These past few days have been wonderful. It is so interesting to not speak very much but the Lord is blessing me with so much patience. Wednesday night we went to the Bishops house, and then went up to the church building where members and non-members play soccer every Wednesday and tried to find some people to teach. The Bishop is a great guy, I really like him a lot.
The next day was the first full day of work and I really liked it. We are teaching a lot of people but the people I get the most excited to visit is this family of tons of little girls.
They are crazy and wild and we walked with them to church on Sunday. The family lives in a rougher neighborhood, and the contrast of the message we bear and the surroundings is very apparent and it's wonderful. It's hard to explain what I mean, but I just love it.
Elder Schoen and I sing a hymn during almost every lesson. I love it and it's something the President has been encouraging us to do since a Zone Conference right before I came so I am very happy to be able to do that. Elder Schoen seriously is so great. I'm extremely dependent on him, extremely but I love doing what I can. I think that a big plus of being able to speak so little is when I do speak, the people really strain their ears and try to listen. Right now we have 6 people on date for baptism and it's great.
One investigator who Elder Shoen and the previous Elder had been teaching for a while experienced a miracle in his life. We went and saw him on Saturday, and he has been trying to find the money to get married so he can be baptized. There have been so many struggles with his last job not paying him and he was feeling hopeless. He was reading The Book of Mormon and everywhere he read it talked about pushing on and the blessings came. He was laying on his bed when the phone rang and it was the bank, and I don't know the details but he was blessed with more than sufficient money, and later his old job paid him.
Sunday was wonderful. We had 8 investigators at church and Elder Schoen said that was a lot to have come so that was great. I bore my testimony and Elder Shoen gave a talk. Everything is great here. I really love the work and I feel very happy. I can't wait until I can speak more. It will be so much fun to be able to feel like I can adequately communicate my feelings to the people I teach. As I sat in the home of all of the little girls, I had a profound whisper of the importance of the work. The answer that will solve all problems is the gospel. The message that I get to preach everyday will improve lives and relationships.
Today for pday we went to a mall in Sorocaba and I may have bought a guitar for $250. ....I did. But I love it and I'll find a bunch of times to use it on my mission. It's really nice.
After that we had Big Macs at McDonalds.
Oh man the rice and beans in the homes is soooo. . . good. The rice just plain is amazing. A woman who was cooking for us on Saturday asked what our favorite meals are and Elder Shane said something and I said rice, beans and eggs. No on really responded, like there was some confusion and Elder Schoen was laughing after because apparently that's like the super poor meal. I love it though, it's so good. I Love you all, Elder Calvert
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