Tudo bom!
That's really cool that yáll met Elder Giesler. I am glad he said nice things about me.
That
is a small world kind of thing. Elder Park lived in the apartment next
door for my first 4 transfers. It was awesome. He is one of my best
mission buddies.
I think of North Carolina
a lot. Its basically like second home for me. I got used to being there
and then had to go. I miss it. I really miss the food, oh man the North
Carolina food was soooooooooooooooooooooooo good. I miss Southern style
fried food and Southern style BBQ and Chinese buffets. I do like Brasil
food and especially Brazilian BBQ, but there is just something special
about the way they do it in North Carolina.
This week was pretty good for us. Lene, the investigator, finally quit drinking coffee so now she can be baptized. Then we have Raissa who should be baptized this Saturday. She is super elect. She actually reads the Book of Mormon.
We
have a lot of people in Brazil who believe the book of Mormon is the
word God. But hey have a hard time making the connection or accepting
the fact that they now have to follow what they believe.
There
are also a lot of people here who find them selves in the same situation
as Joseph Smith. They get all confused on what church they should go to
which direction they should follow. A lot of them cant get it through
their heads that they need to pray. A lot of them have fear that they
won't like the answer.
This week we were
doing some door clapping in our area. While we where walking I heard
someone playing drums. So we went and clapped his house. After a minute
the guy finally came out.
Here was the door approach
Elder Gibb: Hey How is it doing?
Micheal: Good, how are you?
E.G: Great, do you play drums?
M: Yes I do.
E.G:
That's really cool. We are missionaries from the Church. My name is
Elder Gibb and this is Elder Duncan. Normally as missionaries we share
with people messages about Christ. But today I was wondering if I could
play your drum set.
So, Micheal let us right in
and let me play the drum set. They were super stoked that some random
American in a white shirt and tie wanted to play drums with them.
Micheal ended up taking a video of me playing and posting it on
facebook. So now almost all of the drummers in Campo Grade know who I
am. They went absolutely nuts when I started to play jazz music. Jazz is
not a part of Brasil's culture and so nobody knows how to play it.
Micheal said that I play better then most of the other drummers.
(Don't
worry it has a spiritual side too) We ended up coming back the next day
and teaching the restoration to everyone who lives in the house. None
where SUPER interested, but at the end of the day I played the drum set
for the first time in a year and a half and three people heard of the
restored gospel. That was a win-win tender mercy situation.
But, that is basically it for this week.
Amo, Elder Nolan Gibb
