So, how was my week, you ask?
This week was crazy. First of all, or rather, Last of all, this morning our house flooded. It was raining pretty hard, and we knew that the house had flooded a few times before, so i was a ilttle worried. It was about 8:28 and i was just about to call the other Elders to see what their plans for Pday were when i heard a strange noise. “What could that be?” I wonder, and then i see it. Water flooding in from the sewer below the stove. We ran to get everything of the floor, and i threw a bag together, planning to get out of the house before we drowned. We called our dona (landlady) but she didn't answer, and the water just kept coming. The worst part is that this isn't your ordinary, clean, rain water. This is fetid, sewer backwash. So eventually, it stopped raining, and the water started running the other direction. So we spent the next few hours cleaning up and trying to get the water to run out. And then we bleached the floor and now it's not too terrible. But today i got a new resolve to get out of this house. It's my new project for today, so hopefully, by the time next week comes around, i'll be in a new house. I think this is the 3rd or 4th time that this has happen in the past few years, i don't know what the missionaries were thinking not leaving before, but i refuse to live here anymore.
Otherwise, the week was a pretty normal week in the mission. We've been finding some really great people, and the other elders are doing great too. Oh, here's a good story.
On sunday, we were waiting for a meeting with the bishop, and this kid walked in, I say kid, he was about 20. So i talked to him, he said that he was from Porto and just came to visit. I asked him a couple times how he got there, he didn't really say, he said he already knew about the church. So we talked to him a bit, and he stayed for the first two hours, but then left right before Sacrament Meeting. I asked if we could go visit him sometime, but he said no, he'd call if he was interesting. So i left that sort of sad, although otherwise sunday was great, we had 4 people at church, two of them for the first time, and all in all it was a great meeting. Our lunch appointment was canceled so i ate lunch at home on sunday for the first time in my mission (sad, right?), and then we went and taught some people.
So on tuesday, we were filling out the baptismal form with Mario and i got a call, i answered, and it was the guy from sunday! Just to have an idea of how suprising this was, it was probably the first time i've ever been called by someone to whom i gave our number (if that makes sense...basically people always say they'll call and never call) And he asked if we could go visit that day. So we set it up.
On the way over, another guy called me out of the blue, and wanted to meet with us again. Crazyness!
So it turns out he's a member, but has been inactive for the past 10ish years because of some crappy people in the church. He ended up getting into some bad stuff, but managed to pull himself out of it and wants to have faith again. It was really great, and the other elders are going back tonight. He lives outside of our area, so we're probably going to have to pass him over to the other elders, but it's really cool to have people show up from out of the blue, asking for help.
I'm going to try to get a package off today with some stuff, including the photos. There's also a higher quality (but shorter) video of the poop flood.
So, have a great week, don't worry about crazy flooding in our house, because i won't be living here anymore. You'll also be happy to know that wherever the mouse was, it's not in our house, because it definitely would have showed up this morning.
So, grandes abraços para todos.
Ammon
