Can you believe its gonna be 2013 here in a few hours?????? NOPE. cant believe it.
Well. Lots of stuff happened in the last couple weeks..... we
finally found a lan house that is OPEN on new years eve, but it is gonna
close here in a little bit, so this´ll have to be quick.
Firstly, Christmas here was good! A little hotter than I´m used to,
but whatever. We got to have a multi-zone celebration the week before
christmas, and our district got to go the temple as well, and it was
AWESOME. My first time going to the temple since I left the MTC.....
about 8 months now, so I really enjoyed it!
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| Me and Sister Paixão at the christmas multi-zone |
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| temple!! |
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| SPOKANE-IANS in my zone!! Elder Sands and Elder McLane |
Christmas eve me and my
comp. had a little dinner of mini-pizzas, pastels and chocolate on the
floor. And since my companion is WONDERFUL, it was good. She wanted to
stay up until midnight to see the fireworks..... I may or may not have
crashed at about 11.... haha. But I woke up when the ENTIRE CITY started
setting off fireworks at midnight. Dont know how Santa visits anyone in
Brasil--- nobody ever goes to sleep on christmas eve!!
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| Our christmas eve FEAST |
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| NATAL (christmas in portuguese) in CHOCOLATE!!! ( a wonderful lady in our ward gave us two boxes of chocolate the week before christmas......mmmmmm.) |
Christmas day
was pretty normal--- study time in the morning, lunch with members....
and THE BEST PRESENT EVER of talking to you all on skype!! It was soooo
great to see you all!! Thanks so much!! =]
I felt bad because my companion only got to talk to her mom for
about 5 minutes...... Thanks for talking with her--- she loves you guys.
After christmas, we worked our butts off. Really. And it was an
AWESOME week. Just flew by! Let me tell you some of the miracles real
quick:
1) we were able to find people, at home, not partying and not traveling the days after christmas this week....
2) The fix-it guys were able to fix our shower!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOO!
The power may or may not have gone out imediately afterwards..... but
that is besides the point. haha
3) Thursday, we had an area-wide power outage that lasted all
afternoon and evening. It rained a TON, really hard... some hail and
everything, so it must have knocked out some power line or something....
We got a little nervous trying to figure out what we would do for our
english class with no power.... But we went to the chapel anyways, and a
BUNCH of people still came! We started out with a little light from the
windows, but that didnt last too long..... but for some weird reason,
everyone wanted to stay and practice english IN THE DARK. hahah. I
couldnt even do a real lesson or use the book or anything--- cause there
was no light. I used a student´s cell phone to light up the board every
once and a while when I wrote a word, and we just practiced
pronunciation.... For an hour and a half! And everyone wanted to STAY.
hahaha. I guess our class must be a lot cooler than I thought.
4) when we left english class and locked up the chapel, the entire
neighborhood was still pitch black.... The SECOND that we opened the
door and entered our apartment building, BOOM "let there be light!!". It
was like magic!
5) Saturday, a girl from São Paulo came to spend the new year with
her aunts family in our ward..... and for some miracle, she wanted to
work with us ALL DAY on saturday. WOOO!! Turns out, I met this
girl---Maxiny, in the MTC, my last p-day! And she wrote me a couple
letters afterwards.... And now we met up AGAIN, when I actually can
speak portuguese, and she got to help us teach all day. It was way cool.
6) Sunday, we had a baptism! Nathalia, is the older sister of a
girl that was baptized the transfer before I got here.......... Sister
Paixao and her companion taught their family for that entire transfer,
but Nathalia never wanted to get baptized...... was scared of being
baptized. Since then, she has been coming to church EVERY SUNDAY,
started working on her personal progress and is always at the activities
at the chapel. But every time we talked with her, she still didnt want
to get baptized. This week, in our district meeting the our leaders
asked about her and her family and decided to do her baptismal interveiw
and talk with her and just see if she was ready for baptism. When the
elders went there to talk to her, she told them how she and her sister
are reading the book of mormon together every night!! ahhhh. And she
decided that she wanted to be baptized finally! So sunday afternoon, she
was baptized along with an 8 year old girl from the ward. It was great,
cause there was a ton of people in the chapel to support them and we
had a little party with cake and soda afterwards. WOO. =]
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| The baptism---- Jussara and NATHALIA!!!! |
We have transfers this week on wednesday........... Sister Paixao
is leaving, and I´m staying. AHHHHHH. So now I have to know our area,
all our investigators and not get lost!!! hahah. It´ll be interesting
for the first little bit. And I´ll miss my little angel of a companion.
Love you all so much!!!
Happy new year!!
Sister Ward
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