Monday, March 6, 2017

WEEK 28 - JARAGUA DO SUL - Episode #20 - Tower of Babel

What´s up ya´ll???? I hit 6 months this week which is super crazy!!

This week was pretty great but I don´t have much time so I have to keep it short.

On Tuesday we had a Zone training with President and it was super good. One of the training was about how we need to focus on families. President said even if there is a kid that wants to be baptized, we should really have patience and try to wait until the parents want to as well. When we were told that, Elder C and I thought about A who is 15 and we baptized about a month ago without his parents. His parents like church but they can´t get baptized because they aren´t legally married. Sadly that is a huge problem here in Brazil. Anyway when we got back to Jaraguá from Joinville, we went straight to their house while A was at FSY (which is like EFY in Brazil) to teach his parents. We found out that his mom had been reading some of the Book of Mormon every day and wants to be baptized. We talked to them about the importance of family and marriage but as always Adão just said they will get married eventually. We were just thinking dude you have been waiting 18 years what in the world is the difference. But we left and then went back to visit them again 2 days later. We shared a similar message the time before but this time we were able to convince A to get married! We were so happy! I really hope I´m still here in Jaraguá to see them get baptized.

So my subject is called Tower of Babel because we met back up with that Haitian this week and had a lesson in 4 different languages😂😂😂 Portuguese, English, French, and Creole. It was pretty ridiculous. Like I said Elder C speaks a little French and the Haitian (Claudalson) speaks a little English. His sister speaks more Portuguese than him but mainly speaks Creole so yeah it´s pretty tough. It´s hard for him to understand Portuguese but he went to church again on Sunday! We are hoping to set up a skype lesson with him or something with a French speaker because there really is no other way haha.

I´m pretty sure I saw more rain in 2 days of this week than I had in my whole life added up hahaha. I have finally gotten used to the humidity though. I´m just worried that when I go home and step off the plane that I will turn into a raisin haha.

Eu sei que esta é a única igreja verdadeira. Jesus Cristo é meu salvador e meu melhor amigo. Qualquer momento que você está precisando a ajuda dele, ele está em seu lado. Ele nos conhece perfeitamente. Podemos orar e ele vai responder! Não existe uma mensagem melhor do que disso. Eu amo este trabalho e eu amo o povo de Brasil!

Até próximo semana! Te amo muito!

Sempre fica firme, forte e feliz!!😁


Elder Scheer



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