This week was good as usual. Today is p-day, which
means one of the most humbling days of the week. Almost every P-day,
Elder Souza and I play soccer with two other Elders that live close by.
They are all Brazilian which means I don’t stand a chance. Every Brazilian is
born with magic feet. They make me feel like a giant uncoordinated American
just running in circles. I seriously look like a giant everywhere we go
because I’m always standing next to elder Souza. I’m about 8 inches
taller than him and weigh almost 70 pounds more than he does. He likes to
call me "grande americano". Two weeks ago we played ping pong in
the church instead of soccer. We didn’t have a net so we used hymnals
instead. It was pretty legit. We played for like 2 hours. I went all out
and showed the elders that I’m not completely uncoordinated. I have
pictures but I forgot my camera. I’ll send them next week.
Yesterday it rained. It really rained hard. The
roads were totally flooding while we were walking to church. You know how in
the movies cars drive by and splash people with water? That really does
happen. Two cars drove by us on the way to church and afterwards I was
soaking wet from my waist down.
Brazil gets better and better every day. I can almost
understand what people are saying now. That makes life much more fun. I
love speaking Portuguese too. I’m really working on my accent because it’s
kind of terrible. Most people can understand me but sometimes I need
Elder Souza to translate. Tomorrow is going to be interesting because two
different member families are bringing nonmembers to fhe so elder Souza and I
are going to split up with members. I get to give the entire lesson at
fhe by myself so I’m praying everything goes well!
The members here are awesome. Yesterday we had 4
investigators at church, and we were only expecting one of them. The
church is a long ways away from our area so it’s hard to get people to church
some weekends. The other 3 people were friends of the members that they
wanted to bring to church. We have lessons with all of the people this
week too. Members are what seriously make the difference. We can
work work work but lessons go so much better with members there, and the people
love church when they have a friend, that’s not the missionaries, to sit
with.
I love working here. I love
the people and the church. I love you all.
Elder Marsh
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