Week 85

This week did also have a lot of rejection. However, unlike last week with almost complete rejection, this week we had a bit of sucess amongst the rejection.

 

We got 4 people at church and we are running after them this week to help them pregress towards baptism.

 

We only go home early on days that brazil has games. Which was last week on Thursday, Tomorrow and next Monday. We have to be in our house by 3pm on game days and we leave again at 7:30. Since brazil won there was still a bunch of people driving with loud music and celebrating, people in the streets beats pots and pans or anything else to make as much annoying noise as possible. But this all happens mostly near the avenues and bigger areas, once you get out of that into the quieter neighborhoods its a lot better. Everything is decorated green and yellow and sometimes blue though! They paint the curb in front of their house and put streamers along lots of the roads!

During the game on Thursday we did our weekly planning session which is normally done on Friday, and then left early on Friday so we hardly missed our time to proselyte.

We´ve got a few good investigators this week and they are super interested in the church.

On sunday I was able to baptize Erilson. He´s from Haiti and I was able to teach him a few times with our zl´s. He has been in Brazil for about 20 days!! He speaks creole, and spanish and is now learning portuguese. I can understand what he says(mostly) and he can understand what I say but he speaks in spanish and I in portuguese! It's great! He´s a really humble guy and is working to earn money to bring his wife to Brazil as well!

The power went out for about 20 minutes while I was here a the lan house because of a sudden rain storm! Hope you all have a good week and I love and miss you all. Your trip seemed fun and I like the pictures I recieved!

 

Elder Haws

Week 84

So this week we finished up with getting a new house. We had a lot more problems including not having electricity for a day but it was alright cause we bought some candles and studies by candle light. It was pretty weird and Elder Lima pretended to be translating the Book of Mormon. I´ll send you pictures next week.

 

We got rejected a lot this week!! A lot! Nobody even went to church with us this week. It was pretty tough and by the end of the week I had just about had it. But today is p-day and I can rest and relax and this next week I´ll change some things and we´ll have more success.

 

Well..... it was a super long week and all we did was visit some members and knock on a whole bunch of doors. I'm not sure what else I have to say!

 

I love you and thank you for your emails. I miss you all a lot and hope you have a great week.

There will be rules for the world cup but I dont know what they will all be yet. One is that we have to return to the house by 3 o´clock which means I will be reading A LOT of scriptures! Though I don't know if thats only on the day that Brazil has games or what exactly.. I'll let you konw next week! The first game for Brazil is on the 12th!

 

Tchau

 

Elder Haws

Week 83

So this week was an absolute mess! We only got to work a few days in our area because we were going crazy trying to get a new house! The good news is that we did find one! I had to talk to the guy and do a bunch of paperwork that I dont understand how everything works here cause the laws are different and had to come with him to the center to have his signature authorized and all these weird things. Everything happened to try and prohibit us from getting the house rented. The secretaries called after I had gone to a lan house to print out the contract and they called be back and said that the lawyer had sent a new one and so I had to find a new lan house in a new part of town but it was closed so I went to a member's but their printer had broken this same week so I went to another but they had just sold their's to buy a new one and hadn't bought it yet. So I went to the bishop but his was super slow and didnt want to print it but after about half an hour finally did and then I had to go find Samuel, the owner of the house and get him to go to the center with me. I went with him and we were in the car and he told me that he didnt have money to pay for the signature authentification so I´d have to pay and I agreed just cause I want a new house so bad, then we got there and it was just after 5:30 so they had closed!! Actually they were still closing but the lady was reallllly nice and still allowed us to do it real quick. But then the post office was closed and so I couldnt sent it to the secretarios that day to let President Genaro sign and finish the contract so I had to do it on Saturday. On saturday, the post office is open until 12:30 and we had a baptism scheduled for 10:30!

The baptism went perfect and the bishop gave us a ride into the center (there is no post office in or near our area of the city) and I get it sent at 12:25! There were other problems as well but im just going to finish with the fact that everything ended up alright and everything is done. Except that we are supposed to move today and we have no car to help us and the house might not have light or water yet..... but its a new house!!

hahah Like I said, it was a super crazy week. Rute was baptized on Saturday and then both she as well as Antonio our baptism from last week were confirmed in church!

Elder Helms is being rafnsferred to Foz do Iguaçu. Elder Jackson will be my new comp but I dont know who he is or what he looks like yet. I´ll have to tell you about him next week!

 

Com Amor,

Elder Haws