So this week was an interesting week here. i´ll get the final report of the world cup out. So this Tuesday
was the Brasil vs Germany game. This game entered the record books to
say the least. Within the first 29 minutes of the game, Germany had
made 5 goals, 4 within 6 minutes. It was fast enough that people here
were still thinking that they were replaying the last goal when Germany
had already made the next. To say that day was a day of sadness and
mourning and understatment. In the house where I was watching we had
people crying and others sitting in stunned silence as they watched
Brasil team get destroyed. The game ended with Brasil making a goal in
the last 2 minutes of the game to bring the final score to 7-1. It was
a very sad day here in Brasil. The game was basically repeated as
Brasil competed for 3rd place against Holand and the game ended with the
score being 3-0 to Holland. This was not a very good time to be
Brasilian. Sunday,
the World Cup was brought to an end with Germany vs Argentina, which
ended with the German victory of 1-0 making this the 4th time that
germany has won the World Cup.
So I´ll tell my viewpoint. Monday
night we had 4 other elders from other areas staying with us to be able
to participate in the get to know your president conference with
President Castro. Super cool to have 4 more elders in the house. Tuesday
we all got to know President Castro. Hes about 55 and hes super cool.
He speaks both Portugese and Spanish. Super cool. I think that it ´ll
be super fun to have him as mission president! Tuesday
we also got to watch the brasil vs germany game. All of the elders (2
bolivians and 4 americans) were rooting for germany and it was
interesting to watch the reactions as the game progressed. The first
goal everyone went crazy, 2nd goal was still really animated, 3rd, what,
another goal?, 4th theres no way this is happening, 5th i can´t belive
this is happening, 6th again!?! 7th where is brasil!?!. By the end of
the game everyone is the house was rooting for brasil to make at least
one goal which they did do in the last 2 minutes. It was really sad to
watch Brasil lose this way b/c they were a very strong team. Wednesday
after all the elders had returned back to their own areas were able to
get back to work. We´ve been talking a lot with less actives here
helping them return back to church. Its been really cool, we´ve been
meeting a lot of new people. Its always interesting to talk with these
people. Never has one ever told me that they do not believe that the
church is not true, many of them still have very strong testimonies that
the church is true, but haven´t a chance to come back yet. Its been
really awesome. We met a new young man named Fabío who is super cool as
well. He is pretty awesome and has a strong desire to learn about the
gospel which is super cool. Hes getting ready to be baptized this coming Sunday
and we are super excited for him! We have a couple other investigators
who are really excited to learn about the gospel and watching their
testimonies grow every day makes everyday here in Brasil worth it!
Hope that you all are having a great week this week! Have a fun
time with everybody there in house! have an awesome time at the wedding!
Miss all of you!
Love
Elder Battraw
