Email sent on September 23, 2019
Okay, so here are a few things that have happened! Let’s see...where do I begin? I’ll just give a few of the highlights from the last couple of weeks. Sorry it's been awhile.
Okay, so here are a few things that have happened! Let’s see...where do I begin? I’ll just give a few of the highlights from the last couple of weeks. Sorry it's been awhile.
- The sister training leaders came to Efapi and we did splits with them, it was so much fun! I was with another American this time, Sister Howell for a few hours! It is always so amazing to see and work with other sisters and see how they teach the same lessons in different ways!
-We had zone conference with President and that’s always the best too, we are able to see and learn the different things he feels are important for us to learn, remember and apply to our teaching! As part of this conference my district sang a song in front of our zone and that was a really fun and new experience! Now it’s even better going to these conferences because, everyone knows that I can actually speak and understand Portuguese now, so they all start talking to and calling on me.... It is so incredible to be able to talk!
-During one of our walks, I taught the word “Hangry” (hungry and angry) to my Brazilian companion that does not know any other English! She has now started to use it all the time! It is one of the best things and funniest things ever!
- Our mission president called on Saturday saying that I would be leaving Efapi and would be going to finish the training of another American Sister, and white washing, or both missionaries being two new sisters in the city Rio Tavares! Our new area is literally on the island of Floripa and is mainly beach that is so close to the ocean!!
-My first daughter in the mission Sister Anunciaçao, stayed in Efapi and got a new companion, I am very excited that she is staying there and that I will be able to hear what is going on with the people there still.
-Saturday, I went and said goodbye to everyone, it was crazy! The sweetest part was that two of my recent converts gave me the cutest necklaces as goodbye gifts! I already miss them a bunch!
-Sunday after lunch, my companion started to have a really bad allergy attack! So, after we tried a couple of things to see if we could make it any better, we ended up at the hospital for about 4 hours.... Here, they have rules that only the person that is sick can enter so I had to stay outside with our bishop and his family. Luckily the medicine they gave her helped and she is doing much better now!!!
-However, our little hospital adventure was a little interesting because I was not packed when we got back to the apartment around 8:30- 9pm and we had to get to the airport at 1am.... So, I didn’t actually get any sleep that night because I was busy packing my bags while my companion was trying to get some sleep because she was still not doing any better at that point, and the medicine that they gave her....
-My new companion, Sister Romero and I got to the airport at 1am to welcome the new sisters and wait until about 5am to get on the plane headed to Floripa.
-We were just sitting there and there were some people that were sitting across from us and started to say “Joseph Smith” so we started to talk to them... They were asking the craziest questions to us, it’s good that I was able to answer the questions, but it was crazy at 3am having people asking me those kinds of questions, especially because my Portuguese doesn’t function that well that early in the morning.
- We get to Floripa and the Elders were at the airport to meet us, give us our phone and tell us where we were supposed to go since neither of us had ever been there before, However, the phone that they gave us wasn’t charged so they handed that to us and basically just said “good luck the other set of sisters that you guys are going to be living with aren’t answering their phone right now... So, when you get there just clap out front and then knock on the door.”
-We got to the house and the sisters were definitely still inside sleeping!!! So, the two of us just were sitting there, clapping and yelling trying everything we could think of and then luckily, they finally answered!! The other sisters are so awesome and helped us out so much figuring out all of the details that we need to know about our new area and ward.
-We started to work on Tuesday, and it was crazy, we went the whole day without teaching a single lesson, people are so different here on the island than the people that I got to know in Chapeco, but they are still awesome! The whole time we were using a map to look for a street and WE FOUND THE BEACH!!!!! Since we ended up there, we decided to take a minute and just stare at it for a couple of minutes that’s for sure! That was definitely a really awesome part of this week!!!!
- Wednesday it was raining SOOO hard! We were trying to talk to people but everyone we met were busy even in the pouring rain.
- Thursday... RAIN AGAIN!!! We were in the street at about 8pm and the power went out, luckily Sister Romero had a flashlight with her, and we were close enough to our house that walking home was not too bad in the dark... Such a crazy couple of minutes outside in the dark in the rain!
Friday- we met a recent convert and she is awesome!! She started playing music for us in English and made some popcorn! Her parents will be getting married soon, and that means that they are working on being able to be baptized soon too!!
Saturday- We were contacting people and we saw some WALMART bags so we were like lets’ talk to them for a little bit, so we asked them where the WALMART was and there reply was basically “I DONT SPEAK PORTUGUSE” and then I told them that was okay because we were both Americans and we speak English. So, we start talking to them, they didn’t want anything to do with the church but that was fun!!
- We then found the beach to plan out some other activities for a little bit, and one of our investigators came and talked to us for about an hour and then we went to his house and taught a lesson!!! After this we went to meet a family on our ward from the states!!! they are so cool!!!!
That’s a pretty quick summary of the weeks!!!
But I love You all and miss you all bunches!!
Remember that God Loves each and every single one of us!!!
I love y’all too!!!
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