Dear Everyone,
This week was an adventure. But I´m pretty sure that the new year was
like weeks ago.
We focused a lot this week in Povoação (which means
village. Origional name I know.
Comparible to "Fig Tree Peackock" and "Tea of Rocks" which
are also names of places) which is were we live. We found two great knew investigators this
week, Denise and Ana.
I will start at the beginning in the miricle of finding
them.
So Benvindo (which is a name, and also means welcome) was
drunk one day and told us to come into this bar area, and there were some other
people, some sober, and others drunk, and one of those people was Yinick
(unique) who is like 22. We marked to go
back there, but it was locked when we went back, then we ran into Yinick on the
street (less drunk, but still a little) like 4 days later, and he told us where
his house is, and so we went imidiately after talking with him to try to find
the house. We walked around for a long
time and couldn´t find it, then wen´t home because it was late. The next day we
got back from Riberão and tried to find the house again for 45 more mins, and
finally found it, and he wasn´t there, but his mom, Ana, and cousin, Denise,
were there, and Ana had read the pamphlet we had given them, and so we taught
them, and they ended up coming to the baptism and to church which was fantastic,
and they have tons of great questions because a lot of times people don´t like
to ask questions. Super sweet. They are praying about baptism, and we will
talk with them about it tonight. My
favorite question from them, "So can I be baptized in this church if I was
already baptized in the Catholic church?"
Yes. Yes you can. We also talked a bit about how the catholic
church´s baptism was an act of desire to do good but actually won´t do
anything. Sometimes rough but It went
really well.
Also Cely showed up at the baptism.
Hodiairson was baptized and it was great. These computers have problems, so next week I
will try to send pictures from a different place.
So another miracle that happened this week involved
curry. So I made curry for lunch on
saturday before the baptism, and I took a picture of it to send home because it
looked legit, and then we got home from the baptism and one appointment, and I
started to feel sick and so I stayed in bed for the rest of the day, but I knew
that we needed to help a bunch of investigators get to church, and so I asked
Heavenly Father for help to be able to just get them to church. That night I took some medicine, and stuff,
and had a long and miserable night. I
was going to take a picture of the curry the second time as a before and after
shot from the other picture I took, but decided that it wasn´t very appealing
the second time, then finally got about 2 hours of sleep from like 6-8 in the
morning, got up, made it to church with our investigators, then the second I
stepped off the car after church I felt sick again and went back home and
slept. I learned 2 things:
1. Cook the chicken all the way before you make curry.
2. The Lord Answers Prayers. (Obviously more important)
If you are doing the Lords work, and you want to be doing
His work with all you might mind and stregnth, He will give you the ability to
conquor. To WIN. My dearest Mother Shared with me a think that
she is applying this year that is fantastic.
She is focusing more on Wholesome INtakes. Or... WIN.
Let us all focus on this! And
also outtakes (out gives?) too.
Love,
Elder Sampson
Also, Elder Naylor and I are probably getting split this
week as soon as President can find two solid minis to be our comps.
Love,
Elder Sampso
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