My Tree

So this last week was rather exciting because...well ok it was just normal but there were some wonderfully exciting parts...i think

 

Monday-thursday

Normal working days where we worked. It was a bit slow actually, but oh well.

 

Friday:

We had a very exciting conferencia de zona! (zone conference) in the north zone so we boarded a bus and went there. I had something that was kind of like a donut when I was there and that was exciting. I also recieved my package for Valentines day which I was really happy about because, I like packages and also Crackle and Oat Bran cereal which is really delicious. We ended the day with a noite de integração.

 

Saturday:

We had divisions while our District Leader was off with Elder Adhans doing interviews for the district, I had the wonderful experience of having one last division with my good friend elder shepherd, and i met some interesting people for the first time on this division. One of which was an Indian chief. His name is Paulo and i have no idea what his last name was because it was from a tribe. He is a less active member and very funny. He has tatoos of lines down his arms that have arrows at the hands like aang from avatar the last airbender. This week he will go to tefé where he will do an evaluation on the indians there because they need preventative medicine. Elder shepherd told me some other cool things about him but i dont have time to write them now.

 

Sunday:

We were supposed to have the baptism of Elizete, however, the baptismal font wouldnt fill up with water and so it is postponed for this week. She chose me to baptize her and i feel very honored. She is the mother of Ayrton and Saulo two of our investigators waiting to get married to get baptized. Which reminds me. I was teaching them early this week and Saulo brought out a book of Brazilian sign language called libras and it was really cool because a bunch of them are the same as American sign language. He said that when I leave he´ll give me a copy of the book.

 

Back to focus now. Also sunday we found out about the transfer and....(drumroll)......I´m staying! No suprise there but there was one when i heard that Elder Adhans is going to Porto Velho which is in another state to be the companion of someone i knew from the CTM. Also  my wonderful friends Elder Walch and Elder Shepherd are leaving me as well. Elder Shepherd will train in the west zone and Elder Shepherd is switching areas with Elder Gable, (a cool elder I met a couple weeks back). Itll be wierd without them in my district. Especially since me and Elder Walch have been together since the begining. Oh and I hit my 6 month mark last friday. Yay! My new companion will be Elder De Almeda ( I think thats his name). He´s an elder from Mozambique (they speak portuguese there btw) so it should be good, Im hoping that he knows how to cook food from there because I want to learn. But yea...thats my week. This one should be good.

 

The longer that Im here in Acariquara the more significant the parable of the sower and the allegory of the olive tree become to me. Because really this is the tree that im working on right now. Im the one that the lord since to go and care for it so that it brings forth fruits. And as I continue to teach people and baptize them its like the parable of the sower read them for a refresher on why.

 

Thank you again for the package and for the letters!. Oh and btw Carnival started yesterday and they had a big stage with equipment for a band set up on it in the middle of one of our main streets last night and a bunch of people there, it looked pretty cool.

 

Until next week! I love you all and hope you´re all doing amazinging!

 

Love

Eric