Ow! yup, this is real life! So there
is some good news coming from yours truly this week. Rafael our investigator
was baptized yesterday! I totally forgot my camera to send a picture but will
next week! The other good news, which I don´t think I shared last week was that
Jeff, the 11 year old that I was teaching in Washington, was baptized on the
22nd or March! We almost had a miracle baptism with another investigator,
Josias, that came to church before. He is totally getting baptized this next
transfer though. This is only the begginning of the good news! By the way,
Rafael is a stud. He kept his commitments and made some very hard decisions. I
will miss him...oops, did I let that secret slip. It´s true, I will be moving
to the area next door and opening up a second dupla (companionship) in the area
with another Elder who will be going home after this next transfer. I can´t
remember his name, but everyone says he is one of their favorite people. The
name of the area is Cóxipo, and they had five baptisms last transfer, including
the miracle baptism I talked about before. The cool part is that I really
wanted to stay in the "area" but move to Cóxipo, So prayers have been
answered as things have been difficult with my companion and area this past
transfer.
So, the coolest things happened
yesterday. We need to rewind to Saturday night at the Show de Talentos. We had
a cool skit there. The president of the branch came up with the idea, mom
you´ll like this. So it starts with me sitting behind a ping pong table setup
to where you can´t see me. There is a sign that says Ponta do Ônibus(Bus Stop).
One person enters and is "waiting for the bus" as the bus passes by
and they just smell something awful, thinking they smelled, but that just not
being it, so they leave. The next enters and the same thing happens, but they
think they stepped in dog crap. Then the third enters and the same things
happens, because there is just something awful that smells. Then, after they
leave, I stand up, look around, "pull my pants up", throw the toilet
paper behind me as I walk out and have a piece of toilet paper stuck in my
pants as I walk out....the branch president is hilarious. Everyone got a good
laugh out of that one. So to jump back to my other story, we met with the
Branch President and he asked us to give a training the next day at church for
the first hour. Church is flipped here. Sacrament meeting is last. We agreed
and so I prepared a short message to give and thinking that I wouldn´t have to
cover much time. So two of the elders give their training, then Elder Geisler
(the guy from California) told me it was my turn. The strange thing was that I
wasn´t that nervous. So I started giving my training, no big deal, stressed the
simple things that we need to do, then bore my testimony and that was
that...come to find out, when I sat down, that I had taken over fifteen minutes
(I was only supposed to give a ten minute training) and thought that I just
stumbled on my words or something, because that definitely happens. Throughout
church, people were saying thank you for the training and that it was good. I
didn´t think much of it, but was definitely grateful for the compliments,
because they are a confidence booster. Then, since it was fast and testimony
meeting, Elder Pereira got up and bore his testimony and mentioned that the
Lord helps us, right? Then he uses my training as an example! I was
shocked...he said that after only six weeks Elder Moody can speak and
understand a lot. He said I could understand everything, but that´s not true.
After six more weeks, maybe haha. So I´m just shocked at this point, then
people just kept saying how great I did. It just reminds me of how blessed I´ve
truly been, especially with the circumstances I was given. It proved to me that
I need to turn to the Lord for help and when all else falls through, He makes
up the rest, and in this case it was through the spirit. My heart is just full
of joy for all that I have received.
So in other news, the other elders
obtaining bug spray, but killed the spiders! I told them that they should leave
the spiders there so we don´t have as many flies, mosquitos, and other things
that fly...unfortunately cockraoches move to fast and are to big for the
spiders to kill them...but that´s why I have my shoes. This past week we found
not one but two frogs in our shower! They were small, but that was crazy! There
was some more downpouring rain yesterday, but the good news is that it was a
nice and "cold" week this week. That just means the sun wasn´t out as
much and we actually had some wind. Miracles. In other news, I just got word that
UK made it to the final four!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I hope everyone has a fantastic
week. I am thankful to everyone for the prayers, and I hope you feel how they
have been answered. It was a hard week, but many great things happened to help
me have motivation to move on to the next week. I love you all so much.
Love,
Elder Moody
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