(Elder Mackrory)
E aí? Belezinha?
This week was incredible. Full of new and cool experiences.
Vamo lá.
We saw exactly 20 fuscas this week, making for a total of
783.
On pday we didn't do a whole lot, since our money was
scheduled to drop on our cards that day, we planned to do our purchases. But as
some of you know, there was some sort of tech problem in the system of the
church, and our money was delayed a day. So since neither me nor my companion
had money, we decided to get our stuff on Tuesday.
On Tuesday, we had district council! This was my first time
leading it, so I was pretty nervous and worried about it all. But it went well,
and we were able to feel the spirit. That's what matters. Next door to the
stake center is a Brazil's Costco: Assaí. So we did our shopping there real
quick and I saved about 40% shopping there than shopping at our local stores.
Since it delays 1 day after the money drops to withdraw from an ATM, we
actually had to walk back home after our lessons. The maps told us it would
take an hour and twenty minutes, but we made it home in less than an hour.
On Thursday, we had a youth night, and so we played ping
pong (pingy pongy) and foosball (tostos or something like that). I sucked at
Foosball, so I mostly played ping pong. But that wasn't the cool thing that
happened that day. We had a lesson with some millionaires. They live in the
wealthy neighborhood already, but I had no idea how rich we were talking. We
knocked at the base of their driveway, and their cook answered us and let us
in. Upon further entry, we come across their Porsche (an SUV, not pictured),
seconds later, their two motorbikes, both BMW and huge. One is a race bike, and
the other for comfort riding. The lesson was great, and they had prepared
dinner for us. So that was nice. We had to postpone weekly planning, but free
dinner was worth it. We talked more about the gospel and how missionary work
goes. In the end I don't feel so bad about a 2.5 hour lesson.
On Friday we had zone conference. It was awesome to be able
to play the piano and have had time to practice too. We learned lots of great
things, especially about repentance, which you all know I love. More on that
later. We also received some house materials. Knife, spatula, serving spoons,
ladle, and bucket. Not sure why we got a bucket, but we got one. Got to see
lots of good friends including my bestie Elder Patterson. After the conference
I stayed with some other missionaries to practice for our musical number that
we plan to sing for when we get an apostle visit. I also got to rewrite the
sheet music to include the Portuguese lyrics and melody. That was fun.
Afterwards I had a baptismal interview with one Hamilton, the goat (I am not
making a formula one reference). He has one of the strongest testimonies I've
seen and it was inspiring to be able to interview him. He was baptized
yesterday. In the end, we didn't get back to our area until 9. Exhausting.
Saturday was a good day. We taught a pretty full and
productive English class and helped a little with the chapel cleaning. The
family that was there to clean it has a little toddler who loves me. She always
blows me a kiss and gives me heart hands 🫶. She's not yet used to
having hands, so the heart looks more like an H. But it's still cute. Well
anyway she randomly ran up and gave me a hug. I know the standards say I'm not
supposed to hug children, but I cant do anything about getting hugs. The family
thought it was cute too, so we're good. Then after a long day of not much
success we come to our lesson with Theo. He's awesome. We shared our message,
and he shared some of the things he’s going though and I could see that our
message was inspired and truly for him. The spirit was really strong and we all
left feeling strengthened. We also got free food which was nice.
On Sunday the family who was giving us lunch said they
wouldn't be able to receive us until 1pm. When we found this out, we were
already on our way. So we got off of the van early and did some visits in that
neighborhood. We ended up finding a less active family and they were happy to
receive us and commit to coming to church next week. So there's the tender
mercy this week. Would not have happened if we had lunch right away.
SummaRio:
1. 20 fuscas, 783 total
2. Went to Brazilian Costco
3. Taught some millionaires, dominated at ping pong
4. Zone conference was lit
5. I got a hug from a girl 😯
6. Delay in lunch meant we could find some new people (they
were actually pretty old)
Spiritual thought:
Repentance cannot be realized if it is incomplete. Our
president spoke about this and how we can't just commit to keeping the
commandment we broke, but need to recommit to keeping all the commandments.
This really struck a chord with me. In pondering the principle, I came across
an object lesson. This day, I was wearing my suit. Everything was in order, I
was looking my best. Shaved in the morning, did my hair all perfect, brushed my
shoes clean, ironed my shirt, pulled hair and scrubbed marks off my suit, made
my beautiful tie perfectly knotted and set off. Everything was in order. But
the fact that I was carrying a freaking bucket ruined the entire look. Just a
big black bucket. You can clean up your
look by doing lots of things, but you won't look good if you got an ugly bucket
at your side. We need to clean everything in order for the change of one thing
to mean anything.
Fotos:
1. Somehow my garbage phone can take good eye shots
2. Mayara and Marcelo, Thursday's dinner/car show
3. Matando saudades de oreo e leite
4. Lasanha de chocolate?
5. Loja bem colorida
6. Bom meme
7. Ping pong
8. Foosball
9. Membros podem participar online!!
10. Nossa zona + os APs
11. My little fan
12. Big bike
13. Nosso distrito
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