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our happy "we get to stay in ATIBAIA" picture!!!!
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okay. so that´s about all I have to say about this week......
just kidding.
okay. so this week...........
me
and Sister Menden (maybe mostly Sister Menden.... haha) were getting
pretty nervous about transfers........
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waiting for the elders to call last night about transfers!!! THEY TOOK SO LONGGGGGGG!!!! They didn't call till 10:10 pm!!!! ACK! Practically killed us waiting!! ALSO, this was the last official transfer before the mission will
split practically in half to form the new mission PIRACICABA.... But,
since we are staying here, me and Sister Menden should be staying in the Campinas mission!
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I also got extremely exhausted,
it got SUPER cold and rainy here, and I got sick.... hahahaha.
yayaaaaa.
It is officially cold/flu season and everyone´s catching it....
Dont worry, we are missionaries. so we´re NOT allowed to die because of cold/flu season! =]
hehe. But really, we are doing great and super healthy now, so DONT WORRY.
other important things....
WORST news is that Luana didnt get confirmed yet!!!! AGH!
she
has problems with..... gastrich.... uhhh.... dont know what that is in
English.... AH. ummmm. yep. But it is a problem in your stomach...
GREAT help, I know....
Point being, is that Saturday
night she started to have a lot of stomach pain, didn't sleep all night,
and wasn't able to go to church Sunday morning.....
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Hopefully, it is just that..... and everything will be fine this week for her to get confirmed Sunday!
Sunday at church was the BEST testimony meeting I have ever been to....
Have any of you seen a ward where the people start lining up in the
front to bear testimony the MOMENT the sacrament is done being passed
and BEFORE the bishop turns the time over for testimonies???!
Yep, that´s how this ward is..... INSANE!!
But it was way cool.
Next
cool thing........ from the bishop´s testimony to start it off, until
the last testimony, the theme of the meeting was MISSIONARY WORK.
This ward has several missionaries in the field currently, and a
bunch more that are leaving soon and/or preparing to leave in the next
year..... Before the end of the year, there will be EIGHT missionaries
serving from this ward!! HOW CRAZY IS THAT??!
Several people also shared experiences about teaching/working with
us in the last couple weeks, or about when we came and shared a message
with their family!
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Trying to visit a recent convert family that lives on the other
side of this scary bridge and fence.... hahaha. Sister Menden found it
rather funny, me standing on this bridge, in the rain, trying to get a
hold of this family on the phone.....
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One Irmão from the ward started talking
about the conversation that we had when we ate lunch with their family
this past week.... During lunch, I started asking him about how they
found out about the church and how they accepted the missionaries and
what they were teaching....
Their experience was actually a very cool one.... This family is
from another state here in Brasil, the state of Bahia. After they moved
here to Atibaia, missionaries knocked at their house. This was about 3
or 4 years ago. He told us that the first time the elders came by, only
his wife was home. They came back several times after that, but they
never wanted to let them in and made up excuses.... But the elders didnt
give up and kept coming back. Finally, this Irmão decided to let them
in so they could "say what they had to say and then leave them
alone"..... Well. That´s not exactly how it happened afterwards.....
They said what they had to say, and this Irmão decided to go to church
that Sunday..... His wife was very pregnant at the time, but after she
had the baby, she came to church as well.... They got baptized and have
an adorable family of 4 kids and are currently preparing to go through
the temple and be sealed as a family.
So cool.
I always like to ask the members about their
conversion experiences, so I didn't think anything of asking about it
that day...... but when he got up to bear his testimony about it, it was
crazy to see the difference that it made for him to be reminded of that
special time in his life. The change that the gospel brought to their
life.
It was very cool.
Anyways. It was a very
special testimony meeting and I am SO EXCITED for all these young
missionaries heading out from this ward!! there are three more elders
leaving this month, and a group of 4 sisters preparing to leave within
the next year!!! So cool!
This ward is really gonna change lives!!
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After church on Sunday with the 4 preparing "sisters" in our ward!!!
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Well.
that is about all I have to say for today....
alright.
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My companion Sister Menden in the rain!!!! GUYS, she is from Arizona..... and never gets rain. So here, she
gets INSANELY excited everytime she even THINKS that it might rain!!!
haha. She does a happy rain dance when it actually starts raining......
hahahahaha.
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well.
I hope you all have a great week!!!
love you all SO MUCH!!!
Sister Ward
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