Monday,
January 13, 2014
Famlee!
Hey everybody! How was
your week? I hope it was awesome. My week was incredible as usual. One week on
the mission really is so much of everything. It is hard to explain. But you
kids will understand one day =)
The highlight of this
week was Bemvindo. He was baptized yesterday, but it wasn't just his baptism
that highlighted the week, it was also just getting to teach him and spend time
with his family. His little brother Junior is so fun; he has such an amazing sense
of humor for his age of just eleven. I will see if I can upload a funny little
video of him. But yeah, it was great with those two and their cousin Filomena
who lives with them. As I think I have already told a couple of you, this week
Bemvindo, Junior, Elder Moore and I all went out for a little bit and collected
sea mussels together, took them back to the house, and cooked them all up for
Filomena, their mom, uncle, and grandma. They also had some little crabs they
cooked up and these little fish things that you just pick apart and eat without
cooking... I really enjoyed them, because I am getting quite the taste for
seafood. Elder Moore didn't like them at all. The only part I though was a
little weird was the head. I had to try it though. You just crunch it right
off, chew it up, and swallow. It was weird, but not too bad.
The baptism yesterday
was awesome. Bemvindo didn't want to choose between Elder Moore and me to
baptize him, he is so sweet. Just so thoughtful, soft, and mature. Basically
the opposite of his little brother Junior... Anyways, we had set up for someone
else to do the baptism. Well, church ended, and it turned out that something
happened with the member who was going to do the baptism and they couldn't make
it. So we talked to Bemvindo and told him that he needed to choose again. He
told us he didn't want to choose between us, so we explained that one of us
could do the baptism and the other would confer him a member this coming
Sunday, and he didn't need to be afraid of hurting feelings, because we were
his brother and the important thing was him getting baptized. So, he chose me
to baptize and Elder Moore to do the conferring next week. I was happy to do
it, but because of the confusion with the member, I didn't have any of the
clothing or a towel to use afterwards. I ended up finding a pair of too-big
pants that I wore, and then just used my underclothes and shirt, and decided I
was just going to have to go wet after the baptism. But I didn't think about
the fact that I would have to stand in front of everybody to speak on the Holy
Ghost afterwards. Plus to add to the problem, when Bemvindo went under, he
didn't go very easy so I kind of had to force him down before I pulled him back
up which involved me getting even more wet.
Long story short I
ended up wearing Elder Moore's white shirt over my wet underclothes. He wore
his coat and buttoned it almost to the chin so that you couldn't tell that he
wasn't wearing a white shirt at all...
Lesson learned. Always
bring backup clothes just in case. Check.
Well, I look forward
to hearing from you guys again next week. Sorry dad I didn't respond personally
to your letter, but I was short on time. Please don't stop writing me for that
=P
Love you!
Elder Lee
I am happy to say that
bemvindos (Beng-veendoo
is how you say his name) baptism did
go through! We weren't able to get in touch with natalina before Sunday though
because of her work schedule, but we will get on that this week and hopefully
have another baptism on Sunday. He is from Guinea Bissau and Natalina is from
the Cabo Verde islands. I ate
some funny things this week... we also collected some muscles (like 30) and ate
all of those with bemvindo, junior, and filomena's family. I LOVE shrimp. That was at the house of
Bemvindo. His brother in the picture is Junior, who is already baptized. They
live also with their cousin, Filomena (a she, and its pronounced
fee-low-may-nuh) who is a member as well. They are an awesome family. We are
going to try and baptized the mom, but she is not really into it. She loves us,
but isn’t wanting our message. Junior is sooooo funny man... I will upload pics. But my dropbox
says it’s full so I can’t. Hey, so I am going to get off right now, we are going
to meet up with the elders from Oeiras, but I should be getting back on for a
bit more later today. Love you!
PS did I already ask
you about my highlighters? Did you send those? Did you send them in an envelope
or with the package? I need those as soon as I can get them.
PPS If you can figure
out how to get my dropbox memory cleared up I can upload pics when I come back.
I don’t have a ton but I have some.
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