So for starters found out what Boca Raton translates as. It's Rat's Mouth. Now when we drive down the road it's really funny seeing all the signs. Mouth Pointe, Mouth Terrace, Mouth this and that.
April 25: Today while we were knocking doors we met Djvante who was so grateful that we were going around sharing prayers with people. Like ready to email us big long thank you emails. Funny....we don't use our email very often.
April 26: While volunteering at Restore today, we were dusting all of the stuff and we had like 3 people offer to take us home with them and dust their houses (one lady even offered to feed us). Really funny though, we would love to come over to all of their houses and help them clean, if we could share a prayer and just invite the spirit into their home. Funniest experience while knocking. We knocked on this door and the lady let us inside, turns out she met with missionaries 20 years ago in Brazil and still remembered their names (and even where one of them was from) all because she thought he was super cute. It made us laugh super hard because she talked about it was hard to concentrate during the lessons because he was just so attractive. Also while we were contacting less active members this Colombian guy walked up to us and in our broken Spanish we told him what church we were from and where it was and he told us about how beautiful we were. Then it turned awkward when he asked to do a bejous (kiss on the cheek - its a big culture thing) and we instead offered a hand shake.
April 27: After interviews with President today we went out to West Boca Raton to Casa do Pao where they have amazing Brazillian food and we had coxinias.
Also while knocking doors we interrupted a Jehovah's Witness lesson so that was cool.
April 28: We randomly texted a guy that the previous sisters had found to see if we could go and teach him and he said sure. So we went and taught him about the Book of Mormon and cleared up some confusion about what he thought the Mormon church was about. No its not what you see on tv in southpark and on the simpsons.
April 29: While looking for less actives today we found a lot of empty lots where houses used to be. Yeah I don't think they live there any more. During our time knocking today we met this spanish guy and his daughter and she was shy and didn't want to talk to us so I said "Me llamo Hermana Jennings" (My name is Sister Jennings) then the dad got so excited and asked us if we spoke spanish. I still don't. Then as we walked away the little girl asked her dad where we were going.
April 30: Today was a really cool day finding less actives. We tried like 5 people and found out a few moved but also found some who want to meet again with us so we can help them come back to church. It was really cool because most of the time you knock on empty houses so you never know and you have to go back again trying to find them.
May 1: Church was really cool today, not because investigators came :( , but because we had a bunch of less actives we are working with come. One of the little boys who is 7 wanted to bear his testimony and it was just so cute. And of course we went and visited Li and Aaron and during the lesson Aaron said he wanted to be a missionary, so I let him wear my nametag during the lesson so he could be a missionary like us.
Well that's all for now!
Love,
Sister Jennings
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