We stopped at a little café one day this week so Elder Cottrell could powder his nose, and I sat on the steps just out front. Just to explain the situation a bit more, these cafés always have at least 3 drunk men watching soccer, 24/7 haha. Anyways, there was a dog chilling on the doorstep of the café. I sat as I waited and said "olá" to the dog, gave him a pat, one of the men rounded the corner to the entrance and said "Ei! Não convertas o cão também!" or, "Oi! Dont convert the dog too!"
I laughed, good stuff. At least he knows why were here!
But yeah, this week was pretty good. Not going to lie, this week was pretty normal. Nothing super out-of-the-ordinary happened. But I´ll try to still share the juicy parts.
Elder Cottrell and I have started a game between us to help motivate ourselves to keep up a good level of work. We individually keep score of how many times we can get rejected in the day. So, to explain, I would walk up to somebody, introduce, converse, explain our message and try to get their contact, etc. If such person declined in any form, it´s a "rejeição", and like so, we keep score. By the end of the day, we end up with 50-70 rejections each, but I will admit, Elder Cottrell has won recently, he seems to get the side of the road with more people.
Now, you might be thinking "oh what a bad idea... you should keep score of people who accept!" Well yeah, that´s always good. But sometimes we get caught up in judging people too quickly, and sometimes we just dont talk to people because we think they just wont accept... but when we switch sides, we want to be rejected, so, with such motivation we end up literally talking to everyone, be them drunk, busy, or running away from us haha.
At one point Elder Cottrell was ahead of me by quite a bit, so to try and even the score I walked into another café like that one a couple weeks back to rack up 7 or so rejections at the same time. But, its a good thing, because we never know when one person might actually be waiting to hear what we have to say. With this method/game, its more likely we wont miss one of these people!
We´ve run into a handful of new people this week, we´re still searching for the Lord´s elect, teaching those who are willing to hear. Unfortunately many of the people weve found have not been showing the real intent that is needed for them to make changes... but we will keep on keeping on.
No worries, I´m enjoying the work here. It´s always a fresh day and lots of work to be done. Im doing quite well, the language is going very smoothly, work is good, learning a lot from Elder Cottrell about really working hard. Good stuff.
But yeah, we shall see what the next week brings. We´ve got some more travelling ahead of us this week too, Im looking forward to it.
Take care folks, happy thanksgiving,
Elder Ward
"Nothing happens by chance" — Amen, grafitti artist, amen.
An alleyway with like a dozen cats, you have to look closely to see the others... notice the eyes haha
Lots of doors here in Portugal have these little knockers, they are supposed to represent the hands of the pope haha. Quite catholic here indeed!
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