HEY THERE FAMILY!!!!!
This week flew by once again.......... And I´d just like to sum up a little bit of the adventures..........
1.
Did I tell you all that I HATE the bus system in Campinas??????? yep.
It makes NO sense whatsoever........ Sister Moraes and I spent a large
amount of time in downtown campinas, lost, trying to find a bus stop
that actually had a bus that would take us back to our area......... We
ended up walking in circles for a while.... haha. AND, later this week
we took the wrong bus trying to leave from one neighborhood to another
and ended up LEAVING our area and having to WALK back for about 40
minutes up and down hills........ SWEET. Good thing we like walking.....
(**cough cough)
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| this is how you decide what street to knock doors.... Walk around till you find a SIGN with your NAME ON IT!!!!!!!!!!! =] |
2. My companion woke up to me talking in my sleep a
couple times this week............. And you may wonder, "why is this
exciting???" WELL. Cause I was sleep talking in PORTUGUESE!!!!
Wooooooooooooo!!! It probably isnt that big of a deal, since I still
speak portuguese (and english....) WRONG all the time.... But I´m taking
it as a good sign.
3. We got rained on a lot this week again.............
Somehow, whenever it is raining a lot, my skirt gets completely
soaked..... My companion says its cause I´m so tall that the umbrella is
too far away from my skirt and only covering my head--- so it does no
good. HMMM. Apparently in Japan they make umbrellas that have walls
hanging down on all sides....... I think I´m gonna have to get one of
those.
4. We started teaching a woman named Patricia that goes
to our english class. She kept asking a TON of questions to the members
in our english class, and so we marked to meet with her in the chapel
and explain more. It was AWESOME. A recently returned missionary that
goes to english class--Leandro, came to teach with us and it was a
really good first lesson. She was just EXPLODING with questions and
understanding everything perfectly! AH. It is really refreshing to
finally teach people that GET IT, after spending days knocking doors and
trying to explain to people that really dont care.... She hasnt come to
church on sunday yet, but we´re hoping she´ll committ to coming
soon....
5. We had a multi-zone conference this week and it was
SO GOOD. Yep. We got a TON of ideas and help to figure out what we need
to do better in our work.... and President Perrotti was just on fire
telling us all how we need to step it up. Basically one of those
conferences where you get completely broken down into nothing and then
built back up again.... A little painful sometimes, but really good. I
think that the missionary work in our whole mission will really improve
over the next few months.....
6. Kesia and Michael are still progressing so well!! We
weren´t able to meet with them at all this week until Sunday because of
her work schedule.... BUT, they came to church again (3rd week in a
row!!!) and loved it like always. =] They are just so excited to learn
about everything! Loving the classes and the manuals and everything! The
young men, and young mens leaders are ON FIRE with getting Michael
involved, and the Relief Society is a litttttle bit slower to get on the
ball, but they are adopting Kesia in too now. Everyone thinks that they
are members already---- showing up to church for all the meetings,
Kesia in a skirt and everything, coming to church with scriptures and
manuals in hand..... One of the RS counselors even asked Kesia to be on
the lunch schedule to give us lunch!! hahaha. It wasnt until WAY LATER
in the conversation that she realized Kesia isnt a member.... OH, and
when we passed around a sign up sheet for people to sign up to leave and
teach lessons with us, Kesia signed up. She is that awesome. Point
being- things are going really well at church.
We also were able to take Kesia to see the CES devotional of Pres.
Uchtdorf. (link) In the devotional, he was
talking all about the difference between BELEIF and TRUTH and it was
sooooo good!! YOU can all go look it up on the BYU website as welll and
enjoy the awesomeness of it!! And somehow, it was PERFECT for
Kesia..... I was a little nervous at the beginning wondering if he would
even talk about something that applies to her--- as a single mom, not a
member...... BUT, Pres. Uchtdorf went and blew all my worries out of
the water and bore his testimony so powerfully about the restoration of
the gospel and how all of us need to pray and ask to know for
ourselves..... EXACTLY what we have been trying to help kesia with. AH.
it was perfect.
ALSO, we planned for saturday to go to the TEMPLE with Kesia,
Michael, Christain and Caio and we are SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
AND some other reasons why this week is going to be
AWESOME.......... We finally got a ward mission leader that was called
this week, so that is gonna help us out a bunch.... We passed around a
sign up sheet in Releif Society for the Irmãs to plan to leave and teach
with us and we have people planning to leave with us THREE DAYS this
week.... We´re gonna try out some different ideas to avoid knocking
doors as much for hours on end.... hahaha. AND.............. yep. Its
just gonna be great. Dont even worry.
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| Me inside Vitor´s play tent at a member family´s house..... Dont worry, I asked him first if I could go in..... He may or may not be old enough to know how to respond to that question, but he let me anyways. |
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| Vitor in his tent..... (He was too scared to come in while I was still inside.... hahaha. He just pretended that he didnt want to play in the tent until I got out and went and sat farrrr away. ) |
OH and today we are gonna go play at a cool park/place here in
campinas! wooo. Its called O Taquoral. Or something like that...........
BUT yeah, activity with the elders in our zone there today to start off
our awesome week.
Well.
Love you all SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!
Have a good week!!!
Sister Ward
ooooooh I love this girl sooo much!!!!
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