Well everyone, this was another super great week! So on Tuesday we were doing some street
contacting and we found this 15 year old boy named P. He is so awesome and was so prepared to
receive us and the gospel. Usually we do
street contacts and people aren´t really interested and that´s kinda how it was
with P. too but for some reason we decided to go back to his house the next
day. I guess I´ll rewind, I had just
prayed the night before that I could be an answer to someone's prayer. Which is cool because I hadn´t prayed for
that yet. Anyways we went back and we
started teaching on the restoration. P.
is one of those kids who is super intelligent and loves studying and to be
honest is probably smarter than I am.
Which is cool because it´s really hard to find those kind of people
here. We got to the Joseph Smith part
and it like hit him. He was asking all
sorts of questions and he was explaining how he felt exactly like Joseph Smith
because he had been going to all sorts of churches and studying up on religion
but he just couldn´t figure out which one was true. At the end we asked him if he had any
questions and he was like, just one... "Can I say the closing
prayer?" So we were like,
"Heck yeah!" And he gave one
of the coolest prayers I´ve ever heard, he thanked Heavenly Father for sending
the missionaries to show him the truth and how we were an answer to his
prayers. Definitely one of the coolest
experiences I´ve had on the mission. To
make a long story short, he is already half way through Mosiah in the Book of
Mormon and his baptism is this Friday.
The Lord hears and answers our prayers!
In other
news, one of the missionaries in our house, his sister lives in Provo, so she
sent him a package of American snacks and what not so we had to show the
Brazilians how to make smores haha. We
roasted the marshmallows over the stove and it was so bomb! We were at a lunch with one of the members of
the ward and there is a young woman from the ward who is living with her grandparents
because her mom moved to Utah and married a guy there but the daughter can´t go
yet because she hasn´t gotten her visa.
Anyways we skyped with her mom from Utah. She hasn´t been there for very long so she
can´t speak English very well yet and she says it´s really hard. I was just like, I feel you homie. So for all of you guys at home, if you happen
to meet someone who can´t speak the language, be nice to them! It´s one of the hardest things ever!
We had
dinner at a member’s house and they gave us this stuff called tapioca, I´ve
talked about it before. It´s really
good, they gave it to us with shrimp and coconut. If you knew me before the mission, you knew
that I hated shrimp or seafood in general but I´m eating it quite a bit and
it´s not as bad now haha. They also gave
us avocado juice. It was really weird
because you went to drink it and it smelled like guacamole and then you taste
it and realized that it was sweet. It
was really weird but actually not that bad haha. Man it seems like all of my stories today
were from meetings with ward members.
I´ll share one more I guess haha.
We were at lunch at a members house whose sister is hardcore Catholic. We were eating all nice and friendly and then
after lunch I shared the message and I just shared it on Christ because I
figured I would share something that everyone would enjoy, even the
Catholics... Boy was I wrong. I shared
verses from 2 Nephi 25 and 26 which is like all about Christ but apparently it
was from the Livro de Mórmon which the lady didn´t like. She started chewing us out about how nothing
was true from that book and I was like, man I´m just tryin' to spread the love
of Christ here! She then proceeded to
tell how we are all doomed because of the fall of Adam and we tried so hard to
convince her that the Fall was a good thing but she just wouldn´t have it. So we had to just leave. It´s super sad to see how many people lack
the truth but they are just too stubborn...
Freaking Laman and Lemuel....
But we did have a baptism this Sunday. A 37 year old man named N. He is really great and we had like half the
ward at his baptism so that was really awesome. This morning we had a big Zone
activity here in Panatis. The whole zone
came and we played basketball, frisbee, and football! Real football! Well, kinda, it was with a nerf ball and it´s
tough to play with Brazilians who have never touched a ball with their hands. It's all about soccer here. On the plus side, we did have some pretty
good kickers on our team haha. But that
was about it for this week. I love you
all, A Igreja realmente é verdadeiro!
Elder Harris II
P.S. Sorry for not
sending pictures this week but the computer is being dumb.
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