April 29, 2017
Jake is sending
videos now, so this is typed from his video.
Imagine him talking with an accent. Read it in your best Portuguese accent.
So, I have some time before the English class and wanted to
give you a run down of what happened this week.
My P-day’s gotten a lot more…I don’t have that much time on the
computer. I still have an hour. But I
have a lot of stuff to write, and I always forget stuff because I stopped
writing in my journal. But I made this
video and you can watch the video and then you will know everything.
What
happened is on Monday we were here; we were here in this little office. We grabbed all the numbers and commentaries,
which was good. Then we went running to
President’s house because there is a group that is leaving, that is going
home. So we went there to help with
them. I took some pictures so I’ll send
them to you. That was really cool. It’s cool to see their testimonies. But holy crap, a lot of them, after two years
in the mission, they don’t even know how to bare a testimony. They are like an airplane. They come and you think they are going to
land and they take off again on another topic.
And they come around and they Whooom, and just go back, and keep going
in circles. There was one missionary
that bore his testimony for 20 minutes.
Huuumph. How many missionaries
are going away? We had 20 missionaries
there that had to bare their testimony.
But they all went home, it’s all-good.
The next
day on Tuesday, We came to the office because it was a transfer. It was the day everyone would be traveling and
we knew there would be troubles and stuff.
But, so yeah, we were just here, helping, doing stuff, running the
mission. And Tuesday night we went to
pick up the new missionaries. And
Tuesday night about 8 o’clock, we get a phone call from an unrecognized number
and the area code is from Porte Allegra, which is the airport. And so the minute that I saw that area code I
knew that somebody had lost their airplane.
And 2 people had lost their airplane.
Missed their airplane. They
didn’t catch it because their retarded.
They didn’t catch it because they stayed in the Temple for 3 hours more
then they should have. They were suppose
to leave the temple at 3 o’clock to get in the airport in time to catch their
plane at 7:40. Instead of leaving the
temple at 3 o’clock then left the temple at 6 o’clock. They got there at the airport at about 7:30
and they didn’t let them on the plane.
So, we had to take care of all of that.
And then we went and picked up all the new missionaries, 8 new sisters,
and 4 new elders, one of which was American, which was really cool. I love picking up the new missionaries. It’s so cool to see their power and they just
want to do everything. They come off the
plane and they’ve done contacts with everybody on the plane, and everything,
and it’s super, super cool. So, we were
super excited about that. Then we left
them in the hotel, and we slept at presidents house. I got to walk on carpet again, and take
another shower in the really nice shower.
That was good!
That was
Tuesday, then on Wednesday we came back here to the chapel and we gave them training,
and all the trainers were here, and President just did interviews with
them. And we stayed here the whole day
because somebody had to be here with the trainers, and doing stuff with them and
organizing them. That was pretty
good. We got to see a lot of old
friends. It was pretty sad, actually,
it’s the last time I’m going to see a few of them, most of them.
Thursday,
we worked the whole day. It was
awesome. We have 3 new investigators,
and all 3 of them accepted baptism. And
then one of them, her name was Naooza (?), and she was an address that we had
acquired a few weeks ago, and we went there and she was elect. She was super, super good. It was a perfect lesson. It was awesome. It was so good. And she’s going to come to church with us on
Sunday. And she’s going to be
baptized. That’s how it works.
Today is
Friday. Right now. It’s Friday o’clock. Whoa…it’s Friday and it’s 7:30 o’clock. 7:30, I don’t know if you can say o’clock
after 7:30. But it’s 7:30 on Friday,
today we had our district meeting, then we ate lunch. Then we went and tried to visit a few of our
investigators, but they weren’t home so we went to a less actives house, then
we came here to the chapel to help with the English classes. And we are going to get started right
now. And that was our day, that’s about
all that happened. And that’s about all
I have to say.
More from email:
Do you travel this
week? This week we start divisions, but it’s just
here in Santa Maria. I’ll be staying in the area, and Elder Santos will go to
the other areas.
What is your
monthly allowance? M monthly allowance from the
mission is 140 Reais every 15 days, or 280 a month. It’s enough to get by in a
missionary life. I’m super healthy, I even went running this week.... to the
bakery to buy bread. :) ha-ha its about blocks away. But I’m going to
start running more. I do exercises with pieces of train tracks. I’m super happy
and feliz.
In all your
pictures you look like you are freezing.
You are all wrapped up. I’m using wool socks. And I always got cold
easy at home, and here I’ve gotten used to the heat. I think I’ll suffer when I
get home.
Hey, my time is almost up! I love you guys!
Elder McKee
Some of the secretaries that were leaving, and the new ones,
and Jake and Elder Santos went out to lunch.
Jake, Sister Sinclaire, Elder Santos
Sister Andrade, Sister Lacerda, Elder Santos, Jake, Elder Barbosa
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