Monday,
February 19, 2018
Alô!!!
So this week was amazing and full of adventure. So first off, we
did splits on Wednesday with Elder Cruz (my group) and Elder Souza. So I took
Elder Souza to the country just to knock on doors, do contacts and just start
more work out there because there are a lot of good people there. HOWEVER, when
we got to the first neighborhood, Imbiu, I felt a distinct impression to go
visit Maria Gouveia. Only thing about that is that Maria lives in Vale Alpino
which is more or less 2 hours walking. But I have learned to follow the Spirit
so.....off we went.
So as we were going, we did some contacts, taught a lesson to a
new investigator Sandro, and continued to walk. As we were walking we would
just pick goiaba (guava) and acerola (that’s the name, like a cherry) on the
way. Oh, and on the way two dogs thought it would be cool to follow us so that
was pretty sweet as well. But anyway, we continued walking until a bridge that
had a right (to Vale Alpino) and a left and I went.....left. I continued to
walk and walk, I passed an ice cream factory, one more dog, and just kept going
until a motorcycle pulled up next to us and asked if we were lost. I said that
we were trying to find Maria Gouveia and he said, "Uau, você está muito ferrado"
(You are really screwed). So he apparently is an inactive member that told us
that we picked the wrong road that would lead to Itaipava, which is in
Petropolis, and that we only had time now to take the bus back to the city. So,
I felt pretty down about myself when we were heading back because I felt we
wasted our time but then a miracle happened. We were waiting and a car pulled
up asking if we wanted a ride. We said of course (now, alright I know this
might not sound the best but I already have seen them in church so I thought we
were safe) and we hopped in. It turns out it was a sister of the church that
usually gives us money for lunch, but now she told us where she lives so that
we can visit them and that next time we will eat all-you-can-eat pizza. So I
learned that we should always follow the Spirit, even though the outcome won’t
be the same as you thought.
So I ran out of time because I wrote this story so I will just
leave one thing that happened on Sunday. I was walking to the stake center (I
was about 20 minutes away still) and it started to pour! I also thought that I
didn’t have my umbrella (but it turned out that I had one haha) so I walked the
rest of the way to the stake center just getting poured on and I was SOAKED by
the time I got there. I didn’t dry off completely until I got home, and this
was because I got out of the wet clothes. So that was fun.
I hope everyone has an amazing week.
Amo Vocês,
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