Hello family!
This week was another roller-coaster of emotions, and looks
like it won't be the last. Let's start with Maria.
Well, you all remember the story I told last week. We were
ready to leave Maria and never teach her again. But we decided to try again
with her. So we went to her house on Tuesday and invited her to a Family Home
Evening with her son and his wife the next day. We went, and it was all great.
We had a good time and we were all happy. On the way home, (a member gave us
and her a ride home) we were talking about baptism and how she felt terrible
that she hadn't been baptized last Saturday. Then she told us to to mark her
baptism for Saturday. So we did! We visited her again on Friday and she was all
excited to be baptized and all. Then on Saturday, we got a call from her while
we were helping out at an English school. She didn't want to be baptized
anymore. Her mom was having health problems and she had to bring her to the
hospital, and Maria had been asking people if she should be baptized or not...
And they obviously said no. So we went to the hospital. When we got there,
Maria's mom was about to get let out already, so we waited for them, and
planned to get Maria a ride home and talk to her in the car. We had parked the
car in front of the church because it's close to the hospital, so we went there
with Maria. We stood outside of the church just talking to her for a while
about everything, and she got mad at us (we really didn't do anything to make
her mad) and started walking away. She didn't even want a ride home anymore. So
she stormed off and we sat there... and tried to figure out what had just
happened. Well, we still don't know. But we went inside the church to drown our
sorrows in the chocolate cake we had made for her. Which turned out pretty
good, by the way. So we aren't going to go back to Maria's house anymore. We'll
wait for her to call us.
We had a good experience, too! On Thursday we had a
multi-zone conference. For part of the conference, President Canuto wanted to
do a live practice. So the zone leaders (us) had to go out and find some people
to teach! We went out and walked around a park a bit, talking with everyone
there, but everyone was on lunch break about to go back to work. But then we
talked to a guy named Caio. He was also on lunch break, and had 5 minutes to be
back to work. We told him we would only need him for about 20 minutes, and he
said, "I have to go back to work... but something is telling me I need to
go with you guys." So he went with us! He ended up being about an hour
late for work, but it was a really good experience for us and for him. He is
really ready to hear the gospel. The bummer is that he doesn't live in our
area... Or even the stake. So we won't hear about how it goes with him until a
lot later. But it was a great experience!
Well, that's the exciting stuff for this week. I hope you
all have a great week this week! I love you all!
-Elder Hopper #1
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