Satan broke my bike

João Elias's baptism went great! He was pumped. We've been teaching a lot of his immediate and extended family, so it was great to see just about all of them show up. 

Funny (but also terrible) thing that happened this week:

I mentioned that we have bikes in this area. All of our investigators live pretty far, so the bikes are extremely helpful. 

One night we had a lesson scheduled with Andreia and her family, who are extremely elect, but live extremely far. I was absolutely stoked for this lesson. We finished up a lesson on the other side of town with Odillon, then started our journey to Andreia's fam. Not even 30 seconds into the journey, the pedal of my bike broke. I was going up a big hill and pedaling as hard as I could and the pedal just straight up broke off the bike, in a way I never would've imagined was possible. My only explanation is that Satan broke my bike.

Unfortunately, we had to reschedule with Andreia and her fam, and even more unfortunately, we currently have to walk everywhere.

Opening an area is tough. We started off week 1 with nobody to teach, but now we are rockin and rollin to start week 4. We have so many people to teach that we have to plan our days carefully to get the best of it.

Other stuffs:

-An investigator named Gilvania came to church. When the sacrament came around to her, she straight up grabbed a handful of bread. 

-We discovered that it only rains when we don't bring an umbrella and it never rains when we bring an umbrella.

-Even though it's a more moderate time of year here, it gets really hot and humid. I started carrying a sweat towel with me.

-I discovered that my Português and scripture knowledge is now good enough to kick butt in a typical bible bash sesh. This man was talking trash about the Book of Mormon on a street contact, so I pretty much just laid out everything I knew about the bible testifying of the Book of Mormon and my personal testimony. He started off with a really hard heart and closed off mind, not wanting to learn anything. But we cleared up the doubts and misconceptions he had and I feel he became a little more open and understanding. There was tension at first, but he ended up really liking us and being a homie.

Elder MacLay