I loaned my copy of the Restauration DVD to an investigator for her to watch this week. When we went back and asked her how it was she said "my son broke the remote control, so we couldn't change the language options. We watched it in english and I didn't understand anything, but the images were pretty."
On Monday I did a division with an elder from my district. He came to my area to work for a day. There is an old lady in our ward whose husband went to church on Sunday so we went there to visit them and see if he would let us teach him. He's old and crazy. He told us that he's a prophet. We talked to him (or rather, he talked to us, since he was the only person doing any talking) and then his wife (the member) came out with a tray and offered us coffee. When we declined, she insisted several time and finally brought the tray back into the house and gave us water instead. I think someone needs to have a talk with her.
Sunday was my week to go to Paraopeba. I went with Gabriel, the second counselour of our ward this time.
Since we have our meetings in this guy's garage, sometimes things can be a little informal. For example, at 9:00 everyone had arrived and was sitting down waiting for the meeting to start. Alcide's (the guy who owns the house) daughter was still in the bathroom getting ready, and so he stuck his head in the window of the house and yelled "HEY, JESSICA, WE'RE WAITING FOR YOU, LET'S GO!" And then she came and we started sacrament meeting.
Since it was Fast Sunday, we were nervous that there would be a lot of dead space during sacrament meeting, since there are only about 12-15 people who go every Sunday. Things went pretty well at first, and then after everyone who wanted to had borne (word?) their testimony, there was a dead space. Then this old lady looked around to see if anyone else would go, saw no one and got up for the second time and bore her testimony again. Only the second time she bore her testimony that Joseph was NOT Jesus's father, he was his Step-Father. She made that very clear, stating it several times, and then sat down again. The meeting ended on that spiritual note.
This is the same lady who makes comments to everyone on every person's testimony after they're done.
Afterwards, I gave the Gospel Principles lesson about the Priesthood. I think it went over pretty well. I hadn't given a lesson in church in my whole mission until Sunday.
A year and a half ago, some missionaries baptized a kid named Felipe. On thursday he left for his mission in São Paulo. His parents are not members. The missionaries have been teaching them ever since Felipe and his brother were baptized. Now that their son has left for his mission they are showing more interest in the church, and are even attending church and reading the Book of Mormon. We're going there tonight with a member (Felipe's future mother-in-law) to teach them. Wish us luck!
The work here is going incredibly well. I've gained a strong testimony of obedience, and how we can obligate the Lord to bless us when we obey his laws. This week has been great so far. Yesterday we found seven new people and marked seven baptismal dates. It was great.
The Bishop here in our ward is amazing. Remind me if I'm ever bishop that I want to be just like him. He's very kind, spiritual, and everyone loves him. Every time we go to his house he gives us fruit.
A girl that was baptized a few months ago had an epillepsie attack out of nowhere and went to the hospital yesterday. We went there to see her, but she was sleeping. Hopefully she gets better.
-Elder Sisco