Well, looks like I'm officially in my last area now.
No I'm not being trunky telling this joke, but I forgot to say 6 weeks ago the
name of this area, it's called, "Aeroporto", which means airport. So,
the next "transfer call" I'll recieve will be to be transfered for a different
airport. Ha? Punny eh? Baahaha? Wow that one was dry. Anyways, it's kinda a
crazy feeling to know that I'm not gunna ever meet any new companions, or see
any new areas. It's really a new feeling, cuz especially with how much I've
been juggled around on the mission until now, it was always a feeling to wonder
what the next area or companion would be like. Even though it's weird, it's
also very exciting and motivating. Me and my comp have decided that we WILL
make these next 6 weeks the best we've ever had. He goes home in November, so
we're just gunna punch trunkiness in the face and go to work!!! That's a pretty
decent battle cry isn't it? "Punch trunkiness in the face and go to
work!!!!!!" I'll see if there are any vinyl shops that can print that and
I'll stick it to our wall?
Haha, sorry for the spaziness :) For the weekly
report, the work here was awesome this week. Last tuesday we were heading to
our area like normal when we ran into this kid named Caio. We'd already taught
him a few times, and he went to church to watch Jailda's baptism, and liked
church, but told us it was really quiet for his liking. We tried to invite him
to be baptized but with his 17 year old "worldliness", he said he
wasn't ready. We left a BoM with him and invited him to read. Anyways, on
tuesday he came up to us, called us off to the side and simply said,
"Elder, I was thinking. And praying. And I want to be baptized. I want to
be a memeber of the church." We literally didn't believe him at first, but
then through the week he stopped drinking coffee, started fully living the law
of chastity, and on sunday he was baptized!!! It was such a cool baptism, cuz
it's really rare to see a youth like him actually want to do the right thing,
put the worldly desires aside, and follow our Lord. The ward was super excited
as well, and you can see in the picture here (left to right) the young mens
counselor, Caio, Elder Pereira, the ward mission leader, me, and Wilmar who's a
member that always helps out.
Caio's awesome, and his mom (who's not legally
married or would probably be baptized too) told us that Caio told her that he
wants to "follow the example of the two missionaries, and someday serve a
mission" I literally teared up when I hear that :) I'm so happy right now,
I just love this mission. I'm really peaceful about time right now, and I have
a very strong feeling that even though 6 weeks seems like it'll pass quick,
there's a TON to be done. So, have an awesome week, hurrah for Israel my dear
family and friends!!!!! -Elder Ballard
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| Me and Caio |
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| Caio with his friend. We're still working with him to be baptized as well :) |
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