HELLLO from Maringá! It's been a great week here, I'm really learning to love the area and the members and the sisters and everything.
This week was a little bit crazy with the house hunt going on here. The secretaries have been calling us, sending us on errands for them...printing contracts, hunting down signatures from the landlord, mailing documents to the mission office in Londrina...stuff like that. It's been interesting. Probably good practice for some day when I buy my OWN house. :) I think the process here is slowly coming to a close, and hopefully we'll be in our own house in our own area pretty soon! It will definitely be a good thing - though we'll miss living in an apartment full of crazy awesome sisters, it will be good to be in our own area. The apartment here is verrrrrrry far away from our area...we have to catch two buses to arrive in our area every day, and two buses to go back home at the end of the day. It takes about an hour both ways, and it gets kind of old after a while. The most frustrating part is the affect it has on our work, as we lose two hours of lesson time every day. But, we're being patient and making it work. :)
This week Sister Saldanha and I made some awesome goals and are really working on finding people to teach. We've been street contacting like crazy, and are meeting so many amazing people! It's amazing how talking to everyone you meet about the gospel makes a difference in your entire day... It not only helps us stay focused on our purpose as missionaries, but we feel so much more excited and motivated in the other aspects of our work too! It's been so good! Sister Saldanha is so much fun, and I have been loving having her as a companion!
This week our zone leaders challenged every companionship of missionaries in our zone to bring 10 investigators to church on Sunday. As we usually have a hard time bringing even one or two people, it was a pretty big goal. But Sister Saldanha and I were determined to do our best, and we spent the whole week inviting everyone we saw to go to church. :) On Saturday we called all of our investigators to confirm that they would be able to go, and almost every one of them cancelled on us... :P We were pretty bummed about it, but decided to keep working with our last possibility - Mary. Mary is a friend of a recent convert. She had a motorcycle accident recently and broke her foot pretty badly. We invited her to church Saturday afternoon and she just laughed and looked at the heavy cast on her foot... but said that she was willing to go if we were able to find a member that could bring both her and her wheelchair to church. So we spent the night and Sunday morning calling members and praying that somebody had a car big enough for that. We finally found one irmã that was willing to give Mary a ride, but didn't have room for the wheelchair.... Long story short, Mary ended up going to church on crutches. We were so happy that she was willing to make the sacrifice to go to church, even despite the inconvenience it caused for her. That was so good to see, especially since so many other people we invited weren't even willing to wake up early for church... Her humility and faith and desire to put the Lord first was an example to me.
And in the end, we had THREE investigators at church! After all our work and stress and prayers, the Lord blessed us....and even though it wasnt the 10 investigators we were hoping for, I still was so grateful for the three that came. :)
And it was a good week.
Love,
Sister Gee
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