This week was a crazy week! We had a lot of fun and a lot of success!
Food: This week we had an amazing meal at the Yang Family's house. They are Brazillian and they made Arroz de Furnos. I don't know if that is spelled right, but they made this amazing rice dish with cheese and ham and peppers and all sorts of goodies in it. So delicious. They were all laughing because my Brazillian pronunciation is horrific. I give it 5 agressive "arroz(es)" out of 5.
Verbatim: From a lady who walks out of her house.
Me: Can we come inside and talk to your family right now?
Her: Well, it's probably not too convienient. We're all really liberal and open and nobody's wearing pants. I actually saw you outside and that's why I put this sweater on.
Me: Oh. That really probably isn't too convienient. Maybe some other day?
Elder VandenBurg on my bday brownies: They're rice brownies...and this is rice cream!
Last week we went up to a place call 18 peaks which is a gorgeous place to go hike around and walk. Reminds me of the Schaeffer nature trail up in Washington. We had a lot of fun and I started getting into the whole Planking thing. Elder Townsend (my good buddy out here) and I were looking for the "perfect plank" the whole time. We might even go back today because it was so pleasant.
I got my B-Day celebrated in style a day late because people remembered wrong, but the sisters made me brownies and got ice cream, balloons and the works. They're so great.
Just last night we had a really cool experience with following the spirit. We were tracting and then went to a different place to go check on a man that the sisters had referred to us. My companion and I both had an impression to check up on a lady and her family whom we had met the week previous. We went to her door and rang the doorbell. The son answered the door and let us in. Her little sister, with the sister's husband, and two of her children were there. They were all very willing to listen and we very excited about the gospel. We are going back tonight. One thing that went especially well in the lesson is that we used How to Begin Teaching with great effectiveness. There really is a massive difference when it is used well. They understood why were there and we understood why they were letting us be there. It was a huge miracle to me that the Lord let us hit our goal for NI even though we were way below the goal before and He delivered right before we had to go home.
Love you all so much. Sorry time's tight.
Love,
Elder Siebert
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