Hola meus amigos. This week was really awesome so let's start off with the crazy stuff. First off I went to Teresina to find out what I was allergic to but we were unable to schedule an appointment so we still don't know exactly what it is other than that if I use the hammock in our apartment it will be bad. Then on the way home we were riding in a bus but it broke down so instead of arriving at 12:30-1 in the morning, we got back at 4 but that is all good because I got to see the freaking stars! If you don't know I love the stars so much! My family always went camping so they're one of my favorite parts of nature but a lot of the time you can't see them clearly and it's not much different here in Brazil but we were about 2 hours away from "civilization" so we could see just about everything. The weirdest part was to see the Big Dipper on the wrong part of the sky but still it was awesome. Also we have started to finally have a lot of rain here. And when it rains in Brazil, you're guaranteed lightning and thunder and a frick ton of rain. None of the big bridges here broke but a couple smaller ones broke here because the river flooded. So pretty sick. Also in our city all of our investigators close to our house stopped wanting to talk to us so we moved to start walking to literally the farthest places in our areas which is usually about an hour or more of walking there. However we had one person walk up to while we were in the supermarket and he said he wants to be baptized but of course he lives in one of the farthest areas so we walked 2 and a half hours to teach him and it was really good. So now he's preparing to be baptized. However we also learned a much faster route so now it only takes about an hour and a half which is much better. Also this week we got transfers and I was transferred from my part of Floriano to the other part so it was rather exciting because it's not really a transfer at all. Same house but now I have the better bedroom and my companion is Elder Sly who I've lived with the entire time. We are getting two new missionaries here, Elder Durante (who is my brother in the mission) to replace Elder Maza (my other brother in the mission) and his son in the mission to replace Elder Bustamante, my pop, so it'll be quite the family here. To explain for those who don't understand, your trainer here in the mission is called your dad and if you have a second one it's called your mom. Then if you train someone they are your brother and anyone trained by the same person are brothers. So here in my house I will have my mom (Elder Sly) my brother (Elder Durante) and my nephew (the son of Elder Durante) so I'm excited. This week was awesome and sorry about the crazy long email. I pray for you guys always!
One awesome experience this week was yesterday we walked an hour to our area after our lunch with a member. But when we got there, the member that said he would work with us said he was doing visits to less actives so he couldn't come with us, and then all our appointments fell through and no one was there. Elder Bustamante and I were rather discouraged so we sat down and thought about what we needed to do. So we decided we would say a pray and afterwards started walking to one of our other areas. But as we were walking one of our investigators opened the door as we passed and asked for us to come in which was already a miracle. But then her brother arrived home and he was a reference from a member (pretty sure she just wants to date him tho) but we were able to teach them and it was super awesome. Now they are preparing to be baptized but also right after we entered their house it started pouring super badly outside with a lot of thunder really, really close by. So it was a grand blessing that we didn't have to also walk another 45 minutes in the pouring rain. I know this Church is true and that God truly has a plan for us. He gives us problems and difficulties to build us and our faith. But when we trust him, and trust his plan, things will always be alright.
-Elder Pettingill
Pictures from January Zone Conference
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