Monday
was an exciting day! Pday. After I emailed you guys, we got to go down
to Gonçalves which is the supermarket here. Its about a 20-30 minute
walk, but its the only American style supermarket here that has American
things there. We even found Hersheys milk chocolate there and we found
Heinz Ketchup and BBQ sauce! That was super cool, but REALLY expensive,
about 15 reais, so about 7-8 dollars, since it had been imported direct
from the US, it was even in English! And you´ll never guess what opened
up across the street. Subway. They have subway here in Porto Velho.
So you can guess what I had for lunch. A 15cm/ 6in sub which costed 12
reais so about 5-6 dollars, but was totally worth it. Tuesday
was pretty normal, had district meeting, which was awesome, but one of
the elders in our district had hemeroids so wasn´t too fun for him. Wednesday, was normal , going around and visiting people. Thursday was really special. Thursday
night we were walking down the street to one of our
investigators/pesquisadors whom we were planning to tell her that we
couldn´t meet with her anymore because she was keeping her commitments
and wasn´t progressing. Well, we got there and starting to talking her
and she completely broke down b/c her daughter had been having troubles
and had been arguing with her. She was completely distraught, so we
tried to comfort her and talk to her, talked about how the Holy Ghost
can help us through whatever troubles we have in our lives, and ended up
leaving with a baptismal date set for he. It was a really powerful
lesson. Friday
was interesting. The elder who had hemeroids got another call from the
Area doctor and said he had to get a certain medicine, that if it didn´t
help with his problems, he would have to return home for surgery. The
only thing was that they didn´t have that medicine in his area, so we
looked around in our area, and ended up going downtown to look for the
medicine. Problem though, Friday
was the anniversary of Porto Velho so all the major businesses were
shut down, including the major pharmacies that had it. So we ended up
returning to our area, buying a substitute that the area doctor cleared
as okay, and delievered it to the very grateful elder. Haven´t heard
anything else since, so hopefully hes doing well. Saturday
was the baptism of Pedro, and 8 year old whose parents aren´t members,
but hes always at church every week. His mom traveled 6 hours to see
his baptism b/c he lives with his grandparents. That was pretty awesome.
Sunday was pretty normal. Nothing extremely exciting happened with us.
So good news! I´m getting a package this week! I get to pick it up tomorrow
at our Zone Conference! Super excited! The mission secretaries called
this week to get my passport information so maybe another package
arrived in Manaus and got stopped for fees b/c of its value. A bit of
advice I heard, any packages should be less than 30 dollars in value. If
that means you have to open a few things like CDs to drop its value
from 12 dollars unopened to 2-3 dollars, or just underestimate the
value, b/c otherwise I have to pay fees when they arrive here ranging
from 80-120 reais. But I will get a package this week, so I´m super
excited! Thanks so much! This week will be pretty interesting with all
the zone conferences and exchanges. Hope everything is going great at
home! Have a great week!
Love Elder Battraw
P.S Sorry I´m not
sending pictures, this computer isn´t reading my memory card so I´ll try
another computer and hopefully it´ll work!
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