Brock - April 24

More hard work, but finally some progess. This week, after changing our focus area and knocking at doors, to use a Brazillian saying, "até o pó (until the dust, i.e. until we die of figurative exhaustion)", we managed to bring about a dozen people to church. We were fairly pleased with that, not to mention that many of our investigators enjoyed church a lot.

But then judgement came.

My companion and I have been somewhat persecuted by a woman from the Christian Congregation of Brazil the past week, because unfortunately some of our new investigators live close (some exceedingly close) to this woman. Exasperated, my companion finally made a deal with this woman--if she came to our church, he (meaning us, implicitly) would visit her´s. 

And she fulfilled her end of the deal. 

Now, we´re not talking about simply a "nice church", one that, while not possessed of the restored fulness of the gospel, still has many truths; we are talking about the screaming, kneeling, "hallelujah amen glory", women wearing veils, Bible-thumping churches.

It was an hour and a half meeting that was personally hard to witness. One I am not likely to repeat. But, thankfully, it has ended, and now lives on simply as an amusing anecdote. 

But yeah, other than fairly uneventful week. I´ve been getting sick more. Not sick sick, but more headaches and stomachaches. It´s probably stress or anxiety, for obvious reasons.

Hope everyone´s doing fine. Love you all.

Elder Blaylock

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