This week was pretty great. On Monday night, Linda got baptized!! We realized we forgot to tell her to plug her nose so it was a little awkward, but she looked SO happy. When she got comfirmed yesterday, she had the biggest smile on her face. She keeps telling us "Every day I get happier and happier". :) It´s so great.
On Tuesday we were contacting people na rua, and the funniest thing happened. I went over to this old guy with a dog and was trying to ask the dog´s name, because it seemed like a good way to start the conversation. He was saying something that neither SIster Cutler nor I could understand, but then suddenly he leaned over and KISSED HER. On the cheek, but only because she turned. She was like "No não podemos fazer isso!!" and he like laughed and then tried to do it again. He was just laughing this creepy little old man laugh and trying to kiss her and I was trying SO hard not to laugh. We walked away pretty quickly.
We are teaching this nice boy, Bernardo, who already thinks the Church is true. He asked what more he needs to do to get baptized, but he is a little nervous to talk to his parents about the Church, because they don´t really like it. But we have a lesson with him tonight, and we are hoping to mark him, and practice how he will tell his parents he wants to get baptized.
Oh also I contacted some people all by myself this week. One lady at the bus stop, who was really nice. And then I got really lucky, I went up to talk to this guy while Sister Cutler was on the phone with the district leader, and I started trying to tell him who I was. He stopped me and said "Sorry do you know English becuase I´m Australian"! It just goes to show that when we are trying, the Lord will enable us to do His will... whether by giving the gift of tongues, or giving me people who speak English, haha.
Yesterday was crazy. After church, the other sisters´pesquisador Tiago got baptized. He is 19 but is more "like a criança" and he was SO excited, especially because he had to get interviewed twice (he didn´t remember enough the first time). But they didn´t have 2 Melchezidek priesthood holders there to be witnesses so the choir director had to leave to go pick up a ward member, so President Vasco and Tiago were just standing in the font in the cold water for like 15 minutes while everyone just looked at them. It was kind of awkward... but they got a witness and he got baptized. So two people got baptized into the ramo this week :) we are hoping the members see that we are taking this seriously and will start giving us a lot of referrals.
Last night we had the weirdest coincidences that I don´t have time to explain but in the end, all four of us (me, Sis Cutler, Sis Valdez, and Sis warner) ended up teaching together, to a menos-ativo and his friend who is not a member. The non-member is really nice, but she thinks she can´t be forgiven. It was so sad, she was saying how she can see purity in our eyes and wishes she could have that. We are hoping to teach her more and help her gain a testimony of the Atonement.
Oh so I guess today is some sort of holiday because EVERYTHING was closed. We are at the capela emailing right now because the library and the internet cafe and every other place in town was fechado. It´s weird how we don´t know about any of these things.
Okay I´m attaching a picture of Linda´s baptism and one of my face so you can see that I am not dead.
Oh one more funny thing. Only about half the ramo can say "Gidney" so the Relief Society president starting calling me "blue eyes" (why they know that in English but can´t say Gidney, I don´t know) so now a bunch of members call me that. Better than "one of the sisters who doesn´t know Portuguese".
I think that is pretty much all. I ate a delicious pastry this week that cost less than a euro. Yep that´s all. Okay have a great week :)
I love you all lots,
Sister Gidney
We are teaching this nice boy, Bernardo, who already thinks the Church is true. He asked what more he needs to do to get baptized, but he is a little nervous to talk to his parents about the Church, because they don´t really like it. But we have a lesson with him tonight, and we are hoping to mark him, and practice how he will tell his parents he wants to get baptized.
Oh also I contacted some people all by myself this week. One lady at the bus stop, who was really nice. And then I got really lucky, I went up to talk to this guy while Sister Cutler was on the phone with the district leader, and I started trying to tell him who I was. He stopped me and said "Sorry do you know English becuase I´m Australian"! It just goes to show that when we are trying, the Lord will enable us to do His will... whether by giving the gift of tongues, or giving me people who speak English, haha.
Yesterday was crazy. After church, the other sisters´pesquisador Tiago got baptized. He is 19 but is more "like a criança" and he was SO excited, especially because he had to get interviewed twice (he didn´t remember enough the first time). But they didn´t have 2 Melchezidek priesthood holders there to be witnesses so the choir director had to leave to go pick up a ward member, so President Vasco and Tiago were just standing in the font in the cold water for like 15 minutes while everyone just looked at them. It was kind of awkward... but they got a witness and he got baptized. So two people got baptized into the ramo this week :) we are hoping the members see that we are taking this seriously and will start giving us a lot of referrals.
Last night we had the weirdest coincidences that I don´t have time to explain but in the end, all four of us (me, Sis Cutler, Sis Valdez, and Sis warner) ended up teaching together, to a menos-ativo and his friend who is not a member. The non-member is really nice, but she thinks she can´t be forgiven. It was so sad, she was saying how she can see purity in our eyes and wishes she could have that. We are hoping to teach her more and help her gain a testimony of the Atonement.
Oh so I guess today is some sort of holiday because EVERYTHING was closed. We are at the capela emailing right now because the library and the internet cafe and every other place in town was fechado. It´s weird how we don´t know about any of these things.
Okay I´m attaching a picture of Linda´s baptism and one of my face so you can see that I am not dead.
Oh one more funny thing. Only about half the ramo can say "Gidney" so the Relief Society president starting calling me "blue eyes" (why they know that in English but can´t say Gidney, I don´t know) so now a bunch of members call me that. Better than "one of the sisters who doesn´t know Portuguese".
I think that is pretty much all. I ate a delicious pastry this week that cost less than a euro. Yep that´s all. Okay have a great week :)
I love you all lots,
Sister Gidney
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