As I write this today I kinda think back to a Kenny Chesney song, The Boys of Fall. And there is a part in that song where he talks about the seniors knowing that there's only so many of these Friday nights left. This was one of those days that don^t come around too often.
First off, we didnt watch General Conference this week because of Power problems on the beautiful island of Fogo, so we will watch it next week. So for everyone that emailed me about all the talks, thanks for ruining them, Im still insanely excited to listen to it.
Definantly the highlight of this week was the marriage and baptism of the De Barros family.
The Marriage
The Marriage
The marriage was thursday, and whatever image you have of an American marriage, get that out of your mind because that is not how it happens here. The wedding took place in the registro building, with some guy from Mosterios doing the service. He just says a bunch of stuff in Portugese, which either people dont listen to, or understand because it is in Portugese, then they sign one paper. They kiss if they would like, but thats kinda optional. And that all went well. The majority of the good stuff happened before the wedding haha. Everyday they called us complaing that things werent ready, and that we didnt have everything we needed. The day before there wedding, the still didnt have a dress or a suit. Can you imagine not having a dress or a suit the day before you wedding!? Luckily we were able to find both and everything went well ish. They called us late thursday night and asked if we have made a cake. Not that Im not good at making boxed cake, but this is a wedding cake! So we run to the store and buy the best Best Price cake mix we can. Then we get up early the next morning, and start making the cake. While the cake is cooking, he calls us and is freaking out that he doesnt have a black tie to wear! He had a tie, but it was a clip on, and appearantly that wouldnt work for a wedding. So I let him use my black tie that Charlotte and Rich Jaros gave to me before I came on the mish.
So when he called and needed the tie, the cake was half way done cooking, so we turned off the oven, and said we would try to hurry back after the service and before the party to finish the cake. The wedding went well, and it ends up that someone else had already made a very nice wedding cake, so we didnt worry about that. It was really nice to get all the wedding stuff out of the way.
The Baptism
The baptism was one of the smoothest baptisms I have been a part of here in Verde. We got there 7 hours early and filled up the fount, and our ward mission leader baptised them and it was all good. So the Dad is a less active, and the wife and kids all got baptised, it was incredible. Then I sang a musical number with Jeremy,I like to look for rainbows. I sang in English and he sang in Portugese and it was sweet. Its a good thing that they didnt understand anything, but I thought it went well haha.
Its weird to explain how great it felt to see them get baptized. Like those guys will go to the temple a year from last saturday, and will be sealed together forever. This is such a blessed people, and Gods Hand is so visible in the work here. There wont be too many more days like this, but it was a blessing to be a part of it.
I love all you guys, and I love being a missionary. The church is true.
Elder Jarvis
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