27 April 2014
The results are in! yup. I'm staying for another transfer
here in Madureira. I'm way excited to stay and continue to help this ward and
the people we are teaching. I learn new things about the ward and the
missionary work here every week and this week I learned something that blew my
mind. I had assumed that the missionaries had been here in Madureira for a long
time, turns out our Bishop pleaded the for missionaries in the ward after a
long season of drought. He got his wish about two years ago, Madureira
received missionaries. This transfer will make 7 months here in Madureira, and
I'm really feeling that I've been put here for a purpose. I'm excited for this new
transfer!
So some investigator updates this week.
M + F- We met with them twice this week and
talked about simple ways they can make their home a better place to live. We
made goals with them and things are looking good. They promised to go to church
this week so I'm stoked about that!
Our golden referral A dropped us this week because she
had a dream that she should follow her aunt who is a pastor in the Assembleia
de Deus... she prayed to know if this was an answer from God and she feels it
was. So that was a downer.... She still believes the Book of Mormon is true so we'll
continue to drop by
We have a young man in the Sulacap ward, but he lives in the
Madureira area. We went and taught him and he accepted baptism. We marked a
date for this Saturday and he's accpeted and doing everything. Pray that he´ll
continue to progress and the baptism will go over this week.
This week we had an unfortunate experience (several
actually) but we'll stick with this one for now. During our weekly planning
session I went to fill my water botttle with mineral water and while filling it
up I noticed something in my water. I raised the bottle above my head to find
about 10 dead, uncooked, rice sized white worms in my water. We went into
investigate and found a container of rotten food that wrought forth life. There
were little worms everywhere in the kitchen, they got into our food, water and
everything. So that was a shame...
On a bright note we started "Noite Familiar da
Ala" or Ward Family Home Evening, something that we feel this ward really needs. It will
take place every single week now. Everyone comes to the chapel to hang out, we
play a game, the missionaries share a simple message, and then everyone eats.
It's perfect. The ward needs to fortify the relationships between the members
and it will act as a huge missionary tool. We are really exctied!
Again, I'm excited for transfers here, we'll be getting a new
house, four new missionaries in our district and things are looking bright. Elder
S got transferred which is really too bad. I love that guy and he really
is my example of a missionary.
I am now the last survivor of the original Madureira Zone
that I walked into when I got here in November. So much has changed, but the
work goes on.
I love you all!!
Elder Siebers
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