This week I kind of was having
a hard time just being "excited" to work and everything but I think
it was because sometimes I think too much haha. Because really on the mission
there are some things, like all the itty bitty rules that we have in addition
to the "white bible" courtesy of Pres and Sis Parrela, that make
living difficult when you want to do everything the right way but there seems
like no point or not applicable to the situation or whatever. But as always you
just gotta do your best in the moment that you have and not stress out because
you didn’t know that word in Portuguese or that wasn’t a "mission appropriate"
song, or someone didn’t understand your question, or we were late to our
appointment, or your plans fall through, but I digress...
On Thursday Elder Usieda and I
cleaned the baptismal font again but just with us two this time and the pump
thing is still broken so we hauled out the buckets but it was all good. And
then that night our investigator Olmiro had his interview and... the baptism
fell through. He felt that he wasn’t ready and I think it was a little bit of
fear that things were going too fast for him. But everything was all good and
he still was interested and we were going to see him on Sunday so a little
disheartening, but all good. Then Sunday comes around and we go to their house
to walk with him to church and we clapped and waited... and clapped... and
after like the fourth time of us clapping (we had some young men with us who
went a little clap happy) Olmiro´s grandma comes stumbling out all disheveled
and said "he doesn’t want to go anymore!" and went right back into
the house... so we were like uhhhh, ok have a good morning... so we went to
church and were a little preoccupied for the rest of the day until that night
when we decided to go back to their house to figure out what really was going
on. And as it turns out Olmiro was just sleeping a bit more and the grandma who
is used to sleeping in on Sundays was just a tad peeved at the young men who wouldn’t
stop clapping at her door at 8:45 in the morning.
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| Traditional Brazilian Churrasco |
So we got that all smoothed out
and things are going all smooth now and we got to eat a bit of churrasco
(shoo-HA-skow), the Brasilian meat on a sword, with them which was my first
time and it was super good! So as always ups and downs in the mission field,
Elder Usieda and I are learning how to work together well and things are
progressing here in Brasil!
I love you all and thanks for
the early happy birthday wishes, and as always thanks to everyone who writes me
emails I love to get them! Sorry I don’t have much time to respond but Ill keep
on trying!
Elder Pierce
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