I’ve been in the Recife mission for an entire transfer! Other missionaries have told me that time passes quickly on a mission an uncountable number of times now. It’s really true!
Fun facts: I drank coconut juice for the first time this week. It´s interesting — not bad but not my favorite ever. It’s very popular here. Coconuts are everywhere here — the trees, street stalls, members houses, etc. They are green instead of brown and hairy!
We keep meeting really wonderful people who are super interested in the gospel on the street but we are encountering problems in actually teaching them in their houses repeatedly and helping them get to church! Still, we had another baptism last week.
We have had several investigators who know little about religion or about Jesus Christ. We have had several who struggle with learning difficulties and who learn slowly. It is hard sometimes to teach them because of their learning pace (and it’s a lot harder for me to understand and be understood by less-educated people–it makes the language barriers between us higher) but they are all awesome. They don’t have some of the worldly stumbling blocks that more-educated people have with religion (myself included). They really want to do what God wants, and they have less preoccupations about time, work, money, etc. The many scriptures about the problems richer people have in following Christ are true.
The spirit really does bring all things to people’s remembrance! It is amazing to see some people learn and remember things about the gospel despite huge learning difficulties. The gospel is for everyone!
Hope you guys have an awesome Thanksgiving and an awesome week!
Love you!
Headed to Recife 