This week was quite an amazing week. Well, it started out great and then the World Cup started, which would be a great thing if I weren´t a missionary haha. But I´ll start with the good stuff first. Monday we had a family night with a semi-active family and it was awesome. There are NINE kids in this family, and seven still live at home. It is always a mad house while we are there with kids running and jumping off the walls, but it´s still so much fun. They have every type of kid you can imagine - punk rocker, drama queen, brain nerd, princess, attention seeker, everything! Haha but the parents are working on getting to the temple and the family night was great.
On Tuesday we had pretty much nothing to do, so we decided to do some tracting. Usually I don´t like to tract because it´s really not effective, and working with members is always the better way to go, but sometimes it´s just gotta be done. We started knocking, and most everyone gave the same excuse as always "Oh i´m really busy right now" or "I´m leaving right now" or "i´m catholic." But we ended up at the house of a mom and two kids. She looked pretty stressed out and didn´t seem like she wanted to talk to us, but brought some chairs out and sat down with us. We asked her how she was doing and she just started telling us everything. I think she talked for 20 minutes straight about the problems she has been having with her mom and the trouble she brings into her life. She told us how her mom is just a terrible person and doesn´t want anyone to be happy and makes everything miserable. We just listened happily and patiently and then began to talk about how we can help. We told her about the message that we have and that we could visit her mom if she would like. She then began to ask lots of questions about why we´re here, about the church and everything. She told us she has been looking for a church that doesn´t have lots of rich people, and that doesn´t ask for money every time she goes. Haha so we invited her and her family to church, but they weren´t able to go this week. By the time we got to this point, her husband showed up, and he seems interested as well. We didn´t have time to share more about the restoration, but plan on going back this week. So that was a cool experience!
Wednesday, we taught our golden investigator, Luis. He is basically ready to be baptized now, but has the whole work trouble. He has to continue to work in Porto Alegre through the world cup but afterword he will be able to stay in ijui for good. So we just have to play the waiting game. We started off asking if he had any doubts or questions, and he asked "So you were telling me about the Celestial Kindgom last week and I have a question. I know it´ll will be great and happy to live with God and all, but what are we going to DO there? Are we just going to rest for the rest of eternity? That doesn´t seem very happy to me. What is the purpose of going to the celestial kingdom?" Yeah, never had an investigator ask that before haha. We explained that we will continue to progress and learn, that it will be similar to our life here, just a lot longer. He is solid, and we just have to wait for him to visit us for church.
So after Wednesday, things went downhill. The cup started with Brazil vs. Croatia Thursday and no one wanted anything to do with us haha. We ended up going to a members house to "teach..." haha. It was an awesome game and Brazil looked great. I´m thinking Neymar is my new favorite!!!!!! Everyone was screaming and going crazy, it was awesome. Friday it poured rain all day which was not the greatest...Saturday nobody was home that we had planned to visit, and everyone else was watching the games all day. Sunday was about the same. Everyone watches every game here, no matter which teams are playing, which makes life difficult. And there´s games at 1, 4 and 7 so it never stops! It´s tough, but what do ya do! Just keep working hard and endure! And not gonna lie, it´s really cool to be here with all the excitement and such. People love to tell us what´s going on with all the games, and it sounds like there´s been some exciting ones. I´m hoping and praying the US can pull it through tonight!!!!!! Should be a good one.
Well this email has been all over the place, and I didn´t get anything spiritual in there...sorry about that. But just know that I love you all! And if you´re struggling with anything, take it to your Heavenly Father. He wants to help, no matter what the circumstance. He will always answer your prayers, i promise you that. Have a great week, Go USA, and Go Brasil!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Love,
Elder Weight
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