Elder Stilson
HOWDY!! And BOM DIA to
everyone!!! This week has been really good with a couple of bumps... First off
Elder Crapo was transferred! Now it is just me and Elder M. Silva. We have to
cover 2 areas now with just 2 missionaries... It’s rough because of all of the
hills here haha but it is alright. We have been making a lot of progress here in
Cobilândia and I love it here.
Tuesday was H-O-T HOT!!! I think
it was close to 120!! Now the humidity isn’t what has been killing me! I thought
it would be but it is just the stinking heat!!! We had to stop after walking for
about an hour after lunch and asked a random guy for water, it was a nice house
so we think the water was safe ;) (My mom will love to hear that! She reminded
me over and over not to drink the water.) While we were sitting there we got a call from
the APs saying that Elder Crapo had been transferred! Well he served a good week
here in Cobilândia ;)
After we took him to the bus
stop we had amazing lesson with an investigator Sheila! She wants a Joseph Smith
testimony experience before she is baptized though... We have tried and tried to
get her understand it usually doesn’t work that way. She finally has accepted baptism and is
scheduled to be baptized this Saturday! She feels the spirit every time we visit
with her but it is hard to tell someone exactly what they will feel and what
their answer will be. She wants to be baptized so we are hopeful about
Saturday!!
Wednesday we had a lesson with
Lorival which was really good. Teaching him was very different because
everything we taught he accepted!!?? WHAT?! A 71 year old catholic accepting
everything?! Yeah we were a little shocked at how accepting he was about
everything we taught but we now know that he truly was prepared!! He stopped
drinking coffee and he was baptized this week! It was amazing and the members
here have really helped him! He is an amazing man and one of my best friends
here in Cobilândia!!
The rest of our time this week
was mainly spent trying to get addresses! Our zone leaders have made this a new
rule. We didn’t get all 35 addresses this week so we had to go out this morning
and get the 8 that we were missing. It
is frustrating but we did it and I’m glad we were able to get it done.
I don’t have a lot of time today
but I want to thank everyone for the letters and emails. Thank you for everything that y’all have done
for me!! You are the best!! JR thank you so much for that essay that you sent
me! I hope you know how much that means to me and I know you said not to waste
my time but I need to thank you for that! It really is going to help me!
LOVE,
ELDER STILSON!!
Vitoria District
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