GOOD MORNING LOVELY FAMILY!!!!!!!
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| Dont know if coca-cola has been doing this in the states, but they´ve been doing a coca-cola zero promotion with names, cities/states on the can. I have been trying to find my name for a while, but never had any luck.... Then this week, we went to lunch at a restauraunt with the elders after our zone meeting. AND WHAT DO YOU KNOW, there is a coca-cola with MY NAME on it sitting in the soda cooler!!! AH! How cool is that?????!!! |
We
taught Robson a few times........ We taught him about the commandments.
When we taught about the word of wisdom, I was way surprised... because
he doesnt drink, smoke or drink coffee!! WHAT? Apparently he stopped
drinking coffee as a kid because it started to make him sick,
and stopped drinking as a teenager cause he wanted to be more physically
fit to do hip-hop dancing.... Okay. cool. We also watched the
restoration video with him. It was really cool, it helped him soooo much
to understand better about Joseph Smith and the restoration... He said
that he believes everything we´ve taught him, but that he still hasnt
got an answer to his prayers...
He also told us that he wont get baptized until after March 8th.
Apparently he made a "promise" with God and if God helps him with
something (wouldnt say what...) in his life, he will get baptized, and
if not...... who knows. But apparently this thing he asked for will only
happen on March 8th......
I tried to explain to him how God blesses us when we keep His
commandments, and not before, but he still didnt want to change his
mind....
Kesia and Michael and family are doing
well........... We werent able to teach them again this week, but they
came to our pancake activity and to church on Sunday..... All three boys
came with Kesia to the activity!! And Sunday, Michael, Christian, and
one of Kesia´s friends came with her to church! During sacrament, I sat
with Michael and he started going off with questions during the ENTIRE
meeting! man this kid is smart! I made a little card with a drawing of
the plan of salvation this week and he started asking questions about it
and I ended up teaching almost the entire plan of salvation to him
there in sacrament meeting. This kid has questions for everything....
goodness. I didnt have answers for about half of his questions.... But
Michael is GOLDEN, he wants to know everything!!! And he is such a good
kid!! all the leaders are so impressed with him at church and during the
camp-out that he went to with the other youth.... He is smart, polite,
obedient and friends with everyone. He is always helping out and wants
to learn everything. I´m so excited for him, Kesia and their entire
family!
This week, me and my companion were interviewed for
TV!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHH. We were just walking, minding our own
business---okay not really, more like walking and inviting people to
come to church, when my companion went up to two guys passing out
magazines. Turns out, they were passing out magazines for a religious TV
program?? Legião da boa vontade?? Something like that...They gave us
their magazine and we gave them a pamphlet about the restoration... =]
THEN, as we are talking with them, a group of people with a big video
camera came up to us and they were like "well, actually, we want to
INTERVIEW you for our telivision interview...." WHAT.? So.... somehow,
we got roped into bearing our testimonies to be aired on TV..... AH.
Dont know if they will actually air everything that we said..... BUT,
there is a fairly good chance that they´ll at least play a clip of me
saying EVERYTHING wrong in portuguese (I got nervous okay!!!) just to
show off how their magazine reaches AMERICAN missionaries from other
churches! AH.
They made us sign a little peice of paper afterwards and everything, so this business is serious. ack.
We
also had our activity with pancakes!!!! OH GOODNESS. We got there at
about 5pm just to get everything ready.... We cooked pancakes from about
6 until 8 pm.... And there was a TON of people there!! When it was time
to eat the pancakes, they killed them all off in about 20 minutes....
hahaha. But it was a hit!
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| Our pancake activity! There was a good 50 people there!!! WOOOOOOO!! and ten investigators!!!!!! A record night!! This is when we were still making more pancakes..... |
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| Irmão Jair, our ward mission leader that organized EVERYTHING for the activity |
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| Irmã Thiana helping with the pancakes |
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| Me and Rafael with some of the ingredients for the pancakes.......... check out the big pot of maple syrup back on the stove!! the syrup was a hit!!!! Think we got signed up to make pancakes with maple syrup for about 6 families when we eat or have family nights with them.... hahah. |
BTW, my companion is a pancake-making PRO. She PERFECTED making
pancake batter that night!!! And please remember that Brazilians don't
make these type of pancakes! Pancakes here are like crepes and they put
meat and stuff inside and sauce on top and serve them like
enchiladas.... totally different.
OH and the big news!!
Maybe you all have already
seen/heard something about this on the church website..... But our
mission is going to divide!!! 58 new missions were announced world wide
last week---7 in Brasil... And one will be the Brazil Piracicaba
mission! The Piracicaba mission will take a large part of our mission,
as well as some areas in the Riberão Preto mission.... Araras for
example will be part of the new Piracicaba mission, while my other
areas--Jundiaí and Campinas will be in the Campinas mission still. This
also means that I might end my mission in a different mission!!! Ah!
They will have to divide the current missionaries between the two
missions, so it is very likely that a lot of us will be sent to the
Piracicaba mission. Me and Sister Moraes might be serving in DIFFERENT
MISSIONS here in a few months!! How crazy is that?!
Well. Hope you all are doing well!!
LOVE YOU ALL!!
have the best week!
Sister Ward
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| my favorite thing to do in English class!!! hahah. We reviewed the alphabet in English class this week and I made them all practice by guessing letters for hangman ONLY with English pronounciation. heheh. It was great. They all love to make fun of me cause I only enjoy it when the sentence is hard enough that I get to hang at least half of a man..... hahaha. It is called "forca" in Portuguese (FORK-UH) |
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