This week we had quite a few developments here in the
mission field that are very exciting and that I will now tell you all about.
First, we got a new mission president. His name is President
Canuto. I know absolutely nothing about him, though on Thursday we have a
meeting with him so I will know here shortly.
Second, some things come with getting a new president. Such
as new rules and such. Before, in Missão Ribeirão Preto, we could not play
basketball. We now can. We also could not drink cola-based sodas. Now we can.
So I am now drinking an ice-cold Coca-Cola while I am writing this. Just
because I can. I don't actually like the way Coke tastes.
Third, and possibly the most important, this transfer has
been cut down from a normal 6-week transfer to a 4-week transfer. Since we are
combining with the Campinas mission, we have to adopt some things from them,
one of which being their transfers. I'm not sure why we couldn't use the
transfers from Ribeirão Preto, but that's alright. So. That also means that I
will be home 2 weeks earlier. I WILL BE HOME FOR THANKSGIVING. I'm not too
excited, don't worry.
This week we had a cool thing happen with an investigator,
too. We were running a little bit late for some appointments, and we had just
finished teaching a less active member (who went to church this week! Woooo!!!)
and the he offered cake. We kind of reluctantly accepted. Then left. We took
this dirt road back to a part of our area where we had our next lesson, which
would have taken us about 30 minutes to walk there. While on this dirt road, a
taxi pulls up next to us and tells us to get in. So we do. He tells us that he
saw a couple of missionaries in the bus station earlier that day, and for that
reason he offered us a ride (which is an interesting story in and of itself.
The missionaries that he saw were the staff and assistants from Ribeirão Preto
that were passing through the city on the last couple of days that it was part
of their mission, so they shouldn't have really even been there). So he cuts
down the walking time by about 20 minutes. And as we're walking to that
appointment, we pass in front of this girl's house that we had marked with for
later that night. Her name is Brenda, by the way. She tells us that she's going
to Sorocaba in like 30 minutes and asks if we just want to teach her right then
(this was the first time we were able to teach her), so we say yes! So we teach
her, it goes great, and she accepts the invitation to read and pray and all
that good stuff. Then we go to the appointment that we had marked, which we
were now an hour late to, and they aren't even home. So all these little things
built up to where we were in the right place at the right time to be able to
teach Brenda! It was definitely an opportunity for us to see the hand of the
Lord in our work.
We'll ignore the fact that two days later we found out that
Brenda lied to us and that I saw her in the center of the city two days
later... It happens.
Well, that's the exciting stuff that happened this week! I
hope you all have a great week! Love you all!
-Elder Hopper #1
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