19 May 2014
Well, this week FLEW bye. This week President Lima made a
mission wide goal for every pair of missionaries to do their 210 contacts. This
hasn't been too much of a problem for me, but this week was looking to be a bit
more complicated than many others. On Tuesday, I finally woke up feeling
better, from both my flu and potential stomach worms which should be dead by
now, and I was ready to work 100% again, but my comp caught it and he was
absolutely dying. He´s no quitter and I asked him if he could at least walk
with me through the day and I would get all the contacts done. Thursday we had
a training meeting for trainers and their trainees which took away an entire
day for us. We ended up waking up Sunday morning with 66 more contacts to do.
Sundays are rough here, NO ONE is on the street, and if they are, they are partying and most likely tipsy. We had to fulfill the goal so we spent
3-8pm walking in the streets until we got them all done. It was hard work, but
we made it.
Besides this we continued to teach L this week. We
taught her four times, which is a dream for missionaries. I hate leaving a lot of
time between visits because it makes the progression slow or non existent. She's
progressing really well, and we have taught the basics so far. She smokes and
drinks so the
Word of Wisdom will be a crucial point for us this week. I know
she will overcome though.
We also ran into M one day on the street and she dropped some bad news.. We passes by that night to get a feel
for what was going on, and we promised so come back the next night. We really
needed some time to put a gameplan together. The next night came by too quickly
and we still didn't have anything specific that we wanted to share. All that was
coming to me was encouraging her to come to church on Sunday. The impression was so strong so
all we focused on was teaching to their needs, and then doing our best to try
and get them to church. We encouraged them both to pray if they should go the
following day and left them with a promise that if they went they would recieve
answers as to what they should do. Sunday morning came quickly and they both decided to "leave it for the next time"
Sure enough, the closing talk on Sunday was a KILLER talk
from a Sister whose husband is not a member, and how they were on the brink of
separating when she made drastic changes in her life and the outlook that saved her
marriage. There were so many points where Elder J.S and I just looked at
each other in disbelief that M and F weren't there to hear the words
they so desperately need.
On the bright side we talked with that sister afterwards and if all goes well, we are going to teach them this
Thursday. Wish us luck!
Well that's all I got for this week, we had so many funny
experiences this week with people on the street, that I will always remember,
but I'll leave those stories for another time. Today we are having a zone
activity. we all are contributing food for a barbeque and we are gonna play
football and risk. (I bought the brazilian version of risk :D )
I love all you guys so much! Have a good week!
Elder siebers
