Oi família,
Carnival is over but they are doing ´´blocks´´ which is
basically mini carnivals. I just don’t understand why they can’t give up Carnival
ha-ha.
This week was crazy. Tuesday, we had our baptism and we made
cookies mixed with brownies and everyone thought we were such amazing cooks but
we just made it from the box ha-ha. and we almost screwed that up!
Thursday, we got permission from the president to go to this
city called Curopipe. It is pretty far away so when we got there it was already
noon. We were trying to call the member that lives there but his phone wasn’t
working so we just decided to ask the people on the bus. We asked the people on
the bus which stop we should get off of to arrive to Curopipe, they told us
what stop and we got off the bus. We then realized the road of this member isn’t
in this city. We arrived in Pontal de Curopipe not the city of Curopipe. So, we
had to take this mini Volkswagen bus to the city of curopipe where the only information
that we had was a road and name of this investigator that we needed to teach to
be baptized. SO, we arrived in the city and just asked everyone where she
leaved. Finally, we arrived to her house and were able to teach the restoration
and invite her and her 19-year-old daughter to baptism this Sunday because they
have already gone a couple times to church in another city and also one time in
our area A Barra de São Miguel. After that it was basically night time and so
there weren’t any buses that were passing so we had to call a taxi and we
finally arrived to the Patriarchs house were stayed there overnight.
The next day we woke up at 4:30 and left at 5, I fell asleep
on the Bus and I had the cell phone in my pocket. I think while I was sleeping
the cell phone fell out of my pocket and then when we came to our stop I woke
up and got up really fast because we almost missed it and grabbed my bags and
left. Unfortunately, we haven’t been able to get our cell phone so the secretary
took R$70 out of my funds. Today it poured rain and we had to travel miles
asking people where the Work center or secretary office is and we finally found
it and we got our new cell phone and then travel back in the rain and now I’m
here ha-ha.
But also this week
was super super good. Saturday all the missionaries got the opportunity to
listen to Elder Basette, Elder Robins, and Elder D. Todd Christofferson. We got
to shake all the hands and ask many questions. All three of them gave fantastic
talks that were sooo amazing. I didn’t bring my notes with me so I can’t tell
you guys everything but something that I thought was cool was Elder Christofferson’
s testimony is super simple yet very powerful and he is so sure about
everything almost like he has seen it all. And then Sunday Our stake got the
opportunity to listen to him again in church. it was very cool. So, that
definitely made up for this week ha-ha.
Also we found some really good investigators. We brought
lots of investigators to hear Elder Christofferson so that was really really
cool. This week I’m excited because on Sunday we will baptize the two from
Curopipe, one of a member’s friends, and maybe two others so it’s going very
well. I think I will be transferred though this coming Tuesday. I want to be a
part of all the new investigators we found but I’m also excited to serve in a
new area.
Sounds life everything is going well back at home
tell everyone I said hi
Love
Elder Toma
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