Olá Família,
This last week was good. They had a free community wedding planned on Sunday morning, so we got our investigators the information and went with them to the event. We got there and there were around 150 or so others waiting in line. But no one else was there, no government officials to sign the documents, or anybody to perform the services. So it was a little awkward when we showed up in white shirts, ties, and bags. We got a lot of looks. haha. We waited for around an hour then everyone started to disperse. A wedding here is around 800-900 reals which stinks because these people that can´t afford to get married get their hopes up only to stand in the sun for an hour. But hopefully there will be another one soon. We had a little bit of an incident the other day when we dropped the keys to the church down the street drain. The grate was cemented down so we couldn't reach them. It was dark and started to rain, so we had to get them fast or the water would carry them to the river. We found a branch that had a little curve, and used the light from our cell phone screen to see down there. Luckily we got them out before to long. haha. A cool experience this last week was a few days ago. We have an address to an investigator, but it is up a stairway. The last time we passed by it was dark and we decided that we didn't want to get stabbed so we moved on to our next appointment. However this week we passed the stairway again and I felt the we should go up and see if any one was home. The daylight helped too. haha. We hiked up a ways but couldn't find the house, but we kept going anyway, trying to get help from the neighbors. We stopped for a breather and looked down where we came from. We saw 2 heads poking into the street, so we went back down and greeted them. They are a couple Vera and Rojelho, they aren't married, and smoke a little, but are really nice and accepting. Vera has been taught lessons before and been to church, but was dropped by the missionaries back in January. We taught them the Gospel of Jesus Christ lesson and it went really well. I didn't have much of a voice because I have been a little sick the last couple days but they agreed with all of the doctrine. The 5 principles (for those who aren't missionaries) are faith, repentance, baptism, the gift of the Holy Ghost, and enduring to the end. They accepted our invitations to pray and read the Book of Mormon, too. Really cool to find these people that expressed their problems and troubles in life and were excited to meet with the missionaries again. I learned that 9/10 the first impression is the Spirit, the second is the adversary, and the third is you making sense and debating about it. When teaching or sharing the Gospel, always follow the first voice. The spirit tells you what Christ would tell them, so be prepared to switch your lesson plans or slow down for a couple minutes and explain a piece of doctrine a little differently. Every thing is going well here and I am glad to hear that thing are going well at home too! Love you Guys!
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