Last week P-day was pretty adventurous. I tool a bunch of pictures and videos! They are a lot better than words (check out the blog for more pictures/videos)!
After our house was clean and the errands were finished, we went to a member.s house to eat Juçara or also known as açaí. This is the real stuff. It's like a purple juice that tastes bad alone. But, when you add other things it becomes a delight. You can eat it with all kinds of stuff--Sugar, farinha, fried fish, and shrimp, Ahhh, it's a delight!
We then left with a member to go to his house in the country. We were on the hunt for Gongo. I've been on the hunt to eat gongo for about six months now. You can only find it in the country, What is it? Well it's a big larva that lives in the balbaçu coconut. No one knows how this little guy gets in there, but he lives his whole life eating the coconut meat, So he just tastes like some good coconut. He's a delight. We got two machetes, covered ourselves with motor oil ( didn't have bug spray) and went into the jungle--like jungle jungle. We were cutting a trail to a balbaçu coconut tree. We were yelled at by a bunch of monkeys too. Picked up about 30 coconuts, returned back and started cracking them all up to find some gongo. We found about 10!
Look up all this on the internet!
We ate them all alive and raw. But the people like to eat them fried with salt and farinha.
We then went to the bay and ate some oysters off the dock, yumm!
In the zone we are working to help our missionaries understand their purpose. We are helping them to teach the gospel of repentance and baptism. Helping them to call this people to repentance. The people need to see that the way they are living their lives is not sufficient to live with God. They need to feel a need to repent. Without this feeling, and without this desire, no one will be baptized.
As missionaries, one of the most important things we need to have is the spirit. We have to teach by the spirit. If you don't teach by the spirit, you have to drag your investigators along the path--almost controlling their agency. But when we teach by the spirit, the spirit brings them to make the right choices, and you don't have to drag them along, The Spirit will influence their agency--Help THEM to make the choices that you want them to make..
Have a super cool investigator that will be baptized this weekend. His name is Adriano. He's gonna be baptized because he really wants to be a missionary one day. He has 18 years. Super pumped for him.
Have and awesome week this week. Eat some Juçara, gongo and some oysters, Teach the gospel of Jesus Christ to everyone by the spirit, Love you all!
Elder Hillam
Pictures!
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| Acai-- it's a delight! |
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| Gongo |
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| Gongo!! |
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| Finding Oysters! |
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