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| Coconut water with branch members |
Another week of hard work here in Itapipoca. Lots of great things were done this week and we are progressing towards several baptisms that will be happening these next few weeks.
For the first time in my life, I was a witness for a marriage. How about that! This week, with the help of the branch president and some other members of the branch, we were able to enter the marriage process for two couples here: Dhiego and Lellianna, and Jamilie and Otaciano. They are both great couples, and we are very excited to help them towards marriage and baptism. There are several other people here in this area that we are helping prepare for baptisms these coming weeks as well.
I taught another English class this week as well. We had several branch members come and two nonmembers as well. We learned about the names of animals and speaking in the present tense. I'm not sure if we will teach next week since Carnival begins in Brazil this Friday, the 21st. We were told that for at least Friday and Saturday we will need to return home early from our appointments.
We actually went to clean out the baptismal font the other day and were a little surprised to find a frog jumping around in there. Elder Damo, who is from Brazil, was convinced that it was venomous, so a "High Grade Military Operation" was necessary to remove the tiny frog from the font. This one was not displaced out the window, but rather, thrown in the middle of the street.
I haven't really had the chance to eat anything really crazy here. Fortunately there are some places for us to eat açai and milkshakes. So that has been really great. But every day we have been eating good amounts of beans, rice, and spaghetti. That is the meal that everyone here eats every day. One day we went to a restaurant with one of the families here in the branch and we ate french fries. That was definitely an experience. And we have a lot of juice of "Goiaba" which may have become my new favorite fruit.
We are still working hard. I have found it important to remember in the hardest moments of the mission and in the hardest moments of life, that the life of Jesus Christ was never easy. The things He did and the example He gave represented the greatest struggle and the greatest love. Never forget the impact that He has in our lives.
Elder Perry
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| Branch members and investigators working on family history |
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| The frog in the font |
