Week of August 22-28th, 2016
(22) SEGUNDA
(Monday): Today was SUPER good. We ate lunch at Simara’s house, and they had
made me a video on the computer, like a slide show of every picture they had of
me. Then we left, running to catch my
bus. I got into Santa Maria, and there
were so many elders, I gave up my claim to a bed to sleep on the boxes of the
Book of Mormons. Because my bed was in
the big room with 20 other Elders. The
boxes were in the other room with 2 missionaries who are my good friends. We were sleeping early. The other Elders were
yelling and playing until 4:00am. Today
was day 413 of my mission.
(23) TERCA (Tuesday): Today Cristofer passed the interview, but I
told Marcelino to do the interview because I was already so close to him. Really that was the only thing interesting
that happened today. The rest was
meetings and bus and waiting for the other elder to come. But all is well. I’m happy.
Today was day 414 of my mission.
(24) QUARTA
(Wednesday): This area is very
different from my last. For starters,
it’s been driven into the ground. There are no investigators! They have NOTHING! Most of the members don’t even know the
missionaries. Elder Marcelino knows NONE
of the youth. There’s a lot of work to
do. I’ll resurrect the area. We’re knocking doors and contacting
people. What we really need is the member’s
confidence, because then the referrals come.
Today was day 415 of my mission.
(25) QUINTA
(Thursday): Today a 10-year-old
member was asking me to say stuff in English. She said, “How do you say ‘My
family is very cool?” I said, “Your
Familia is muito cool.” Speaking English
and Portuguese. She started laughing and
laughing and laughing. Today, really
nothing interesting happened. Today was
day 416 of my mission.
(26) SEXTA (Friday): I’m really sorry for the quality of the
journals this week. The only reason I’m
writing today is because I refuse to go a day without writing. My companion fell asleep 3 times today. First time, during lunch. 2nd, in the bus, 3rd,
in a lesson with an investigator. And
lunch was in a member’s house! Ha-ha.
We had lunch then another commitment on the
other side of the area. It took us an
hour to get there, and we took a bus for more then half the distance. Then the commitment fell through. Today was day 417 of my mission.
(27) SABATO
(Saturday): Today we went to another
city for a baptism, because they don’t have enough priesthood holders in their
branch. That burned our whole day, but
it was all worth it. After I
participated in a radio program they have here.
It’s every Saturday from 9-10.
And there’s a way to listen on the Internet. Missionaries always give shout outs to their
families and girlfriends at home listening, but this was the last time they’ll
do that program so I won’t be able to do that.
But it was cool I got to talk quite a bit. Today was day 418 of my mission.
(28) DOMINGO
(Sunday): I’ve heard that every time
it’s raining and you work in the rain, your future wife gets more pretty. If that is true, my wife will put Aphrodite
to shame. Church got over at 6:00. It was a flippen down pour! Instead of accepting a ride to center to
watch a broadcast thing the church was doing, we walked 20 minutes in the mud
to go to a FHE. Then they have us a ride
home.
I also gave
a talk today on conversion. I thought it
went well. ALSO! My camera broke again! The exact same thing! I went to flip the screen to take a selfie
and the screen went black. I’ll take it
to a place to see if they can open it and fix it. Today was day 419 of my mission.
Who is your new
companion? Are there other Elders in
your house?
Elder Marcelino (meu companion) Elder Marcelino is like a grown
little boy. It’s very difficult
NOT to love him. Ha-ha
Elder Levita (who is going home next transfer)
Elder Rapuzzi (Argentino who is very funny.
I’m happy and healthy. Give
everyone a hug.
Love, Elder McKee
No comments:
Post a Comment