Olá minha querido familia e amigos!
Okay. This week was pretty rough! We no longer have any progressing investigators! A variety of interesting events occured this week to bring that to pass. My theory is that it´s just because we smell bad. But really. Our water got shut off this week because somebody forgot to pay a water bill back in... wait for it... 2008. And they just shut off the water in 2012. hahaha. Oh Brazil. Anyways that was pretty funny. We spent a couple days in the favela this week including a saturday night. Mistake. Things get so nutty on saturday nights in favelas. They don´t have to work on domingos so they just live it up with really loud funk music. Brazilian funk is like ghetto rap. It´s hilarious once they start dancing. Anyways, let´s not get sidetracked. Our four promising investigators just up and moved to Curitiba this week. Surprise! So Marcus will have to baptise them when he gets there. We started to finally get to work with the members more, they´re opening up to us! So hopefully this week we´ll get a lot of good work done. We have a bunch of part member families and less active memebers we´re going to start working with this week and I am super excited. It´s tough to take pictures here because cameras get stolen so often so I hope that explains the lack of photos lately. It´s been raining like CRAZY here! Man oh man! It seriously flash floods a ton here and people have two doors. One regular one and one of cast iron to stop the flood waters from getting in. Crazy life! Hmmmm, oh! The ward I´m serving in has a missionary serving in PORTLAND! Elder Lima! So look for him! He´s from the Monumento ward! This week we had a good experience. It had been a really really tough week and we were getting down because it was just feeling like we weren´t being blessed for all of our hard work. We were walking home last night and saw some people moving some things into their new room. So we decided to help them out because that´s what we do. Well we helped them, and set up a time to go talk to them later this week. After we did that, we got home and ta da! Our water was turned back on! Blessing! It was cool. I also learned that faith is developed over time but really in reality is a gift from God and we need to exercise our gift or we will lose it. I hope everyone has a great week! Thanks for everything!
Elder Marley
Okay. This week was pretty rough! We no longer have any progressing investigators! A variety of interesting events occured this week to bring that to pass. My theory is that it´s just because we smell bad. But really. Our water got shut off this week because somebody forgot to pay a water bill back in... wait for it... 2008. And they just shut off the water in 2012. hahaha. Oh Brazil. Anyways that was pretty funny. We spent a couple days in the favela this week including a saturday night. Mistake. Things get so nutty on saturday nights in favelas. They don´t have to work on domingos so they just live it up with really loud funk music. Brazilian funk is like ghetto rap. It´s hilarious once they start dancing. Anyways, let´s not get sidetracked. Our four promising investigators just up and moved to Curitiba this week. Surprise! So Marcus will have to baptise them when he gets there. We started to finally get to work with the members more, they´re opening up to us! So hopefully this week we´ll get a lot of good work done. We have a bunch of part member families and less active memebers we´re going to start working with this week and I am super excited. It´s tough to take pictures here because cameras get stolen so often so I hope that explains the lack of photos lately. It´s been raining like CRAZY here! Man oh man! It seriously flash floods a ton here and people have two doors. One regular one and one of cast iron to stop the flood waters from getting in. Crazy life! Hmmmm, oh! The ward I´m serving in has a missionary serving in PORTLAND! Elder Lima! So look for him! He´s from the Monumento ward! This week we had a good experience. It had been a really really tough week and we were getting down because it was just feeling like we weren´t being blessed for all of our hard work. We were walking home last night and saw some people moving some things into their new room. So we decided to help them out because that´s what we do. Well we helped them, and set up a time to go talk to them later this week. After we did that, we got home and ta da! Our water was turned back on! Blessing! It was cool. I also learned that faith is developed over time but really in reality is a gift from God and we need to exercise our gift or we will lose it. I hope everyone has a great week! Thanks for everything!
Elder Marley
