Tuesday was Dia de Mentira hahaha (gee-a gee men-chee-ra)
April fools day! There were a lot of fake transfer calls going around and it
was pretty funny. So this week we had divisões (gee-vee-zoins) so Elder
McCutcheon as District Leader went out to the other city with elders in our
district and we received Elder Santana who is about to die (nothing to do with
the funeral part he is just almost done with the mission) anyway, so I didn't go
with him personally but I did get to go with Elder Gama in his area one day and
it was just kind of funny the two new missionaries wondering around. But it was
actually really good and we got a lot done (felt very different than my average
day *cough cough*). Also, we had lunch scheduled at the family that just
gives us money so we had pizza again! Yay, but divisões were just a bit crazy
because planning and setting goals and companion study just go out the window
because you switch companions every day haha.
Anyway, Saturday General Conference! Oh boy I’m not gonna
lie I was kind of geeking out haha and it was so awesome! It was in a different
chapel than ours and there was a room for English speakers, thank heavens! The
actual voices of the prophets are just so powerful and not to mention I can
understand all of it (well mostly, that one that I guess was from Brazil was hard we guessed he was from Switzerland ,
haha). But all of it was good, there was so much about daily prayer and
scripture study and how the Book of Mormon can be such a spiritual protection
for us, which is so true, so study your scriptures! Also every single one
testified of Christ and his doctrine which is a big focus for us missionaries
which is awesome. Probably my favorite was Elder Dallin H Oaks in priesthood session
about keys and authority. It just made me think a lot and I was like yea! It
was cool.
OK so then on Sunday morning we got a really sad call that
there had been a death in the family of like the strongest sister in our ward
who loves and serves the missionaries practically every day here. We had
investigators going to conference with us so we pulled another divisão and
Elders Fávero & Gama went to conference with them and Elder McCutheon and I
went to the viewing and funeral service to be there and support Irma Iara. So
down here they do funeral stuff really fast, like within 24 hours of the death everything
with the funeral is over. But it was just hard and super sad for her and I’m
just glad to have had the opportunity to serve with my presence and uplift
others with the wonderful message of the plan of salvation. So when that all
ended we got a ride with our bishop back to conference and we had time to watch
the last hour of the last session which dad missed haha trade off. But Elder
McCutcheon and I will download the rest we didn't hear and listen today and
when we have time.
Thank you all for your love and blessings! I hope you had a
great conference and have a great week! Oh and Happy Birthday Noah this Friday!
Love- Elder Pierce
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| This is us when I met Irma Iara for the first time |
(and
sorry no time for more pictures!)
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