Well it has been a good week. The only annoying thing is this keyboard that I am typing on.
Victory!!!! I was wondering if that milk would get there. It was simply a test run to see if Portugal would mail that box. The plan was send the milk and then instead of green envelopes, send empty milk cartons. I took the green envelope and wrapped it around the milk carton. Unfortunately I only have one or two more green enevelopes, but they are only €1,50 or so. I took it to the Post office and the lady told me there was no way in heaven or hell that they would ship that across the ocean in a box without charging me extra, so I said thanks, but no thanks, and put it in the drop box at the post office, and it got there.
Transfer week was quite interesting. We started by convincing Elder Borhorquez that he was the new district leader, he is still a greenie, now in his second transfer, and had him give a training in District meeting on Tuesday, until we told him that Elder Whitaker was really the district leader. We made it really convincing too. We told him that no one was aloud to have more than one leadership calling. Elder Whitaker is trainer, and Elder Alston and I are Zone Leaders, so he was the only one left. He was pretty convinced, and now we laugh about it.
On Wednesday we were in a tripla with Elder Markham. It turns out that Elder Markham and I spoke with each other when we were at BYU Idaho in the fall of 2010. We knocked on an apartment door, and a guy answered, didn't want anything, but was really rude, he came down the stairs, and pushed Elder Markham and told him to get off of the property. The funny part, is that we have every legal right to be there, but oh well, it happens.
Thursday we had a really good lesson with Natercia and are trying to work on helping her be ready for her talk on Sunday. It was really good and she is progressing really well. She also marked her temple recommend interview with Bishop on the following day.
Friday didn't go the way we wanted it to. Bishop's wife had her kid, so Natericia didn't get interviewed, but we got a guy named Bruno to the Youth Center. He is a guy that thinks he is possessed by a devil, but wants to be free, it is interesting how he feels free when we are around . . . coincidence . . . I think not!!!
Saturday Maggie, our lady that we had marked for the 23rd, decided to go to a party that was supposed to end at midnight, we told her it wasn't a good idea because african parties generally go until 6 or 7 am when planned to end at midnight. Well needless to say she couldn't wake up for church on sunday.
Sunday we got Bruno to chruch!!! We rallied all of the youth in our ward together to invite him to come to church. We didn't invite him, and left it up to the youth in our ward. They did such a good job that they not only invited him, but they got him a ride and a ton of friends in church. Our gospel principles teacher was sort of chapped with us that we told him to stay with the youth instead of going to gospel principles, due to his past and he is starting to feel welcome. I still think it was a good choice. According to Lucas, our american student here, he said that they all tried to explain the parts in the Book of Mormon a lot more clearly for him, and they all had a mini testimony meeting about the book of mormon. In the end Bruno agreeded to keep the book of mormon that the only accepted on the grounds of "borrowing the book".
have a good one
elder hope.
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