This week was pretty interesting. I think here on the
mission I have had some of the most bi-polar happenings ever. Coming into this
week we had 9 baptism dates marked for the upcoming weeks, and as of today we
have 1. That's good, right? Elder Stewart and I have been working really hard
to keep the work going in this area, but it's super hard when the people have
their free agency. We should just take that away from them and force them to be
baptized. That's how it's supposed to work, right? Oh, wait... I think that was
Satan's plan. Yeah, I guess we'll not do that. We'll just keep working in the
way that we have been.
Sônia and Benedito have been contributing a bit to the
difficulties as well. Their relationship is a bit crazy. They have gone between
hating each other and not wanting to be married at all to being super happy and
joking around about 15 times this week. They are still together at this point,
but we'll see how things are going tomorrow when we go over to their house. It
might end up being that Sônia stays here in São Carlos and Benedito moves over
to Leme for a while. If that happens, Sônia will be baptized here really soon,
and then we'll have to wait a bit for Benedito.
Other than that, not much has happened this week. A lot of
our investigators are falling, and it's a bit difficult to stay excited for the
work here, but we're doing our best. At least I've got a good companion to be
going through these things with.
Oh! I forgot! Our Stake had some boundary changes this week.
Here in São Carlos there are 6 wards. 1st ward, 2nd ward, 3rd ward, 4th ward,
5th ward, and Cidade Aracy. Cidade Aracy is our area. So the 4th ward was done
away with and split up into the 2nd and 5th wards. The 3rd ward was also split
almost in half and gave some to 5th ward and a little bit to 2nd ward. And the
big changes in Cidade Aracy: Nothing! We stay the same. Pretty lame for us, but
it makes sense since our area is really off the side of the city down a cliff,
so it's not too logical to have any other part of the city with us.
Well that's all I got. Cameron Johnson, if you read this,
write me a letter, man! It'd be great to hear from you!
I love you all!
-Elder Hopper #1
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