In the Field - Vol. 7 of 95(ish?)

DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW AWESOME THE LAST TWO WEEKS HAVE BEEN.

Nope. And neither do I, because there's always so much that's it's hard for me to piece it all together from recollection alone. BUT. This is why I have a journal. *whips out the journal*

So. First thing I want to discuss are the things that actually happened. The past two weeks have had a lot of ups and downs. The end of the last transfer was a lot of working on member references that didn't end up too well, and a lot of effort went down the tubes. It was kinda frustrating. BUT. We got our butts off the floor, and we started doing some serious knocking of doors. People got pulled over on the street by us every minute because BY GOLLY WE WERE DETERMINED TO GET THAT WEEKLY BAPTISM.

Well. Okay. That weekly baptism didn't happen this last week. BUT BY GOLLY WE'RE DETERMINED TO BAPTIZE THIS WEEK.

We've got a bunch of investigators now that are actually interested in hearing what to say. One of them actually pulled us over and told us to go to his house so that he could learn more about the Mormon church. We starting establishing appointments for teaching, and in two weeks he's stopped drinking, giving up coffee, and taking steps to get married so that he can get baptized. The other had his door knocked, got taught a very small bit, and was interested enough to get up less than 10 hours later and go to the same church some weird white Americans told him about. Less than 3 hours after that, he welcomed those same weird white Americans into his home AGAIN and was like "Dude. This is awesome. Sign me up."

This, my friends, is exactly why I'm here. In BRAZIL. Because I know that this stuff changes lives, and that those changes are immediately obvious if you just let 'em come.

So. It's also time to discuss stuff as they stand with the blog. As I understand it, people actually read this blog - sorry for not updating again! A little discipline with my priorities goes a long way in respect to actually getting stuff done here...so I'll try to improve. As usual, don't forget to write! I'm able to much better respond individually than with just mass-updating here. Have a good week, everyone!

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