So in short, my meeting today was cancelled, and I am being transfered to Vasco de Gama with the assignment to break some missionaries of their lazy habits. I don't have a lot of time.
This last monday we had a fun family home evening with our Recent Convert Brasillians. They cheated really bad, it was really funny. The game was seeing a word and describing that word without saying other words. Elder harvey looked at me and and said "Tu . . . " and I said "Burro!!!", I was wrong, the correct word was Santo, but it was funny. (Burro means donkey, Santo means Saint)
On tuesday we spent the day contacting with a member from Braga that took us around to meet her friends.
Wednesday all of my recent converts got together and we had a big going away party for me. I knew I would be going to lisbon and we had a great time and have some great. We marked a really cool couple for baptism as well.
On Thursday we had a scare. Right after we got home, a recent convert family called us and told us they were attacked. It is the lima family that was baptized right before we got there. They said that they had been beaten up and her boss let her sleep at her house.
On Friday we went to go and try and get some stuff out of the house with the 18 yr old kid and she told us that it was dangerous and she called some of her friends to protect us. After 30 minutes of waiting a taxi pulled up with 4 huge black guys got out to walk down with us. We got to their house to take the stuff out, and their neighbors started calling us all sorts of names and started coming out to fight us. We told them we are here in peace and don't want any confusion, we are just going to take the stuff out of their house. Then their son came out with a crowbar in his and and said that he was ready to hit anyone that came against him. One of the black guys rushed in the house grabbed a knife and said, look, we are here for peace but we will mess you guys up if you are here for a fight. needless to say there were 3 of them , we had 4 huge gangster guys with us, 2 missionaries, the 18 year old son, and god on our side, they gave up and let us get the stuff from their house.
On saturday satan worked overtime. we found a guy that said he wants to convert, and our couple that was marked fell through. Their son has banned us from talking to them.
Sunday we had the worse sunday in a long time. There were only 28 people in church. There were 13 people there that we had been working with. Everyone was traveling.
Elder Hope
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