Week 82

Antonio

Well this week weas real fast! Just like all the rest of them are real fast! This next week is the last week of the transfer and then I only have three more tranfers! Time is going super fast! That means 18 weeks!!!!

Elder Helms and I baptized Antonio this week. He´s a little crazy but really funny. He didn't really open up too much at the beginning and I was ready to drop him from our teaching pool. But we finally spoke with him and his mom(he´s 53 and she´s about 82-she doesnt remember when she was born exactly and it was in the middle of nowhere os apparently she doesnt have a form?? I dunno exactly, she is missing a lot of teeth and talks and mumbled plus never went to school for a day in her life and talks with poor grammer) and convinced him to go to church. He liked it and we tried to teach him about how coffee is bad but he never believed us so we took his coffee anyways because the mom let us. He (Antonio) said that he wasn't addicted to coffee but that there was no way he would be able to go without it. He couldnt stop drinking it but wasn't addicted.... I dont know how that makes sense but it's his story. So we took it away and he didnt have money to buy more! when we asked him if it was hard to be without coffee he said no. He isn't drinking it cause we took it away and that gave us a good laugh. in his interview he still insisted that the doctor told him that coffee is good for him. he doesnt have a testimony of it yet, but he isnt drinking it and so could be baptized! he has tim eto adquire a testimony about it now!

Other than the baptism not a lot happened this week. We have waay too much fun in our house with Our zl´s and we looked a lot for house this week but the rules of the church about renting and paying up front and all that astuff are complicated so we havent found one that works with all the rules yet!

I love you all and am sorry I dont have too much else to say about this week. Next week are transfers again and i´m 50% sure that Elder Helms wont be staying here, so I´ll be getting a new comp that day probably!

Até mais!

Elder Haws

Week 80-81

Week 80:
Sorry there wasn't an blog post this week, we talked on Skype for Mother's Day. Tyler is doing very well!! :)

Week 81:

It was an absolutely crazy p-day with no rest and lots of crazy things. There was an emergency transfer and Elder Bispo the zone leader here was transferred to Apucarana, another elder was showing uup to take his place and we went with the zone leader so he wouldnt stay alone in the bus station. Elder Bispo left at 8, which was bad because we had a family night planned on the other side of the city with an investigator who is only available on monday nights, on the other side of the city. So we had to run to every corner of the city using the city bus, our super quick  speed walking skills and help from the members. The other Elder showed up at 12 o´clock at night and we got a ride back to our house and I finally got to bed at 1 o´clock in the morning! Today I plan on catching up on my sleep because p-day is our only change to catch up on these things!

Now our zone leaders are Elder Lima, who was trained by my old comp. Elder Havili, and Elder Diaz. He´s from Peru!

We had a good noite de integração on Wednesday, a ward activity and had a decent turnout. Unfortunately, it lacked investigators.

We still haven't got our baptism that we are looking for but we have a few really good investigators! Including a family that we found on Saturday night!

This past week went really well. We had our interviews with President Genaro and I liked mine a lot!

Our investigator, Rute, is still trying to stop smoking but she has a very strong desire to be baptized so we´re trying everything we can to help her!

Elder Helms was orded by the president to eat more. So i´m halping with that! Every meal I make him get 1 moire plate than he wants of food and in about a week and a hlaf he´s already gained over a kilogram!

Well I love you all, congrats Cydnee on your test that you passed! And I pray for you all always!

Elder Haws

Week 79

Hello,

Transfers are happening today and both Elder Helms and I will be staying here! This will be his fourth transfer! And my second here in Mandacarú B. Elder Baker is going to a new zone, Zona Tupã and Elder Bispo will stay with a new Zone leader, Elder Lima.

Umm... I dont really know what to say about this week. It went by really quickly and I can't believe that it will already be May soon! I am more than a little disappointed in this last transfer, we didn't baptize and only got a total of 6 people to church. Though things are definitely better here in the area than when I got here. We have a few good investigators and even have a baptism marked for this Sunday after church. It´ll be a challenging week because he needs to stop smoking by Wednesday for everything to work out and have him baptized on Sunday.

Umm... I think tha'ts about all I have to say this week. Have some questions ready for when we Skype here in a few weeks. and I´ll be like mom and try and have something cool happen this week so I have something interesting to tell you guys about.

I love you all and thank you for your love and support. I know that the church is true and will never be taken off the face of the earth

With love
Elder Haws