More Technology Problems

Here’s hoping that this Internet café has less problems than the one last week.

Well, we had a baptism this week. A girl named A. Paula. (Who’s the daughter of a lady who got baptized last week) She works a bunch, so we had to do the baptism on Sunday morning. It went really well. Unfortunately, the branch here is a little iffy when it comes to baptisms, as they’ve seen more than a few go inactive soon after, so we’re trying to help the members along in the part of integration.

As for the technology problems, Unfortunately, Saturday night our cell phone went nuts and wouldn’t let us call anyone, which is almost a death-blow in terms of getting investigators to church, as Sat. night is when we call around to make sure that they’ll go, if they need us to come by there and help them, etc. We kept dialing from the moment we got in the house to almost bedtime, but unfortunately we managed to make only one phone call. Many prayers were said, (and many things were thrown at the cell phone), and fortunately by morning it was working. We managed to get a few people to church, so I was happy.

So with General Conference coming up, I’m not sure what’s going to happen. Apparently, everybody has to travel to the city of Tupã to watch, so we might end up spending two days out of our area, depending on what President decides to have us do. The other problem is that this transfer ends conference weekend, so if my comp gets transferred (highly likely I think. He’s been here for a while) he’s not going to have time to pack his bags. Here’s hoping that I’ll get to watch all four sessions of conference. (In English. Last time I watched in Portuguese because there was a problem with the English TV. Cool, but why watch something dubbed in another language when you can see the original, right?)

Some interesting experiences this week. More discussions with some pastors, from local churches. These guys don’t usually want to Bible bash to much, they just don’t listen to what you’re saying and then quote scriptures from the Bible when you ask them if they understand.) A couple of crazy guys (I got a nice bear-hug from some drunken guy in at the bus-station.) And my first ever lesson taught to a JW! (A lady who’s about 50 and a bit inactive because of some health problems, and very nice. We might be doing a service project around there this week. I was surprised that she let us in to teach, as most of the people from that church get a bit ticked off with our message. Maybe Adamantina is a bit different.) My district leader (Elder Tass) did a trade with me so that he could do our baptismal interview. He’s a funny guy. We ran into a couple of people who said “Nah, we don’t want to hear your message. We’re Jehovah´s Witnesses.” To which my DL responded “Wow, cool! Us too, we’re Witnesses of Jehovah, we bear our testimonies about him and his church!” They looked a bit confused and left in a hurry, but not before each getting a pass-along card, ha ha.

Welp, sáll from me.

Till next time.

-Me