Hey everyone! So this
week has been pretty good. We have once
again been pretty busy getting ready for transfers next week but I´m getting
better at organizing everything that I have to do so it´s been better. We haven´t been able to leave to work a whole
lot this week which is the thing that I dislike the most about the office. We have been working on finding new people to
teach. But it´s been really hard this
week because of a holiday here called São João.
It was on Tuesday but the celebration lasted pretty much all week. It was really cool I´m not gonna lie. Everybody here was lighting off
fireworks. Like the cool ones because
there are no restrictions here. Maybe
there are but I don´t think they do anything about it. And almost everybody lights bonfires in the
streets here to celebrate. Like every
street you could look down and just see bonfires lining the streets. Like I said I thought it was really cool. I was super bummed because I left my camera
home so I tried to take some pictures with my cell phone that I use here but
they didn´t turn out too well. I´ll
still send a few of them. But it was
still really cool! There were constant
fireworks going off all night, like you could hardly distinguish one from the
other, they were just continuous. The
bad part was the smoke. There was so
much smoke from all of the bonfires and fireworks it made it pretty hard to
breathe. Elder Durê has really bad
allergies too and he wasn´t doing too good so we had to go home early that
night. But even in our house we don´t
have glass windows. We just have wooden
shutter things that close just enough to block the light and rain but not the
air. There was so much smoke. It was like when you´re at a campfire and the
smoke keeps blowing in your face so you get up and move to another spot but
you´re just so beautiful that it still follows you. Maybe that´s just a problem that I have ;)
But yeah it was like that. No matter where
you went you couldn´t get away from it.
The city looked like it had just been bombed or something. But like I said, I thought it was awesome
haha. I was walking around snappin’ pics
left and right haha.
So as for the actual missionary part of my life. We´ve been teaching a girl named R. She´s about 16 and we met her last week. She´s really great. We´ve been teaching her about the Restoration
and the Book of Mormon and she has been progressing really well. The only problem is she has some problems at
home and her parents don´t like us and they don´t want her to have anything to
do with us. But we´re going to keep
working with them all and see what happens.
We got a new companion who will be staying with us until the transfers
next week. His name is Elder Concha from
Peru. He´s way cool, I like him a
lot! But that pretty much sums it up for
this week. I hope you have a great
week! I love you all! A igreja é verdadeira!
Elder Harris
Pics 1,2,3 - A bunch of fires from Tuesday
Pic 4 - Brasil and Paraguay have a big soccer game today and
Elder Durê is half Brazilian half Paraguayan so we´re reppin’ Paraguay haha
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