A fun word to start off is almoço meaning lunch, because we had a pretty sweet almoço yesterday given to us by one of our members, Angolan food.
So last pday we just relaxed a bit, its always good to take a break (even though its not really a break, just permission to lie in bed during the daylight for a bit)
Yeah, weve been trying different ways to attack the work that needs to be done in the area. We organized a list of probably 200 names in our area and are trying to visit them, but were finding that a lot of them appear to have disappeared completely... but we try. A few of them have expressed a bit of interest, so we try to make return appointments with them, but sometimes people dont seem to know how to say "no". Sometimes "no´s" are a good thing because it helps us not lose too much time!
So on Tuesday we had an exchange, but really a trio. Elder Cabreira, a brazilian, came to our area and brought our numbers to 3. It was pretty fun. Hes got a lot of energy for the worked and he hyped us up a bit. That day we technically taught 5 lessons, although a couple were pretty short. But hey, it was pretty cool. Its always really interesting to see how other Elders work. He reminded me a lot of Elder Marques.
He stayed the night, and the next morning for exercises he wanted to go jogging, so the 3 of us went. He only had gym shorts, so to cover up, for some reason he had a giant Tigger jacket/onesie thing with a hoodie and ears, and he went jogging in that with us... no shame haha.
We visited a couple of people we taught a long time ago, but left because they werent showing a lot of progress. For example, we visited Lucilia, an old portuguese woman. She was awfully kind and said she missed us. We sat and taught for a little bit. During the visit Elder Fletcher sneezed, and she immediately butt in "OH goodness! are you sick? have you caught a cold? Lets close the window. Do you have a fever?!" etc etc. It was funny haha.
We found a nice young couple with a brand new baby girl. They accepted a visit another day. We taught the mother, Raquel, who was very nice and enjoyed the lesson. She commited to read and pray about the BoM, but unfortunately our visit we planned with her to follow up with her fell through... but we will try to contact her more this week! She seemed to have potential.
We have worked a lot lately with Clara and Joelson, that brazilian couple. Ill sum it up. Joel wants to be baptized, but Clara is still a bit hesitant. Theyve come to church 3 weeks now, and the members love them, they are being welcomed so well and warmly. Yesterday we had a big get together with some members in one of their homes. We brought the sister missionaries too. (see photos). There, we had people from Angola, Moçambique, Guiné, the US, and Brazil, it was really cool haha. We ate angolan food, it was pretty good!
Months ago with Elder Marques, we found a young man from Cabo Verde named Alex. We taught him later, and it all went really smoothly, he really seemed to have potential...we caught his cousin Edmir another day... however we never found them again, he just disappeared. We went to his house and called dozens of times... Elder Marques and I eventually accepted that he had disappeared. It happens here a lot, people are always coming and going.
But with Elder Cabreira and Fletcher that night, we were knocking a couple last doors at about 9pm. We still had a 30 walk home. We picked one last building, and literally the last door opened up, and Edmir was there. It had been so long, I didnt link the name to the face, but I remembered seeing him before. I skipped the normal "olá somos os Missionários de Igreja..." and just said "what a minute I know you..." Edmir let us in for a few minutes, and inside there was Alex and 2 other guys! What? Alex tried to toy with me... I said "whoa alex its been so long where have you been?" stuff like that, he replied "oh im not alex, im his brother patrick" and I was a little confused, because he acutally looked a little different from the last time I saw him. I got Edmir to spill the beans "Edmir, this guy is your cousin Alex, isnt he? you guys cant fool me" haha it was funny... it was also really strange because... well... all of them were drinking...
BUT we only had 5 minutes or so, so we just challenged them all to be baptized, they didnt really take that like a cookie, but we made a time to come back... But when we left the building I just bust out laughing. Elder Cabreira and Fletcher were like "whys he laughing so much" but I then explained what happened, how I already knew half of them. It was hilarious really, but also really cool because we finally hunted down Alex! And now we know that we need to teach him the Word of Wisdom ahahaha
But yeah a pretty good week. Ive got more tidbits of stuff here and there, but I havent got much time. Gotta wrap it up.
Ciao,
Elder Ward
It was good grub.
This is Abel, hes from Moçambique and was baptized 3 years ago! He´s awesome.
On the right with the glasses is Clara, our investigator we have worked with recently, and her daughter with them deuces. The woman between the sisters, Conceição gave us the meal yesterday, it was super nice of her!
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