Ok so this week was pretty cool! But i feel like ive entered an episode of the twilight zone... Elder Schoen was sent back in time like 100 years to a cowboy village in Brazil! This weeked there was a Rodeo here and so everyone was just riding horses around. Like the whole week i didn't see one single car, just horse drawn carriges. I saw the funnist thing ever! I saw a horse drawn carriage with a sound system, like huge speakers and subwoofers! ...Ok so back to explaining about this little town. This place is lacking technology, its kinda cool, but kinda rough. For example... Our house doesnt have a washing machine... Thats right! I have the privilege of washing my clothes by hand... its awesome! haha NOt! But im liking it alot here. The people are sooo cool. So laid back and relaxed, its so different of the craziness of the city!
So here in Brazil there is a church that is really strong, its called the Christian Congregation. They are super weird and the women cant cut their hair and can only wear skirts and have the wear veils when praying. Well anyways this town is like 80 percent Christian Congregation! So this week me and my companion decided to knock on a door and the lady opened up the door and was like oh good! Enter! We were just about to pray, pray with us! So I got all excited and just stormed in... when I turned the corner I saw something I wasnt expecting, in the living room were 10 people from the Christian Congregation, all the women with their veils on and in the middle was a big black man, he reminded me of the guy from the Green Mile! Ya I was scared! So we entered and there was a thick tension in the room, like everyone was thinking "Oh great! The freakin Mormons are here!" So we just stood there against the wall and the big black man started praying it was so weird. I wanted to laugh, I was doing everything possible to not laugh, so I started praying to not laugh, then the desire to laugh passed and I started to get really scared, I felt gross inside, so I started to pray that We would be protected ( just to give you guys an idea what it was like it wasnt so much of a prayer, but everyone together talking in creepy voices and chanting weird stuff, and it lasted like 15 minutes) So then i started praying that we would have an opportunity to teach them, thats when the big black man stopped and looked at us for like 10 seconds and asked us to say something. So we started teaching about Jesus Christ, you know, stuff that everyone would agree on. Then the Big black man was like "Thank you, I know that you were sent here by the Lord to talk to us today" Then he looked at me in the eyes for a good 15 seconds, it was super awkward and he said right know I have something to say and I know that you will understand me, and I was like " Ok go ahead" and he started speaking in Italian, i dont know what he was saying but i know it was italian, then he switched to French, and then to spanish, when he was speaking in spanish I was understanding him, he wasnt even saying anything, he said something about an angel behind us and tears and that we need to catch the carpool to europe to teach the people there! It was super funny, I was just trying not to laugh the whole time. And he was like did everyone understand, and Everyone said ya, but i know that no one understood, they just all wanted to make it seem like he had the gift of toungs, and I replied No. I was like "Sorry, but i honestly didnt understand a word you just said" and then it got super awkward, and he was like well anyways thanks for your time and told us that we could come back anytime. So we left and we just looked at each other and were like What the Heck just happened! It was so weird and funny! I love the mission, the funniest things happen!
But other than that things here are going super well! I really like this area and the people and ward members are sweet!
Thanks for all the love!
Elder Schoen
This is from the Roof of our house... Salto de Pirapora, its big isn´t it! haha
Me infront of a little lake near the center of the town
This is a funny story... So one night this week, tuesday night to be exact, we stopped by the church to use the bathroom and what did we find in the bathroom... this dog that had been trapped in there since sunday. The poor thing had just been curled up in a ball in the dark bathroom for 2 days. We tried to get him to leave and he just sat there shaking and wouldnt move. Then we saw that it had a collar and realized that it belonged to one of the members in the ward... The member brought their dog to church and forgot it and it got trapped in the bathroom! haha
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