So this week was actually not all that great to be honest. Transfers, holidays really killed our work but we had some fun too. Like I said last week was transfers so I got my a new Colombian friend here by the name of Elder Sánchez. He does speak a little English and we are teaching him a bit but really we only have the Portuguese in common, so that´s fun. He speaks Spanish of course so sometime he hits me with a word in Spanish and asks if I know the word in Portuguese (which they´re usually really similar) and it´s fun to guess. He´s DL and I´m senior which I´m not entirely sure how that works but it does. In the other mission usually the DL is also senior so it interesting to see that difference.
For New years we pretty much did the same at you guys do in the states. We just stayed at a members home until 10:30 (we had permission) and them went home and finished up there with just us 4. But the problem was that when we tried to go home we found out that their car stopped working! Wooohoo! We ended up taking a taxi and actually getting home around 11:30 and were getting ready to go to bed when the New year hit. Tons of fireworks and loud music in our normally quiet neighborhood were interesting. It´s funny how tired you are at midnight when you are used to staying up till 10:30 and then knocking out like you took a hit from Rocky. We were all SO out of it, ha ha.
Um, also Saturday we had a cool lunch with our 2 sets of Elders and 2 sets of Sisters. There is a family that literally lives on the boarder of our 2 wards so we all ate together. We actually didn´t know they´d be there either but it was fun none the less. It was something like 16 or 17 people in a house that is only 3 or 4 rooms. It was pretty fun :).
To be honest the work, like I said, was pretty dead this week. Out numbers were about half of our average so that was pretty annoying. We had some pretty good days still but not really enough to get to our goals. I was pretty down about it yesterday but it should all be a lot better next week. We´re gonna just set the place on fire with contacting and spiritual-ness. I guess you could say that´s my message this week. I´ve gotten some emails from some of you that have really made me sad, nothing you´ve done but just the hard things that really happen to good people in this life. It makes my heart sick and sometimes I feel like a total baby almost crying in an Internet cafe-thing. Life just sucks sometimes. That´s the end of it. But the good part is that this isn´t really our life, you could say. This is a blink in the scope of eternity. If you think about it, we lived with God before this life for heaven knows how long. Then, after this we´ll live with Him again FOREVER. Sometimes it feels like the current trials are too much but when we really look back it won´t feel like hardly anything because it will feel like mere seconds. That and we have the knowledge that ´the faithful will know that every tear today will eventually be returned a hundredfold with tears of rejoicing and gratitude.´ As Joseph B. Wirthlin taught. Go on, keep your head high and know that you are destined to be a king/queen in the eternities, never to know sorrow again.
Everyone have a great year and great week!
-Elder Teela
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