Monday, April 25, 2011

Howdy!

So this last week it rained and rained and rained. People don't feel bad for you if you have an umbrella, but if you put your umbrella in your bag and get all wet, then people feel bad (though i never tried that out, but other elders did, and i don't know how it turned out)

So just about all of our appointments fell through this week, but it's ok, we keep on going! We had an appointment with a member of the church that wanted us to teach her husband, a less active, so she decided to do something great. She invited us over for dinner! She is from Mozambique (which is better because Angolians, Mozambicanos, and Cabo Verdianos, are eaiser to understand, the portuguese are the hard ones to understand, and the brazillans . . . they are just another story. I love the brazillains, the pronounciate their words a lot better than the portuguese) Anyways, so we ate dinner at her house and we gave a lesson about the Death and ressurrection of Christ. Her Husband accepted our invite to hear all of the missionary lessons!, which is as good as a baptismal acceptance, and he came to church on sunday for the first time in almost 5 years!

Elder Johnson (from the mtc) and his companion (don't remember his companions name) had a baptism in our chapel the other day and the font water had a malfunction (it wouldn't come out) so me and a few other elders filled up the font the rest of the way with a hose. Our investigator didn't show up to the baptism (How Sad!)

We met a guy (I think he is mentally ill), but he stopped us and asked us for a book of mormon, which was way cool, we don't have his phone number or house adress because he said he didn't have either, but he was going to the hospital for some meds and wanted reading material, so we gave him all he wanted.

People double park here, and it really ticks some people off that get stuck.

No one has a dryer, it is all done by clothes lines, and they are actually really cool. The lines have consist of a pulley at both ends and a rope (obviously), so they can hang up one thing on the line on bottom, (there are two from the pulley system, one on top and one on bottom) and then you pull the one on top and you have room to put the other one. That way you can hang your clothes without having to move down the line, you can stand in the same spot (does that make sense) and then most have 4 to 5 pulley lines (each is a seperate line)

They have china stores here that have all you want except food, I haven't been in one yet, but we are going today.

Well, I have to fill out my letter to president before i run out of time.

Elder Hope
Muitos membros aqui chamam-me Élder Esperança.