Well sorry about skipping last week …. I had too much other
business to complete and did not get a letter out.
This week we moved! We spent three days doing our move.
First, we cleaned our new house. We went in with hoses and a ladder and we
scrubbed it all down. The people who used to live there smoked and so we had to
clean it really good to get the smell out! Second, we moved all of our stuff to
the new house. It's on the same lot as our old house (it'd be like moving from
one apartment to the other, except they're individual houses, not apartments).
Since our old house was infested with termites, we wiped
down everything and passed termite killer on everything. Then we left all the
wood stuff in the sun while we moved everything else. It was a lot of work! The
missionaries have lived in our old house for 10 years, and the house was
completely dirty when we got here, so there was a lot to clean and throw out!
But now we're all moved in and the house is great!
While we were moving, we talked a bit with our old
downstairs neighbor (the one who is always hitting the ceiling). She's
magically changed and asked to be our friend. So we gave her a picture of
Christ and played the guitar a bit for her and now she tries to talk to us every
day! (Now we live in the house in front of hers, there is a small yard between
us).
The highlight of this week was Friday night. We prepared
another integration activity. We did a musical Jeopardy game. (Brazil doesn't
have Jeopardy, but everybody caught on pretty quick). Instead of using trivia
questions, the teams were given a word and 30 seconds to think of a song that
has that word in the lyrics. For example, Train, Dew, or Shoe. It was a great
integration activity because everyone got involved, singing, and dancing. The
youth really loved it! The funniest part was when we got to a 700 point
challenge. It was a race to eat two bananas. Each team had one member go to the
front and we gave them bananas. The three in the front were Marlon and
Claudinho (two young men) and Bishop Adenis. Everyone thought that Marlon or
Claudinho would win, but to the surprise (and delight) of everyone, Bishop ate
those two bananas in a second or less! Marlon and Claudinho didn't even manage
to open their bananas before he stuffed them both into his mouth and swallowed!
And his sacrifice was worth it, because his team won!
On Saturday, we decided to do a missionary activity with
Marlon and his brother Juliano. They are recent converts and their mother isn't
a member. We want to help them have desire to serve a mission. Marlon is 18 and
Juliano is 15. We did a division with them, and on the division we did a race
to see who could give out 6 Book of Mormons (teaching a lesson before giving
the book) the fastest! Marlon and I won, teaching 7 lessons in two hours! We
taught 15 minute lessons and just knocked on every door we could!
On Sunday night, we went to Marlon and Juliano's house again
to do a family night with their non-member mom. We played cards- go fish and
old maid. Brazilians usually only play cards at bars, betting money, so they'd
never played cards before. It was really fun though and they even asked me
where they could buy a deck so that they could play it again!
Hope y'all are staying warm way up north!
Elder Jasperson
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