everywhere here in Itacoatiara did not have internet and if it did, it
was coming in spurts and not consistently. Really kind of frustrating
at times but we managed to get emails out! Happy Birthday to
everyone! The birthdays are all coming to a close right now right?
Super cool. When is tom going to get an appointment with Pres.
Kinard? This is kinda of taking a while. Maybe he´ll go to
California along with all the other people in the ward. Taht sounds
like a cool fun opening night thing to do. I wish I could see the
band perform. Its kind of weird to think that the band is performing
and I can´t see the show. Huh, I´ll have to wait until next year.
Keep on going though Sam! Sounds like you have some interesting
stories about working at the hosptial! you are back in school? Thats
cool!
so this week in the mission field was pretty normal. Tuesday was
district meeting which went well. I´m starting to get used to giving
trainings and being district leader now. The sisters here in
Itacoatiara managed to get hold of a recipe for apple pie and so now
its being a hunt to track down all of the ingredients to be able to
make. We were finally able to track them all down, but the hardest
definitely was the brown sugar, which is not a normal thing to have
out here in brasil. This week was managed to find a cool new family
to teach. The son has been going to church for some time but has
never been baptized, so we rea trying to teach him right now and his
family. They are all super cool. Its a mom with her 4 kids and her
17 year daughter has a daughter as well, but they are all super cool.
They didn´t go to church this week because everybody got sick, but
hopefully this next week they´ll al be able to go! We also had Sunday
a baptism of an 8 year old who has also been going to church for more
than three months all alone. We acutally thought that he was a member
already but 2 weeks ago we asked how was his baptism and he said to
us, but I´ve never been baptized! So yesterday was his baptism. His
mom is actually a member but its been years since she has been to
church so we are trying to get her reactivated! Its been super cool
to talk with her. She is actually trying to major in English so she
has been practicing her english with us a little bit. Getting the
baptism ready was interesting to say the least. We got to the chapel
about 2:45ish to get everything ready for his baptism and found out
that the font had not actually drained out all of the water and that
there was about 2 inches of water on the bottom of the font that was
really dirting, which started a hasty effort to get everything cleaned
out. I rolled up my pants, got some buckets and we got to work.
After about an hour of bailing out the font and cleaning, we were
ready to fill! it filled a little bit then we had to leave to get
everything else ready and go some other appointments and had to turn
it off. We didn´t get a chance to turn it back on again till the
acutal baptism so it was running back to the chapel and sweeping
really quickly and filling the font as fast as possible so it made
life a little bit interesting but everything turned out okay! This
week is going to be interesting here b/c the biggest music festival in
the northern region of brasil will be held here Thursady until Sunday
so it will definitly be interesting trying to teach, but we will find
a way!
Hope that everyone will have a great week! Miss all of you!
Love
Elder Battraw
The many pictures of Itacoatiara. A baptism, cleaning out the
baptismal font,losing all the power in the house. Fun stuff. hope
you all have a great week!
Elder battraw
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