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| Elder Stilson & Sister Bezerra, the Mission Presidents Wife |
It has been an amazing
experience being on the receiving end of a fast. I want to thank everyone for
everything that ya'll have done for me!! I had my endoscope done on Tuesday and
they found what they needed to find. The Gastrologist told my companion and the
mission president’s wife that they didn’t find anything. That they just removed
out about 2 liters of stomach acid and bile from my stomach. They finally sent
over the results from all of the tests to an American doctor who is serving in
the São Paulo MTC right now. He was
able to go over each of them again. Well, come to find out, there were several
problems with my stomach. I have severe gastritis throughout my stomach. The
American doctor told me that my whole stomach was basically one giant
ulcer. The good part is that they found
that it has already started to heal! This is such a great blessing to me and I
know that it is because of the faith, fasting and prayers from my family and
friends that made this possible! If it hadn't started to get better, I know
that I would be home right now. I am so
grateful for the blessing that allowed me to stay here in Brazil to continue to
teach the gospel to the amazing people here. I have had to fast for different
things while I was in Colorado and now being a recipient of the blessings... It
truly is amazing! So thank you all so much again!
Well Saturday was Brazil’s
Independence Day!! And all of the missionaries who were really close to the
main island of Vitória were in the Parade! It was really cool and an awesome
experience to be part of! Right as the
parade started... It started to pour!!!! This was a kind of soaking wet that
soaks you clear to the bones. Haha it
was SO bad and very wet! Not to worry, the parade went on. Here in Brazil the missionaries say that if
you go through these kinds of trials it adds up to “Wife Points”!! Meaning that
our wives just keep getting better looking every time we get soaked, have
blisters, or any other trial that comes our way! HEY my wife is going to be the
BEST looking girl on the face of this planet then!!!!! SCORE!!!!!;) Haha
We have been having problems
with our sewage. We live in the first level of a family’s home and it has
totally backed up in our laundry area.
It is backed up from the sink and from the toilet!! Yep pretty much just
super nasty!! We noticed it on Sunday when our house smelled like POOP. We tried to talk to sister about it
but nothing really happened and she just told us to talk to the owners of
the house. We tried talking to them every day but he was either sleeping, at
work or just busy. We finally couldn’t take it any more so on Saturday night
and woke him up and asked him to please come down and look at it. Well he had
to go shoulder deep into the sewer to try and get the pipes unclogged to take
care of it and so that we could have a normal smelling house again. Even this
morning it started to come back up again!! GAH! Give me a break??;) Haha WIFE
POINTS!!
Well the next thing I want to
talk about is about the morons who tried to build a tower to get to
Heaven... Really... Did you not think that there was going to be consequences
for trying to get up there ... And now all of the missionaries who are sent to
foreign lands have to suffer due to their stupidity? THANKS! I really wish the
language came a little quicker and easier so that we could really focus on
teaching. Haha. No I am learning a
little bit everyday! I can understand every third word now;) Haha I can’t wait
until I have been here long enough that I can easily communicate with people
here. But for now I get to deal with
another trial;) “WIFE POINTS”
On Friday I had my first
baptism here in Brazil!! It was awesome because I got to baptize my Brazilian
Mom!!! Her name is Regina and she pulled an awesome surprise on her daughter
Fernanda! Fernanda just turned 20 on Friday and really wanted to be baptized on
her birthday, but she really wanted her mom to be baptized with her! Well,
Regina yelled at her and told her no, that she wasn’t ready! But to Fernanda’s
surprise when we got to the baptism, Fernanda was ready and waiting for it to
begin and right before the meeting started, Regina and I walked in dressed in
white all ready to have 2 baptisms!! It was such a cool experience!
Well that was how my week
went!:) A lot of crazy and a lot of amazing as well! Well I love you all and
hope to hear from you soon!!
Eu amo voces!!
Amor,
Elder Stilson
The missionaries with Regina & Fernanda at the Surprise Baptism
The Vitoria Missionaries that marched in the Brazil Independence Day Parade
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