This past week has also been a little crazy. We had district meeting this past Tuesday
which was awesome, for the first time we didn´t have to travel to it
because we decided to have it at our chapel. Our district has only 4
people but it is still pretty awesome. Wednesday
was a baptism for the 2 girls I wrote about last week. That was
interesting to say the least. We showed up at their house with a
determination to get them baptized. One of the girls came out and said
that she didn´t want to be baptized, but we quickly talked to her and
explained how important baptism is for us and she changed her mind. We
were planning our walking while they got a ride with the YW President
but the YW President told us that she couldn´t do it when we had called
earlier that day so we were going to just walk everyone to the chapel,
which is not that far, but its still a good distance. However, the same
girl said that she didn´t want to walk, so after some intense
negotiations we called a taxi and got them to the chapel. We were not
taking no for an answer! Got to the chapel to discover that had drained
the font and it was 7:30
at night. The YW presidency met us at the chapel and talked the girls
while we filled the font. Generally it takes about 1hr-1:30hr b/c its a
lot of water and its really slow, but we opened the water as fast as
would come out, hooked up a hose to help it fill, and had a bucket
brigade going from three different bathrooms in the chapel to get this
font filled. Got it filled in about 30min and notified the girls that it
was time to change into baptismal clothes. We asked them who they
wanted to baptize them and they chose me so I quickly got changed into
baptismal clothes and we waited for them to get changed, but when they
emerged only one had on baptismal clothes. You can guess which didn´t.
We asked her why and she said she wanted to watch her sister get
baptized first and then get changed. We just rolled with it, got
pictures and got the baptism rolling. The first girl was baptized and
then the other went and got changed, got her baptized, with no more
problems. They weren´t able to get to church this Sunday b/c one was sick and the other had to work so hopefully this Sunday we can confirm them without anymore more problems. Thursday was normal, no drama which was nice. Friday was the same, nothing of major import happened, but Saturday was different. Saturday we were going to sing at the temple with a bunch of other choirs and we needed to be there at 6pm and it would start at 7pm.
Our ride was going to pick us and the ZLs up and take us to the
temple. The ZLs were going to be here doing baptismal interviews for us.
Morning was normal, just going around warning our investigators that we
would be swinging by later that day with the Zone Leaders to do
interviews. We were expecting the ZLs at about 3:00-3:30
but that time rolled around and they stilled weren´t here . Decided to
go grab so dinner b/c we wouldn´t have a chance later that day and the
ZLs called and told us that they were at the bus terminal waiting for
the bus to get to our area. Anyway, as were finishing up dinner our ride
called and told us that turns out he couldn´t take the ZLs as well b/c
his parents would be in the car as well. Called the ZLs and told them
not to catch the bus and apparently right after we called the bus rolled
on by(they´d been waiting for an hour). Ran to the house to drop some
stuff off and we´d just left when our ride comes hurtling down the
street and picks us up and whisks us to the temple. The concert went
great. We had a missionary choir of about 100-150 missionaries from Zona
Manaus singing an arrangement of Called to Serve and Joy to the World
in 3 different languages (Portuguese, English and Spanish). Pretty
awesome. Weren´t able to get a ride back so took the bus and staggered
back home at about 10-10:30pm. Sunday
was normal, had the ward primary program and that was really cool to
see but a little weird to hear the songs sung in Portuguese. This week
has been a little crazy.
I´m a little jealous that you all have snow! Its super hot here and
we haven´t had a lot of rain. Thanks for all the pictures! We´re going
to be skyping. What time would be good to skype you guys. I don´t know
where exactly we are going to be skyping, but if you see a random
brazilian name pop up its probably me! Have a great week! I miss you
all! Feliz Natal!
Love Elder Battraw
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