Week 27, 3rd week of 4th transfer
February 10, 2020
Hello!
This week I reach 6 months in the mission! So I followed tradition and burned a tie...but it wasn't my tie. It was a ties of my companion. It was really crappy and old. I bought him a new tie 'cause he doesn't have very many and burnt one of his old really crappy falling apart ones. I'll include pictures.
Also this week, we had Zone Conference. I was late to the leadership meeting because nobody told me that I had to be 30 minutes early. So that wasn't cool. Also, this week in church, I had to give a talk, but it was actually a really cool experience because the microphone was broken in the chapel (because they are renovating the chapel there so the microphone wasn't working there) and so I had to speak really loud. But the Bishop had asked everybody to be extra reverent because of this problem with the microphone, so it was actually pretty cool because everybody was really reverent, which isn't usually the case. Usually people are like talking or on their cell phones. But it seemed like everybody was a lot more focused this meeting. So that was cool. It was my first talk in a ward here in Brazil in Portuguese. But yeah it went really well.
Onto our friends:
Jose, who I talked about last week, who was in church, the friend of Rafael and Elizabeth. Well, We scheduled a few appointments this week to teach him and every time we scheduled one in the morning and one at night and he wasn't there. It happened four times this week and then he wasn't in church either, so we are pretty upset about that. Sadly, he definitely won't be baptized next week.
Then the other people...in church we had 5 people this week. Rafael, Elizabeth, again, which is great. And they brought their friend Milton, who was in church a couple weeks ago, maybe last week...yeah last week. But yeah he's not married legally so that's a problem...we can't baptized him. His situation is difficult because his girlfriend that he's living with is only 16 and so she needs her parents to be there when she gets married to be witnesses to sign the marriage documents or whatever, but they live WAYYYYY on the other side of the country. So that's not going to be happening any time soon. So we've just been inviting them to church and activities. But we are going to teach them but not use a lot of time there, but they are really interested so that's good so we are just going to keep sharing the gospel with them and hopefully one day they get married legally and somebody can baptize them.
Then the other two people in church, was the other Jose (surprisingly) and his wife Elezangela. So we passed by their house just one time this week and just shared a scripture and he came to church. We know that he REALLY likes the church but he just doesn't feel like he NEEDS to be baptized. He doesn't understand the need for proper authority. So our plan is just to help him feel the spirit, share scriptures with him, continue inviting him to activities and to church until he realizes he needs to be baptized basically.
Onto things that I hate: I kind of talked about this already, but....cleaning the bathroom. This week we had to clean the house completely...a deep clean. So basically you clean the house the same way you clean the bathroom...throw water and soap everywhere and scrub and throw more water and scrub and throw more water and then throw more water. So yeah, it's not very fun. It took like 3 hours this morning.
But things that I like this week: It was like 65-80 degrees this entire week! IT WAS AWESOME! Right now it's super nice. My companion is freezing to death but it's great for me.
Spiritual Thought: This week I had the opportunity to talk in church about Charity. I found a great quote from this last conference I want to share with you. President Nelson said...
We should always be looking for opportunities to help one another.
That's it for this week!
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Elder Olson
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| 6 months! tie burning |
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| fire |
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| Churrasco! |
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| João Vitor da Paixão 1, An old man in the ward with alzheimers who is hilarious. |
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