Its DECEMBER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Cant believe it! CANT BELIEVE IT.
This
week has been sooooooooooo hoooooooot. Its been between 36-40 celsius (96-104 F)
all week............ and that is HOT. Especially for me. hahah. And yes,
I use sunscreen every day, but I still have the funniest looking shirt
tan that you have every seen..... and a watch tan..... and a shoe tan.
hahaha. Fam, you guys are gonna love it when I come home.
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| our area, and some bannana trees |
We had some funny adventures this week................
Firstly,
I just want to remind you all of my great luck with chuveiros (the
shower heads that heat up the water)............ I DONT HAVE GOOD LUCK
WITH THEM!!! Our chuveiro in Araras burnt out twice, the one in Jundiaí
once and this week, ours died as well.............. Thankfully, taking
cold showers isnt a bad thing now that it is hot. =]
But the story gets better. We told a member how the chuveiro had
burnt out, and he told us that it was just the resistence (is that the
right word in english) and that we just had to change it. And he said
"sisters, its really easy. you guys need to learn how to do it already!"
So he kind of explained what to do, and when we got home, Sister Paixão
got on a chair and went to work. After about twenty minutes of her
struggling while I am saying my prayers, I hear a HUGE amount of
banging/falling/my companion possibly dying and so I finished my prayer
quickly with a "please dont let my companion be dead" and went to help.
The chair leg had broken through the plastic drain covering and she had
fallen off, knocked all our shampoo and soap and things off the shelf
and banged her arm and neck on the toilet.......... awwwww. hahah. Poor
thing. SO, since I´m a lot taller than Sister Paixão, I tried to help
her with the chuveiro. I didnt realize that she hadnt turned the off the
electricity in the apartment yet...... So first thing I did was put my
hand on the part with the wires and got shocked at 220 volts.
WOOOOOOOOOOO. Yep. It hurt. hahaha.
In the midst of all this craziness, the pipe that pumps the water
to the shower head out of the wall, came out of the hole in the wall.
And since it was super worn down on the part where it screws in, we
couldnt get it back in. No matter how much we tried, it wouldnt stay, and
the shower head just kept falling down on our heads!
So, we made do with what we had, and took cold-water showers from a hole in the wall all week! hahaha.
okay,
not all week............ but several days. Then the fix-it guys in the
mission came to put in a new one............ only thing is that the new
chuveiro burnt out as well. Sweet. We may not have warm water, but at
least we arent taking showers from a hole in the wall now!
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| our broken shower |
Another funny story-
We were walking and
found a tree with a fruit they have in Belém, where Sister Paixão is
from. She got super excited and started looking for a way to get this
fruit (jambo) down. There was only fruit wayyyyy up high in the tree.
So, after many failed attempts to shake some down I grabbed a rock to
throw at it. Sister P. was like "yeah, great idea. you throw and I´ll
catch the jambo" and I was like "no way, you have to move out of the way
or this rock´ll fall on your head!!". She didnt listen to me and just
told me to throw it anyways. FIRST THROW---- she got hit in the head
with a rock. Yep. Told her so. But in the end, we got the jambo down
and all was well. =]
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| Sister Paixão with the jambo that took so much work to get down.............. |
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| and with the rock that fell on her head!! (dont blame me!! I warned her!) |
More about our missionary work-
We have a
good group of people we are teaching right now......... A good amount of
people, but a lot of them just wont come to church!! Frustrating
We are teaching an old man named Claudio. He is living with his
daughter in-law and grandkids who are members, and has been coming to
church with them. He is very interested in learning more, and trying to
quit smoking as a christmas present for his grandkids and change his
life for the better. We are hoping to be able to work more with him this
week!
We found a 12 year old girl this week named Gabriella.
She is friends with a family in our ward, but we found her house
randomly, making contacts on our way to another appointment. We taught
about the restoration to her and her aunt, and left the book of mormon
with them. We also invited them to be baptized, and Gabí was super
excited about it all. She said a prayer to close our lesson, and it was
the most adorable prayer I have ever heard. She said "Please bless me to
know that this message is true, because I hope that it is true...."
ahhhhhhhh. Her aunt started crying after she heard her neice pray. She
had never heard her pray before!! Its funny to realize how you can take
for granted things like praying as a family..... That isnt a normal
thing for most people.
ALSO, Gabí came to church on sunday!! she came with her member
friend Vitoria and their family, and she LOVED it. We are hoping to mark
baptism with her for this coming weekend, or the next. All depending on
if we can get in touch with her mom-- who lives outside our area in
downtown campinas.....
Love you all!!
have the best week!!
Sister Ward
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