This week I'll start my email off with a cool little miracle that happened this week!
So we've been teaching this really awesome old lady named Mariah Pa Da Silva. She was super good about studying the pamphlets and following up on commitments. Things were really good and she had a strong desire to be baptized. Then, we lost contact with her for about 2 weeks. Also, I was really nervous that our next lesson wouldn't go very good because we had to teach the Word of Wisdom and she had been smoking for more than 30 years. I was worried that she would lose her excitement about the first few lessons.
Then on Saturday, I had the feeling that we should stop by her house. She was FINALLY home. Her sister had been in the hospital, so Mariah was staying there with her.
We taught the Word of Wisdom and she seemed to be really receptive. At the end, I invited her to follow the teachings of the lesson. She said that she had already stopped smoking this past week (she had been wanting to stop for a while and wasn't able to smoke at the hospital). She was very excited about the blessings that would come from living the Word of Wisdom! Now we got a baptismal date with her for the 26th of October!
Overall, it was a slow week. Almost all of our appointments fell through, which was really frustrating, but my comp is getting a nice taste of the mission life.
My comp is solid. Training him won't be too bad, even though I've been surprised by how many things I've been able to teach him so far. I'm learning like crazy and it's cool to see how the Spirit is helping me understand and say everything I need to say.
This week we have been teaching this really amazing family! Vanusa Smith, the mom, was baptized a long while ago and has the desire to be active in the church again. She has 9-year-old twin boys that she named Joseph Smith and Hyrum Smith (PRETTY DOPE AM I RIGHT?). I'm just trying to figure out how these Brazilians have the last name 'Smith'.
Funny story of the week:
I've mentioned that people always point at me and yell "Alemão" (German). I must've been looking extra german this week because it happened more than usual.
This one guy that we talked to kept insisting that I was German, no matter how many times I mentioned that I am American. He started trying to speak english to flex on his friends, but our conversation didn't get very far. To keep his street cred up, he told his friends he could not understand my english because I 'have a very strong German accent.'
Have a good week!
<3 Elder MacLay
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