Transferencia

Ola!

We received our transfers today, and We didn't have a change in our area.  I will stay with Elder D. Souza for at least one more transfer.  Elder Gomes stayed in our apartment and will receive a new companion.  Elder Delevedove is going to a new area.  We are sad to lose him, but he came in my group to the mission and spent the first 6 months here. So it was probably time for a change.  

It's raining like crazy here again.  It has calmed down a little, but we got totally soaked walking to the
lan house.  

This week we had a problem.  During Zone Conference, President Houseman changed a rule.  The rule has been that if a female member is older than 70 years old, we could eat lunch with her alone.  But now it is that we can't eat in the house of any member without a man present.  One sister didn't like this when we tried to explain and find a way to eat with them still (eating in an open area that people can see us from the street).  She got another sister involved who started talking bad to the whole ward about this.  The sisters started taking their names off the "feed the missionaries" list and saying they won't eat with us.  

When we talked to one sister, she was being very contentious.  She has a man in her house, but she refused to let us eat with her. She gave us money to go eat somewhere else ... on a Sunday. But we talked with our bishop, and he completely understood, and said that he would talk to those who were upset.  Yesterday, they were calmer and understood that this is a rule that is not for us to break.  But it is being resolved, and everything should get back to normal.

We have 2 investigators marked for baptism Saturday -- S----- and G--------.  They are a mother and daughter and are really great.  S----- is super excited and ready.  But one member told G-------- that she should probably wait and learn more before being baptized (nice). So we are trying to help her with her duvidas (doubts) this week, and we are praying that she will feel the desire to be baptized. They are great and had already started making changes with the word of wisdom before we found them. They also came to church the last two Sundays all on their own.  We passed by their home to help them go this week, and they didn't open the door. So we thought ,"Great, they don't even want to answer the door...."  But when we got to church, they were their with the 3 daughters of G-------- all ready to go!  It was a huge miracle!

I've had a pain near my stomach that has been bugging me for a while. My companion and other elders voted that I should see a doctor. So I went. The doctor said he couldn't see any problem and that I can return if I have more problems.  But it was in a spot where it could be a hernia, or a gall bladder, so I found it better to check it out before it was a huge problem.  

Sister Houseman usually contacts parents when missionaries see a doctor. I asked her not to say anything about this since it seems to be nothing.  I knew mom would worry, and where it ended up being nothing, no sense in stressing mom out.  But Sister Houseman said that I needed to at least make mention of it so that if something does happen, you guys aren't wondering, how did we not hear about this. But it is feeling a lot better this week.  I think the plan is to wait and see if it starts hurting again in a few months. If so, we will go to the better doctor.

This week was good. We didn't have any pictures this week but it was good.

I hope that everything is going well with you guys back home!  Love you all. We will make plans this weeks for Mother's Day, and we will tell you next Monday how it will work.

Com amor

Elder Nielson