My mission to Brazil: May 7, 2018

This week was a week full of things.
Starting with Monday! We were emailing when S Pompeu just started crying her eyes out and I was like, AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH QUE FOI???!! Turns out her uncle passed away and her grandma broke both her legs. So we made a fun little phone call to President Campos and luckily he was on his way to Caxias for our zone conference so he stopped by the house to calm her down. He let her call her mom (jealous but I don´t want anybody dying so I can wait until next week pleaseandthankyou) and gave her a blessing. That seemed to help her a lot. We ended up going to Farroupilha and spending the night there because Tuesday was National Workers day so the buses weren´t running. It was really fun because there were eight of us sleeping on 4 single mattresses. Sleeping is used very lightly because there was no sleeping.
Tuesday we had a zone conference with President Campos. It was really good and I feel like we learned a lot. We also got MAIL which, not going to lie, is definitely the highlight of these conferences. Don´t get me wrong, love the Spirit, love the practice and insights, love President Campos, but I love the mail the best. We got home and there was a ton of fog, couldn´t even see 5 feet in front of us. It was crazy and kind of scary.
I was so tired Wednesday it wasn´t even funny. I didn´t fall asleep during our lessons, thankfully, but almost. S Pompeu was way tired too, not that she said anything, but that was the problem. She didn´t talk and was angry every time she did talk. I think the mail she got made her more homesick so she was just not in a good mood. So that was a fun adventure of the day. We were talking with Adolino and he pulled out a bunch of old pictures. They were so cute! He was a cutie when he was younger. I love the picture of his daughter. He gets so happy when he talks about her, it is really the sweetest thing ever. While S Pompeu was taking a shower, I totally passed out on the couch, which I never do because our couch is not comfortable.
Thursday, we got a phone call from Irma Josi saying that she told Edwardo he either needed to get baptized or she was going to leave him. I was like, JOSI YOU CANT SAY THINGS LIKE THAT. And then she said that she told him he has until this Friday to decide. And I thought she was joking. But no, she´s serious. And the fact that when she called she talked really calm and wasn´t yelling means she really is serious. I am a little nervous to see what happens because I love this family and I think just to test her, Edwardo won´t get baptized this week. So if everybody wants to say a quick little prayer that he isn´t stubborn for a day in his life and decides that this could actually be a good thing, I would really appreciate it. We found a wooden box on the side of the road that we took home, cleaned, and put all our Books of Mormon in, it is really cute! We also had one of the young adults in our branch ask if she could come with us for an afternoon so she came with us. All our plans worked out which was a miracle so she knows what is like to actually teach. But at the same time, I think it would have been good if one of the things would have fallen through so she could see that not everything works out every day.
Friday, we made a change of plans really quick and decided we needed to visit Irma Wilma. Which turned out to be really good because she had had a week. And not a good one. She needed somebody to talk to and help her see that God hasn´t left her and that she´s strong enough to do all that He asks of her. We went to talk to Leo afterwards and when he saw us, he did this little happy dance which made me laugh really really hard. It was so random.
Saturday was awesome. We had helping hands, so we got to use normal clothes. We helped paint things at a school and now my hands will forever be a little green. Everybody was talking about how weird it was to see the Sisters in normal clothes. Not even to us, we would walk by and hear people say things about it. And everybody commented on how in jeans, my legs look even longer which was funny. We had lunch at the church afterwards. We went door knocking because we didn´t have any set plans and we found this kid named Alan. He is 15 and knows more about the Bible than I do. One of the first things he said to us was that if we were going to use the Bible as a list of rules, he wasn´t interested because the Bible is here to help us not limit us. I was shocked. We need to talk to his parents so we can set a baptismal date but this kid is perfect.
We went and woke up Leo and Elaine Sunday morning again because they asked us to. While we were waiting for them to get ready so they could walk with us to church, two birds flew into their house. Adventures. We helped Adolino with Family History after church. His daughter and his wife are ready to be baptized now and I want to be the one to baptize them soooooo bad but I know I won't be able to. One of the young women asked me to help her with her English Homework which was pretty fun.
So yeah, that was more or less my week. I hope something was a little interesting to read about.
I love you guys like crazy and cannot wait to talk to you next week!
Sister Heiner