This week I was finally able to get back to work with Sister Malta- Thank goodness! By Wednesday she was up to par and ready to go. In the days before that though I still managed to get some good work done. But goodness gracious- it is a lot of work to plan out splits with sisters from the branch for the entire day and also find sisters to take care of sister Malta while I was out working... I am grateful to have a healthy companion again! It is also much easier to teach when you have a companion that knows what is going on and won't go off on crazy tangents about deep obscure doctrine. Haha, that made for a few interesting lessons. It was a really good confidence booster for me though. 10 days basically without a companion forced me to step up and do everything on my own. It was a bit stressful, but helped me realize that I actually can do a lot more than I thought. I am a bit more confident in my português and other missionary skills now. I also realize that I still have a ton to learn though! Good thin I still have plenty of time here in Brasil.
We have had some new company in our house here in Alfenas this week. Sister Bicaleti was transferred and we now have Sister Sandrine from Recife. She is pretty cool. Haha, I swear she talks non stop though. Seriously. Other than when she is sleeping I don't think 5 minutes have passed when she hasn't said something (haha, sister Malta and I tried timing it one night). I am glad to have her here though! Our other newcomers I am not too excited about... A family of cockroaches moved in. They mostly just come out into the bathrooms in the evenings, so it isn't too bad, but still not my favorite thing in the world. I am super grateful for Sister O'Reilly. She is the only one brave enough to kill them! Maybe by the time I am heading home I will have reached that level. Right now I can only manage killing ants.
I also discovered that my voice changes when I speak português now! It is a higher pitch. It is really weird to switch between português and English. It's like my voice switches to a different place. So English feels a little weird in my mouth, all jumbly. On p-day after writing to you guys in English it isn't a problem, but during the week when I am only speaking and thinking português it is a bit rough at first. You may need to start learning português so that we can still communicate on mother's day!
I had a really cool experience this Sunday. Someone that I contacted on the street actually came to church! This alone isn't unusual, but we hadn't visited or taught anything yet. He just decided to come on his own. He is only 14 years old. He lives nearly an hours walk from the chapel. He doesn't know any members or anything about the church. Yet all on his own he got up early Sunday morning, made the hour long trek to the chapel and stayed for all three hours of church! Holy moly- why can't all of our pesquisadores (investigators) be like him?! We try everything possible to help people get to church, often with little or no effect. And then along comes Marcos. Haha, it was really cool. He had a good experience there, seems to have made lots of friends already and wants to come back. We went to visit him Sunday night and he readily accepted a baptismal date. We also met another boy with 14 years and he is super interested too. He accepted the same date. i hope all goes well n the next two weeks and they can be baptized together! How cool would that be?!
Love you all!
Sister Maxwell
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