This week was one of the best and worst weeks here but over all it was a good week because this is the work of JOY, the Lord's work! This week we had Rogerio on date for baptism on the 19th(Sat) so we worked with him every single day this week and when we left him Friday night he had just passed his interview with our district leader and was all sorts of excited to be baptized the next day! The next day we got everything ready for the baptism and even made 2 cakes.
We tried calling him but he kept ending the call and then turned off his phone so we thought he was working and continued working on preparing everything. We even went to his house to make sure everything was o.k. but no one was there. We waited at the church at 7 p.m. with everything ready. After 3 members going to his house and MANY phone calls we gave up and to cheer up we ate both of the cakes and played foosball with our district leader, his companion and 2 members. It was a lot of fun and we couldn't leave the church anyway because right when we went to leave it started POURING so hard that the streets were dangerous to be on so we made the most of our time with a foosball tournament haha!data-original-height="480" /> Then later this week we had interviews with the president. It was our last interview with him because the new president from Canada will arrive in June! His wife told me she wants me to marry her son and I couldn't tell if she was joking or not so that made me want to run for the mountains, instead I nervously laughed and changed the topic to landscaping. Turns out she's a professional landscape architect and has her own business, who would have guessed! I will miss them a lot, they are truly amazing people and I've grown to love them so much! After the interviews got over me and sister Enout got to go to one of the members in our wards wedding! When we got there early there was a few people decorating and the groom was standing next to a kitchen FULL of food looking a little nervous so we asked if he needed help. He told us no and that everything was okay but the closer the wedding got the more nervous he looked. He finally came to us asking if we could help with the food. "Just set some of the tables for before and then after the actual meal" he said. So we said of course because we are missionaries and we live to serve! Well it turns out 290 people came to the wedding and the groom ordered all the food for dinner for all of them and appetizers for before the wedding but had no one to serve the food or be in charge of the kitchen.....Rookie mistake leaving the groom in charge of the food! But we were more than happy to help! After about 20 min of just me and sister Enout trying to wash dishes (they were all dusty and some even had spiders on them) and serve food for almost 300 people we called the elders in that area to help us and they were on divisions so all 4 of them came to help and then a couple of members saw we needed some help so they came and helped in the kitchen! We ended up not really even getting to see the ceremony because we were so busy but it was actually a lot of fun to be a waitress for a little while and the elders had a great time walking around with the trays in one hand above their heads ha ha! It was also a really good way to meet non-members because 2 of the elders that were there were also American so a lot of people had questions as to why 3 Americans were serving them food, so we got to talk a lot about the mission and why we are here! Then a member told us he and his wife could give us a ride home because riding the buses here past 9 p.m. is apparently really dangerous but then they stayed at the church until 11:30 p.m. so we were a little late for the mission curfew but we called President Silcox and he said he would forgive us as long as we were serving ha ha. It was a lot of fun but wow we were tired when we got back after 5 1/2 hours of catering a wedding.
That's about all that happened this week. We are still teaching Penha and Zilda and a couple of investigators that we are excited to be working with! I will keep you updated on Rogerio because we still haven't heard from him but we get the feeling he may have changed his mind. He has been taught by the missionaries for a while now and this was the first time he showed interest in being baptized so maybe one day when he's ready! This week I was studying the Book of Mormon in Mosiah and I read Mosiah 2:41 that talks about the "blessed and happy state" we can achieve when we are keeping the commandments and then how if we "hold out faithful to the end" we can "Dwell with God in a state of never ending happiness" which just shows how important the little things are like reading the scriptures, going to church, saying your prayers and loving thy neighbor as thy self! All of the commandments are soon important and the end goal will be better than any of us can imagine! I love the Book of Mormon and I hope you are all reading it everyday. I love our Savior with all my heart and I love all of you, keep on keeping on and have a fabulous week! Ate proxima semana, Eu amor todos voces!Love, sister Peine
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