This week was rather spectacular. We are extremely tired today, because we were running to and fro trying to close the deal on our baptisms for the week. Saturday we had one baptism, Francisco, but the others fell through, because they decided to visit family for Christmas at the last minute. No worries though, they´ll baptize on the 31.
On Thursday we had to travel to Uberlandia for a Christmas zone conference. We had a normal Brazilian Christmas dinner, which included: rice, beans, lettuce, turkey and chicken. For dessert we had ice cream. I saw Elder Wolsey and said hi. President Prieto spoke a lot about love in our work, and about how we have to develop a Christlike love with our companions and with those we teach. Sister Prieto talked about how we normally only look at peoples defects, but we can´t do that, because we ourselves aren´t perfect. She had her baby granddaughter in her arms and compared how the only perfect people are babies, because they came directly from the presence of the father. She said that when we treat God´s children badly based on their imperfections it´s like taking that precious baby and chucking it across the room. When she said that last part, she took the baby and chucked it at a missionary, who almost had a heart attack. That was when we discovered that the baby was a doll. I took some pictures. On the bus ride to another companionship´s house we sang carols with about eight other missionaries.
Saturday we had the baptism and bought a cake to celebrate with everyone afterwards.
Sunday we only had sacrament meeting and about only the usual number of people came.
I must confess that I gave into temptation. Christmas Eve I was thinking about how there wouldn´t be any time to do anything the next day, like open presents, so I opened them two hours early, at ten.
We continue to work a lot with the members, and hope to have a ton of sucess before the end of the year.
with lots of love e suadades de vos,
Elder David Short
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