Well this week finally came the baptism of a couple we have been
teaching for a few weeks. I played the role of Elder Matchmaker and
married them on Thursday and we had their baptism on Saturday! Man was
it an awesome baptism, one of the best on the mission thus far for sure.
The man cried haha but the woman stayed strong during the service;)
Dang it was a great baptism to have the last transfer. We hope to have 2
more at least. Itll take alot of work but we have got it in us. Haha by
far this Comp is one of the funniest. I have heard more untrue
statements in the last two weeks than I have heard in my entire life.
Haha its like dwight shrute from the office when he says "fact" and then
precedes to say something except my comp always says something totally
false, so I have had the opportunity to ressurect one of my favorite
words "False!!" haha he just is different but funny and he is liking the
work here. We are starting to run to the church every morning and play
soccer or basketball. It is pretty fun. Its a pretty good start to the
day. Man I love some of the members here. We have alot of help here in
the branch. Haha man I am always tired..... but its a good tired;) Well
we´ll keep working hard here and yall do the same there! Love yall!!!
Updates from Elder Dallas Schoen, missionary in the Brazil, Sao Paulo North mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Monday, July 27, 2015
Monday, July 20, 2015
Travels
Well the biggest struggle with being 6 hours from the mission office is
how much we have to spend to make trips to reach other Elders and catch buses paid for by the mission... Luckily we can get reimbursed for our
travels but it takes a lot of time to get money back!! just for an
example I handed in a reimbursement for 200 reais this week.... we drop a
ton of money on travel!!! But hey at least its always a charter bus;)
This week was a good one. My comp is pretty different. Kinda prideful
cause of the whole portugal thing being in Brazil but considering I am
finishing the mission I kinda of just call him out on it and he accepts
the corrections. He has 19 months on the mission but has had some
obedience problems so president has put him with me to help him turn his
mission around and finish strong. He wants to put him as a Senior
companion this next transfer so I am just going to work him back into
shape. And speaking of in shape me and him have started running in the
mornings... hahah i know i know with just 6 weeks left but hey better
late then never huh?! I want to come home looking good;) I plan on
working out pretty hard as well. These last 4 months I have been working
out pretty well just been lacking the cardio! But dang was I sore after
running the first time!!! it took me like 4 days to recover. Yesterday I
was like dying... had a pretty bad fever and my throat was way
inflamed, but the members here take good care of me and hooked me up
with an herbal tea that helped soothe a bit. I just have a super sore
throat today the fever passed I think. We should have a good week this
week! Dang haha these members are sooo funny I dont know if every area
is like this but everyone is always telling me "OH 5 weeks Elder!!" haha
its super funny, a bit annoying, but super loving nonetheless. Dang
well pray for me that I can lose some weight and more importantly help
some people here in the area;) LOVE YALL!!!
Monday, July 13, 2015
Dying in Itapeva!
Well the last transfer call came in and President decided to change
things up a bit. I dont know if I ever mentioned that our zone consisted
of 3 companionships and we are way removed from everything. So finally
president consoladated our zone and a neighboring zone of just 5 to make
a normal zone haha. I will stay here in Itapeva and my comp will head
out to a nieghboring area and stay in the zone. I will just be the
District leader of our once was zone. haha it will be exactly the same
thing just less meetings;) I will be getting a portuguese from Portugal.
I will work hard with him for these last 6 weeks of the mission. There
is still alot to do here! Itll be nice finishing here with some of these
members! We have a baptism marked for this week for a couple we have
been teaching for some time. They were just needing to get married! We
have it marked for this week! Im super pumped for this transfer. We are
going to kill it. Fabiano still was drinking so we are going to have to
keep working with him. Keep praying for me and my comp Elder Melendez!
itll be a great last transfer!! Love you all!!!
Monday, July 6, 2015
Happy 4th of July!
Well the week had a bit of a improvement. We found a few more people to
work with but we are still waiting for this drought of Baptism to leave
haha we were in a meeting in the gospel principles room is and the drain
for the baptismal font turned on making a super loud noise. We turned
it off but my comp made the joke that the font is anxious for a baptism
and I have to agree! pray that we can baptize a man named Fabiano this
week! The 4th was awesome. We had a member make a churrasco (barbecue)
for us. Man I love Brazilians! I have had some great memories here.
Transfers calls come this Sunday. I kinda want to finish somewhere else
and NOT as an ZL... I am going broke... dang sooo much stuff to pay for.
But whatever happens I will gladly accept considering it will be the
last one! dang time is starting to go by pretty quickly. Just calls for
more work. My comp and I get along fine, about what you´d expect with
completely different backgrounds and passions. But we are good friends
so all is well in Zion. We get to go to the temple tomorrow in Campinas
it might be my last time before coming home! Itll be great! lot to
learn. I hope you all have a great week!! Love Yall!!!
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