Friday, January 30, 2009
Elder Lindquist 1/21/09
So this last week was good. We had zone conference in Meiratejo and holy cow! I've never received so many packages and letters in my life! I came out of the room with the mail in there and as I walked with my gigantic heap of mail in my arms people were drooling with jealousy. I think I had more mail than my zone and the other zone that was there combined. So thanks everyone who has sent me stuff it was great. This was an interesting week as far as visits go. On Sunday an awesome guy named Hélio was here, he's from Brazil and lived here for a few years and everyone loves him. Yesterday he drove us out to a little city called Aljastrélo that is about 40 minutes away but it's still in our area. We have a few members there and lots of inactive members. One of which was a good friend of Hélios so we went by her house and she was very bitter about the church here, (people get offended very easily here. If you look at someone wrong they'll leave the church.) So she was nice to her friend but not to us. She said if he wasn't there she wouldn't have had us over. The whole time we were there she was ragging on our branch and the leaders in our branch. I was sick of hearing this, just because she was offended by a leader of our branch that doesn't mean that the missionaries are bad too. I told her it doesn't matter who the branch president is Christ is the leader of this church and this thing that happened shouldn't keep her from coming to church because the sacrament is more important. (No she didn't break down crying and say she'll come back every week) but she did say I realize I'm the one losing. She said I know it's not enough to just read the scriptures here at home and try and light up my family with a candle. I hope she eventually comes back because she knows the church is true, it just breaks my heart to see these people losing out on the blessings of the church because of their pride. But when we left she did say that we would be welcome back in her house if we wanted to come back. That was just one layer of many that we need to break in order to get her back to church. Now we just need to do that with the other 300 inactive members of our branch. Well that was a long story so I'll keep the rest of this short, at the first of the week I thought the language was coming along ok but honestly right now I feel like I'm horrible. Two people this last week were trying to talk to me and when I wouldn't understand something they'd be like he doesn't understand anything! Then they'd talk to me like I was a three year old. This has been discouraging. My confidence has dropped quite a bit since last week but I'm still trying to communicate to the best of my ability. I know the Lord will help me learn. I hope all is well with you, continue to pray for the missionaries. We need all the help we can get! Love Elder Lindquist
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