My mission to Brazil: December 10, 2018

This week was good and I am going to have to type really fast because today is transfers and my new comp is gonna get here pretty soon so I'm sorry for the bad spelling, but yes i am staying in Sao Luis, woo!

So we started off the week by teaching that man that only speaks English. It was a pretty interesting experience, just because the last time I taught in English, I was in mission prep so it felt really weird. But when we (meaning I because S Rodrigues does not speak English) gave him the book of Mormon, he got super quiet and said, this is for me? And we were like, yep. And he started speaking really fast in French. Which made me really confused but then he told us that because we had given him a Book of Mormon in French, he thought that we spoke French. When I explained that we had only brought one in French because we thought he might understand French better than Portuguese, he got quiet again and then almost started crying. Which surprised me. He told me that he didn't think anybody would think about him enough to bring something in a language he would be able to understand. He came to a ward activity as well, which was fun except that I had to translate everything which made my head spin. So now I know that I cannot be a translator when I get home, hahah.

We spent the week talking with Silvias daughter, Raiani. She has almost been baptized a few times and this week was another one of those few times. She was super ready to be baptized and we were really excited. The day of her interview, we went to the church to fill up the font, and Silvia called and said that she wasn't going to authorize her to be baptized (because she's 12). We were like, what? Because it was Silvia that asked us to talk to her and teach her and get her interested in church. She went off on a long story that I didn't really understand but ended with saying that she could be baptized next week. Really, I think she was just trying to show us that she´s still the mom and we can't go faster than she wants us to. Which was super frustrating, but what can ya do? At least we have a baptism for this next week.

We were walking and a man who was sitting in his car called out , Hey babies. in English. And we went and made a contact with him. Nothing happened, it was just funny because he didn't know that I'm American.

We spent a good 4-5 hours updating our area book after two transfers of not doing so. We were going to be late for lunch, so we called the irma saying that we were going to be late and it turns out that she forgot it was her day to feed us. I seriously have never been happier that lunch fell through because we didn't have to clean up what we were working on, we just got to keep going and finish it. Two days later, we are behind again, hahahahaha, whoops.

Juliano is getting ready to ask Vitoria to marry him! So we cut out letters saying Quer Casar Cmg? and took test drive pictures. I will send you my favorite. but he laughed really hard when he saw them all and told us that he will just show them to Vitoria to ask her to marry him. We said that was a horrible idea.

We met a man named Davi this week. You know you've met one of the chosen ones when he asks questions during the lesson and says the closing prayer. And doesn't drink, smoke and his wife died so he lives alone. And isn't addicted to anything. Its perfect, haha, we shall see what happens this week.

We also went and spent an hour or so with a less active member. He is 27, got married at 17, got divorced this year, has two little boys that are the cutest thing, and doesn't come to church because he doesn't want to. We were like, well, at least he´s honest. But he also said that he is reading the Book of Mormon and praying and that he wants to come back to church, but its just not the right time right now. There is never a wrong time to come to church, people. Remember that.

Yesterday, we were walking to the church for a meeting with the bishop and we saw two dogs that belong to a member and ended up chasing them around to pick them up because they had run away from home. It was actually super funny because S Rodrigues pulled off her shoes and was chasing them barefoot screaming there names, and I was on the phone with their owner, just saying, Oi Tai, tudo bem? We found your dogs, you want us to leave them here or chase them to your house? And she screamed CHASE THEM! So we did.

I think that's about all the interesting I've got for this week. Last night I got a solid 4 hours of sleep because we didn't get transfers until 11:30 and S Rodrigues needed to pack her suitcases. I will be feeling more tired than usual until May now.

I love you guys!!

AH! about skype. I don't know exactly what time it will be during Christmas, but it will be after 2:00 here. I don't remember how many hours difference it is right now, so I'm not sure what time it will be there.

Love you again!

Sister Heiner