Elder Lindquist 9/2/09

So this week went well, it's really cool to see people progress it's one of my favorite things to see. The baptism didn't go through. Teresa was really nervous and didn't think she was ready to make that commitment. She continues to progress, we had a family night with her on Monday and we played a game I made that reviews the restoration it was really fun and we had some good laughs. It was a bummer but she'll still be baptized soon when she feels completely ready. (She is ready she just got scared). So Saturday was a rough day it was very hot and we were both exhausted. We were getting shut down all day. We went to the other side of town to teach Sister Maria Regina and after that (about 7:30) we didn't have much to do. I was like I feel like we should do some finding in Bairro Boavista (which is another 30 minute walk from where we were) Elder Wheeler looks at me like you've got to be kidding me, but we decided to go. We started walking up the long road that led to that part of town and we decided to start knocking those apartments. Everyone was treating us like trash and I was getting a little annoyed, so I was like should we keep knocking here or go up to the Bairro? Elder Wheeler was like I don't care, so we decided to keep knocking. A few doors later I knocked on a house and a younger lady answered. She was a little hesitant to talk to us at first and let us know that they were eating dinner I jokingly said "oh cool do you have room for two more? I'm starving" (I really was because I slept during our hour for dinner) she laughed and was like do you want to come eat with us?! I looked at Elder Wheeler and we both shrugged our shoulders and I was like sure. So we go in and there's a table full of people in their living room, so they found space for us and preceded to hand us plate after plate of food. It was awesome. After desert we talked to them about the Book of Mormon and left them a few copies, they wanted us to write our testimonies in them so we did and we left that house walking on clouds. It's funny how the days can shift so quickly. I definitely know that our Heavenly Father had our back that day because it wasn't going very well and he was aware of that so he gave us a nice tender mercy. So last night we had a lesson with our African investigator Vanessa. She is so sick! She's on chapter 11 of 1st Nephi and we had a great lesson talking about the tree of life vision and all this good stuff. I told her that she's going to like chapter 13 because it describes the church of the devil and I was like pay attention to the characteristics I'm pretty sure you'll be able to decipher which church it is. She was excited about that. Well today we're going to Sintra with our Zone it's going to be sick. Elder Wheeler has never been so it will be a good day. I hope you had good birthdays Mom and Dad the package should get there in about a week. Take it easy and study/work hard! Love vosso querido Elder Lindquist