June 30, 2010

well i guess i will tell you all about my week. i gotta be hurry today
because my email to president needs to be really good since we have
transfers this next week. i think this week was one of the worst weeks
of my mission...number wise. it was pretty crappy. but i still learned
tons and things are getting a lot better now! this week i almost didnt
even work with elder ribeiro. he was always calling me telling me to call and tell someone
something to do instead of just calling them ha. so we ran out of
minutes on both our phones now haha. but this weekend i went on a
roadtrip again ha. it was pretty cool. we went to bragança and socorro
on friday. i went with elder cavalcante this week. it was a pretty
good experience. there were two interviews in bragança and one in
socorro. we got to bragança and then caught a bus to the place where
their investigators live. we had to hurry or we would have missed the
bus to socorro. i cant believe how fast elder cavalcante did the first
interview. the sisters hadnt even talked to the girl's mom about the
baptism yet. this girl's aunt is a member and she has been going to
church for a while. her mom will be baptized in the next couple weeks
now. but anyways, i was talking to her mom about the baptism and elder
cavalcante went to do the interview as fast as he could. he finished
in less than two minutes!!!!! her mom and whole family went to church
and will be baptized now! then we went to the next interview. i
interviewed him. his name is luciano. he is a great guy! he knew all
about the commandment and everything. then i asked him if he was
excited about the baptism. he said he didnt want to be baptized now.
so i gave him a lesson of faith. then he still didnt want to be
baptized. so then i decided that he should pray to ask god if he
should be baptized. so we kneeled down and i asked him to say the
prayer..........he didnt say anything. then i asked him again. he
didnt want to say it without help. i explained how to pray and then i
helped him and he repeated. i said"heavenly father." he said "heavenly
father." i said "we thank thee for" and he said "we thank the for"
then i asked him "what would you like to thank god for" and he said
"what would you like to thank god for." that kinda took away from the
spirit. haha but then he asked if he should be baptized and finished
the prayer. he said, afterwards, that he wanted to be baptized. that
was pretty cool. it was a great experience. then we had to run to
catch the bus to the center of town or we would miss the bus to
socorro. the bus was already at the bus stop so we took off running. i
was just entering the bus and elder cavalcante was about 40 yards away
still and the sisters were about 60! haha. i made the bus driver wait
for them! but we got to the bus station in time. but then the bus
ended up being 45 minutes late anyways! so we got to socorro just in
time to sleep! so we had to do the interview the next morning. i
interviewed her. her name is amanda and she is a basketball player.
she plays almost as much as i used to. actually not really but she
plays quite a bit! that was cool. there arent very many basketball
players here!
but then i worked with elder cavalcante one more day in my area. it
was a good exchange.
on sunday, we had 8 people at church! but elder ribeiro didnt want to
do anything. i wanted to hurry and try to reach all our goals but he
just wanted to take the day easy and go home. that made me pretty
upset!
yesterday, we had our district meeting and the assistants went again.
they always go to my district meeting the last week of the transfer.
it was a great meeting and this week is going to be great!
well that was pretty much my week. sounds like you guys all had a good
week. i guess olivia is at girls camp. i hope they have a
good time. i also got some more of the letters from my friends. they
sound like they are doing pretty great! well love you all! tchau!
love,
elder long