Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving,

 

We live in a house with the Zone Leaders for Zona Industriário! It´s way cool here. We still walk everywhere, but thankfully almost everybody lives much, much closer and not far from our house. It´s awesome. Most of the members have cars, too, so if we go to teach people with them, then they give us rides. Our ward is Ala Tijucal with Bispo Luciano.

 

This last week was awesome, up until Saturday. Every day this week, we´ve been teaching Irmão André, the guy that came to Church last Sunday. He´s 66 and stopped drinking about 3 months ago. His family situation is pretty tricky. He pays for his house and his daughter that lives next door. They are always arguing with him, and he and his wife sleep in separate rooms. But, things seemed to be getting better. His wife even mae us lunch last week.So he was dead set and excited to get baptized on Sunday! We´d been visiting him with all sorts of members, and he passed the baptismal interview and everything. When we went to visit him on Saturday, he was really upset. When he told his family that he was going to be baptized and start paying tithing, they flipped out. They were already barely talking with him, but this sent him over the edge. He wanted to leave the house and never come back. Sheesh. After we got there, he calmed down, but still said that he was going to go to be with his brother for 40 days. Sunday morning, we got some members, and went to sing a hymn for him and bring him to Church. André cried during the song, but didn´t come to Church. So... he was doing better, but is still planning on going to his brothers house this Wednesday, and then stay there for a week. He still wants to get baptized and said that I have to be the one to baptize him. So, we marked his baptism for the 5th of December, after he comes home. Thankfully, we´re gonna do an FHE with him tonight, and then bring the bishop to his house tomorrow to talk with André´s wife. He´s really wanting the bishop to help them out, so we´re doing our best. We were really sad that this happened, but are still hopeful that his baptism will happen.

That was a huge paragraph. Well, that´s about it for now! We´re happy here and finding new people to teach everyday. Elder Leal is really funny. He´s really talkative and likes to call me to repentence all the time "Arrependa-se!" It´s like his catch phrase. We´re helping each other to make contacts fun in the street.

 

There was another baptism this week from the other companionship. There was this lady that came to Church 2 weeks ago, and had an interesting story. She had apparently had a dream in which she saw the chapel and 3 young men in white shirts and ties. Then, she was walking on the street one Sunday morning, and actually saw that exact image but in real life! So, she walked up and asked someone about the Church. To make a long story short, her husband and her got baptized yesterday, and their daughter will be baptized next week. It´s amazing how the Lord prepares people!

 

Have a wonderful thanksgiving! We passed by a farm this last week and took pictures of a turkey, lamb, pigs, and horses. In honor of Thanksgiving,  Eat enough for me back at home!

 

Thankfully,

Elder Carpinteiro