Hello family! How is everyone doing on this fabulous day! It sounds like it’s been quite a week. A weather warning about the biggest storm in the history of Utah or something like that... ha-ha... everyone running crazy to supply the 72 hour kits... pretty crazy! I'm just glad that it didn’t turn out as bad as everyone thought that it was going to be! It sounded like all of you guys had a great Thanksgiving, pretty calm but good! I’m just happy that all of you guys are doing just fabulous!
As for me… first of all let’s just talk about Thanksgiving. Ha-ha nothing went down. Well nothing out of the ordinary. It consisted of a lot of lessons, which was good and walking. But that’s just about it. A life of a missionary usually doesn’t change… its just the same thing. Especially when you’re in a county that doesn’t celebrate Thanksgiving ha-ha. Something pretty fun though… is at night we called our ward mission leader who is a 24 returned missionary that is waiting for is girlfriend to back from her mission. He came over and brought a pretty good desert and we ordered pizza and we sat there talking… until 10:30 that is. Then we had to go to bed ha-ha!
So that was my Thanksgiving nothing to special!
So lets start from the beginning…. Last Sunday it was pretty crazy. This whole last week we were with a missionary that, because of something that he did… he was transferred missions from the Brazil Londrina mission… so he was with us working which was pretty cool… anyway us three headed out to start working on Sunday… for those who have served here in brazil I don’t know if it’s the same everywhere, but all parts of Brazil but Sundays are days that are usually pretty difficult to teach, especially when there is a soccer game passing on the TV… ya everyone is in a house, the families are together… but no one wants to accept two, let alone 3 missionaries in their house… but the work just keeps going right haha…
So anyway it was a rough day. Pretty hot, we got in about 3 housed the entire day and we visited some less actives real fast too. But then, close to the end of the night we are walking up by the mountains in our area… super, super far from everything ha… and we see a road that leads up to something, a road that we have always seen but never gone up. So we said lets just go up it…
Up at the top, was this old farm that was really, really cool! Oh man it was awesome! With a huge entrance. We sit there for a little bit thinking if we should go in, our hit our hands from there so we decided to stay there and just hit our hands…. Ha-ha. And you guys will never imagine what happens next hahaha… about 10 dogs come running at us… hahaha ya it freaked me out… I'm not even going to lie, I ran hahahaha, (5 days before I was bit by a dog so I was just fed up with these dogs haha) and then we are a little bit down the road and we decide lets go back so we go back and we hit our hands again and this time the man with his dogs coming and we wait for literally about 3 minutes for him to get to us… we talk with him and he is awesome old man oh he is so cool! He invites us to come in and we sit outside on this beautiful land and teach the first lesson through the Apostasy and we stop!! And planed to go back in 3 days…
So the three days come around and guess who we invite to go with us… ya the one and only… President Ribeiro … so that was it…. We though this family is super cool we need someone to help us!!! We invited him to come and then we gets there and we are soooooooooooooooooooooooooo scared hahaha… teaching with the president is scary. He just said to teach until we wanted to stop, and then he would take over. So were like ok. Haha. So the whole car ride up there, I'm pretty much shaking… my whole body hahaha… and we get into the house and I just say a little pray to calm me down and it was like president wasn’t even in the room…we taught for about 35 minutes. What he wanted us to do..… And then we are like. Alright baleza, lets just throw it to president now… so we did he said 3 words and threw it back at us, I was like huh… what’s going on… ha-ha I guess he wanted to see what we do under pressure…ya well the message was good… and they understood…. But they are super strong in the Catholic religion. So it’s going to be a process and maybe a long one. But a good one at that too!!
The other families that we are teaching are going good too we are hoping that they will all go to church this weekend! It will be amazing if they all come! Something always happens that makes it so they can't come. Which is difficult… but we are praying that this one goes right!!
So family, that was the experience of the week… the work is going! It’s moving forward, which it always will do! I am so grateful for you all and all your love! For the chance that I have to be here on the mission, and to learn and grow!! I can’t believe that it’s already entering into December! Its crazy! In one month I will be here your voice! How crazy is that!
Family always know I am here for all of you if you need anything! Ok?
Love you all with all my heart, the church is true, and I know we are an eternal family, the thing I am most grateful for! Something, which is only made possible through the gospel that we all love!
Love you all!
Love your missionary, son, bother, and grandson.
Elder Wiscomb
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