This week was interesting. It because gradually harder and harder until we thought we were going to drown, and then it suddunly became perfect and successful and awesome. A few things, we had our christmas confernce this week. Thankyou so much for the letter, and the recipes. Those were awesome. We bought yeast today (i think, my random ingredient vocab is not all that great) so we´re going to be making some cinnamin rolls for sure, maybe tomorrow, we´re going to go over to the Esteves (the awesome member family) tomorrow morning to make breakfest and we´ll call from there later in the evening, and we have dinner there, so we might try to utilize their kitchen for some cinnamin rolls (with their permission of course) because our oven is not so great. Oh, yeah, that´s a good thing for you to know in relation to recipes. I have not yet tried our oven for anything, i tried to broil something once and it turns out there´s a giant gas burner on the top that doesn´t broil very well, so i doubt it works very well, but we´ll see. By the way, the estevs are great, they do so much for the branch and the missionaries. AND, their son, Filippe, who is such a great kid, got his mission call to mozambique this week. He´ll head out in febuary, and with luck i´ll still be here when that happens.
But yeah, other things that happened this week, We had someone read and pray about the book of mormon! It´s shocking how difficult it is to convince people to read and pray to find out if this church is their only key to happiness on earth and in the next life, it´s one of those things you´d think people would want to know, but yeah, it´s great. M. is the investigator, he has a wife (at least we´re hoping she´s his legit wife, a lot of people here say they´re married but aren´t because it´s to expensive and complicated) and two kids who are all great. We´re going over there tonight to talk about what happened, so we´re cautiously hopeful about that.
Oh, more respostas: I can get chicken (i think, we haven´t really tried yet, but generally meats here are easy to come by, though they may be expensive by our standards, we try to spend about 30€ on groceries each week.) Pasta is easy, and it´s one of our staples, we don´t have any basil, but i bet they have it. We generally make some kind of rice or pasta with some sort of vegetable and chicken boulion or bechemel sauce (a great, cheap, premade white sauce) and probably some bacon, because they have these great things of tiny sliced bacon strips that are very easy to put in food. Other than that we have eggs and sandwiches and occasionally some sort of fried stuff (french fries, these little things called risões that are really good, etc), oh and oatmeal, i realized i like oatmeal a lot, and i further realized that there are tons of possibility when you also have fruit or jam. It´s good stuff.
Oh, right, crazy success the past couple of days. So last week was hard, we all know it´s not about numbers, but the numbers are generally a good reflection of how your week went, and last week our week went poorly. We had a couple investigators quit on us, an investigator hang up on us, the irmãs had their golden investigator and husband who were both marked for baptism have marital troubles and now things are very complicated so the baptism on saturday got cancelled, so yeah, last wek was hard. But we had a great district meeting as led by Elder Oram (there are only four missionaries in our district, us and the irmãs) and now are feeling better and rarin´to go, and the past two days have been excellent, we´ve made about 10 great contacts, taught a family who is very catholic and the father says they´re never change, but they´re also brazillion and so they´re infinitely gracious and said we can continue to returns occasionally and teach them.
Hm, i had alittle bit more to say, but it all disappeared and my picture vanished. I'll call tomorrow though at noonish, probably to the land line, but have the cellphones charged and such. It will be fourty minutes. I'm pretty excited, although i've already said pretty much everything that happened to me, so yeah, Até Amanhã, boas festas
Muito amor,
Elder Ammon
But yeah, other things that happened this week, We had someone read and pray about the book of mormon! It´s shocking how difficult it is to convince people to read and pray to find out if this church is their only key to happiness on earth and in the next life, it´s one of those things you´d think people would want to know, but yeah, it´s great. M. is the investigator, he has a wife (at least we´re hoping she´s his legit wife, a lot of people here say they´re married but aren´t because it´s to expensive and complicated) and two kids who are all great. We´re going over there tonight to talk about what happened, so we´re cautiously hopeful about that.
Oh, more respostas: I can get chicken (i think, we haven´t really tried yet, but generally meats here are easy to come by, though they may be expensive by our standards, we try to spend about 30€ on groceries each week.) Pasta is easy, and it´s one of our staples, we don´t have any basil, but i bet they have it. We generally make some kind of rice or pasta with some sort of vegetable and chicken boulion or bechemel sauce (a great, cheap, premade white sauce) and probably some bacon, because they have these great things of tiny sliced bacon strips that are very easy to put in food. Other than that we have eggs and sandwiches and occasionally some sort of fried stuff (french fries, these little things called risões that are really good, etc), oh and oatmeal, i realized i like oatmeal a lot, and i further realized that there are tons of possibility when you also have fruit or jam. It´s good stuff.
Oh, right, crazy success the past couple of days. So last week was hard, we all know it´s not about numbers, but the numbers are generally a good reflection of how your week went, and last week our week went poorly. We had a couple investigators quit on us, an investigator hang up on us, the irmãs had their golden investigator and husband who were both marked for baptism have marital troubles and now things are very complicated so the baptism on saturday got cancelled, so yeah, last wek was hard. But we had a great district meeting as led by Elder Oram (there are only four missionaries in our district, us and the irmãs) and now are feeling better and rarin´to go, and the past two days have been excellent, we´ve made about 10 great contacts, taught a family who is very catholic and the father says they´re never change, but they´re also brazillion and so they´re infinitely gracious and said we can continue to returns occasionally and teach them.
Hm, i had alittle bit more to say, but it all disappeared and my picture vanished. I'll call tomorrow though at noonish, probably to the land line, but have the cellphones charged and such. It will be fourty minutes. I'm pretty excited, although i've already said pretty much everything that happened to me, so yeah, Até Amanhã, boas festas
Muito amor,
Elder Ammon
