Tapioca
Hello all,
This week flew by once
again, just like all the others. Here
are some highlights:
I tried tapioca for the first time. It is not like American tapioca (tried that too). It is more like a Brazilian taco type thing. It is difficult to explain. But it can be salty and have meat and cheese inside, or it can be sweet and have coconut and sugar. I got a meat one with calabresa. It was wayyy good.
This week we found
another really cool family. One of the daughters has a friend on a mission that
she writes every other week. Their dad passed away so we taught the Restoration
but focused on how families can be together forever through the Priesthood. We
were also able to see another cool family Del and Maria and their 1 year old
daughter. They were super excited about our message and promised to come to
church.
Thursday we had our
usual district meeting, except our Mission President came. So my companion was
a little nervous. Everything went well.
President told us that a member called him from our ward saying that they saw
us knocking on doors to find investigators and kind of had the tone that it
appeared that we have no one to teach.
President
Bigelow defended us and was like "well they aren’t receiving references
from members and they aren’t going to sit around all day waiting for
investigators to fall into their laps-so they are getting out and worked."
We also taught a new
investigator Joao Bosco. He loves to talk. He told us about his work as a
seamstress and we taught him about the Book of Mormon. He agreed to read it. He
says he is searching for a religion and doesn’t know where he will end up. He
is so prepared. We then went to a baptismal interview in Setubal but we arrived
early, so of course we bought some coconuts to drink by the beach.
On Sunday the bishop in
our ward wanted me to call the US to try to contact one of his old mission
companions. He had the number of the home where the companion lived, which
happened to be in Colorado...in Littleton.
I tried calling and finally on the 4th try it went through. I explained
that I was serving in Brazil and that my bishop was trying to contact his
companion. Luckily it was the right family. They explained that they live right
next to the temple on the other side of c-470 and they used to use the Colorado
building!! I was like whatttttt. It was so weird to talk to someone that lives
so close to home. But it was cool-small world.
Hope you are all doing
well and that you have a great week!
Elder Waters
