Renovations

Well this week sure was a busy one! We started it out traveling to Brasilia and got a little bit of rain this week.

Tuesday: We had our mission conference and it was super good! We watched the movie ‘Get to Know the Mormons’ and it was so good! So inspiring and I absolutely loved it! If you haven’t had a chance to watch it, you definitely need to! Later that night we arrived in our house about 9 that night and we found out that we didn’t have any energy. So it was interesting, ha.

Wednesday: We went and visited Carmen who was recently baptized and she is the cutest! She is learning how to read and ever since she has been baptized she’s been able to read the scriptures and understand them! She was so happy about that! We still didn’t have any energy so we had to have our English class outside, ha. Only a few people showed up so me and Elder Noyes just taught them parts of our body and our clothes and sang head shoulders knees and toes with them in English, ha. It was so fun! We were able to teach Gilton this day and it was amazing. We taught him about the restoration and he loved it! He was so amazed! He is getting ready to be baptized this Saturday and is so excited! He truly was an answer to our prayers. We were praying so hard to find good men to hold the priesthood and we randomly came across him. We were walking down the street one day and we heard the song `The Club Can’t Handle Me Right Now` by Flo-rida and started dancing in the street a little bit so we decided to knock on his house and he walked out. Truly a miracle!

Thursday: We started the day out with a district meeting which was super good and Elder Zampieron talked a lot about patience and persistence and how our area is so different from others so we have to work a little different here. But it was perfect and exactly what we needed to hear. This area truly is one of a kind. It’s going to be an extremely sad day when I leave. But later that night we had a family night with some less active members and it was really good. We had each of them light a match and while the match was burning, we had to quickly say all of the things they wanted to accomplish in their lives. We shared the `Your Four Minutes` talk with them, I forgot who gave it but it was super good! I really love that talk! Also that night we started our renovation in our church. So we got home that night and the elders had knocked down two walls. They made a hole in the wall so we walked into our house and my desk was covered with brick and dust ha. Still to this day I am still trying to get rid of the dust, ha.

Friday: We spent the morning painting and cleaning the church. And that night for our bible study, we just gathered some of the benches in a corner and Sister de Paula gave the lesson that night while the elders continued working.

Saturday: We spent the entire day getting the church ready. We finished painting and cleaning. We had to move our baptism font, pool thingy, ha. So I was chosen as the one to step into the freezing cold water and bucket out the water, ha. But it was fun! That night we had a family night in the house of Carmen and it was really good! She invited all of her neighbors, ha. While we were waiting, the Elders were doing some magic tricks and one of the little kids was so amazed. He left before the message, then two minutes later he came running back in saying that he had discovered the magic! Ha, he was a hoot!

Sunday: Well we didn’t have too many people in church but we finally had all 3 hours. I got to teach young women's and I loved it! I love the youth! We also got to visit some less active members on their farms. The farms are super far from the city here but they are sooo pretty! Just tons of land and nature!

Well that’s about it for this week. This next week we are focusing on finding new investigators and helping Gilton prepare for his baptism this Saturday so it’s going to be a great week! I love you all and hope that you all have a wonderful week!

Love,

Sister Steadman