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| Miracle keyboard from a member to help me with my assignment to accompany the choir at the Christmas devotional. |
December 1, 2014
IT’S DECEMBER!!! I can’t believe it. Time is flying by for me. I went to Aldeota with Elder Rodgers to
practice for a choir piece with Sister Evans.
I am getting good at sight reading, but overall my piano skills are
really terrible. I suppose that is to be
expected when I never have the chance to practice. I am kindof worried about
how I will manage at the U in the music school after my mission. After that, we went to lunch at Burger King
which is a tradition for missionaries in Aldeota. So much so that I ran into Elder Curty and
Elder Zuniga. That made my week super
awesome because Elder Curty in finishing his mission on December 15th
and I wouldn’t have had a chance to say goodbye to him before he left. He was basically my trainer when I first
arrived in Brazil and I am sure that I would not have survived without his
help. I found out that my actual trainer
is dating a 16 year old from his last area in the mission. Yeah, there are lots
of stories about him and I am just blessed to have had Elder Curty to get me
through that time. Anyways, Elder Curty will be going home to Rio and he lives
very near where Taylor is currently serving so he is going to go and see if he
can go on some teaching appointments with her before she leaves on the 17th.
That would be awesome!
December 2, 2014
Lunch today was rather interesting. We didn’t have another man with us, so our
investigator called one of her friends so that we could eat with them. And…this friend was way out there. Haha….the missionaries had already taught him
in the past so he recounted the Joseph Smith story in a rather interesting
manner. He told us that Joseph came out
of the jungle and was basically this mysterious forest man until one day a man
appeared to him and told him to start a church.
Pretty weird, and when we tried to tell him the true story, he was
convinced that he was right. The rest of
our lessons kind of followed suit and were mostly annoying. We are going to have to drop a lot of people.
December 3, 2014
I am concerned about M.
He is a great investigator and already believes everything. But he never comes to church. Anyways, we taught his 17 year old girlfriend
about the Book of Mormon and it actually went a lot better than I thought it
would. She is holding him back though
because every time he has a free Sunday, she wants him to do stuff with
her.
Probably our only solid investigator with a baptismal date,
postponed her baptism again because she is planning on going out of town this
weekend. It is getting harder and harder
to get her to keep her commitments.
December 4, 2014
We had an investigator that we dropped a while back. He has
read a good part of the Book of Mormon but he never has prayed about it and he doesn’t
go to church. Well we just stopped by to
say hello and we had a chance to teach him a little about prayer. We read 2 Nephi 32:8-9 that talks about how
it is an evil spirit that teaches a man not to pray, and also 2 Nephi 33 when
Nephi talks about how Christ himself will show you that these words are
true. Well, surprisingly he committed to
come to church to learn more.
We visited another investigator C. who is really dedicated
and progressing well, but can’t make it to church because she visits her
daughter in jail on Sundays. We had a
lesson with her and her sisters and nieces and nephews, but basically none of
them except C. were interested. When we
talked about sacrifice and how God blesses us when we put Him above all else,
we challenged her to go to church again.
She told us that she would visit her daughter this Sunday just to let
her know that she would not see her the following week because she was going to
go to church with us. That really made
my day!
December 5, 2014
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| Elder Y. didn't want to take the shirt off to iron it...he is lucky he didn't get hurt. |
We taught I. this morning and his wife about eternal
marriage and he seemed a bit off. It
always happens when his wife is around. Anyways, she actually got a bit more
interested and we ended up having a good lesson. Right after that we went on splits with Elder
Gustafsen and we taught a LOT in his area.
Some of the lessons were good, but others not so much. When I got back, it turned out that every
appointment in our area fell through and Elder H. and my comp only did a few contacts. What???
He is our zone leader out with my greenie and they didn’t do any
contacts.? Uggh.
December 6, 2014
Boring and frustrating Saturday. Our investigator C. was going
to get baptized, but didn’t show us. She was super excited to be baptized and
was ready and everything. BUT when the time came, we couldn’t find her. We were waiting outside her house when she
finally showed up… hammered.' She just walked past us into the house and
refused to talk to us. She said that we should pass by only on Monday. Yeah, what
is sad is that she didn't have a problem with drinking, she just decided to go
out to a party with her friends and have a good time right before her baptism.
Oh well, she knows exactly what God wants her to do. Sadly, we can only lead a
horse to water, but we can't make him drink. (apparently Satan gets them to
drink from another well.)
December 7, 2014
Finally someone came to church today. It was one of our investigators sisters….and
she ended up liking it a lot. We found out after church that this lady had an
interest in the church about a year ago, but stopped coming to church because
the missionaries made some self righteous remarks that offended her. We talked to her for a while and she is going
to read the Book of Mormon again. After
church we had an awesome dinner with a great family. They happen to have an electric keyboard that
they let me borrow for the next week so that I could practice for the choir…YEAH,
this was a miracle that I really needed.
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