What a busy week! You guys had all five of the young ones in the same city and I was running all across the city trying to make baptisms happen. We got the 10-year old in the water on Friday. It was great. In the last part of the meeting our ward mission leader called on an active aunt to bear her testimony and then invited the non-member father to bear his testimony. Elder Lacerda and I glanced at each other, a little worried about how he’d react, but everything went fine. Wait. Did I say fine? I mean great! He got up and said how proud he was that his son decided to be baptized into the “Church of Latter-day Saints”. He then explained that he was not a member but that he had attended church plenty of times, had read the Book of Mormon from cover to cover, and ended by bearing testimony that this church is the true church of Christ. I could not believe it. He went so far as to say the only thing he was lacking to be baptized was the water. In truth, he doesn’t want to be baptized right now, but accepts that one day he will be. We’re going to start talking to him a little bit more. Keep your fingers crossed.
Is it true that Greg is going to be an old man this week? The good old 1-8. That’s a HUGE number. What are the plans for the party? Elder Lacerda said that he wants to get invited. His also hoping that there will be cake and ice cream. However, I’m supposed to inform you that if there’s even a chance of snow that he won’t be coming. As much as I want snow down here, it was nice to get a rain storm last night. About two weeks ago it started to cool off a little bit so every started saying that winter was coming. Lo and behold, after 3 days of cool air summer came back in full force… and then a little bit. We finally had a rainstorm start Saturday evening. The rain continued all day Sunday and stopped before we woke up. Last night as we were coming home from our last appointment, we were walking on the sidewalk in water that reached my knees. It wasn’t quite the same as the flood my first week in Concordia, but it was still thoroughly entertaining. Happy Birthday Greg!
Today we went for an hour-long walk to eat lunch with Valmir (investigator) and his wife Joyce (inactive). Normally we don’t eat lunch with the members on P-Day, but he is getting baptized Friday. We decided to make an exception. Unfortunately, lunch wasn’t ready when we showed up. After 30 minutes of waiting for lunch, they handed us a deck of Uno cards. For the next 30 minutes Elder Lacerda and I played about 20 games of Uno, one-on-one. Of those 20 games, Elder Lacerda won the 5th. I won the rest. The entire time Valmir was standing on the side watching. For 20 minutes we were hearing comments like “Wow Lacerda, Haws is owning you”. “What did you do to deserve this?” “Haws, shouldn’t you take it easy one him.” “Come on Haws; let your companion win one game.” I was laughing my head off. Elder Lacerda took it pretty well but was more than happy when lunch was ready.
Well. Wednesday is Zone Conference, Friday is Valmir’s Baptism, and Saturday should be Luiza’s baptism. This week will be a little busy but a lot of fun. Thursday I will be doing a division with my district leader, Elder Andrews, to finish up the baptismal interviews. One full day with an Elder from my group. This will be good.
Mom, I think 5 pm (Idaho time) would be better. Go Bills!
The weather is cooler, the font is filling, and I’m fine so stop worrying about me.
Celebrating with Pizza,
Elder Haws(mo)
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