Vânia was baptized this past week!! She's doing awesome! I love that girl. It's cool to be able to remember the first time you talked to someone and watch them get baptized a few weeks later. I'm so happy for the positive influence this is going to be in her life! She is truly on of Heavenly Father's special spirits. :)
Our investigators are doing well. Helder will be baptized this next weekend. Eddy, the day of his interview found out that his girlfriend is 4 months pregnant. Satan is working hard to try and not get him baptized, but he came to church Sunday and told us after that it was an especially good day of church. :) He's in our prayers alot and we know that with prayer and Heavenly Father's help, he will make the right decision about his girlfriend.
As for our other investigators, we have been trying to find inactives to bring back to the church. In the process, we've found a wonderful woman named Maria and we've started visiting her and her daughter Rosilyn(who was never baptized). They asked us if we knew their Elders. We replied "No, how long ago did they serve here?"
"18 years ago."
....(I was 3 years old when they served here) HAHAHA. We kindly replied that we didn't know them. lol. We taught them the 1st lesson last night and they should be coming to FHE at a member's house tonight. :) I'm excited for them. They are going to be great assets to our branch. :)
We are so happy that the frequency is so high in our branch on Sundays! But something that really puts stress on my mind is that we don't have enough space for everyone! I hope that either the branch will split or that we can find a bigger building or both! The Investigator class is SO PACKED as well as Sacrament Meeting!
Yesterday at church we had 4 random guys show up to church and turns out they live in our area! And no one even invited them! They came on their own! They're really cool! A few of them really scare me... One is a really large Robert Downey Jr. and another (named João) just looks like he's killed people. But they're really nice. João said my portuguese wasn't very good. Blast it all. hahaha. But João is really a nice guy. :) We're going to be teaching them later this week.
When I counted up how many investigators we had at church on Sunday, it was 11! Then I realized our goal we set was 12.... BUT then I walked out of the chapel and saw another investigator of ours! So we met our goal!! Heavenly Father is just so kind to us. Sometimes I just wonder, "Why are you so nice?" Then I remember.. oh yeah.. You love us. DUH! :)
Sal has been awesome and full of alot of work! And we already have most of the days filled up with appointments for next week! Weekly planning tomorrow is going to be a BREEZE!
Honestly,... we just don't have enough time to teach everyone! I know the world REALLY needs more missionaries, but C'MON. CAPE VERDE needs more missionaries!
In other news,.. I fell while running in the morning really scratched up the palms of my hands. They are kindof like open wounds right now... but they aren't bleeding anymore and they've scabbed up quite nicely. :)
AND in case any of you were wondering about the gecko that we chased out of our apartment... Either he made it back in... or he had a spouse still living in our apartment. Either way. The gecko eats bugs and not our food so I'm fine with him living with us. Even if the white handbook says no pets. hahahah. We only have the occasional fly that enters our apartment. But good gracious, I hate flies.
But yeah that's about it for this week. Até próxima semana!
-Sister Buhler
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