First, we had a baptism fall through this week, so that made Saturday and Sunday a bit tough. F----- has been an investigator forever! He knows all the names of missionaries for the past 10 years. He just has a fear of the water. So we will be trying to help him if we can find him.
We still had our schedule for Carnival this week. So I got to read a lot in Jesus the Christ. It is really cool. I am going to keep reading in it when I have free time.
Probably three or four times during this week I woke up at about 5 am, and when I looked over at Elder F-----, he was just sitting there with his eyes opened staring at me. So that was pretty awkward. I would role over and just pretend I saw nothing. One night he was laying in bed as I was reading, and I looked over. He had his head under his pillow, but he was watching me from under his pillow. So we will see if this continues and what is up with it. It will be something interesting, that's for sure.
We ran a couple of times this week, and one morning the bugs were pretty wicked. I took a picture, because when we got back home, they were everywhere. I had them in my eyes, my mouth, it was crazy!
Today we played soccer in Massaraduba and had a little barbeque. It was pretty fun. It rained on us for an hour straight as we played and it made for a great time. We have some pretty cool people in our mission!
The work is still going strong here. We are struggling a bit with helping people keep commitments, especially going to church. We can leave and try to drag 10 people to church, and everyone of them will avoid going. It's pretty tough, but we have a split this week, and that will definitely be something I ask for help with. Oh, and Elder Bednar will be visiting our mission. I'm really excited for that.
I will be trying to focus on ways to motivate others, and use this transfer as a time to grow and strengthen my language and interactions with others. These are things I can for sure control. If we are walking somewhere , I can always stop and make a contact in the street.
I hope you all have a great week!
Thanks for all you guys do!
Elder Nielson
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