Finishing
Up
July 23,
2012
We are
coming in to the last week of the transfer. Last week we worked hard even
though my companion was sick(which I ended up picking up also but not bad). We
had a bunch of people at church yesterday and we are working with a couple
really awesome families. We have a few baptisms lined up for this Saturday and
we are really excited for that. One of them is the granddaughter of Aparecida a
recent convert. We have been working with her for 5 months now, so we are
really excited that she accepted to be baptized. This being the last week of
the transfer we are going to work hard to finish up everything we need to do
just in case somebody gets transferred. We had a service project on saturday.
It was nice picking up a shovel and getting to work. We clean up a members yard
and helped build a gate. I have been looking at my hands lately and they are
started to get pretty soft, so it was nice being able to do some physical labor
to toughen them up again. I only got one blister though, which was a surprise.
I thought 3 hours of shoveling would destroy my hands. I guess they still
havent forgotten all the shoveling I did at the ski park. Things are good here.
I hope they are good there also. I will talk to you guys next week. Tchau!
Elder Siemers
Elder Costa
July 16, 2012
Well, not
too much to report this week. We have been running around like crazy. We
have been working in a neighborhood thats on the outskirts of our area.
At the end
of the week we had a conference with Elder Costa, who is the area president of
Brazil. It was awesome. We learned a ton. He is really awesome. He has been
everywhere and has spent lots of time with the 1st Presidency and the 12
apostles. He is very knowledgable. He told some amazing stories about some of
his experiences in life. He did a bunch of firesides and trainings over the
weekend and we wanted to watch them all, but unfortunately after our conference
we had to work. =) We all came away with another vision of what we should be
doing here in the mission and later in our life.
Other than
that, not much more too say. I hope everyone is having a good week. Until next
week!
Elder Siemers
Happy 4th of July!
July 9, 2012
I hope
everyone had a happy 4th of July. Amazingly, there were lots of fireworks here
also. The Corinthians won their Libertadores championship. I was just drifting
off to sleep when it sounded like a war broke out. There was lots of
celebrating. And we live in a pretty quiet neighborhood.
Things are
going well. We have 3 weeks left in this transfer and we are pretty sure that
at least one of will be going to a new area. So we are trying hard to help the
people we are teaching while we are still here.
We will
have a Mission Tour this week with Elder R.M. Costa. He is the area
president of Brazil. It should be really good. Last year Elder Godoy did the
mission tour and it was a really awesome training for missionaries. We always
come away from these meetings with more excitement and enthusiam to work.
I hope
everyone is doing well and enjoying summer. It should be about the same weather
there as it is here even though we are in "winter". Actually its been
cooling down at night so thats been nice. Have a good week!
Elder Siemers
Not too much…
July 2, 2012
This last week was pretty uneventful. I renewed my visa, so I am once again a legal visitor. We are a little low on people to teach right now so we are hoping to find quite a few people this week. We went to Wal-Mart today and I found some peanut butter, so I will have to find some jelly so I can party it up hard on the 4th of July. I keep asking people how they are going to celebrate but it doesnt seem that important of a holiday here for some reason... There will be a soccer game the same day though. The Corinthians are going for their first Libertadores championship. If they win its going to be a huge deal. The new elder in our house is from Bolivia, so I am trying to pick up a little Spanish in my spare time.
I hope everyone is well. Things are going well here in Ribeirão Preto. Tchau! Até mais!
Elder Siemers
