Dear family and friends,
This week the spell check doesn't work because someone put the computer in the Portuguese Language, . . . Who would think of doing that? It's ok though, I don't even use the spell check anyways.
The week started off by losing 4 of our strongest investigators and another 4 on the very edge (mostly because of family problems, for some reason they believe that if god wanted them to be mormon, then they would have been born mormon, even though they haven't been to mass in the last 30 years)
This last week we met a brazillian guy from Santa Catarina and we taught him a general lesson and he asked in the general lesson if he could get baptized. We thought long and hard about it, for a whole 0.2 miliseconds and then told him that he could be baptized. We ended up marking him for the 10th of March. He is sort of a strange guy. He is homeless by choice. He lives in a car and has a little garden everything he wants there. He is a happy old man and so I thought he was a crazy until the second lesson with him where we taught about Joseph Smith and he knew the bible really well. He told us that he loves studying the bible on his free time, we gave him the book of Mormon and he has been liking what he has been reading. He came to church and just left on sunday right after sacrament meeting, we had no idea where he went, until after church we found him, and he told us that he thought that was the end of church. He is excited for baptism but is super nervous because he has a broken arm. I love the health care here, they put a cast on his arm for 2.5 months and then are going to take the cast off on March 12th, and he will have surgery to fix his broken arm and then they will put another cast on for 6 more months. . . . It makes perfect sense if you don't think about it!!
There was a guy from last transfer we picked back up this week that was marked for baptism. I called him without knowing his story and just started talking to him, He told me that there was no way that we were going to go to his house. After 2 minutes of talking on the phone we got an appointment and went over there. He tried to hide in the kitchen while Rute, a recent convert, was in the living room. I went into the kitchen after him and told him I was there to talk to him and not Rute. We had a lesson standing, and left with another appointment. We then watched the Joseph Smith Restoration movie with him, and he didn't understand it because it was in "brasileiro", not Portuguese. (I still think it it is a lie because I understand brazillian just fine), anyways long story short, he didn't go to church and we went over there there to find out what happened, and I heard all of his excuses and then told him that we have one word for all of those excuses, and the word is laziness . . . I don't know if I should have said that, but the following lesson that we had was super awesome and he said he will go to church next week, and will actually pray about the book of mormon this time, so I guess it worked.
So we go to a members house every sunday to eat a cake that is his "special recipie" and it is actually not very apetizing, but we eat it and say yum yum, and he keeps giving us more and more slices, well, somehow the sisters always get out of it, and so we are left eating this whole cake that doesn't taste like a cake and trying to entertain this member and his family of nonmembers at the same time, it's glorious.
Well that is all for now.
Elder Hope
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