September 22, 2014

Hey everybody!

Well this week was pretty tough, we prepared the whole week to baptize our friend, we taught with a bunch of members as well to help integrate with the branch, and he was so freaking excited.  and the night of the interview, before the baptism we got there with the district leader and everything to do the interview, he said he would move back to his state, called pará.  he said he couldnt take it here anymore, the dude with whom he was living is a freaking jerk and treats valtuiris terrible and valtuiris just had to take it because its the house of the other guy. He said he would leave saturday morning.  We started to talk and he started to cry and cry, we stayed for ever and i prayed and tried to talk him into just staying until monday morning.  he wanted to baptize sooo bad but said he ouldnt take it anymore. we had everything ready for him to stay, even houses of members to stay...but he said he already decided.  he siad he wil baptize their and go to church their and he will never forget about us.  it was really tough.  and then the jerk had the odasity to tell us to leave the front of his house, and started to attck us and valtuiris.. i was sitted down and i stood up and started to feel those same feelings that came in the football games and i was really annoyed with this dood because he was the problem for everything. he wanted to fight me, valtuiris lost it and told him to fight him because he was sick of him. ha. this guy was a little stick of a brazilian man, he would have destroyed him,  but in the end he went inside.  we passed the next day in the morning but he already decided he would leave.    it was really hard.  i hate to tell you guys this but its what happended this week.  the devil works until the last moment to ruin peoples lives. it is really annoying.  It was so hard because we worked with him and he never agreed to pray but in the last lesson he gave the final prayer, and it was one of the most sincere and humble prayers i have ever heard.  You could feel that he was talking with our Heavenly Father.  he had learned so much and answered all the questions!  

but we still have some other great people,  we have a family in which the dad is a member and the rest arent, but they need to get married first.  We will baptize the daught who will turn 8 this friday. when we inited the daughter to be baptized the mom asked can i baptize the same day?!?! it was painful to say no to someone that wanted to baptize so bad. but you gotta get married duuudee! she wanted to pay tithing already and always wants to say the prayers in the lessons. we asked to do a family night in her house and she got so excited!  we are going to help this family get baptized and sealed in the temple!

We knocked alot of doors this week in a nighborhood that is pretty stinking rich and that was pretty tough, we werent able to teach a ton there, but we marked a lesson with one lady in a huge house that we will teach this week, she said her daughter lives in the US, so i hope she is actually interested and doesnt just wanna talk about the US. haha. 

the branch is super willing to help us!  this guy made soooo much food for us yesterday! so much that he called us back to eat dinner with him after church because there was so much! ha.  ive been losin a little wight. i passed the lastt notch on my belt. and it has started to rip, but i think i can buy one here.

i forgot to tell you guys, but the girl we were teaching in my last area got baptized the week after i left!

Well the zone leaders made a tshirt for the zone and we will go to the church today and they will play sports and take pics with the shirts. so i will send more pics next week.

keep praying for my knee please :)

well have a great week!  get better levi! love you guys!

-Elder Grondel