Did you know that Sunday is
the busiest and most stressful day in the life of a Brasil Natal
missionary? This Sunday Sister J. Silva
and I brought three of R's sons to church (ages 11, 10 and 7). We told them that at church they could meet
with all the boys there and we could schedule a futebol game for this
week.
I think that, however, one or
two of them might have thought that we were bringing them to church to play
futebol, because near the end of sacrament meeting, the 7 year-old got really
bored and said that he wanted to go home with his brother. We asked him to wait a little bit until the
meeting was over but by then he was walking out of the chapel.
We followed him with one of
his brothers and tried to reason with him to stay until the closing hymn and
prayer were done, but all of a sudden he bolted out the door and started
running. I was with Sister Arzani at the
time and we had no choice but to run after him with his brother, who told us
that he didn't know if his 7 year-old brother knew his way home (the slums are
pretty far away). We followed him,
running and walking at times and every time he turned around and saw us he
would just run harder (I never knew 7 year-olds could run so fast!)
We ended up running all the
way to the favela (slums) with his 10 year-old brother to deliver him safely
home and then walked all the way back to church (By then Gospel Principles was
over and it was already time for Relief Society - well needed relief). Uau!
What a day!
Interesting occurrence of the
week:
I got pooped on by a
dove. We were walking to lunch and all
of a sudden something wet fell onto my forehead. I turned to my companions and they told me
there was yellow gunk on my forehead. I
was finally able to make it to the member's house to wash my forehead. That was
not the Holy Ghost descending.
Transferencias [transfers] are
here. I will be staying in my area of
Abolição but my filinha adotada [adopted child] Sister J. Silva left this
morning for Natal and I have adopted another bebe filinha and will be finishing
the training of Sister Pereira who is from Belém do Para, which is supposedly
near Recife.
Sister Dyer
Sister Dyer and companion on Preparation day
Baptism
R's Baptism
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