Going Forward
Hey Family!
Another week hás gone by in the muddy river! So we just got done hanging out with President and Sister Pavan all day. They came by to replace an old gas tube to our stove, and also get to know the area and the apartment. The news is that apparently a bunch of Sisters are arriving in the mission and, as President likes Sisters to be in secure areas, Rio Pardo was considered to fill the necessity. I really hope I’m not transferred again! I am loving getting to know other members and other areas, but one transfer really just doesn’t work here to see a huge result. I want to stay with all my member friends and investigators and in my huge apartment and in this cool little well-centralized city! We’ve just been finding all transfer and I really wanted one more to bring those people through the lessons and see them come to church and start liking it. Hmm… We will see.
Just to let you guys know, next Monday is my Pday. So you guys can send twice as many e-mails at one go!
I went on a division with my good Brazilian friend from the CTM, Elder Lemos. We went tracting for 2 hours without success. I interviewed the family they baptized, and it was a really great, spiritual experience. Man, so cool to see an entire family just super excited about the things they’ve learned that they’d been looking for so long. I spent about an hour in my interview with Oneiro, the dad, and I really felt privileged to meet him and we became good friends immediately. Really cool. We ended the day calling for pizza and drinking lots of coke. Good times!
One funny story. We were going to have a baptism Saturday, but Everton called us in the morning to tell us he wanted more time before he was ready to baptized AFTER we had already filled up the font and started up the heater, so we went to lunch and started to work in the area there, far from the chapel, and we FORGOT the heater was turned on until 4 hours later. So we caught a bus to the chapel and when we got there we saw all the windows were fogged up. We opened the door and the chapel was FULL OF STEAM!!! The baptismal font was half evaporated! We panicked but luckily only the hallway and bathrooms and kitchen had been open to the steam so nothing got ruined. But we were sweating from a lot more than just the heat! Glad nothing happened badly there.
But man, it was kind of just a depressing weekend because after our fallen through baptism, none of the many investigators we had invited to church showed up, even after we got a member to taxi us to investigators houses to wake them up. This marks the 5th straight week that we haven’t been able to get any investigators to church! We’ve been making more visits and finding more new people than ever, but for some reason they’re falling through on their commitments to make a visit to church!
Luckily I only got a bit sad and depressed, but after my visit with President and prayer and scriptures I feel good about what I’ve done here, but it’s going to be a bit hard to work this week, I think, seeing as we’re going to leave soon. We’re going to do what is right.
Here’s to going forward, trusting that God will lead us into the right paths as long as we are willing to follow!
I have not gotten packages, even though President brought a huge package for Elder Simmons with him. Jealous!
So awesome about the thoughts of the future! I can’t wait! I just keep thinking about how all the aunts and uncles in Arizona and maybe seeing the younger families growing their families and getting together and just having their lives together, and I’m really excited to do that same kind of thing with MY family! It would be so awesome if we could figure out all of our college and future plans to allow that to happen close by to one another! Can you imagine all us kids bringin home a bunch of rowdy rascals and toddlers and going out to eat together and see movies or go camping or do fun stuff together every weekend?! That sounds cool! I’m so blessed to have that in my future. I’m so excited too. I need to suck all the blessings I can out of this experience right now so that all can work out right when we get back.
Oh yeah, I got the info that I’ll be getting home August 16th, 5 days after Brendon! Weeeeird!!! I don’t know if I like that! But it might be cool to always have more bragging rights and say I did a longer mission than him :P.
I love you guys so much! Man our family rocks!
Keeping you all in my prayers,
Elder Oh So Conly
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