Okey-doke, let me tell you guys a bit about this week! First, sorry for not sending any pictures last week, the LAN house that we went to has a reputation for somehow deleting all of the pictures on storage devices that are used there, so I tried to avoid the risk! This week went pretty great, though!
Nephi´s vision. It´s so awesome to see someone who just loves everything about the gospel!
Isa. traveled this weekend to visit her Dad in Brasília, and will travel up there this weekend as well. So, we've remarked her baptismal date for the 22 of August, and she´s excited for it! She also started reading the Book of Mormon from the beginning and is loving it. She especially enjoyed Lehi´s vision of the tree of life and the explanation of that vision given in
On another day this past week we got home at night and found that our lights weren´t on. Elder T. and I knew that we had paid the energy bill, so we were a little confused about why that happened. Anywho, our land lady lent us some candles and we got to do our planning by candlelight!
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| Elder Santos at the desk the night the lights went out. We´ve since organized our desks a little better to reduce the fire risk should that happen again lol! |
where he talked about a family that had used candlelight for many years, but then managed to get electricity. During a year especially difficult for them (they were farmers), the heavy rains had destroyed all of their crops, with the exception of just a few turnips. That thanksgiving they had nothing but a rabbit to eat with their turnips, and the children were so upset by the lack of substance to provide them with "something to be thankful for." To try to bring things into perspective, the father asked his children to fetch the old oil lamps and candles that they had used in the past and to light them. They then turned off all of the electric lights in the house, and they could hardly believe how dark it had been all of those years that they had lived by candlelight. The children, struck by the contrast in lighting, suddenly realized that they had a lot to be thankful for, and even in a tough year they had still been abundantly blessed. We figured out the problem with our electricity the next day, but I was able to take some pictures first! I´ll attachthem to this E-mail.
The work as Financial Secretary´s going pretty well, too! I´ve gotten hang of almost everything except the houses. There´s always something that we´ve never seen before going on with the houses: missionaries who just move into a new house without giving us time to get a contract put together or not even lettinng us know, landlords that want a rent increase, the law company needing us to update the data on the houses, etc. I´m still lost when we start working on the houses, but I´ll get up to speed there eventually! It is a lot of fun, I´m pretty excited!
In two weeks an Area Seventy is going to visit the mission too. This week is going to be pretty busy for us because we´ve got to buy all of the bus tickets to bring all the missionaries in the mission to Goiânia, and then the next week is going to be the visit from the seventy and that´s going to be crazy as well. The week after that is transfers, and that too will be crazy! But crazy´s good! We enjoy the challenge!
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Brazilian BBQ for P-day! It was my first time trying Picanha,
it´s the king of the cuts here in Brazil! It was pretty dang good,
i´ll be honest. We made Garlic Bread on the grill too, try it!
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I´ve got to take off now, but here´re some pics for yáll! Have an awesome week!
Love,
Elder Sweet
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