Hey guys!
This
week was pretty stressful haha but it was alright, I guess. We have been
working in a different area this past week and it didn´t go too well.
It was a really poor area and there were a lot of things that I didn´t
need to see haha but it really didn´t give us any results. Which is so
weird, because in Rio Verde, it was in those areas that we thrived and
we had a ton of success. I don´t know, here it was different. We
were really blessed because on Saturday, everything was falling
through and out of nowhere this lady stopped us in front of her house
and told us that she was a member that had been baptized more than 20
years ago, but soon after she got baptized she fell away. She lived in
Brasilia at the time but then moved to Goiânia and didn´t know where the church
was. She told us that she wanted to go back to church but didn´t really
remember anything about the church. We told her we would take her to
church the next day and she invited one of her friends to go to come with her. They both
came yesterday to church and they loved it! It was pretty cool. The
member´s name is Iony and the friend (non Member) is Viviane. Viviane is
going to move to France at the end of this year, and told us that she
was nervous because she knows that most of the people there are not
super religious. She wants to be super religious so that she
wouldn´t fall into that. We´ll pass by there on Tuesday to teach them more about The Gospel of Jesus Christ and it´ll be great. We´ll try and mark a date with her for the 29th!
This
week was also stressful because of the sisters in my district. A new
American sister got here last week and isn´t speaking a lick of
Portuguese haha (like every other American) and is being trained by
another Brazilian sister. The Brazilian Sister always gets mad at her
and she gets mad at me because I try and help out the American sister.
It´s so annoying and I´m not exactly sure what to do. It´ll work out
though. Hopefully haha. She always tells me that I´m wrong even when I
do what she asks. I don´t understand this sister at all!
But
other than that, there really isn´t a whole lot to talk about. As for
my pant size, I´m pretty sure I´m a 32 now. I had lost 40 pounds, but it
looks like I´ve gained 10 back haha. Uberaba made me fatter because the
food was so good there and I haven´t lost the weight since haha.
Oh,
one story. We found a family this week who had been baptized a few
years ago but had fallen away because they wereconfused about some of the doctrine. They didn´t believe that families could be
sealed for all eternity. They then told us how they had lost one of
their sons this year (who had also been baptized) who was about 20 years
old. We talked to them about the importance of families in God´s plan,
but the mom told us that the dad was super furious about religion and
didn´t want anything to do with it anymore. We talked with the mom and
she started crying in the lesson and told us that she wanted to return
to church, but it all depended on the dad. It
made me really sad, but made me really grateful for God´s plan for
families here on Earth. I don´t know what I would do without my family,
and the knowledge that I will be with them for all eternity. It only
strengthened my testimony, having this experience with them.
Love
you guys!!! I hope that everything is alright with you and that you´re
all happy. Thank you so much for hooking all that stuff up at BYU with
Cooper.
Elder Hanson
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