Okay, so these pictures aren't that great - but they were on the computer anyway so I figured I'd send them to you.
Here's us with the secretaries from the Belo Horizonte Leste (east) mission. We slept at their house last weekend for two nights while we were being kicked out of our house. They have a sweet apartment in the center of BH.
The next one is Elder Rodrigo and Elder Montgomery playing on the bed in the hotel.
And then me planning in our old apartment, in the middle of all our things which were being prepared for the move. We didn't even have chairs to sit in!
Love,
Elder Sisco



So, we're being kicked out of our apartment. We've all spent this whole week looking for new apartments. They made changes in the contract with the apartment building and they no longer allow resident changes. Whoever lives there, has to stay and you can't keep changing residents. That presents a big problem for us, since it changes every 6 weeks. The problem we've run into now is that no apartment building in the center accepts these changes. We have to clear out the apartment by the 17th.
All of our suitcases are in the office. We took all of the beds, tables, chairs, desks, etc. and put them in the back room. We're sleeping on mattresses on the floor. Four people in one room, and three in the other. Every night when we go to leave for our area to work, I have to remember to grab some essentials from my suitcase and stick it in my backpack for the next day. So our house is empty, and currently being remodeled.
On top of looking for a new apartment, packing all of our belongings, remodeling our old apartment, working in the office during the day and working in our area at night, we have the yearly audit of the mission office on Monday and Tuesday. The guy who is responsible for our mission that works at the church headquarters in São Paulo is going to come stay with us for two days and make sure that we're doing everything correctly and that everything is in order. I imagine he'll stay in a hotel- if not, someone might have to sacrifice a mattress on the floor for him. So this last week has been pretty stressful. And I imagine that it will continue to be until we leave here.
The amazing elect lady that we found last week fell last night. She didn't go to church on Sunday and stopped reading the Book of Mormon. I had promised her that as long as she was reading the Book of Mormon she wouldn't have even a desire to smoke. She did it, and didn't smoke on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday or Saturday. On Sunday, when she stopped keeping the commitments we had made with her, she returned to her cigarettes. I believe that her daughter and son-in-law who are from the Assembléia de Deus (Assembly of God? Does this church exist in the states?) probably talked bad about the church to her and she got scared or something. I told her "we knelt on the ground with you and prayed to know that these things are true, and I know that you felt the same Spirit that I felt; there is no way you can deny that these things are true." And she literally said that she knew it was true, and that if she were to die tomorrow she "wouldn't go to a very good place" but that it just "isn't something I can do right now". I was sad for her, needless to say, but the work continues.
Love you guys!
Elder Sisco