We had two more baptisms this week! One was a girl that had
been frequenting a different ward (her aunt's ward), and the other was a girl
that is the neighbor of a member. It was a bit difficult with the second
girl... We got to her house on Saturday to bring her to the baptism, and she
told us that she wasn't going to get baptized. So we started talking to her,
and turns out she was just really nervous and a little bit scared to be
baptized because her family wouldn't be there to watch. Her mom actually
decided not to go because she was drunk. Yaaaay alcohol! But we talked to her
and talked to her neighbors and she calmed down a bit and everything was good.
Then on Sunday the two girls and our baptism from last week were
confirmed.
In this email (and the next) I'll include a few pictures of what's been going on here. Mostly I'll put pictures of the people we baptized. It's a total of 14 people now - I think I got pictures of all of them here.
This week has been a little bit difficult; I'm having
problem with my foot still. It's not hurting at the ankle anymore, but now my
left shin has started to swell a bit and hurts pretty bad. But I'm sure it'll
pass!
We have been working a lot this week with Gleon, the dad of the Barbosa
family. It's been pretty hard with him, but he's progressing little by little.
On Tuesday we went over to his house with Paulo, a member who had a drinking problem,
and they combined to go to AA and another group together every night. But wait,
there's more. On Wednesday everything was good and they went together. On
Thursday, Gleon got home from work late and ended up not being able to go. On
Friday, Paulo passed by Gleon's house and waited for 30 minutes, but then left
because Gleon didn't come out. Soooo... We still have a lot of work with Gleon.
It's becoming really difficult for his family, too. His wife and youngest
daughter haven't been to church for 2 weeks now, and their testimonies are
struggling. As soon as we can get Gleon to stop drinking and attend church
regularly I'm sure the problems will all disappear.
Here are a few pictures of our city from up in a grain storage tower that we went to last week. I'll have to do that video thing and send it to you guys sometime soon.
Anyways, that's pretty much all the news for this week... We
had transfers this week, but everyone in our zone stayed except one elder. So
I'm still in Ipiranga with Elder Henrique. A lot of the same working and
walking and preaching and baptizing and all that good stuff!
Oh, I have something to ask, too. I need a flash drive! All
the elders here carry around flash drives with church music on it and they have
what they call a "little box of sound" that you just plug a flash
drive into and it plays the music that's on it. I would buy one here, but
they're crazy expensive. It's like R$30 for a 4GB flash drive. Que louco!
I love you all! It's good to see that things are going well
at home and the downstairs bedroom is looking really good!
Good luck with your surgery, mom!
Love,
Elder Hopper #1
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