Dear Family and Friends,
Well, it seems like my ``little head cold´´ has almost completely disappeared. One week ago, I went to bed with the first symptoms, and yesterday, I went to bed with hopefully the last symptoms. It has been a fun week fighting the sickness and trying to fit in an acceptable amount of work, as well. Elder Capelletti tried to get me to call the President´s wife so I could stay home and get better several times, but we had Bruno´s baptism coming up on Saturday, and we had other important investigators to visit who we couldn´t afford to neglect. We went through some pretty funny stages, though. Near the last part of the week, my voice became sore, tired, and I sounded like Eeyore with his super deep voice. This was the cause of some hilarity Friday night.
There´s a less active member named Edite who lives in our area, and who we´ve been helping get back to church, as well as her recent convert granddaughter, Elise. She always likes us to sing at least one hymn during the visit, but usually she gets us to sing a few. When we were visiting with her on Friday night, I told her I probably wasn´t going to be able to sing anything with the terrible condition my voice was in. However, she and Elder Capelletti pushed me to sing, despite my complaints. Elder Capelletti chose ``The Morning Breaks´´ and I knew it was going to be a disaster. I started out fine because we set the key low, but I didn´t last long. I got to about the third measure where the melody jumps from low to high at `the shadows flee´, and my voice rebelled with an incredibly humiliating screech that completely floored Elder Capelletti. I don´t know if my family remembers, but it reminded me of the video that Lydia shared of that one opera singer´s epic fail. Yup everybody ended up laughing uncontrollably, and thus ended the singing for the night. How embarrassing…
Anyway, I bet you´re wondering if Bruno actually got baptized on Saturday. Well…he didn´t. His baptism has been postponed until this next Saturday because we´ve been trying to talk to his mom so she can authorize the baptism, but she´s always either sleeping in bed or not home. Bruno told us that he would talk to his mom, and that she´d be home for sure on Saturday to sign the baptismal record. It´s…just that when he went to tell her that he wanted to be baptized, and that she needed to give permission…she said no. She doesn´t think he´s ready. It´s frustrating because of all the people I´ve worked with on the mission, Bruno is one of the most prepared people I´ve ever taught. I know he´s ready. He knows he´s ready. But his mom won´t give permission. However, we´ll be visiting with her on a regular basis this week, and with some faith, we´ll get her to sign the form.
We also have been trying to get Denize´s daughter, Lisamara, to accompany her mom to church. She promised every day last week that she´d go, but when Sunday morning arrived, she was still sleeping. We woke her up to get ready to go, and she told us that she wouldn´t be going to church this week. That was fun. Denize also needs to separate with her boyfriend so that she can get baptized, and she wants to separate and baptize, but when she tried to talk to her boyfriend about it, he treated it as a joke, and then started fixing all sorts of excuses. Unfortunately, she´s not being all too firm, but in our last visit, she told us that she won´t allow him to stay at her house any more, and if he shows up, she´ll leave to her cousin´s house to stay the night. We´ll see if it actually happened.
Those are basically the people we´re focusing on this week, since it´s the last week of the transfer. If everything goes as planned, we´ll have two baptisms on Saturday.
On Thursday, we had our Zone Conference with President. Attending was my zone (The Serra Zone) and the Vitória zone together. It was good to hear President and his wife speak about the mission, and they´re helping us get excited for the new Mission President to arrive in July. We had a devotional in the morning, had lunch, held a questions and answers meeting, and then in the evening, we all changed clothes and played sports. We got almost everybody to join us in playing volley ball, and we had a blast. Everyone was sore the next day.
It´s really strange how March has started and I should be experiencing the transfer of winter to spring, but in reality, I´m experiencing the transfer of summer to autumn. Hopefully, I´m sending some warm sun to all soon. I love you all, and I´ll see you soon. Have a great week!!
-Elder Crapo
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