Good Morning everyone! Happy New Year!
My News Years
activities including arriving home at 9:00 and crashing at 10:10. I didnt even
wake up once to the fireworks I was sooo beat!
So after one week, we got to know our area a bit better.
Here's the run down. Our house is located above a members home in county of
Jardim Marilea. Get onto Google maps to get a better idea of all this. We don't
live in our area, and our area begins on the other side of the bridge that
crosses Rio das Ostras ( the river that the city gets its name from). The bridge is
about a 30 minute fast paced walk and that begins our area. The chapel is an
hour away, and our main area of focus is closer to the chapel. To sum it up, we
are walking a TON. Our area goes almost into Cabo Frio, to a place called
Unamar. The area is beautiful, but we came at the worst part of the year. The
summer holidays everyone comes here to enjoy the beach and to party. We knocked
on many doors to find tourists, or people who were just spending the holidays
in their summer homes... Its clear that we have to work through the members,
especially in an area like this one.
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| Actual scenery shot from Cooper, not Google. |
Speaking of such, a Irmã R called us Tuesday night
telling us about a young man who was shot in the midst of a trafficing incident.
She and he husband work at the hospital and asked the lad if she could send two
young men to give him a blessing. We went there on Wednesday, gave X (15
years old) a blessing and we've been visiting him almost everyday teaching him
the lessons. He even came to church with us with his massive cast that covers
his entire arm until his shoulder. He wasn't involved in the trafficing incident
but he was at the wrong place at the wrong time. While conversing in the
street, other trafficors (does that make sense) shot the 16 year old boy in the
back and twice in the head. X and his cousin ran for their lives and X
was shot in the upper arm. The experience opened his eyes, he saw death, and is
now searching God in his life.
intense.
We also helped with a service project this week. We helped a
member who is contructing a house. We mixed cement and carried bucket loads
into the house for him to work with. I got BAKED in the sun. I will send a
picture of my arm which looks like Neopolitan ice cream, white, pink and then
brown! Way funny! President said we had to use our prosylitizing clothes
and they got way wrecked, but no problem! The project was awesome though, it's
nice to get out of the routine every once in a while.
So thats about it for this week! Things are going well here
so far. We have a lot of work to do. The ward is great!
I love you all. Have a great week!!!
Elder Siebers
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