Ayways, I'm so happy that you guys are staying active and things are going well. Sounds like maybe a little...over-active? And I'm SO GLAD you guys sent me a card, that HUGS ME. So I took a picture to try to represent my sentiments, I hope it helps you understand a bit just how MUCH I appreciated it. OH ALSO! I finally worked in a photo of me with Elder Rodrigues. The guy's a goober! A way good guy to work with, a hard worker and a good guy, and we've been having TONS of success with finding, teaching and helping people to progress!
One of the photos is of our baptism this last week, of a couple that we've beem working with for about a month now. THEY'RE SO AWESOME. The big black guy's name is Joaldo, the smaller white one is Angelica, and they ALREADY had the mannerisms of an LDS family when we met them. Joaldo just had to ditch drinking with his friends, which was probably the toughest part. But they have a daugher, Alice, who's 9 years old, and it's looking like Joaldo's gonna be the one who baptizes her this week! SO SO SO COOL!
Thing is, we had an...almost crisis with Joaldo the week before the baptism. He had already received answers to his prayers about the Church being true, knew that baptism was what he needed, and was getting prepared to get baptized, and the WEEK of the baptism, he downed a couple cans of beer with his buddy. So when we found out about it, we talked to him a bit, discussed the Word of Wisdom a bit, and Elder Rodrigues asked him very sincerely, "Joaldo, after you drank, how did you feel about what you did?"
He looked down at his feet, he looked pretty sheepish, and said, "I felt bad." "Why, Joaldo?".......(silence)....."Because it was pretty warm."
Thing is, he actually did feel pretty bad that he had drunk. He passed his interview and everything. The thing is, I just happened to learn in a pretty unexpected way that there's nothing in the world worse than a warm can of beer. Forget the weight of a heavy conscience, or the feelings of being trapped in an addiction, or the sheer disappointment of finding out that old people hairs have started growing in your ears. Nothing, NOTHING compares to a toasty can of booze. That sucker will ruin a good day no matter what.
So, a little about Carnaval here in Brasil...it's they're ultimate holiday here. It's pretty much a week straight of partying, parades, late nights and boys running around in the streets hucking eggs at everything. So I drew a visual aid diagram picture to show you a bit of what it was like. But it's all good, everything went pretty calmly.
ALRIGHT I LOVE YOU ALL SO MUCH.
BYE.
LOVE YOU.
STILL LOVE YOU.
-Elder Reneer
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