Boa dia Americaman where to even start...another crazy week of the mish. we had some crazy hot days and some days where it just poured. i have no idea what season it is. its been good practicing portugues this transfer. sometimes my mind does not want to switch over completely to Português so i end up speaking english to my companion. he knows zero english. its improving though. he says i speak really well and i understand almost everything. i just need to tidy it up a bit. like make sure all the words are right and learn more how to speak like a brasilian. elder ferreira da silva is cool. he wants to learn english so im down for helping him. he likes basketball so we get along well. theres still that cultural difference between us so im trying to break that barrier learning as mch as i can about brasil. its obvious that were both new on the mission. we had a tough week of work. our investigators have been really lazy so weve ended up leaving a few of them aside for a while because theyre not progressing. one of our best left us because he doesnt wanna pay tithing. i guess for us its just like second nature. a commandment of god. something we need to do. but for him its like the world. he told us all his numbers. hours he works and how much he earns. it was a really big deal for him and he didnt want to investigate the church anymore because of this. its really sad for us when this happens. i dont want to see anyone leave the church. it breaks my heart. sometimes people dont realize how important the church really is. i tell them and tell them but sometimes they dont listen and sometimes they dont understand how it could be. the method here is all churches are good. that were all folowing christ. but really theres one true church of christ that we need to follow. i know that for a fact. so this week weve been knocking lots of doors making contacts and finding new investigators. you gotta start somewhere huh? work work work. weve been working like crazy and after a week yesterday it looked as if it was starting to pay off. we visited a lady with whom we left a bom. she has her husband one daughter and 3 grand kids. she read the bom of mormon and prayed to know if it is true. she still doesnt know if shes received an answer but she is going to continue reading and go to church on sunday woth her family. im excited. also i went on division with a rapaz in the ward who is 18 and preparing to go on a mission. reminding me of going out with the missionaries. time passes fast. but we taught a man who had the question what church is of god. he really seems interested and we told him to write down his questions so that we could pass by later and explain them for him. its people like these that make me really happy. you walk into their houses and you feel a diffference than the rest. like they have a desire and have been prepared for us. were here to find people willing to listen. we just need to work to get there. we had a serious scare with our best investigators this week. ana and lucas. we went there a couple times last week and everything was really good. they were excited to go to church again and had lots of questions for us. they have really turned into our good friends. but when we went there on thursday night lucas told us that ana started working and that this wouldnt work anymore to hear our lessons. i dont think ive ever been so sad in my life walking away not wanting to do anything else. we werent really sure if we heard right because we didnt think it was possible. it was almost as if someone had broken my heart. thats when i started praying like crazy. this couldnt happen. they are so elect and are perfect for the church. i asked god to help them understand the importance of this message. with fear in our hearts we passed by again on saturday night. lucas opened the door and invited us in. we acted all normal talking about the day and asking how they were. we asked them if they had any questions. ana told us lucas doesnt want to continue anymore because he is getting tired after working and studying and then having us over so that h doesnt have time for his family. so we fought our case that this message is to bring happiness and to unite the family and that we could compromise to one day a week. lucas then told us his whole history about his family and how him and ana met. they were both crying and we had no idea what to say. they accepted to having us over one time a week and ana accepted to go to church as lucas rested the next day. i learned two things: the gospel really blesses families and God will always answers our prayers. its been a tough week to switch over to senior. but now im starting to feel in the groove and things are moving forward. were really gonna hit hard with the inactives here getting them to church and helping the rest of the family to know the church. the church is true and the work is ture. love you guys and best of the best for you.
beijos elder desanti III
