Dear People of Earth,
It´s an interesting perspective
on the world of media which we missionaries have. There´s some new song that
plays a lot with a slow beat that says ´wiggle wiggle wiggle´ that seems to be
popular. Cars sometimes blast it in the street, but the youth seem to really
like it here. I doubt it sings anything very edifying, but in general, people
here don´t truly understand English, so it´s fairly innocent for them. By
matter of fact, the only way I learned about this music was from youth here who
instead of singing ´wiggle wiggle wiggle´, started to sing the melody and then
´engle engle engle´. Apparently it´s my theme music. Que bom.
This week was very humbling for
me. We worked our best to see results from our work. It seemed like everything
fell through. Even Sunday morning, we organized on street with lots of investigators.
As we were accompanying everyone that committed to come to Church, the news
wasn´t very good. The first person had been drinking Saturday night, so they
were hung over. The second house seemed perfect, as they were dressed for
church and walking in the direction of the Church and confirmed with me that
they were on their way there (which we later discovered that they never
went.They most likely went to another Church instead). The third house simply
wasn´t home. As we walked back to the Church, fruitless, within 50 meters of
the Church, a man stopped by us on his motorcycle and said, "Is it okay if
I visit your church today? I´ve always wanted to visit there but never took the
chance." We affirmed with excitement, greeted him at the Church, and walked
him through all the meetings. Everything went perfect with him. He loved
everything. It was such a great miracle that, everyone we visited fell through,
but a man very elect crossed our path. The Lord compensates for our efforts.
Love,
Elder Engle
P.S. There´s no Thanksgiving
here, but I realized from my Mom´s email today that Thanksgiving is this week..
Happy Thanksgiving to all you American folk!
P.S.S. 39C in the photo is a little above 100F. That was
just today, it´s gotten up today 44C when we´re there, which is about 112F.
Enjoy the snow and we´ll keep sweating out another season of ´bros´, which is
Setembro, Outubro, Novembro e Dezembro (September-December), the hottest time
of year.
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