Welp
right now in the good ´ol Brasil it´s what they call Carnival which basically
means that everyone goes to the beach (great and spacious building meaning worldly) and has a
good time being iniquitous. Ha-ha but Jaraguá isn´t super festive so nothing is
going on here, but everyone went to the beach, so it´s been a ghost town the last
few days.
This week wasn´t the
best yet but they all can´t be incredible. We had a bunch of appointments fall
through but at the same time there is always some good parts.
One of our
investigators, Felipe is a 19 year old whose lives with his girlfriend (who is
a member) and she is prego. He works his tail off to be able to pay for their
apartment and food. I have seriously grown to love this man so much. When we
first started teaching him, he was drinking and smoking a lot. We taught him so
much about Christ and His atonement. We want so badly for him to have a better
life and to be able to have a family in the gospel. Last week we met him and he
told us how he had stopped drinking and smoking and how they are trying to get
legally married so he can get baptized. We were seriously so hyped. Straight
into a group hug ha-ha. This week when we visited him he didn´t really seem
himself. He told us he had gone back to smoking and he just isn´t really sure
about everything. The other elders living with us saw they saw him drunk last
night. Writing this brings tears to my eyes. I have been praying so much to
develop charity, the pure love of Christ and this is the most I have felt it thus
far. I want so so badly for him to obtain the joy that comes with the gospel. I
really just want to choose for him but I know he has his freedom to choose.
Through this experience I have been able to realize how much my love has grown
for these people. I have also gotten to feel a sliver of what Heavenly Father
feels when we disobey his commandments. I know that He literally cries when we
cry and rejoices in our success.
A way cool experience:
One day we were walking to an appointment and this guy was wearing a chargers
jersey so we stopped to talk with him. He is from Haiti and talks a little Portuguese
and a little English but he mainly speaks French and creole. We were trying to
talk to him but not much was really getting through. So Elder Castagneto starts
to speak French with him. Ha ha ha ha I was just standing there like what the
heck is going on. This manz really just pulled some French out of nowhere to
contact this guy. #savage. Eventually he said that he wanted to go to church
with us so we told him we would pick him up at 8:30 at a bus stop
nearby. Sunday morning we go by and he wasn´t there. We were pretty
bummed. But then about 30 minutes into church he walks in with his sister and
her son! They walked so far to get to church! He said he was waiting for us but
we never saw him. We were so happy.
This week was pretty
rainy which was super nice. One day we walked about an hour and a half in the
rain without an umbrella and it was a great time. But the down side is that
with walking in rain comes chafing... my boys know all about that life from
boogie ooging til we can´t boogie no more.
Also living with 2 Brazilians
from the northeast is one heck of an experience. They are so funny. The way
they mess around reminds me of the squad.
I love you all!!!
Sempre fica firme,
forte, e feliz!
Elder Scheer
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