So this week the weather finally cooled down! It's been
really nice to work, but there's one really terrible consequence- our shower
head is broken! Here in Brazil, houses don't have hot water heaters. The shower
head has an electric resistance that heats the water. But ours is broken so it
doesn't heat the water. And colder temperatures at night = ??? Colder showers!!
That's a great way to wake up in the morning!
We had our district meeting this week- and it turned out to
be the funniest district meeting I've ever held! So I was just starting the
training, when suddenly the door opened and in walked... Kauã! He's a
10-year-old who lives close to the chapel. He comes to church with his brother,
Vande (Vande goes to teach with us frequently). Anyway, he'd seen that the
church was open and decided to enter! We told him to go home and he just
wouldn't leave. So we tried ignoring him, but Kauã wanted our attention! He
started playing the piano during our meeting. We shooed him out and returned to
the meeting when suddenly - the door opened again and in walked...Brother
Osmar! He's a recent convert and was walking by when he saw the chapel was
opened and stopped by to talk with us. Well I guess he didn't realize that we
were having a district meeting, because he started talking with all of us and
sat down and everything! Well about 15 minutes later he finally left. But
during the time that he was there, Kauã snuck back in to the chapel and when we
started the meeting back up, he started making noises and pulling from chair to
chair. So once again, we shooed him out of the chapel. But Kauã couldn't be
stopped! He snuck around the chapel and started banging on the windows of the
room we were in. In the end, we just put up with it and finished the meeting.
Close to the chapel is an ice-cream store. We'd talked with
the owner a while back so we stopped by there to buy ice cream pops. The owner
said that his business is really, really low now that it's getting colder, and
was surprised that we wanted to buy ice cream (for missionaries, no weather is
too cold to eat ice cream*). I bought a corn-flavored ice cream pop. And it was
surprisingly really good! If you even find corn ice cream, you've got to try
it!
This week Ismar and Vanderson were baptized. Ismar is
Israel's brother (Israel who was baptized last week) and Vanderson is their
friend who they brought to church with them. Beatriz, their mom, is really
happy now 'cause her sons go to church with her! We've passed a lot in their
house these last few days. And their family is really fun! Beatriz has another
daughter named Cassandra who wants to be baptized, but she works on Sundays. L Anyway, their family
is really cool- loving and happy and stuff. After we teach our message, we
always spend a little extra time at their house playing Old Maid or Go Fish
(these games don't exist in Brazil, they only know how to play betting games
(like poker) with cards, so everyone loves playing “Go Fish” and “Old Maid”
after I teach them!), telling jokes or any other fun activity. Beatriz told us
that she's so happy to have cool role-models for her sons! We hope that they
serve missions!
Tonight we're planning on doing something awesome- here's a
hint- it includes chairs, the central park of Alvorada and chimarrão!
Love Y'all!
Elder Jasperson
*Speaking of being too cold to eat ice cream, one time in
Jardim Alcântara, a member called us in to his house (we were walking by) to
eat ice cream with him. But when we sat down his wife came in and said "No
Honey! It's far too cold right now to give ice cream to the missionaries!
They'll catch a cold!" It was like 80 degrees and E. Dos Anjos and I were
like "Noooooo!!!" But she put the ice cream back into the fridge and
gave us bread and butter instead. L
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