Jay Family Missionaries

Querida família

 

It has only been a couple of days since the last time I wrote, but a couple of cool things have happened. We are teaching a deaf man that has already gone to church a couple times and his baptism is marked for the 18th. The only problem is that we don't know sign language. He doesn't even know sign language that well. We have been teaching him using pictures and paintings and some signs that we have learned, he also has a friend that speaks a little bit of sign language. On friday we taught the Word of Wisdom and the Law of Chastity. It was a little difficult, but it was really funny. Try teaching the Law of Chastity only using signs and paintings from the church.

 

On Saturday we went to the new group that opened in Pau dos Ferros. It isn't actually in the city, it is in a little town a couple of miles away where only five hundred people live. We passed all of Saturday teaching there and stayed the night. I took some pictures of the house where we slept, it is actually a meat locker and no one lives there. There were nooses hanging from the cieling where the hang the animals, but they would work to hang people as well. There were freezers full of dead animals, a table saw to chop up the animals, and a couple of giant knives. It was all dirty and creepy so we slept in hammocks in front of the house, it was the first time I slept outside during my mission and it was actually pretty cool, except that there were dogs barking all night. We got up about five Sunday morning and some guys arrived with a giant dead pig and hung it up in the house while we took showers and got ready to leave. I took some pictures.

 

Sunday we had a region conference for the northeast of Brazil. So everyone went to the chapel in Souza where we have satelite. They rented a mini-bus to take everyone from Pau dos Ferros to Sousa so we rode in the bus with the members and some investigators. We got in Sousa, ran to our apartment, changed clothes, shaved and went back to church to watch the conference. Elder Cook and President Eyering spoke and they talked a lot about pride. It was really good. Afterward the sisters had a baptism and our investigators from Pau dos Ferros got to watch it. Right now there are only 8 members in Pau dos Ferros, but I think I will stay here for a while, and I want to see a branch there.

 

Now it is P-day, and I want to sleep...

 

Love,

Elder Jay

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