Monday, August 27, 2012

What a great week

Óla!
Well, we had a different week.
On Tuesday after the wedding we went to the public health post because Elder Alencar was feeling really bad, there wasn´t going to be any space to attend us, and we didn´t want to past the whole night there so we just went home and slept, we left early on Wednesday to go to the hospital, the hospital was also ultra full so we had to head to a different place across town. We spent about 6 and a half hours there, it seemed like everybody in Porto Alegre got sick at the same time. I had the chance to talk to a man about The Book of Mormon in the waiting room and gave him a copy, he was really interested and I gave him the Assistants number to call and find the area that would be where his house is. Turns out that Elder Alencar was having reactions to his untreated Athsma (how do you spell that?)
I went on companionship exchanges with Elder Gull again, but this time I went to his area. Amazingly enough, this is my 5th transfer as a zone leader and this was the first time I left my area when going on exchanges. It was good, we taught a members Grandma about The Restoration, and she understood, it was a lesson where The Spirit really guided us and was strong. She had some ideas about religion and about the prophet Joseph Smith that she didn´t understand/believe in, and it was a neat experience of letting The Lord take over and He just used us to explain. We also found another guy who has been taught and goes to church has never prayed to know if what he was taught is true, so we challenged him to do so and he accepted.
It was nice to talk to Elder Gull, and I can tell he enjoys it, ha, I remember what it was like to feel trapped in a wall of portuguese. If he was my companion, I would probably mostly speak portuguese with him, but since we are on exhanges I tried to give him a nice break, but also explain things that he didn´t understand.
We ate pizza, and we bought stuff to make chocolate peanut butter milkshakes, but we didn´t have time to make it, so Elder Soares got a nice suprise when he got back.
Josiane was baptized on Saturday, and it was just really neat, it was at a hard time to have people there in the middle of the day, but there was a suprisingly good turnout and a very sweet spirit. Yesterday at church she mentioned an experience where some people came over to her house wanting to aruge with her etc, and she was feeling really angry (the class was about charity and love) and she mentioned that she became really angry but then decided to say a prayer, and an amazing relief came over her. I don´t know why but it just touched me and made me very happy to know she was putting the principles of The Gospel in practice in her life.
Lastly, I taught the primary ´the wise man built his house upon the rock´´ (primary hymn) in English and two daughters from a family that we are good friends with came up to me yesterday (two weeks later) to thank me and to tell me they can sing the whole song now. Ha, also dunno why, but it was a neat moment, and it is nice to be thanked.
Wrapping up, we are needing to step it up a bit still here, we have some great new people and we are going to pass the whole week just looking for new people to teach. We have a lot of member referals to contact.
I can NOT believe that Shaun, is at college, and I won´t even talk too much about it because it will really really really really really really really really really really freak me out!!!!

Gotta roll.
All my love, thanks for your prayers, ha I could use them.
Elder David Fransico (new knick name in the mission) Morgan

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