Saturday March 15, 2014
The daily journal thing
didn't really get rolling until Saturday, but I'm making it a habit now.
Well today was... really
bad. Elder F. and I started our
studies in the chapel because some of our investigators said that they would
show up, but they didn’t. That’s
one of the things that I am learning in my mission; how to deal with
disappointment. You’ve got to “just keep swimming.”
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| Dengue is transmitted by mosquito |
Anyways, nothing really
interesting happened today until I ended up in the emergency room with a fever
of 103.1, vomiting , diarrhea, and a sore throat. Apparently I got some virus, but it's starting to pass. I just hope
that it passes faster. Well, I actually hope that it passes slower if you know
what I mean! I didn’t want to go,
but it is mission rule so we went, and waited, and waited some more, and
basically had the doctor tell me what I already knew. Oh how I miss my doctor parents! I wouldn't have to waste my time and money on going to the
hospital for every little thing if I was home. Anyways, they stuck me with an IV, and gave me fluids which
helped me to feel a little bit better.
That was the highlight of the day.
Sunday, March 16th,
2014
Sooooo, this is the 17th,
18th time on the toilet for me today.
I’m writing this as I am suffering from this stupid virus from
hell. It’s really not fun. I couldn’t work today because I have to
use the toilet every 30 minutes or so.
Ugghh! Curse this freaking diarrhea.
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| My first baptism! |
I did manage to make it to
the baptism today. We baptized
Vitor and Natanael…and it was the first time I have ever baptized anyone. I was relieved to do it correctly on
the first try (for many reasons).
It was a pretty great experience despite the horrible virus. One of our
baptisms fell through because our investigator is attending military school on
Sundays so he is unable to attend any Sunday meetings. That is unfortunate because he is so
ready for baptism.
We learned that Elder
Freeman is getting transferred into the zone next door, Sumaré, and Elder
Whatcott got transferred to Zone Oeste (I think). He's going to be a district
leader there!! Our new zone leader is Elder Packard (Elder Cetraro is still
here), and he's pretty cool. He was home schooled too, but he's one of the more
normal home schoolers. Well.... abnormal for a home schooler, but more normal
in his behavior. Haha. I am going
to miss Elder Freeman. I have
learned a lot from him, especially about being obedient at all times.
Monday March 17th, 2014
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| My special friend. |
This was my last day with
Elder F.. I got to see a ton of new faces at the transfers, but I also
recognized a bunch of old faces. I
think that I am getting to be an age in my mission where I am familiar with
just about all of the missionaries.
I was super excited to see former companions, Elder C. and Elder Z.
again! The transfers went well, we
just had to wait until 1:30 because the taxis were really slow today. 
So I am staying in my area, and my new
comp is Elder Butuhy. As you can probably tell by his name, he is not an American.
I don't know what to think of him yet, but we'll see how it goes! Elder Butuhy
is from Santa Catarina (one of the more southern states of Brasil) He just got
finished with his training (I guess that the Lord just doesn't want me to learn
from an experienced missionary), and he's been a member his whole life. His
parents are converts, but his older brother has already served a mission. I
still don't know a lot about him because we haven’t had
a whole lot of down time to talk.
Here are the three baptisms that we had this transfer.
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| Laricia's baptism. |
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| Vitor's and Natanael's baptism. |
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