Olá e bom dia!
So the title has a back story: Every single Brazilian
missionary knows one phrase in inglês, “My Freaking (fill in with a random
object in Português),” which actually is really funny in the accent here. But
that's really a stretch for me to try to give the accent in an email.
So, this week went really... well, sub -average for me. With
the transfer, my new companion and I have to come up with a teaching method
that works for us both. Sounds easy, for you more experienced missionaries you
know better! IT'S HARD!! With my trainer it was easy, he gave me words, and I
said them. Nice, now I have words to use, now I'm trying to switch things up
and use new words to explain the same thing. Then transfers!!! Yay, new
companion! And he uses words I have never heard before... Elder, where are we
in the lesson? This makes things fun. I have to make mention that I love my new
companion for the small fact that he teaches me new words all the time and is
really good a teaching the conjugations of a word. But lessons... Nossa! Como
sim rapidás? Difícil.
A historia da Semana! Minha câmara recebeu uma virus. So
sorry, this week due to technical difficulties, no pictures. But this week I
have a clean slate to continue. The week went really well for introducing my
companion to the area and the people we're teaching here. No big surprises, and
everyone is reacting the way I expected (which is easy for me to explain.).
Now, we have this great investigator (Andre) who we've been teaching for a
while now. In the past when we tried to convidar-lhe for baptism he said he
wanted to wait for a year, learn more, then if he got a responce to his
prayers, he'd get baptized. (WHAT?!?!) After transfers, and fortunately my
companion now has a scripture that explained exactly what we needed to respond
to how the spirit feels. He now recognizes his responce and he'll get baptized
on 31 of this month!!
We also had a investigator fall into our path por meio member
of the ala. Germano, a recent convert, went to the praia (beach) and met
Tamires. Okay, no big deal. Shared the Gosple, and found out she lives in our
area... and after one visit with Germano she's committed to be baptized on the
same day as Andre. The church is true guys. Milagres acontecer.
That's all I have time for this week, and as my companion
says with a thick Brazilian accent: the church is true, the book is blue.
Tchau!
Élder A. Smith.
PS. As a rule of the mission: do not
tentará conversar com amigo after I send emails, I will not be able to respond
until the next week.
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