Dear
family and fiends,
So this week was another week of lots of hard work. I´m awfully
tired and to be honest I don´t have much to say. We tried our best to do plans
and get going, find our investigators, find new investigators, etc. In spite of
some of our best efforts, we only managed to pull off a few lessons this week,
and we didn´t find any new investigators.
We managed to teach Welton, that brazilian single stay at home
dad. It was a good lesson, we taught him about the Sabbath Day, and he
committed to come to church. However, he didn´t make it. We passed by his house
sunday about an hour before church to see if we could helph him get ready, but
he was super stressed and really put down. He´s running short on money and he
only had 2 daipers to get his youngest until the end of the month...
complicated things like that. We tried to comfort him and offer our support,
but I didn´t know really well what to do to be honest. He also felt pretty
ashamed because he had promised us that he´d go to church with us, but we made
sure to tell him it was alright. He has a lot on his plate.
On Saturday morning we had a bunch of appointments, each one fell
through, when suddenly a member who was in the chapel called us and said
"Elders there´s a man here waiting to talk with you". We headed
straight there and we found Paulo! We have zero contact with him, the only way
that we can find him is by sheer luck, and whaddya know he showed up to the
church!
He told us a bunch about what he´s going through and we addressed
his concerns and we had a pretty good lesson with him. He accepted a new
baptismal date and promised to come to church, but didn´t make it... so yeah,
ground zero again. We´ll just have to wait until the next time we cross paths.
But, saturday night we sent a text to Fernando, Paulo´s friend
(who we still haven´t taught officially) and we said "hey, paulo is coming
to church tomorrow, can you come to support him?". Fernando, being the
great guy he is, showed up to church a second time! This time he payed a lot of
attention and even asked a few questions like "does one have to be a
member to go up there to the front and talk?" and "when someone get´s
to know the church, how long does one take to be baptized?" Those perfect
questions haha. Turns out that one of the members who gave a talk on Sunday was
Fábio, one of Fernando´s old schoolmates. I chatted with Fernando for a bit and
he said "yeah, I´d like to get a bit deeper into this church, it´s
interesting" (Fernando has already gone to many churches). We set up a family
home evening with Fábio, his wife, and Fernando on thursday. We have plans to
teach Fernando and committ him to baptism there. He´s basically our guy with
the most potential for now.
But yeah, I think that´s an update. The other folks that we´ve
worked with lately are slowly disappearing, but we still try to chase them down
every once in a while.
Adeus,
Elder
Ward
Peter, James, and John
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