Well, this week was pretty normal. My first week in the new area, lol. The same ward, just covering the part that I already covered when there was just one set of Sisters here. But it´s okay because I´m going to get to know every little hole in the ground before I leave this ward, haha!
So really not much happened this week. There was Easter, so Happy Easter! Here people celebrate a little different. The big thing that people buy here are Easter Eggs, but with a twist. They´re big hollow chocolate eggs with a little surprise inside. My companion´s mom sent her one and sent one for her companion (me) too! So I got one and it had a little stuffed animal inside :P It was super cute.
As for Easter, people have a lot more days off here. They have at least Friday Saturday and Sunday off. Friday is considered a ´holy´ day here as most of the country was Catholic and they consider possibly even more holy than Easter Sunday, is Friday, the day that Christ died on the cross. So a lot of people stay inside, or stay with family (and/ or drink). We even had a member cancel on us because she didn´t think that we should be visiting people on this day out of respect for the Catholic´s holiday. But that didn´t stop us though and we went right along doing our work, there was just barely anyone on the streets. Oh, and we ended up talking to a lot of people drinking (because there were just a lot of them around). It´s kindof sad how many people here drink.
Everyone here is excited for General Conference! It´ll be my first in Portuguese (as in the MTC they were nice and we watched it in English). I´ll probably just have one more after this and then I´ll be home for next year´s April Conference. Crazy. But then again, right now I feel like a year is a long time.
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Well, this week we had rain, rain, and more rain. I think I just might have to buy more shoes in order to let each pair dry out before I have to use them again. lol. But it was a great week with Conference. My first Conference in Portuguese. Gotta admit, I felt like something was missing when I couldn´t hear their actual voices. Just the inflection and the tones of voice that the speakers use, the translators don´t have time or the ability to translate live, and get the inflection right. They´re just worried about getting the words right. But I´m so glad for their service. I imagine it would be really hard to translate on the spot.
So we were a little disappointed this weekend with one of our investigators. My companion has been working with her since December, and she´s so close to baptism in that she knows everything is true, she just has to get married. And her husband doesn´t want to. It´s rough. I couldn´t imagine being together for 15 years and just not wanting to sign a paper to make it official. I just don´t know what is stopping him. Other than the fact that he is really Catholic and knows that she just wants to get married to be able to be baptized. Anyways, things are rough between the two and I just get so sad that people here don´t see the value in marriage. Legal marriage. I just thought of all the conference talks this weekend about families and unity and love in the family and how it all starts with making promises with your spouse, and not just saying it, but putting it into action by having a legal marriage. It´s just strengthened my testimony that much more about the importance of marriage and how Satan is trying so hard and succeeding so well by telling people that it doesn't matter. It´s just sad.
But on the brighter side, we had a baptism of the other Sisters. Whose area I left two weeks ago, but in the same ward. And this young woman is a friend of a member who I made the first contact with her and helped get her started. So even if it didn´t count technically as I moved areas, I still can see how the affects of one missionary can last for quite some time in the area. I was so happy to be able to be in the same ward and watch her baptism. It was very special
Well gotta go,
Sister Grimes
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