David with his Nose Flute (birthday gift)
Another week has come and gone.
On Wednesday we had a partially expected surprise. President stopped by to drop off our mail and to have interviews with us, but our phone was broken and the assistants couldn’t find us, so Elder Brelaz and I didn’t get our interviews. We were told that we would be leaving the next day for zone conference in Uberlandia. We packed our bags and headed out. The bus ride was terrible, because its only a one and half hour trip, but it took us two and a half hours to get there.
At the zone conference we learned a lot of important things. President Prieto talked about being obedient and having a pure heart that isn’t muddled with things outside the mission. Sister Prieto talked about keeping the houses clean and about teaching shrimp, not potatoes. She shared an example of when you boil potatoes they get soft, but when you boil shrimp it stays firm. The moral of the story was that we have to through out our soft investigators who aren’t progressing, and focus on our firmer investigators that we can baptize in two to three weeks at the most.
Elder Grandy was there, so beforehand we got to catch up and share some mission stories. Elder Grandy said that my grandchildren are going to have his girlfriends eyes. I’m glad that we’ve decided to have our children marry each other.
The night we got back from our zone conference, we went and set a baptismal date with one of our investigators for this Sunday. The problem has been that he works on Sundays, but we were trying to everything possible to make things work so that he could get baptized Sunday moring before church. He got his baptismal interview Saturday, but he still didn’t know if he’d have work or not until seven-thirty in the morning. We got up extra early to fill the font, we gave him a call to see if everything worked out, but we couldn’t get through. We found out later that he got called in to work. So that was lame, but we’ll baptize him this week instead.
We had a couple who were at church for the second time so we can baptize them this week as well.
I’m praying really hard that everything works out this week.
But you don’t have to take my word for it. I’ll see you next time.
Love,
Elder David Short
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