Jumping the Fence

Thus ends another week. Levi tells me that the Magleby´s dog, Puppy, is dead, which does put a damper on the day. On a happier note, that´s cool to hear that Ilse and Jessica are gonna serve missions. How many is that out from the ward now, 6? 7?

Today I´m praying that we find our house key, as I managed to lose it yesterday. We can still get in the house, so it´s not like we´re without a house, but it involves a complicated process of using the neighbor´s ladder to jump over our wall and small fence, and then going thru the backdoor, so finding our keys would be a very good thing right now.

On a funny language note, I found a new phrase to be careful with. I learned that “jumping the fence” in Portuguese also means cheating on your spouse, as the sister who is our neighbor informed me when I told her why we needed a ladder. The language continues to be something new and interesting everyday…ha ha

Well, we managed to get Ros. and her husband married, but Ros. got cold feet during the interview and wants to wait a bit before her baptism. Our project for the next few weeks will be seeing if we can follow the Spirit and resolve her doubts. She says that she doesn´t doubt that the message is true and already received a response, but that there´s just something that she´s lacking to be baptized right now. One of our other investigators, Sus., with a baptism date is also in the same boat.

On Saturday we checked our internet references and realized that there were a few from December that hadn´t been contacted yet, so we journeyed to the neighborhood that sits at the very edge of our area, Los Angeles. A lady that had called from one of the pass-along cards was very receptive to the message, and was one of those people that really makes me love to teach and be a missionary. Her name´s Luciana, and she´s been in search of a church for some time now. She´s always visiting a bunch of churches, (and with at least two churches for every block, Brazil has a lot to offer) but never has felt satisfied, and has always prayed and asked God to help her. She shared a cool experience with us. She said that the Saturday morning before we found her house, she decided to take a nap prayed and asked again for help to find a church again, and dreamt that two people would come to her house with the answer. She thought about the dream all day, and when we came knocking, she was really happy to let us teach. I was happy that we found her, and also happy that Elder R. was inspired to have us go there to contact her, as that neighborhood is not one that we usually work in.

Today for P-day we´ve got a Zone soccer/basketball game planned. I say soccer/basketball because technically we´re not supposed to play soccer as President decided not to allow it, due to excessive fights. Every soccer game that I´ve seen played on the mission usually almost always ends up in a fight between some of the Elders as Brazilians take their soccer pretty seriously; but somebody always ends up bringing a soccer ball to the basketball game anyway and it usually ends up turning into a good ól time on the field. I don´t think I make too bad of a goalie myself…heh

I believe that´s it from me.

Thanks for everything as always, and till next time.

-Me