Our last district picture before transfers in a couple of days.

Tuesday: 

I had an umbrella for the first part of the conversation,
but at some point, I realized it wasn't doing any good.
We were soaked through our clothes!

So the big thing that happened today was that Elder Bodily and I went to run to the store across the street and ran into a drunk guy named Dan. We talked to him for well over an hour in the pouring rain, haha. He had interesting stories mostly about poor choices he'd made in his life and the consequences. At the end, he was talking about how grateful he was for us and that we were doing God's work even though we didn't really do anything for him. It made me think about the General Conference talk about how there's so many people in the world talking, and a lot of their problems would be helped by someone listening. We finally said goodbye, and he said he was gonna go to sleep under his porch. 

After that, we had a lesson with a guy named Willie; it was probably my most personal lesson ever. I talked about my personal conversion story, and we really connected over his desire to feel what everyone else talks about feeling. 

Wednesday: 

Started off by dropping the car off to the sisters. I only keep mentioning it, because I like starting the day off with a walk. We had a normal day and ended by dropping off a Book of Mormon and cookies for Willie. He lives in the same apartment as the Haitian Creole Elders, so they let us in and then he talked for a bit. They are really great missionaries and are basically single handedly building a Haitian creole branch here.

I love these missionaries! The Haitian Creole Elders are doing amazing things.

Thursday:

Today was a GREAT day. We had a chapel tour with Augosto which was amazing for a few reasons. First off, this was our first time ever actually seeing him, because we only do voice calls. Second off, it was my first time ever having an in-person lesson. Lastly, because at the end, we set a goal for his baptismal date. His testimony is growing so much, and he always talks about how he knows he's on the right path! We celebrated by getting Popeye's, which I only point out 'cause it was my second time ever! It killed our grocery budget, but it was worth it. 

We were doing some calls to people who had lost contact with the missionaries and found a guy named Campos. We had talked with him about 2 months ago. He had wanted to meet us again, but we forgot to mark him as interested, and so we never got back in contact! I'm super embarrassed about that. 

That night, we had a lesson with Francis and met his daughter Ana. She's great; I can't wait to get to know the whole family. 

Friday:

There was a training planned before district council, but it got cancelled, so we got to just sit and talk for an hour about our areas and what's going well. We planned our district p-day until our meeting started. 

It was a slow day with no lessons, so we delivered cookies to a bunch of people we were teaching and feijoada to the missionaries in our district. When we got home, Keke called us out of no where and we had a fun lesson with him. We will see where that leads. I'm hopeful.

Yup. I'll miss him.

Saturday:

We went to go get Elder Bodily's mask from the Spanish Elders, and when we got home Marillia, another woman we are talking to, asked if we could talk. We had a lesson with her, and it was a lot of fun. At the end of the day, we got transfer texts aaaaaand Elder Bodily is out of here! My next companion will be Elder Feliciano from Mozambique! We were high energy, so we walked to the store and bought some magnum bars and KitKats and called it a day! 

Sunday:

We got to go to church in person, and they bumped the number of people allowed in a room up to 50! So we were able to meet more people in the ward a little bit and say Hi to the Hortas. When we got home, we had a lesson with a lady named Mary. Right as it started, a member in the ward texted, "I'll be at your house in 15 minutes to bring you dinner!" But because the call was on Elder Bodily's phone we couldn't answer haha. So he had to wait a little bit, but we were so grateful!

Monday: 

District P day!!!! It was great, we planned to go on a hike at 9. Elder Bodily and I got to the trailhead and there were no other cars, so we called the group to see how close everyone was. The Salem Elders were at the store buying a pumpkin; the sisters were just leaving; the Haitian Creole Elders were still in the shower, haha. Anyways, after the hike, we skipped rocks, went to a park, and carved pumpkins. We ended the day with a basketball game where a random guy who was getting off work asked to join in and smoked us all, haha. At least he was on my team. 

We headed home and had a lesson with Campos. It went really well. He's a great guy! We had a random text from some unsaved number who somehow knew our names and like cussed us out for being missionaries. That was weird and not fun, but I'm kinda sad that for some reason he has had such a negative experience with religion that he takes time out of his day to seek us out and send that. 

3 Nephi 12:11 And blessed are ye when men shall ^arevile you and persecute, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake;

12 For ^aye shall have great joy and be exceedingly glad, for great shall be your ^breward in heaven; for so ^cpersecuted they the prophets who were before you.

13 Verily, verily, I say unto you, I give unto you to be the ^asalt of the earth; but if the salt shall lose its savor wherewith shall the earth be salted? The salt shall be thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out and to be trodden under foot of men.

14 Verily, verily, I say unto you, I give unto you to be the light of this people. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid.

15 Behold, do men light a ^acandle and put it under a bushel? Nay, but on a candlestick, and it giveth light to all that are in the house;

16 Therefore let your ^alight so shine before this people, that they may see your good works and ^bglorify your Father who is in heaven.

Have a great week. Here are some more silly pictures for your enjoyment.