
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