So this week was super crazy. It started off by us and the AP's having 13 investigators to church, so that was great. We also rounded up a bunch of 12 year old kids and had them come to the meetings which was a disaster. Never again. They got bored during the second hour (Sunday School) and left the class. But they didn't go home. They hung out at the church and started playing some loud music. We had to admonish them a couple of times that they needed to either be in the class or head home. But they had come with our ward mission leader who uses his VW minivan to round people up and bring them to church. So they had to wait for a ride home. We did get them back into the class, but when it was over, they were the first ones to the minivan and everyone else had to wait until they got dropped off. Who knows what might come of it, but right now it didn't seem like a positive experience.
We helped two sets of missionaries move to new apartments back to back on Monday and Tuesday. One was a three hour one way trip into the interior. We saw some cool landscapes that reminded us a little of Africa (or at least the movie The Lion King). During one of the moves, I was carrying a stack of boards and went past the apartment. As I was coming back down the stairs, my foot slipped and I bounced down the stairs on my back with boards landing on top of me. Fortunately, my head didn't hit every step on the way down, but my back is feeling a little stiff. But I'm okay.
Wednesday was a holiday, so everyone was avoiding work. Everything was shut down. However, we needed to hang a whiteboard in an apartment, but when we got there, the doorman told us we couldn't use a drill in the apartment because it was a holiday (people sleeping in, I guess). After some discussion, we said we needed to do some other things as well and went up to the apartment. It was on the top floor so there were no sleepers above us, and the doorman would not be able to hear from the first floor. We checked with neighbors on both sides who had no problem with us drilling. So we quickly buzzed 8 holes and go the white board hung without disturbance or incident..
Thursday I went to the Federal Police to renew 4 visas. While there, I ended up helping a man from Texas do a first register to get home. He couldn't understand Portuguese and apparently didn't have all the paperwork he needed. I was able to translate for he and the agent. He had his computer and a heat printer (no toner required) and was able to print out what he needed. He was very grateful and I was sad I didn't have an English Book of Mormon. But I have his address and I'll see that he gets one. He has a wife and two kids, and I could picture them dressed in white. He is a welder working for a large U.S. company.
Friday I worked in the office trying to catch up with everything that we missed earlier in the week.
We have been finding new people to teach, including a man named Pedro. His nickname is Fofinho (little cutie) that some little kid gave him and it stuck. He is super interested in the Book of Mormon. He and his wife are legally married, and we are hopeful that they will come to church tomorrow. We will go over there right now to try and teach him.
Overall, a pretty crazy and productive week. Hope you all have a great week.
Love,
Elder Nielson
Leo and his mother Rosangela
Our lunch today.
Apartment buildings of people we are working with.
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