Some of our recently found investigators are named Eduardo and Juan, and also another little family, whose kids are really excited about what we have to teach them. They have 2 kids, probably 13 and 10, a boy and a girl. We went there last night and had a cool experience with them, we knocked on their door and the 13 year old son answered. We asked if we could come in and he said he was playing xbox live, but his dad came and let us in. We sat down in the living room with the dad and had a prayer and started reading a chapter in the BOM, and right after we started the son came in from the other room with his Book of Mormon and said "Where are we?" and sat down to read with us. Without us even asking!! That my friends, is a miracle. Their daughter came out a few minutes later. I think the kids can really tell that we have something for them, but I'm not sure how much its getting through to Carlos, the dad. But he's a DJ, so we of course had something to talk about.
Eduardo and Juan are nice to teach because neither of them work, so the usually-dead hours of 1-4 in the afternoon can be filled with some lessons. Eduardo had an accident at work a few years ago and was in a coma for awhile, and still has some problems, he gets dizzy and headaches really easily, even from just talking and thinking to much. We met him from when he called us from one of our translation flyers to help him at the doctors office for an appointment. Juan doesnt work because... Well I dont really know all the details, but what I know is that he asked me to tell him what a paper he had got in the mail said, and it was from a pre-trial probation officer, declaring the parishes which he could not leave. So its probably related to that. But Juan had some awesome questions after reading, even "Who were the Jaredites?" so that was really cool.
We had the baptism of roberto, the brazillian, he's doing awesome. The baptism was pretty fun, but was started with some stress. They recently remodeled the bathrooms and baptismal font area, and re-did the plumbing in the font. Before, it would fill in about an hour. So, the other elders showed up about an hour early to get it filled. Well, the new piping didnt quite fill it as quick. So when we got there, it was just a little above the shins. we found out the drain wasnt all the way, so one of the elders took of his socks and shoes and rolled up his pants and went in and pushed it in further. But we were still behind, so had to do something else. So we went to the kitchen, and just like most churches, theres about 10 pitchers. We had plenty of missionaries and 2 sinks, so everyone grabbed 2 pitchers, filled them both, and went back and forth from the font to the kitchen and added more. That was helping, but wasnt quite enough. There was a 5-gallon water cooler/dispenser thing, but no more sinks, so I grabbed it and took it to the shower in the changing room, positioned it properly, and filled that, and dumped it in periodically. In the end, we had a good baptism, they only had to do it once.
We went over to his house for dinner on Sunday Night, and got to play some awesome music with him. A total blast! We had the other missionaries and everyone over, I grilled up the carne asada, Tanya (The brazillian lady who is friends with roberto) made this really good dip/topping- it was like brazillian pico de gallo. We had 2 other members over, and Roberto and I entertained them all, it was super fun. He's one I'm really excited to visit when I come back here (or to brazil).
Well, I've got to get off to other things and finish packing for transfers (its just astounding how much stuff you can collect), so thats all for this week.
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