The Brazilian Adventure: Week 31 December 30 -- January 5
My Dearest beloved Family and Friends
I can´t believe it is 2014. Man that was fast. Well the year is starting off great. We had to come in early for the New Years. We came in at 6.My companion and I just played some Chess and studied. It was so hard sleeping that night. The fire works were so crazy. It was like everyone had some. They were so loud. It sounded like there was a huge war going on that night. There were kids and people screaming and yelling like if they were dying. We didn´t sleep like little princesses that night.
So transfers came along, and my companion and I are staying here. I can´t believe I´m going to stay here another transfer. I have been here in Embu-Guaçu for over 4 months. That is not so very normal. It is so awesome, I love this area. And I know it is for a reason. My companion got called to be a district leader. One of the sisters got transferred and now there is an American sister here. Her name is Sister Hills. And then guess what. 2 more Elders got called here. On Thursday Elder D. Silva and his Trainy, a Visa waiter from the mission in Washington, Elder Sharp, just got here in Brazil. He spent a transfer there waiting. It is so strange having more time then other missionaries. So we have 4 missionaries living in our house. It is fun. On Saturday morning, we had a call from one of the Assistants, Elder E. Peirerra who was my old Zone Leader. He asked us if we had more room in our house for one more missionary. We told them that we had some room. Then they asked Elder D. Silva if he could train two missionaries. And he said that he could. After that Elder Salles and I left the house to go do a service project for a member. On the way over there, we got another call from Elder E. Peirerra, he then wanted to talk to me. He then told me that they wanted to call me to be a trainer of this new missionary and asked if I could accept, and I said you bet I do. So I´m training right now and I´m so grateful for this opportunity that the Lord has given me. That same day, we went out to pick this new missionary up. To my surprise, it was someone that I knew, Elder Gutierrez. This Elder was in my same zone in the MTC. I was so happy to see him. I guess he just got his VISA. He is from California and he is Mexican. He is kinda of a shy guy and a little serious. But it is probably just the cultural shock. I think he will get use to it soon and loosen up. He is humble and is ready to let this mission change him I believe. I just hope I can take advantage of this great opportunity that the Lord has given me and I hope that I can do my very best in doing my part in helping this missionary become the best missionary that he can be. It is kinda cool to train, you really feel like you are raising a son. I hope I can do good. I feel terrible already because when we do contacts on the streets, he gets nervous and he mumbles when he trys to talk Portuguese and he says a lot of random things. The people have a hard time understanding him. And it is kinda funny because I´m just on the side trying my best to not laugh. haha Man I´m a terrible trainer. He just reminds me a lot of my first days also. I love training already. You need a lot of patience and a lot of love. I hope I can do my best with him. But with the Lords help, I can do it.
Our ward has 7 missionaries!! This is so crazy! We are a district. Yesterday we got together with our ward mission leader and our bishop to talk about how to divide the area and about what our mission goal is. We have a goal to re-activate members and complete part member families. We also have a goal to find a lot of priesthood holders to baptise. Just families!
One time we were doing a contact in the town center with a lady and her kids. While we were talking to her, her two little girls went to go play an the side of this restaurant. They were playing along side the window. And then all of a sudden a big bucket of water got poured out from the window and they got all wet. It was so funny. The mother was just laughing.
I´m excited for this next transfer. It is going to be a great experience to learn some more and to grow. I love it! I hope you all are doing great. Have a great week.
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