Anybody know what day it is today?????!!!
Yep. that´s right today is offically the TEN MONTHS of mission mark!!!! WOOOO!!
hahaha. Just wanted to celebrate this important moment with you all!
This week was pretty rainy and
cold. All week long. haha. It is a little strange when I am shivering
and cold here to think that I am in BRASIL, in the SUMMER and I´m cold
and having to use a sweater....... we´ll see what happens when I go back
home to the snow...... yay.
I dont have a lot to say about this
week................ spent a lot of time knocking doors in the rain and
having only 1 or 2 people let us in in the entire day...... And we had
to drop a lot of our investigators that just arent progressing, or dont
want to work with us anymore..... And we found a few families of SUPER
STRONG 7th day adventists while knocking doors, that spent a large
amount of time lecturing us about the 10 commandments and how all of
them, including the 4th commandment are still applicable today---and how
that doesnt change, no matter what day of the week Christ was
ressurrected.... People not understanding me on the phone (I think my
accent is getting worse or something....).......... and getting way
soaked and having to use wet shoes cause ALL of our shoes are wet and
dont get dry......OH and I bought my 4th umbrella on the mission this
week cause I lost my last one--- smooth move.... . Yep. That sums most
of it up.
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| Me and my new companion Sister Moraes, taking cover after getting
completely SOAKED one day this week........... (I could wring the water
out of my skirt)
OHHHH and we shared this little covering with a half-drowned rat
that emerged from the sewer while we were standing there. Cool.
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English class I used a bunch of those photos you sent
me Mom, to teach about the 4 seasons. They loved it!!! Everyone loved
getting to see pictures of my family, of our house in the states, snow
and leaves in the fall, our canoeing trip, the pictures of the flowers
at ?????? (oh gosh........... forgot the name of the park....... uhhhh.
you know. the park that has the big tree, mom and dad got married
there, and we go there every mother´s day??? cant remember....
shoot..... OH YEAH!!! FINCH ARBORETUM!!!). And we learned vocabulary
from all the seasons and they asked really hard questions and I couldnt
remember all the words to answer them......... FOR EXAMPLE, what is the
name of the little floaty arm-bands that people put on their
children??????? Also forgot the name for "inner-tube" until the day
after english class when I was STILL stumped about it and trying to
remember............. You have no idea how frustrating and weird it is
to forget things in english..... MAN.
Highlight of the week---
We´re still working
with our little "miracle family". Kesia and her three sons, Michael,
Cristain and Caio(who we havent actually met yet....). Kesia works late
during the week, so we only get to see them on the weekends, (bummer,
it´d be way more fun to teach them than knock doors in the rain!! haha).
And Saturday when we went to teach them, we got a little bummed cause
Michael and Kesia hadnt read anything in the book of mormon that we left
with them and after taught and explained for them again about the
restoration and baptism and everything, they still didnt want to get
baptized. BUT DONT WORRY, it just takes time.
Sunday, was good though. They came to church all happy and
excited.... Michael is loving all the classes with the young men, and
nearly died of excitement when someone gave him a BOM/pearl of great
price/D&C combo---- he was like "LOOK at what I got today!!!!", and
Kesia had read what we left with her in the book of mormon and started
reading again from the beginning just saturday night..... She also
prayed like we asked her to, but she said she didnt get her answer
yet..... I sure hope it comes soon.
As for a spiritual thought............ go read Pres.
Uchtdorf´s talk (link) from conference in October on regrets and
decisions...... It is great, and was the source of some of my goals for
the new year. =]
OH and about my accent getting
worse...................... this morning in our study time, me and my
companion did our "inventario de dupla" where we tell eachother the
things the other does well and what needs to improve.... My companion
said how I need to study and work on my portuguese and my accent, and
that with time, it´ll get better (yep, still waiting for that day....).
THEN, just a little while later when we were getting ready to go
downstairs to open the apartment door for the guy delivering our new
tank of gas for the stove, she asked me if I was gonna get dressed in a
skirt and everything. I was like "yeah, I´m not gonna go down there in
pajamas.... I´m gonna put on a skirt and my nametag...". Instead of the
word "plaqueta" that means "nametag" she heard "panqueca" that means
"pancake"...... SWEET. She had to ask me about 5 times to repeat until I
was yelling it to her.... then we both died laughing thinking about me
getting dressed in my skirt and pancakes....... OH BROTHER.
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| Remember how I complain about how much the members expect us to eat at lunches???? YEP. check out the plates!!! =] |
LOVE YOU ALL!!!
have the best week!
sister ward
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