You ran into Brother Rodda! Hes pretty awesome! He was
the one who gave me the scripture in DC 9:8-9 about how answer of the
spirit come. He helped me a lot getting my papers ready. Oh, it was Pi
Day this week. I didn´t really realize that. Forgot. 5th place at the
pinewood derby! I do think thats the best that our family has done yet.
Working at the hospital sounds like it is really busy. Switching around
all the patients and getting everything ready to go! Here things are
starting to cool down a little bit. We are in the middle of the rainy
season here and its definitely been raining. Almost everyday will rain
at least one time. A little crazy.
So this week, monday, p day, did the normal routine, rested, played cards the norm. Tuesday
my new companion, Elder Macário got here. Elder Housley (old
companion) and Elder Green stayed with us for the day working and
helping get everything in order. Elder Greens new companion, Elder
Nordgran, showed up later that night so he left. I actually already knew
Elder Nordgran because he was my District Leader back in the Provo MTC!
First time I´d seen him in 6 months! Wednesday
I managed to get two packages that had shown up (took 3-4 months to
arrive). One of them had a whole bunch of birthday stuff in it, so
Elder Housley and his new companion, Elder Mount, grabbed the box and
took it to a members house to bake cake and had a surprise birthday
party for me, even though it was 3 weeks early. That was pretty cool.
They left Thursday for their area. Thursday
was pretty nice. A missionary of the branch here returned from his
mission in Brasil so we got to be there when he returned! Kinda of weird
to see a missionary returning from his mission while I´m still on my
mission. Friday was working, going from door to door. Saturday
was basically the same thing. I teach an English class right now for
people here, to anybody that shows up and this week we had an
investigator show up with his daughter, so we gave them a quick tour of
the church that they really liked and then taught some quick English. Sunday,
was crazy. We have a family of investigators who live pretty far away
who needed a ride to church, so when I tried calling them to get a ride,
our cell phone credit ran out! Got some more credit Sunday
morning so I managed to get them a ride, we helped another family get
to church as well. We had lots of other people show up as well. All in
all, 15 people were visiting the church, almost all for the first time.
Was a bit of a race, when the first hour was over, it was more or less
running down the hall, asking how people were, directing them to the
correct room, and then running to the next group of people to help them
out. One of the ladies was 95yrs old and had to be helped wherever she
went. It was really great but a little tiring. One of our
investigators didn´t show up until 20 minutes before church ended, and
needed to be confirmed, so we got him inside, asked the Branch President
if we could confirm at the end of sacrament meeting and got him
confirmed. Was a little crazy to say the least.
This week President Klein is flying out to Porto Velho to have a
meeting with all the missionaries so we are all super excited for that!I
got 2 packages this week. One had hot chocolate, 2 cds (MOTAB and
Piano Guys, A Family Christmas) and the other birthday materials and a
CD of BYU Mens Chorus. I think everything got there. Thanks for sending
those packages! It was really awesome to have a mini birthday party,
even if it was a bit early! Thanks so much! Hope you all have a great
week ! Miss you all!
Love
Elder Battraw
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