Elder Alberto finally got back! Last week his flight got cancelled by the storm but this week he finally returned. So we got to work in our area together again which was super nice. Working with Elder Thornock and Langkilde was fun but actually being in the area and not being in a trio is really nice. Still we had a solid half-week to work and it went quite well.
Also in one of my earlier emails I wrote how easy missionary work is here, well I am going to revise my statement. It is easy-ish. Yes the people are super nice and super willing but these last few weeks I have noticed some challenges we regularly run into. First is scheduled lessons. When we call someone and confirm a time to teach, they tell us what times they are busy and we work around it. But a lot of the time we show up and they just aren't there. And for some reason their phone never works at these times. I still don't know why this happens, it probably isn't on purpose, my guess is that they don't track the time and just leave to go do something and forget the lesson is at that time. Still it happened a lot this week. Another challenge is phones, everyone we teach has a phone number, but that doesn't mean it is always working. Phone service here is pretty strange and a lot of the time people don't have money for service. So somebody's phone could work great one week, and completely shut off the next week. This is especially annoying when this is our only way to contact them to schedule lessons. Also as my Portuguese improves I am learning that the people still have a lot of problems and obstacles that we need to help with. Some things are easy, some are a lot more challenging. But I love a good challenge.
Transfers are this next week and we should get calls very soon. The way they do it here is a little strange. If you are getting transferred, you get a call the week before you will be flying or moving. If you aren't moving you don't get a call. So the other Elders got a call, and we haven't so, we may not being transferred. But we won't know for sure until like Wednesday. I want to stay in Napipine with Elder Alberto, but our area 'might' be getting split so we both might split with it. Honestly our area would benefit a lot from being split. Apparently, before Covid our ward had 6 companionships in it. Now it is just 1. There are people that come to church that we haven't been able to teach yet. It is wild.
It also rained a lot this week, we were getting a lot of aftershock from the hurricane. It is pretty annoying but it didn't end up interfering too much with our work. Yeah the work was good. Only working half the week plus the potential rain was annoying but we made it work.
Not too much happened so I leave this email a little shorter, thank you to whoever reads this. I hope you are doing well. Good luck.
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Elder Alberto and I out on the road
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