Tuesday August 30, 2011

Oi Família,This week was a good week other than the rainy and cold weather towards the end of the week. Last P-day at night we had a family home evening type of thing with Paloma and Evandro. It was really fun and we played a couple games and had popcorn because Brazilians love to eat popcorn with seasoning for meat or with sugar or just a bunch of other things. Then on wednesday we had meetings at night and set up thursdays, starting this thursday, to do English class at night. The ward is really liking that idea since we have two american missionaries. Then we also set up a program called Book of Mormon program which is where every sunday we bring 2 copies of the Book of Mormon and two members from a specific group dedicate a Book of Mormon and give to us to take to that person. Then on thursday we took a bus for my first time inside the city of Lajeado. We went to an area that is an hour and a half away. We visited a lady that called us and wanted us to visit but it was kind of a waste of time because she didn´t want to read the Book of Mormon or even go to church. But we visited her because we promised we would. Then at night we went to the church and taught the young women how to make cookies. They wanted to see an american do it so that they didn´t do it wrong, because they don´t make cookies here in Brasil they just buy them from the store. Then we also visited Marroni and got him to start reading the Book of Mormon. Then on friday we did alot of finding and found a new lady to teach named Noeli, she seems pretty interested but it is going to be some work. Then we also visited Cleber and Vali, his mom, and taught about the gospel of Jesus Christ and the importance of baptism. We invited them to be baptized and Vali said she was not ready because she is not sure if her husband will be alright with it and etc. She said if Cleber wanted he could be baptized but for some reason he still doesn´t want to be baptized. We told him to write down his doubts or questions and next time we come by we can dicuss them all. On saturday we did alot of finding as well and we found a couple potential investigators, one of them was a referral that the Azevedos gave us and we are going to visit them tonight. On sunday only Cleber came to church but that is because Francine got in a small motorcycle accident so she couldn´t really come but she is planning on coming this week although it is stake conference in another city. It also was raining all day and night on sunday. At night we visited João and Camila and had dinner and talked, the Elders from Estrela were also there. We also met a man who speaks english and was talking to us mostly in English it was funny. Yesterday we got 3 referals from members and also visited 2 others that we had recieved from last week. It is going good in the ward and we are starting to get a few referrals and also finding other people through their help which is great. Well that is about all for my week except i don´t remember what day exactly but i hit my back while i was trying to get onto the bottom bunk bed and i scratched it up pretty good and it was hurting the whole next day while my backpack was rubbing up against it. Well that is it i believe. Love you all vey much. Até semana que vem.Love Elder Cefalo