So, our Mission President changed our email time from 120 to 90 mins, so maybe there have been missionaries who've been spending their whole preparation day on the computer, or perhaps he sees it as a waste of time to spend that long on the computer. He actually wanted it to be only 1 hour, but the missionaries who are his assistants didn't like that idea!
We weren't able to watch the missionary broadcast because we thought it was just a regional thing and we had to go home and do planning. I didn't even know that there was a broadcast until after church when a member called us to ask us to pass by at night during it and return a tie Elder Christiansen had borrowed. But that's good that you guys liked it! Go out there and find someone to baptize!
So this week, we had people come to church! It was interesting because we were searching these last few weeks for people in one neighborhood over there, one over here, but really the one neighborhood with the elect right now are right here next to the church building [near where they live]! Working next to the church almost never fails! We just were trying hard to work with some people here and there, but as we were doing contacts we found more people here close by. Also on sexta-feira [Friday] we felt like we should knock doors on the same street as the church building and we met a few cool people. We ended up teaching an elderly lady and her daughter who runs a beauty salon, and the mom attended church (her name is Ruth). We also taught a group of three teenager guys...it was a spiritual lesson and two of them went to church yesterday, so that was cool.
In Brazil the youth of the church really stand out. Because from what I've seen it is very common for the girls to wear immodest clothing and the guys to listen to Braslian Funk (basically the worst music in the universe) and drink and smoke and stuff. And the Law of Chastity is also a big problem. So, to see a youth keeping God's standards is cool - it's something for which the youth in Brasil are sometimes admired, but too often teased by their peers.
Yeash, our time is already esgotou [gone] so until next week! Eu AMO vocês [I love you guys]!
Elder Bradford
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| Pics from our aula de inglês [English course they're teaching - looks like AJ is the 'pin-the-sticker-on-the-missionary'] |
