Tuesday was definitely the hardest day of my mission. We woke up and started off great. Pretty much our whole day was going amazing. Then we started teaching a teenager names Gabriel who was going to get baptized. This Sunday was the baptismal interview. We got to the very last question and that's where he told us he doesn't believe in what we've been teaching him and that he follows another church. We've been teaching him for over a month and a half and he tells us this now?! come on man! haha I was devastated. How? I didn't understand. But anyways that was my all time low of that week.
Wednesday I was still pretty bummed but we managed to work like normal. When I'm bummed out my comp is sad also, haha. So I have to try really hard to be appear happy when investigators or things like this happen. Anyways our day was normal but we found a lizard in our apartment again so we took some more pictures, haha.
Thursday we had a weekly planning which went well. All wee we have been going to the cartorio or marriage place and helping families get married. It's been great. We also stayed and taught the parents of Ronei and Tattila who are incredible people.
On Friday we did our normal stuff in the morning but then we had lunch at Irmao Leonel's hours which is a lunch we dread. haha. Not the lunch so much but the mountain we have to climb every time we eat there! But anyways after lunch we went to the cartorio again to help two more families figure out all their stuff to get married. Then we had noite integracao and we played monkey in the middle for an hour which was super fun.
Saturday was general conference. We woke up did our normal studies then left for lunch. After lunch we argued with bishop forever to open the church secretary room to watch general conference. We invited a bunch of people to watch with us which is why we wanted to use the church. But we watched all the sessions on Saturday, it was so amazing. I've never appreciated the words of prophets as much as I do now. I can testify that we have a true prophet here on this earth today and that if we listen to his words we will have eternal life!
On Sunday we did pretty much the same as the day before. again, the experience was so amazing!! On Sunday I also finished my 12 weeks training so I'm officially out of the 'training' phase. haha. But not really because I always need more training. But anyways that was my week. Just hope you all had an amazing week as well.
(week 2)
Hello Everyone! I hope you all had a marvelously spectacular week. To start off my week we had pday which nothing really happened. I made tortillas with Abarco and then I had the idea to cook with oil and put cinnamon and sugar on the tortilla. Annnnnnd ta duh! Elephant ears haha! They were exactly the same but the last was really good. So that's all that matters, right?
On Tuesday we had Aula de Ingles which turned out to be Aula de Espanol because I let Abarca teach this one haha. After that we played ping pong. On Wednesday we taught at Irmao Ronei's house a lesson and they were playing Moana so we got to see a little bit of that. We didn't really do very much after that. Haha.
Thursday nothing much happened.
On Friday we managed to walk about 14 kilometers which is about 9 miles. Our lunch was super far away so we had to alk there, then walk back to our area of proselyting for that day. Also, when we were walking to an appointment the google car drove by us and of course we had to pose for the picture haha. We also had Noite integracao which was pretty fun.
On Saturday we taught in the favelas a girl and her family which was great. Her dad got home from prison and he was definitely drinking coke with vodka the smell was horrible. Also we had a birthday party for a man named Emiliano in the church with a tone of members. He turned 90 years old!
On Sunday we worked a ton and had a great day. This week was pretty boring, haha. Well, not boring, but normal. Its never boring here in Brazil haha. That was my week. I hope you all had an amazing week also and I can't wait to hear from you all.
Love you!
Elder Whelan
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