Boa Tarde gente!
Well, It's pday again and BOY AM I GRATEFUL! It's been a long week here. There was one day when we literally walked around for 2 hours going from investigator's house to investigator's house and NO ONE was home! It was terrible. Teaching only 3 lessons a day is a smudge depressing when you usually teach 6ish. But things turned up. :)
This past week the Lord has been working miracles in this area in finding PREPARED people to teach. We are teaching two families in particular who I am very excited for! One parent in each family is a less-active member. The two families are Paulo(LA) and Saturnina(I) and Sãozinha(LA) and Neny(I). Paulo's family has two kids under the age of 8 and Sãozinha has 3 kids over the age of 8! :) I love them and they LOVE having the missionaries over to teach! It is truly a blessing being in this area!
When we first taught Sãozinha's family this week, we left a book of mormon for her husband to read. When we came back later on in the week for our next appointment he said in Creole "I don't understand Portuguese too well.. do you have one in.. (We thought FOR SURE he was going to say Creole..) English?" .....I'm sorry. What did you say? ENGLISH!? You want a Book of Mormon in ENGLISH!? Turns out he spent 25year in the states and went to middle school and high school there! I'm telling you. This man Neny is incredible. He's got such a good head on his shoulders and he is such a great dad to his children. I love their family. We're going to have family night with them tonight and what he doesn't know is that we're making brownies for them.. :)
My companion and I also had an interesting experience with a man this week. So our Branch Mission Leader gives us the contact information of a man that we need to visit. Ok. We think its a reference. Is it? No. It's a man who owns a building that he wanted us to talk to about moving the location of our branch. Anyways, point is: we're in this man's house and he ends up showing us ALOT of pictures of his family. (We were going to turn this into a teaching opportunity anyways.) We come across a picture of a man who MAY OR MAY NOT have been dancing and drinking. I hadn't been looking too hard at the pictures because he was showing us ALOT of them. Then Sister Holland, all nonchalant-like, points to the man in the picture while she is still talking to the man in front of us. PURPOSEFULLY pointing out that the man in the picture looks like he is recieving the Heimlich Manuever from an invisible person. .....Well what did I do? I laughed. REALLY LOUD and uncontrollably. I ended up offending the man so I tried to hit myself in the chest and cough to make it look like an allergy, but I'm not so sure if that worked... Then Sister Holland turns to the man and says, "Eu não sei o que ela tem."
Translation: "...I'm not sure what her problem is."
We're going to São Vincente again this week and transfers are this weekend. I'M NERVOUS. We got a mass text today say that Presidente is going to quiz us on our Standard of Excellence for our mission. Oh boy.. AND I'm pretty sure I'm getting transfered this week.... Sister Holland and Elder Barker both have a transfer left. I'm sure that they are both just going to stay for one more transfer and die here. Elder Gunnarson was told he was going to be here for a long time to teach people piano... So that leaves me. I'm sure that I'm leaving. :( We'll see though.
Other than that. I love it here, per usual. It's definitely alot of work here in Sal, but work for people you love never feels like work.
Anyways, tchau tchau for now!
Sister Buhler
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