My
favorite story from this week in terms of forgetting things was when
Elder Penner forgot his computer password. Our computers have a setting
on them where we have to change the passwords constantly, which meant I
had to change mine from 'shiblonisaboss' to something new, and when
Elder Penner changed his, the next day when we came in, he couldn't
remember it to save his life :P it was pretty darn funny. We searched
around the office for a solution, found a floppy disk that we thought
would help, realized we didn't know what the heck a floppy disk was or
how to use it, talked to President, and then called Salt Lake about what
to do. Since it was a Saturday, they told him to wait til Monday. As we
were leaving to achieve other tasks, I pep-talked/yelled at Elder
Penner to remember what it was, until it hit him and he was finally able
to enter into his computer again. It's moments like this one where I
question our functionality as secretaries :P hahaha.
One
thing that this week brought was a more difficult time in getting out
to work in our area. We're not too sure why that happened, but it just
did; we probably could have planned a little bit better. However, as
always, Heavenly Father pulled through in being a boss and giving us so
many tender mercies along the way.
This week,
we got to hang out with Elder Poole, an elder who was on his way home
and was in Praia for a few days, which meant we got to show someone
around about the high-life we live in the office. We felt sorta bad for
him, because there were days where we were just clicking away and he got
to just sit a do pretty well nothing. We gave him a few different
tasks, like putting all of the missionaries as contacts in our phone,
but I'm pretty sure the whole experience just left Elder Poole glad that
he didn't live our lives, hahaha. It was super fun to have him with us
though, and he even bought us bifanas our last night with him, mostly
cuz his Cape Verdean escudos probably weren't gunna do him much good
after :P He's a good kid.
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| Hanging out with Elder Poole |
One of the main
highlights from this week was Sunday for us. First off, in the morning
we had Stake Conference, for which the Praia Stake rented out a high
school gym and filled it with chairs for everyone, and we got to hear
from an Area Seventy from the Netherlands, Elder Hans T. Boom. It was a
cool thing to be a part of, having so many members together at once, and
getting to hear an Area Seventy. It was the first time in a long time
that I heard a church talk in English, which was sorta nice :)
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| At Stake conference... |
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In the
afternoon on Sunday, we were given two greenies to hang out with, one
Brazilian and another from Paraguay, which at first was a bit of a
burden, but in the end worked out really well for us. They enjoyed my
chili I made for lunch, and then after we did our weekly planning, I
went out to work with Elder Firmo, from Brazil, and we got a TON done.
Yesterday was the last day of the Portuguese soccer league season, and
EVERYBODY was watching one of the games, and so we thought it was gunna
be tough to find people at home, but we ended up teaching 4 lessons, and
so did Elder Penner when he went out with Elder Jhangiani, meaning we
almost doubled our area's weekly total in lessons in just Sunday alone!
It really was a tender mercy to say the least. It's funny, because at
first I wasn't very happy to get stuck with greenies for the afternoon,
but it worked out pretty well!
We're
gunna do our best this week to not forget stuff as bad. We're also
praying daily for a drivers license to come in. We're the only
missionaries in the mission that get their own car to use, and we can't
even use it because license 'ka ten'. #thestruggle
Love y'all!
Elder Massey
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| the weekly dog photo..... |
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| Lunch with friends including Elder McMullin - an MTC bro! |
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