Long Week

Oh man. We walked a whole bunch this last week. We were getting a lot of pressure in our Zone to make 'pattern'. We are supposed to contact 160 people every week. This is really hard to do and still actually teach people. So, we walked around, knocked on doors, and got pattern. It wasnt the funnest of weeks, but we definitely worked hard. I got sick this last week also. Elder Davis has been sick for about 2 weeks and I finally caught it. But I am on the downhill of it now and should be back to new in a couple days.

Couple funny things happened this week though. One day we were walking behind a group of young teenage girls. There was probably 15 of them. As we passed them, Elder Davis asked 'bom?'(short for everything good?) The entire group responded at the same time. 'Booom'. It was hilarious. I couldn't resist myself, so I then said, 'tudo bem?' (all well?) and of course they all responded at the same time. 'Tuuudo'. We were dying of laughter for the next couple blocks. Last night I started talking to a guy who was more drunk than I thought he was. He wanted me to open the Book of Mormon to a random page and read a verse. One that touched my heart. I opened it, but he started talking more so I didnt get to read anything. He then grabbed my shoulder and started crying. I could hear him praying for help. After the tears cleared up I turned to Alma 7 and read him a couple verses. He then took the book from me, prayed, opened the book, then picked a random verse. He was really looking for inspiration. He picked some verse that just says some thing like 'and these things all happened in the forty-six year of the reign of judges' or something like that. Not helpful to him at all. Eventually a friend of his walked by and we asked her to walk him home. He left with her, but not before giving me um abraço em Jesus(a hug in Jesus).

Other than that, the week was pretty much uneventful. We had a few really good lessons. Hopefully they are interested and we can continue teaching them. We are a little low on investigators right now.

I hope everyone is having a fun 4th of July. It's a little weird not having any fireworks or a potluck, but things are good. Tchau!

Elder Siemers