Me, Elder Roque & Sister Soares (Second person baptized in North East Brazil - 1960)
Hello gente,
This was an awesome
week!! Elder Roque and I have gotten to work and we are seeing Heavenly Father’s
blessings every single day.
This week we planned a
lot of time to knock doors and make contacts in the streets. The results have
been good. It definitely gets tiring
after a while. We are trying to improve the quality of our contacts and door
approaches so that we can enter into more houses and teach more lessons.
We got to have lunch
with the bishop this week. Afterwards we talked a lot more about our
investigators and he gave us some names of people that he wants us to focus on.
It was a really great meeting and I think he is having more and more confidence
in us. That day it rained all day long. At one point we took shelter under a
small roof on the side of a house/mercado type thing. Then this dude came up
and wanted to share my umbrella and space under the roof. So of course we
shared. He then began to communicate
with his hands. I think I got most of the
sign language. Something to do with the rain this time of year and how all the
streets always flood.
Later we visited Mozart
Soares who used to be a Seventy and now is a counselor in the mission and lives
in our ward. He is super legit. He gave us some dinner and then talked about
how the members in the ward need to work harder as missionaries. It was great
and he has tons of great ideas.
It was Fourth of July
and I had to celebrate some way, so we went and spent big bucks at Mickey Ds.
It is the most American you can get here haha. I sported my USA colors tie to show my
patriotism… though no one else probably noticed lol. We also went to a
potential investigator’s house. His
brothers are surfers so there were a bunch of surfboards laying around and the
house was sick. He has tons of interesting ideas about God and we practically
taught the Restoration and the Plan of Salvation in one lesson - mostly because
he had so many questions.
On Sunday Grace came
to church again! All the members in the ward are helping her so much and are
always asking us about her. She told us that she wants to be baptized after her
daughter recovers from surgery.
Love you all!!
Elder Waters
