Russian Mountains

Thanks as always for the updates on the football and Rob´s blog http://maglebymissionaries.blogspot.com/.

I liked that Ferris Wheels are called “Hell Wheels.” Portuguese has a funny one as well. In Portuguese, Roller Coasters are called “Russian Mountains.” I dunno why.

This week was an all time high for me and my comp for investigators visiting at church. (I´m not a number guy so I won´t say how many, but I was happy with the turnout.) Next week is the end of the transfer, so we´re trying to see if our baptism that we have scheduled for next week will come thru.

I had a good experience giving one of our investigators, Solange, a blessing. She might have to go in for surgery as she suffers from digestion problems, and asked us to offer a pray on her behalf. We took the opportunity to teach her about the Priesthood and blessings along with the Word of Wisdom, and how she needs to watch what she takes into her body. She already had a firm belief and knowledge that alcohol, cigarettes, drugs, tea and coffee (rare to find somebody who accepts the coffee part right off the bat) aren´t good for the body, but she needed help to see that the stuff she liked to eat (chocolate, soda, BBQ, some types of meat,) weren´t helping as they aggravate the problem and therefore she should avoid them. It was an interesting learning experience for me as well, as the “all things in moderation” part became more real to me. If you´re eating and drinking stuff that could potentially kill you, that´s against the Word of Wisdom as well.

Another interesting experience as well. We went to go contact a reference of someone named Leticia, but unfortunately we found that her house number didn´t exist. I said a little prayer for help, and, though I didn´t feel a specific prompting, decided that I should make an effort and knock on the door that was closest to the address. A bigger surprise was that somebody named Leticia happened to be at that house, though it wasn´t the same Leticia we were looking for, and she was visiting as well. We found that she had been wanting to learn about the church for a while as her ex-boyfriend had been a member. She had visited Mormon.org and even sent in a couple of questions on the ask a question part, but never had the courage to visit the church or ask for the missionaries. It was a cool moment, as we found somebody that had been prepared to hear the message. Prayer answered, kingdom moves forward. Zing!

Welp, that´s all from this side of the equator.

`till next week!

(Might be a bit later depending on if I get transferred. My gut is telling me no, but we´ll see if that´s just the rice and beans talking…)

-Lucas Heperius