Good times in the neighborhood. We had the privilege of being in attendance while Sister Carlinda Zimmermann de Siqueira was baptized by her son, Marcio de Siqueira, Saturday evening. I’m not sure if I’ve already mentioned but he was baptized while living in Rio Grande do Sul (the only state south of Santa Catarina), served in the Rio de Janeiro North Mission, and returned last month to help us finish preparing his mother for the waters of baptism. Good times. We had around 20 people at the baptism and all were supportive. She was confirmed yesterday, without any major catastrophe, so now we just have to focus on getting the little sister to follow the answer she got to her prayer. It’s time to play the waiting game.
This past week was a little eventful. Tuesday Elder Bateman and I made our friendly trip to Florianopolis to renew our visas. After the 2 and a half hour bus ride that should only take an hour we got to meet up with most of our buds and go fill out paperwork. It turns out that Elders Andrews, Brough, and Smith had all gone to renew their visas the previous Friday, but it didn’t work out so we 5 got to go together. Unfortunately Elder Cornaby is serving out west in Joacaba so he wasn’t there with us. Concordia is a little more that an hour AFTER Joacaba so he would have been on a bus for over 6 hours. He’ll probably renew his visa tomorrow during transfers. We managed to take a picture of the 5 of us together… with Elder Clarindo, the executive secretary. He’s a good man and we needed a pretty tall, really skinny guy to pretend to be Cornaby. This visa business got me back to Navegantes late so we didn’t really start working until Wednesday. Thursday I went to Itajai to do a companion exchange with Elder Harmon and then we ended up running to the other side of the city to help Bateman a little. Saturday we were excited to have an afternoon of work before the baptism. Naturally the family of recent convert decided to move so they needed help. Enclosed is a photo of the staircase we had to manage (their new apartment is on the 4th floor) as well as a photo of Leonardo carrying the 3-person sofa up the stairs. Just to give you an idea Leonardo is my height, weighs around 260 lbs. and is on the verge of becoming a semi-professional basketball player. Good times.
Transfers have arrived and the new is… we are both staying in Navegantes. Some members had gotten worried that I’d be leaving already. Now they’ve got 6 more weeks to make fun of the giant before the next transfer sends me packing. I decided to take a few pictures of a family after lunch last week. Antonio Godois gives more referrals to us than anyone else in the ward. Unfortunately, the people who give one or two referrals a year almost always lead to baptisms while Antonio hasn’t had any true water experience yet. Along with pictures of Antonio we have his wife, Dani, his 4 year old daughter Laura and his 2 year old son Guilherme. Guilherme recently learned how to say HAWS and hasn’t stopped. He’s a good little kid, but he makes a mess wherever he goes. Remind you of someone?
This month is supposed to be the equivalent of a North American January but last Thursday the temperature reached over 90 degrees Fahrenheit. How does that compare with our current Idaho summer? Life is good, there is work to be done, and I’m fine so stop worrying about me.
Going one more with Navegantes,
Elder Haws(mo)
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