On thursday the whole zone went to Belo Horizonte to have our last zone conference with President and Sister Frei. It was very cool. Sad, but good. Sister Frei made a giant quilt out of ties from every missionary that has ever passed through this mission since she got here. Every time a missionary leaves she cuts one of his ties, and this past month she's been asking that everyone send a tie so that she can finish the quilt. It turned out really neat. Each one has the missionary's name on it.
I've been sick since last Monday. 9 days now. It's rough. I had a cold, then it turned into something else and then a sore throat. I've been through a whole medical dictionary of sicknesses this past week. Just today I've started feeling a little bit better. Good enough to play soccer at least.
Raimundo and Beatriz did not get baptized on Sunday. They both got sick and were unable to travel to Sete Lagoas to attend our ward conference and be baptized afterwards. We are accompanying them this week and preparing them for the 21st.
Yesterday I did a division with Elder Kim in the area where I started my mission. The guy who owned the old house where we used to live saw us and stopped me in the street and we talked a little. He said that he would go to church on Sunday because of me. We met some other girls who said they would go to church on Sunday to take a picture with me, because I look like Harry Potter. I told them only if they went to church that we would do that.
Love you all,
Elder Sisco
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Not too much to report this week. We're going a lot more during the week to Paraopeba to teach the people there. The work is going really well there, we have a lot of good investigators. Unfortunately, half of the city is living together, but not married.
We're teaching an elderly coupled named Raimundo and Beatriz. They live in front of the house where we have our meetings on Sunday. They went to church once, and to a Family Home Evening that we had there last week. They love it and are preparing to be baptized this Sunday. Unfortunately, Beatriz has been in the hospital since Friday, and we don't know where she is or when she's coming back. But if she comes back by Friday, we will get them interviewed and ready to go by Sunday.
We were teaching a girl that's addicted to crack and living with a drug dealer, but she never went to church so we'll probably stop going to her house. Also, if we managed to get her to stop using drugs, I'm afraid that her crack-head boyfriend/dealer might come after us.
-Elder Sisco
We're teaching an elderly coupled named Raimundo and Beatriz. They live in front of the house where we have our meetings on Sunday. They went to church once, and to a Family Home Evening that we had there last week. They love it and are preparing to be baptized this Sunday. Unfortunately, Beatriz has been in the hospital since Friday, and we don't know where she is or when she's coming back. But if she comes back by Friday, we will get them interviewed and ready to go by Sunday.
We were teaching a girl that's addicted to crack and living with a drug dealer, but she never went to church so we'll probably stop going to her house. Also, if we managed to get her to stop using drugs, I'm afraid that her crack-head boyfriend/dealer might come after us.
-Elder Sisco
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Today I am broken. We played soccer this morning and everything hurts. I'm not sure why, I must have played harder than usual. We usually play for like, 3 hours.
Elder Martinez and I have been jogging in the morning when we wake up, so maybe that has something to do with it. I like running around here in the morning when hardly anyone is out yet, it's a pretty place.
On Sunday I went to Paraopbeba for church. Nothing of great significance happened. The Group Leader whose house we meet in works every day of the wekk until 5am and so he doesn't get a lot of sleep on Sunday because of church. During the sacrament meeting he sneakily put on a pair of sunglasses (bearing in mind that he sits in the front) so that he could close his eyes and sleep without anyone noticing. When I looked over from the sacrament table and saw him I almost laughed out loud; I had to control myself.
I gave the Gospel Principles lesson on Faith, and aside from the mini-apostasies it was a good lesson. After that we drove back to Sete Lagoas.
On Sunday afternoon Wilson was baptized. We found him through a contact that I did in the street. He chose me to baptize him, and I was nervous because he weighs about 180 pounds, I didn't know if I could handle it. Before we went into the water, I told him that, and then when we went to do the baptism he threw himself into the water and back up, which made things a lot easier for me. Unfortunately, I left a word out of the prayer and had to do it a second time. I looked up at the guy who told me to repeat it and told him, "but at least the baptism part worked out." The second time everything went great.
Afterwards, Wilson told us that when he was in the water, despite the fact that it was freezing cold because the water heater is broken, it was really "gostoso" (felt really good) to be under the water, and he wished that I had left him under longer.
Wilson is unemployed and we've been trying to find him a job. He is an ex-paramedic and is trying to get back into the field. On Sunday night, he got a phone call from a guy he used to work with asking him to come back and work on the Ambulance team because they need him. He has to do a 6-month course to finish his qualifications and it costs R$2,000 (about $800) but we're trying to see if the church can't help him out with that. When he called us to tell us about what had happened, I told him "the Lord didn't even wait one day after your baptism to pour out the blessings!"
Elder Martinez and I have been jogging in the morning when we wake up, so maybe that has something to do with it. I like running around here in the morning when hardly anyone is out yet, it's a pretty place.
On Sunday I went to Paraopbeba for church. Nothing of great significance happened. The Group Leader whose house we meet in works every day of the wekk until 5am and so he doesn't get a lot of sleep on Sunday because of church. During the sacrament meeting he sneakily put on a pair of sunglasses (bearing in mind that he sits in the front) so that he could close his eyes and sleep without anyone noticing. When I looked over from the sacrament table and saw him I almost laughed out loud; I had to control myself.
I gave the Gospel Principles lesson on Faith, and aside from the mini-apostasies it was a good lesson. After that we drove back to Sete Lagoas.
On Sunday afternoon Wilson was baptized. We found him through a contact that I did in the street. He chose me to baptize him, and I was nervous because he weighs about 180 pounds, I didn't know if I could handle it. Before we went into the water, I told him that, and then when we went to do the baptism he threw himself into the water and back up, which made things a lot easier for me. Unfortunately, I left a word out of the prayer and had to do it a second time. I looked up at the guy who told me to repeat it and told him, "but at least the baptism part worked out." The second time everything went great.
Afterwards, Wilson told us that when he was in the water, despite the fact that it was freezing cold because the water heater is broken, it was really "gostoso" (felt really good) to be under the water, and he wished that I had left him under longer.
Wilson is unemployed and we've been trying to find him a job. He is an ex-paramedic and is trying to get back into the field. On Sunday night, he got a phone call from a guy he used to work with asking him to come back and work on the Ambulance team because they need him. He has to do a 6-month course to finish his qualifications and it costs R$2,000 (about $800) but we're trying to see if the church can't help him out with that. When he called us to tell us about what had happened, I told him "the Lord didn't even wait one day after your baptism to pour out the blessings!"
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