Wednesday, October 21, 2009

On Sunday we baptized Brenda. She is Rosângela's daughter. Sunday was one of the most stressful days of my mission. Everyone from Rosângela's family was interviewed on Saturday, and they were all supposed to be baptized together on Sunday, but were not because of the following reasons:

Vitor - His friends went to his house late Saturday night after his interview and made him go to this party with them, at which he drank his face off and then went home and puked his guts out all over the house.

Vera - Spent all Saturday night/Sunday morning taking care of Vitor, and Sunday morning decided that she didn't know if she wanted to be baptized or not.

Rosângela - Had a problem with the 4th question of the baptismal interview and therefore had to be interviewed by President Parrella before she could be baptized. She was interviewed by him on Monday morning, and he said that she was prepared and so she will be baptized on Sunday.

We are working with the other two still, to help them a) repent and b) get excited again about their baptism.

The Bishop questioned our baptizing just Brenda, since she's only 10 years old and kept asking us "where's her mom? you need to be baptizing families, not children, why aren't her parents here to support her?" So that was nice, to add to my stress. Then after that, the Bishopric had a counsel among themselves to treat the subject: "why are we baptizing children in this ward?" It's as if they didn't understand when I said, "her mom couldn't come today, but she is preparing to be baptized next Sunday."
Apparently some people starting badmouthing the missionaries for baptizing just the little girl.
I told President Parrella about this, and he said, "Elder, I'm not concerned about any meeting that any bishopric had, or any gossip that members might be spreading, I'm concerned about salvation of God's children," or something along those lines. Anyway, it made me feel better.
So that's basically all that happened this week. I can't really think of anything else.
Oh, Sister Clement was transfered to a different city yesterday out of the blue. Apparently there was another sister there who needed medical attention, but there they didn't have a doctor that could treat her, so she had to come her, and so she switched with Sister Clement. That was sad. Oh, Sister Clement was this sister from Utah that was in my District. Now it's Sister Santos from Fortaleza and Sister Reis from São Paulo.
Love,
Elder Sisco

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