Hey everyone! Well, this week was
HALLOWEEN!!! It was another busy week here in Brazil and yes, I really did run
into bats, spiders and snakes! What a SPOOKY way to celebrate Halloween; in a
foreign land with REAL creepy crawling things all around you.
Well, to start off the week we
emailed on Tuesday. It has been awesome
only having to wait 6 days to email home again. I got my Halloween package and
it was LEGIT!!!! We had so much fun opening it and going through all of our
Halloween treats. Thanks to all of my Missionary Moms, it was AWESOME! We took
a lot of pictures and were able to decorate the church with the items for our
Runinão Integração! They really don’t celebrate
Halloween here so we really used and had fun with that Missionary box; it
worked perfectly!!!
Our Zone Leaders are very ambitious
and are always coming up with new goals for us. Now we have been challenged to
talk to 30 people every day. This really is awesome to go out and meet and talk
with new people but it is also difficult because we still have appointments set
up to teach lessons investigators we have already met. My companion and I
decided we were going to hit it hard and we spent the entire day walking and
talking to people. Now for all of you who haven’t served a mission, walking all
day gets really boring and makes for a very SLOW day. But it is ok and we even found
a couple of people to teach.
Wednesday we were walking in one of
the Praças (Like huge round about) and I looked at Elder Torres and I see
something moving slowly on my shoulder...again my companion’s face goes
completely white. I quickly bat off the spider, but this time it was a baby
TARANTULA. CREEPY! I was a little
freaked out!!! HahaEvery night we see a bunch of bats flying around so it really does like Halloween this week!! I have to say, it is pretty cool!!!
We had an AWESOME baptism this week.
Giliard had set his baptismal date in January but had a dream that changed
everything!! He stopped smoking and drinking and had been clean for a few weeks
and when he had that dream and decided he needed to be baptized now. I am so
grateful for that! He is also going to serve a mission and will be an amazing
missionary!!!
We finally were able to meet with a
lady who is really interested in hearing more about the gospel! We contacted
her for the first time a few weeks ago but we were finally able to set up an
appointment and were able to teach her! She accepted it really well as well as
her 11 year old daughter. She was very
excited and she wants us to come back.
I was able to bare my testimony to a
less active man and his non-member wife. The spirit was so strong, it was
awesome! She accepted our baptism invitation and we are excited and ready for
her success.
Daniel is going to be baptized the
16th of this month. He is the one that I mentioned before that now that he has
turned 16 his parents are allowing him to make his own decision about being baptized.
That will be a great day for him. My Mission President told me that I am going
to be transferred tomorrow so I am sad that I won’t be able to be there with
Daniel but I am happy that he is able to make that decision and will now have
the Gospel in his life.
Well, that was our Halloween week here
in Brazil. I love you all and wish I had more time to email. I am so grateful
for all my emails, Keep them coming!!! I am also grateful for all the prayers
and fasts and everything that I cannot see but that I feel every day. I love
you all!!!
Love,
Elder Stilson
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