This has been a slow week that quickly passed us by. I don’t know how it happens but you turn around and the time is gone. We have spent the week with a few visits and lots of dance practice. I have become the line dance king and the youth are lovin it. We held 3 practices this week; kind of like jazzercise if you ask me. By the end of the hour of practice I am just dripping with sweat and in dire need of a shower and lots of fluids. The Christmas tree wall comae down this week, sad. It was a great reminder of our friends and Sister Waller had a hard time saying good bye to the tree. Thanks to all our friends who sent cards, it filled a wall.
We also were kept busy this week with sick Elders. We have an Elder who suffers from kidney stones. He had a number of attacks last January and this week he repeated the process. Pretty much every day he called and was wondering about the symptoms he was suffering. After numerous phone calls to the President and Area Medical, it was decided that he should return home for medical care. These are not easy decisions. It helped that he was only 2 transfers away from going home. So tickets were purchased and off he went. Hopefully the Drs at home can find out the cause of his stone production and give him some relief.
We also had the usual stomach aches and diarrhea problems. I t is a real hard lesson to learn that food does spoil and needs to be prepared properly, or else you get sick. We have a few Elders that have a hard time learning these lessons. Some think that because they have been here for a year or so, that their systems are now acclimatized to the water and food, Nah!!!!!! Oh well I suppose that is why we are here.
Luncheon with the Cova Figueira Elders Luthi & Reynolds and Sisters Skinn and Silveira, we had lasagne, and corn bread. Good, with Sister Waller's special Yoki dessert.
Alberto and Zita are still working on getting to the Temple in September. Alberto had an accident this week as a brick wall fell on his foot and ankle. He has had many trials and Satan is working over time to keep from getting to the Temple, but he has a great attitude and faith. The x-rays were horrible but I couldn’t see and break. So he will be laid up for a week or so letting the bruising go down. We plan on new x-rays this week, hopefully better. I have made a number of visits to his home to check on him. He was placed on ibuprofen for the pain by the Doctor and told to take one 200mg every 8 hrs. a real waste. So I took him some more pills and upped the dose.
We learned today that Neia is moving to Praia to be with her husband. When they returned from the Temple, Dani started a new training in Praia, so she has decided to not be alone for 6 months but go and be with him. She will be missed in the YW program, she is a keeper.
Neia and Sister Waller with some of the items Neia crocheted for her.
We continue to struggle with activation and finding new people to teach. The common response of our questions about teaching the gospel is “oh I am a member”. Well why aren’t you coming to church? At which time the readily admit that they are fubecka’s; which means slackers!!! Most have no desire to return but love to visit. So we keep searching for the ones the spirit is preparing. We marvel at the dedications of the Elders and Sisters; they work hard and love the people. They teach with the spirit. I think in many cases they are planting seeds and sometime in the future the harvest will be great. They do occasionally get depressed and we are here to pump them up (usually with cookies) and soon they are back at work.
We held a choir practice tonight for the up coming branch conference. We decided to sing “We are Sowing” as they have been taught to sing it to the “Come thou Fount of Many Blessings” tune. Since they can’t read music and have no music person they have developed some bad habits, but on the whole they are doing wonderful.
Well that is about it for this week. The new dance of the week is “Boot Scootin Boogie”. They really do like line dancing. I will be making some CD’s with dance music so they can continue their dancing activities.
Tchau we are now down to 23 days. Love to all.
E/S Waller, Mom & Dad, Bama & Bampa
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