One of the main reasons this week was so
strange was due to the fact that Elder Mason and I had legitimately one
day of regular work in our area. However, we managed to hit ALL of our
goals we set (more or less), and saw many benefits from our labors this
week.
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| Chowing down with Elder Mason |
The roller coaster started last Monday
night, when the Zone Leaders told me they'd be coming over the next day
to go on a division with Elder Mason and I, both in our own area. This
proved kinda stressful at first, cuz we had planned out ONE solid day
for ONE dupla of elders, but had not planned out exactly how we would
have TWO days for TWO duplas, so the next morning took a significant
amount of praying and thought to make sure we could figure out a way for
two duplas to work in our area. In the end, when they came, Elder Mason
and Elder F. Santos, from Portugal, went with the scheduled plan for
the day, and I took Elder Rodrigues, from Praia, around our area in
Lapinha in Cova, and even though we had scheduled NOTHING with anyone,
we ended up teaching 8 lessons that day alone, which was a new record
for me in a day. It was a lot of fun, cuz Elder Rodrigues was being
pretty pushy with people to get lessons, like, 'come on, lets just talk,
5 minutes, that's all, 5 minutes' and they'd all be like, 'man, I don't
got time, I gotta take a bath' and I'd come in and play good cop, and
be all like, 'Aww man, I getcha man, no worries, sounds like you had a rough
day' and chat them up and bit and then be like, 'hey man, we know
you've got time for a couple prayers and a short message, can we go sit
in your house for just a sec?' and they'd usually give in. It was a
bunch of time. Rodrigues and I made a good team!
The
next day, I had to do some baptismal interviews for the other Elders in
our district, so right after the Zone Leaders left Wednesday morning,
we met up with the other elders, and I went out with Elder Silva, from
Portugal; he's a greenie too. SO, that meant Elder Mason and I had two
consecutive days not working with each other. It was weird :P While I
was up in their area, I convinced one of their recent converts to make a
cover for my Portuguese Bible, and I must say, it's pretty incredible
and lame at the same time :P I love it, but I'm sure if y'all saw it,
you'd just be like 'really?'. The mission makes you appreciate the
little things!
Thursday brought Zone Meeting
for us, which was fun. The Zone Leaders had asked me the day before if I
could play another hymn on the harmonica for the zone, so I prepped a
mash up of Praise to the Man with We Thank Thee O God For a Prophet, and
since I didn't have a whole lot of time to prep, i t was VERY not
perfect, but to make matters worse, as I was playing it, I looked out
and saw Elder McMullin making faces at me, and it made me mess up :P I
think it still went well for the most part though :)
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| Zone Meeting |
The
end of the week was where things started to smooth out. We went out
to Tinteira on Friday and had an investigator there tell us he knew that
what we taught was true, which was incredible to hear, and we also had a
bunch of less active people there promise us they would come to church
on Sunday. Sure enough, as Sunday rolled around, we had 6 people from
Tinteira show up, having walked an hour in the heat to come, which was
not only incredible, but they apologized to us for not bringing more!
They told us next week they're going to bring even more to church. I
think that was just about the best part of this week, seeing those
people walk to come to church for the first time in MONTHS for many of
them, and it caused for our ward to have the highest frequency it's had
since I came to this area. It was so awesome :)
One
funny thing from the week I guess, on Saturday we were with a member,
who told me that I had to give a 20 minute talk in church the next day,
and thought that I knew about it. To my surprise, no one had gotten the
message through to me, and so Sunday morning, I had to prep a 20 minute
talk about missionary work, but to my luck, as the time passed in
Sacrament Meeting, I only had to give 10 minutes of it :P the final
speaker didn't end up having any time like at all :P Cape Verdeans don't
like to go over the hour on Sacrament Meeting, so....
It's been a pretty rad week. Hoping for it to be even more rad this week!!
Love y'all!!
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