This week was super slow because on Wednesday we had zone conference all day, and on Thursday was the opening of the World Cup and the first game of Brasil, and we were at home practically all day. We found a incomplete family, and are preparing the sons and daughter for baptism.
We also are working with a 14 year old girl named named Tainá who wants to be baptised on Saturday. She's the niece of a member and has already been to church and received the missionary lessons, and appeared out of the blue, so that was pretty cool.
Other than that, things are going normal and well here in Vitória. We're just waiting out the World Cup, and things will start going faster and I'll have more to talk about. I love you all, and I'll see you soon!
Elder Crapo
Sunday, June 22, 2014
Serviço! 9 de Junho 2014
This week has been full of meeting all the new members (Several of them know the other Elder Crapo who passed through this ward on his mission) and helping them out with service projects. We helped one member prune his hedges and clean up the yard, which was a nice dose of nostalgia knowing that the same thing was happening right about now back at home. We also helped another family move out of one house and into another.
We're meeting all kinds of new investigators and are starting to work a lot with the many members here. This week, one lady told us she let us in because she saw us helping someone the other day when there was a small car accident, and we were signaling for the oncoming traffic to slow down and keep to the side. The day we showed up at her door, her husband who never wanted anything to do with religion called her from work, and told her he wanted to start going to church. She accepted our invitation to be baptized.
Yesterday was our stake conference, and we received instruction from M. Russel Ballard and Richard G. Scott in a transmission from Salt Lake to the stakes in Espirito Santo, Rio de Janeiro, and São Paulo. That was pretty neat. I took some pictures of the area, and I'll be sending those to you!
Have a great week, everyone! Love you, and I'll see you soon!
Elder Crapo
P.S. Yes. My companion is crazy.
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We're meeting all kinds of new investigators and are starting to work a lot with the many members here. This week, one lady told us she let us in because she saw us helping someone the other day when there was a small car accident, and we were signaling for the oncoming traffic to slow down and keep to the side. The day we showed up at her door, her husband who never wanted anything to do with religion called her from work, and told her he wanted to start going to church. She accepted our invitation to be baptized.
Yesterday was our stake conference, and we received instruction from M. Russel Ballard and Richard G. Scott in a transmission from Salt Lake to the stakes in Espirito Santo, Rio de Janeiro, and São Paulo. That was pretty neat. I took some pictures of the area, and I'll be sending those to you!
Have a great week, everyone! Love you, and I'll see you soon!
Elder Crapo
P.S. Yes. My companion is crazy.
Tuesday, June 3, 2014
Transfers! Junho 2 2014
Dear Family and Friends!
The bus ride from Itaperuna to Campos and then from Campos to Vitória was painfully long, but we managed to make it through. Transfers are being held at the bus station now, so we just meet our new companion there and head straight for our new areas. I've been sent to Vitória!!!! I'm so excited to work here! I'm working in the Estrelinha ward. Yes, a WARD. My companion is Elder Lima (the giant) from São Paulo. We live in a pretty little house underneath the Bishop and his wife, who are the sweetest most caring people. They also have three cats, which serve for kitty therapy after a long day. :) The food in this area is the best of the mission so far, and the members are super with giving referrals and setting appointments to visit investigators with us. It's absolutely gorgeous here in Vitória! We're re-opening this area, so we're getting to know our part of the island pretty well. We have a family who are waiting for some documents for marriage, and they'll baptize.
-Elder Crapo
Tranfers,Open Houses, and Branch Conferences! Maio 26, 2014
Bom Dia, Gente!
What an interesting week! We spent this whole week running towards the chapel open house on Friday and Saturday, the Fireside on Saturday night, and the conference on Sunday morning, followed by stake leadership trainings on missionary work Sunday afternoon. We passed along thousands and thousands of invitations and only managed to get them into the hands of a small population of the city. We were stopping everyone on the street, and it was cool to see closed faces turn to smiles as we wished them ``good morning´´ and left them with an invitation and a warm handshake.
On Friday, my job was to play the piano in the chapel to set the reverence and maintain the spirit. I played the piano all. day. long. I managed to write a simple arrangement of ``God Be With You ´Til We Meet Again´´ in the style of Paul Cardall, and I just looped that over and over again. Seemed to work out just fine. We didn´t have a huge turn out, but many people passed by to check things out and learn more about the church.The Fireside didn´t have the turnout we wanted, but the conference had a great turnout...so we´ll take it.
In visiting a bit more with Cacau, he pretty much gets tears in his eyes every time we visit with him, because he knows we speak the truth, but he´s still trying to fix something with his girlfriend so that he can get baptized without losing her. It´s a little frustrating, but I´m sure one day he´ll take the initiative, and do what he knows is right.
Which brings me to the last bit of news from this week. Tomorrow four of the four missionaries currently serving in Itaperuna will be transferred. Yup. Everybody and I will be leaving this city and heading on the looong two bus rides back up to Vitória. Here we go!!!
I love you all so much, and I´ll see you soon!
Elder Crapo
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