So this week has proved to be a bit more than I was expecting. I was transferred within the zone to a place called Monte Negro (Black Mount) where we go to our Zone training meetings usually. Basically I´m a hop and a skip from my old area and still have the same ZL´s, I´m just in the other district, ha ha. It´s all good though, I think I´ll ask to do a division with them sometime this transfer and go back to visit Sapucaia, ha ha.
My new companion is Elder Lago (Lake/Pond) and he is from the north so he has a bit of an accent from there.... actually it´s a lot of an accent and he is bent on helping me kill mine, so if I come back talking back like a ´nordestinho´ for all my Portuguese speakers, it´s his fault, ha ha. He´s been out about 6 months and is new here too. Yeah, we´re kind of whitewashing this place. It´s been fun this week walking around without a comp that knows the area and having no idea where the people they were teaching live..... So it´s been a lot of street contacting and knocking doors. We´re lucky becuase the members here seem to like us a lot and we´ve already done a division but still it´s a bit different than having a missionary in the area before.
So one kinda weird and funny thing that happened is that when we got on the train to go to transfers an old evangelical man decided he would preach to his captive audience. He started going on and on about churchy stuff and then when he got to us he saw our name tags and started saying stuff like ´Christ is not in the plaque of the church´ and ´we need to fight for Christ, not the plaque´ we all started laughing a bit on the train and the man seemed a bit offended because of that and went back to the other end of the train. All to be expected in the life of a missionary.
The when we got here we went to straight to work and got lost, ha ha. It was kinda hard at first to find our way around but now we´re getting the hang of it. We live with two other Elders, Rameires and J. Sanches. They´re pretty cool and both from Peru and work in the other ward near-by. We don´t really see much of them though because the other area is a bit far.
So a little spiritually thought for the day I had was shared on Sunday in our combined class for the 5th Sunday. The Bishop showed us a video that I have seen a few times but always love to watch called ´Only a Stonecutter´. It´s the story of a great Latter-day saint named John Rowe Moyle who always ´acted instead of being acted upon´. I like that view of life, living and overcoming your circumstances in place of letting them dominate you. We are made to create and over come. We are not as the animals in the fields that we dominate and determine what they will do, we have power over ourselves and our destinies. As another quote states ´a wise man creates more opportunities than he finds´. Let that littler adage sink in a bit and marinade, it´s one of my favorites.
Well that´s it for now. Miss you all and hope you all and hope you have a good week!
-Um no exéricto de Deus
Elder Teela
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