Hey hey hey,
So this week wasn't too eventful but it was a good
one! On Tuesday we had the opportunity of serving at a food pantry at a
different church in town.
We got to pass out food to people in need. The
people that came were awesome!! I got to meet a lot of cool people and we
picked up some great contacts. I love getting people to talk about where they
are from and their stories, everyone has such unique lives.
On Wednesday we had a huge zone conference! So this
is where we meet with the whole zone, which is all the missionaries in the
Syracuse stake. It was super fun. We talked a lot about consecrating ourselves
as missionaries and acting exactly obedient. We talked about our outlooks on
life and watched a great video about how we should look at things as
opportunities instead of obligations. I think it was a Nike basketball video
but it applied to missionaries too. haha.
Thursday we went over too this apartments trying to
find some contacts. We had no idea where one of the guys that we met lived…. we
just knew what complex, so we drove over to it.
As we were parking, what do you know the guy Dave who we were looking
for was out walking his dog. So we ran down to him and starting chatting him
up. He is such a sweet dude. He had all these cool stories. We are going to try
and meet with him again.
On Friday we went to the Ubri family's house for
dinner. Brother Ubri told us that he went to Rio, Brazil on his mission! He was
telling me all about Brazil and how he loved it so much and how he gained
weight for the first month because he loved rice and beans and then he lost
like 25 pounds after that because he settled down and didn't gorge over his
food. He told me that the north of Brazil (where I am going) has a lot poorer
areas and different accents. Saturday, we went out with our MVP member Brother
May and then he took us to get food and back to his house. He was so excited
because a missionary that had helped in his conversion (in the seventies) had a
son that went to Recife in the 90s! And that son sent Brother May a letter with
all these pictures of Recife, so Brother May was showing them to me. RECIFE IS
SO COOL. Holy, it got me so pumped. Later on Saturday we went to visit our
investigator Maime. We talked about authority of God and baptism.
Well that is it for this week. Love everyone!
