NOTE: This is from the week ending July 2nd.
Nothing much happened earlier this week except I got stung
by a wasp which felt like a blow torch on my hand, and it’s been raining for
two weeks straight.
Friday, we went to
another ward party for São João where you basically eat a bunch of corn. I had
popcorn, a kind of corn pudding called canjica, corn on the cob, and cake.
Saturday, we had the baptism of the
investigator we have been working with named Nedson, who is 21. The service went well in the end, but I
freaked out on the inside when after we went in the water he asked if he could
use the bathroom beforehand, we went and I thought he wanted to back out at the
last second, but everything went well.
I
got a phone call from the elders in Nova Repúplica asking if I would be going
to the wedding of one of the families that I taught, whose son I baptized. Then they asked if I could baptize him after
the wedding which really came as a surprise and I said of course. I can't really explain just how happy I felt
that I would have the opportunity to baptize the father of the family I helped
bring into the gospel and who I taught about eternal marriage and families
which I know affected them.
We got
picked up at 5 to go eat dinner at the Costa's house before the wedding. We had chicken, sausage, beef stroganoff and
chicken stroganoff (different kind of stroganoff), and lasagna. It was all really good. The wedding went really well and the baptism
even better. I'll never forget that
day.
Sunday, we finally saw the sun so that’s
cool I guess. There is a lady in the
ward here who is going to Utah next weekend which is weird to think that she
will be there and I will be here.
I
learned an interesting fact the other day -
There is a slang word we use here in the north-east of brasil: Oxente
"oshench". Apparently, because
of the US naval base here in Natal, people started saying "oh shi*"
because of the Americans, but after time it turned to oxente, which sounds the
same. You say it in the same context. Just your little history lesson
today.
- Élder Holdaway
P.S. OXENTE! i have 8 months already!!!
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| First baptism of the day -- Nedson |
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| The food -- oh, the glorious food! |
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| The Costas, the best family here. Bro. Costa was in the Brasilian Special Forces |
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| The baptism of Tiago, I baptized his son in my 2nd transfer. My clothes are still wet from the baptism earlier. |
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| Next step, temple marriage! |
