11 February 2015
Well this was the pending last week in Rio das Ostras and it
went pretty well. It rained like no other here several days this week which was
awesome. We continued to work with some of our investigators.
X is coming along great and is on board to be baptized
this Saturday. He´s 19 years old, dating a member and is enthralled by the idea
of being able to marry her for eternity!
On Monday, on our way home and older woman called us over.
She explained to us about her son who is heavily involved with drug trafficing
and is causing all sorts of problems at home. She simply wanted us to pray for
her and her family, but we offered to stop by the following day to help them
out! We began teaching her and her grandson, 8 years old. Her troublesome son, hasn't been home these days that we taught, but we took a
walk with him, became good friends and helped him pick out flipflops for his
girlfriends birthday. The mother has been inviting countless pastors and religious
preachers to her home to help her son but he hates listening to them rant about
how he is sinning against God. In fact the first time we showed up there was a
women there just talking endlessly at him, citing scriptures, ordering him to
repent and such and he just didn't respond well... We decided to take another
approach, show him that we care, became friends, search for the real issue,
and then begin to help him change his ways. These things need to be done with
sincere love and patience. I'll follow up when we see him next!
We also began teaching a student from our weekly English class. I don't think I mentioned that until now. An English class began
here last year and it was a huge hit. Weekly 30 or 40 students came and several
people were baptized. When I arrived, Christmas and New Years were passing by
and only 1 or 2 people came each week. We had 5 last week, so it's growing and I think people are liking it. I didn't like teaching at first, but I've learned some
teaching strategies and now I'm actually really enjoying it!! I think my students
are too! Anyway, we taught this student English for several weeks, just us and
her.... Shes a spiritist which are difficult people to convert.... What's
interesting about them is that they believe in a lot of the same things that we
do about the Plan of Salvation. They believe its all a plan to grow and to
evolve, to perfect ourselves and to become like God, they believe in Jesus
Christ...but they don't believe in the ressurection into the same body. Instead, they believe in reincarnation. We taught the plan of salvation and well see where it goes
from here!
Sooooo now the part you were all waiting for. Transfers.
Elder Evans, and my three housemates were all transferred while I stayed put! We
had to leave Sunday for Rio and we spent the night in a small missionary apartment
in Rio Cumprido with 30 other missionaries. It was a mess and one of the worst
nights sleep I've ever had. The good news is Elder Neu is serving there and I got to catch up with him along with some other good friends including Elder
Hammond. We spent the night on a mattress and remininsced about good times in
Gilbert until like 3 in the morning!
So this transfer was interesting. As they were calling areas
and companions I noticed many whom were returning to old areas or with former
companions. The pattern continued with me. My "new' comp is Elder
Ribeiro!!! After just 6 weeks were back together again! So funny!!!!
Its gonna be another good transfer here. Caraval is on the
way which is going to be rough, but well get through it! Apparently some churches here are offering "Carnaval with Jesus!"
I love you all so much!!! Have a great week!!!!
Elder Siebers
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