Transferred again
Monday, April 11, 2011 by Sora Jay
Hey Everebody,
I stayed in Costa e Silva for 5 days and was transferred again, because someone tried to rob us and we beat him up. Just Kidding! Eight more american missionaries got there visas and now I am training an american and reopening an area at the same time. It is a little difficult because Elder Woolley doesn't talk, I speak more or less, and we have to start everything almost from scratch in our area. Our area was part of the Zone Leader´s area, but they never worked on this side and only had one investigator. Oh yeah, my new area is called Mandacaru, and when I learned that I was going there everyone started to say that it is one of the worst slums in João Pessoa, but it doesn´t look that bad to me, and all of the drunks and gangsters like the missionaries. Saturday night I entered a dark street and saw a guy sitting on the ground and started to talk with him and then one by one four other guys came so I taught them all and said a prayer with them. None of them came to church, but I think I will visit them again.
I have been doing lots and lots of contacts and I have made my trainee do a couple. I have only been senior a couple of days, but I already feel like am three times better as a missionary, just because I have to be. I have been a lot more bold talking with people, becuase the way I figure they probably won't accept us anyway so I might as well show them what I am there to do. We were able to bring 4 people to church on Sunday, Alisson, Jeane, and gabrielle, (a couple and their daughter) and a man named Pedro who is also married and has kids.
Saturday night they had the dedication of the chapel in Guarabira. I didn't get to go, but I heard that it was really good. They had more than 300 people at the dedication Saturday night, and I talked to Elder Siqueira on the phone Saturday night and he said they had already marked 8 baptisms, and today Sister Hall told me that they brought 18 investigators to Church on Sunday.
I dared one of the Zone Leaders to do a contact at the front of the bus a couple of days ago and he did it, so now I have to do it as well, but I will talk about baptism in my contact. They have a thing here called fire contacts, where you invite the person to be baptized the first time you talk with them. All of the missionaries have a laminated picure of the baptism of Christ on the front and a confirmation on the back.
Gotta go, love,
Elder Jay
Oh and congratulations Tim and Elisa!
I stayed in Costa e Silva for 5 days and was transferred again, because someone tried to rob us and we beat him up. Just Kidding! Eight more american missionaries got there visas and now I am training an american and reopening an area at the same time. It is a little difficult because Elder Woolley doesn't talk, I speak more or less, and we have to start everything almost from scratch in our area. Our area was part of the Zone Leader´s area, but they never worked on this side and only had one investigator. Oh yeah, my new area is called Mandacaru, and when I learned that I was going there everyone started to say that it is one of the worst slums in João Pessoa, but it doesn´t look that bad to me, and all of the drunks and gangsters like the missionaries. Saturday night I entered a dark street and saw a guy sitting on the ground and started to talk with him and then one by one four other guys came so I taught them all and said a prayer with them. None of them came to church, but I think I will visit them again.
I have been doing lots and lots of contacts and I have made my trainee do a couple. I have only been senior a couple of days, but I already feel like am three times better as a missionary, just because I have to be. I have been a lot more bold talking with people, becuase the way I figure they probably won't accept us anyway so I might as well show them what I am there to do. We were able to bring 4 people to church on Sunday, Alisson, Jeane, and gabrielle, (a couple and their daughter) and a man named Pedro who is also married and has kids.
Saturday night they had the dedication of the chapel in Guarabira. I didn't get to go, but I heard that it was really good. They had more than 300 people at the dedication Saturday night, and I talked to Elder Siqueira on the phone Saturday night and he said they had already marked 8 baptisms, and today Sister Hall told me that they brought 18 investigators to Church on Sunday.
I dared one of the Zone Leaders to do a contact at the front of the bus a couple of days ago and he did it, so now I have to do it as well, but I will talk about baptism in my contact. They have a thing here called fire contacts, where you invite the person to be baptized the first time you talk with them. All of the missionaries have a laminated picure of the baptism of Christ on the front and a confirmation on the back.
Gotta go, love,
Elder Jay
Oh and congratulations Tim and Elisa!
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