This week has been pretty crazy. Monday was p day but we also got to have a baptism as well. His name is Anderson and he didn´t want to be baptized Sunday but decided he wanted to be baptized that Monday. So got to the chapel and held a baptism for him! Tuesday
was District Meeting and went really well! Our District Meetings
consist of us and one other companionship, but they´re always great! Tuesday was pretty normal after that though. Wednesday, nothing really exciting happened, just moving forward and talking to everybody that we meet. Thursday
was crazy though. We had Zone Conference with President Klein the next
day, so all the missionaries in the state of Rodonia were coming into
Porto Velho and we had to make arrangements for our Zone, and another
Zone for places to stay! We ended up have 8 other elders in our house,
all crammed into the one room in the house with AC! Was a lot of fun
though, ordered pizza and talked. The next morning we had to get up at 5
to have enough time for 10 people to shower and get ready to catch the
bus at 7. Caught the bus and got to the stake center pretty early
though, about 7:20.
Got there and were just hanging out, eating breakfast, and waiting for
President and Sister Klein to show up when suddenly the power in the
Stake Center went out! The assistants and the zone leaders held a quick
conference and called President Klein and decided to move the
conference to the Tancredo Neves Chapel, which was the closest chapel to
the stake center, which is ours. So, about 30-40 missionaries picked
up all of our stuff and started marching for the bus stop. Kinda of
funny when the bus showed up, 30-40 people all trying to cram in and
catch the bus! But we all fit, and headed down to our chapel, got
everything set up and running and the conference was really good!
President and Sister Klein both talked about obedience to the mission
rules and how it will help is achieve our mission goal for baptisms in
the year. I don´t know if you already knew, but Missão Brasil Manaus is
the highest baptizing mission in the world! Pretty cool. After the
conference cleaned the chapel, and prepped for our baptism the next day.
Saturday
was normal except for the baptism we had in the afternoon. We baptized
a family of four who are just plain awesome. We had a little bit of
fun trying to get baptismal clothes for all of them! When we got to the
chapel with them, we started to hand out baptismal clothes, but 2 of
the 4 didn´t fit! We did some rearranging and managed to get 3 people
clothes, but one of the members who was going to be baptizing as well,
didn´t have clothes! Made some quick phone calls and managed to get some
more over to the chapel in time. It was an awesome day. Sundyay, I
gave my first talk in Sacrament Meeting, which went really well. I
talked about the importance of members being involved in missionary work
and truly members are so important to missionary work! Had another
baptism afterwards for a man named Wagner and went really well until we
changed clothes. He changed faster than I did so he left the bathroom
first. When I got back to the room where we held the baptism, everyone
was sitting around except Wagner. My companion and I started searching
around everywhere for him, but he was gone! We figured he thought that
after the baptism that was it and just left. Definitely made it a
memorable time.
This next week should be a bit calmer. Don´t have any big
events planned for this week but it still should be good! Hope you all
have a great week this week! I miss you all too!
Love Elder Battraw
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