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| Sister Warner and Sister Bos |
1. It’s like really hot and sunny here right now. it’s awesome! i feel like it’s already summer!
2. On tuesday, i had one of the most jam packed, crazy days of my mission. (not with as many miracles as nick seems to be having, but still radical!) First, we went over to look for a lady’s house, and as we were asking ppl where she lived, a gypsy woman heard that we were lost and just appeared in the apartment building. I was like, Um do you live here Senhora? DO you know where Rosa lives? and she was like, No i don’t. Then she knocks the door right next to us and a man opens the door and the gypsy lady pointed at us and then just leaves....it was super weird. We never found Rosa. the man tried to help but it was unsuccessful.
3. then like 10 minutes later we decide to pass by an inactive member who has a druggie son who lives with her. Oh and he is schitzophrenic (spell check..)....yeah. He opens his door all high and right away starts telling us about how he wants to get baptized etc. But that he doesnt have the forças he needs to throw out all the drugs etc...so sister Hayes was like, Well we can pray for you to have help...and then BOOM! He is kneeling down on the doormat right there in the entrance. I think we had our eyes open the whole time to make sure that he didn’t do anything too sketchy! I was wondering if i was supposed to kneel down or what lol. So right after we say Amem, he like jumps up and runs inside to grab a drawer full of what looks like crack and cigarettes etc. He brings it out and we are like...maybe you will want a bag for those? so he puts them in a bag, then we all go outside to the dumpster. He pulls out one of his earrings for me, and the other for sister H...and just hands them to us. Then he slam dunks the drug bag in the trash and hits his chest. We all high fived.
After that we went in and had a lesson...the whole time he was staring at me and sayin creepy stuff under his breath, like Liiiinda etc. I was like, O que? (what?) and he was all quiet. It was gross. He said a crazy prayer at the end. He added on a little part after saying, Obrigado pelo amor das Sísters, amem. (Thank you for the love of sisters)
Then we left and went to a cafe where nasty men were hitting on us and i was trying really hard (ok maybe not that hard...) to not be rude. But there was some hands on hips (my hands on MY hips) and sassiness going on when they were like, well can we have your contact info? um no. you can’t.
Then we were late for our bus and i thought we were gonna miss it so we started to sprint and i saw that our bus had stopped, but that the front door where we get on was closed! so instead of really looking around, i ran and jumped into the side door right as it was closing, leaving sister Hayes on the sidewalk...(talk about a mini panic attack! we came up with a game plan for if the bus had really left us, lol) then the driver says, Um, you can’t do that. and then he opened the door again. lol. I got off...then it rolled forward one foot and opened the door and all of us got on. Talk about HILARIOUS! I was laughing so hard.
4. We have an old lady named Lucilia (who came to church once with us) who just talks and talks! She gave the closing prayer in our first lesson with her last week and was like "OH GOD...blah blah..." and just was like screaming at Heavenly Father and crying...with her eyes open staring at the ceiling. that was interesting. But what was even more interesting was yesterday when she told us that as kids, she and her friend would open caskets in the cemetary. i was like sitting there with my mouth hanging open and sister hayes was trying not to bust up laughing, she wasnt very successful. I will admit, most of my funny reactions to what ppl say are to get her to laugh. lol.
5. We were dropped by about 13 ppl this week. So we are at 0's again. Including that couple that we were super pumped about.
