Sister Carley Sanovich in Brazil: Season 2 Episode 11

November 11, 2019

Well this week absolutely FLEW by!! The weeks just seem to be passing quicker and quicker. There was so much that happened in such a short amount of time, so here are the updates this past week!

Monday! PDAY!! So we have this lady that we are teaching that lives super close to our house, her name is Simone. and as we were walking to the Lan House to talk to our families, we ran into her and she says "Minhas filhas Americanas! Minhas Princessas!" (My American daughters! My princesses!) Haha, so we stop and chat for awhile, she has a very difficult life and she is going through a bunch of things right now. She is a very sad person, but when we are able to say a quick prayer and share a quick testimony with her the spirit touches her and she almost cries every time. She is always so thankful to have met us, and at the same time I am so extremely thankful too! I am thankful that we can give her a little bit of hope to continue on. So that night we went to the house of Jamily and Evandro, and it started to downpour, and it takes about 30 minutes to walk to get to their house. But the weather here recently has started to be like that, one moment sunny and the next raining so much! I always need my umbrella either for the sun or for the rain! Even though the weather was a little weird today, the night was really good. We were able to help Evandro understand a little more about the Plan of Salvation!

Tuesday- We left our lunch and as we were walking to our lesson and Sister Romero goes, "Did you notice that I pulled out 3 dog hairs of my cake?" Hahaha, Thank You Brasil! I've finally gotten to the point where I just stop looking at the food that we are given and just start eating it haha!! The rest of the day wasn’t that exciting, but we did meet a new friend that we are going to start teaching later this week! We were sitting at the bus stop taking a break after walking for quite a ways, and I was reading O Livro de Mormon and this man comes to the bus stop and started to ask us questions that we were able to respond to and we got his contact information and we are going there this week, we are very excited to go and teach him some more!

Wednesday- We had our district meeting and so we went to the Centro in downtown Floripa and that’s always a fun experience to hang out there for a while! We got to meet our new district and I made cake so that was a highlight for sure! Then in the night we went to a recent convert Jeverson's house, and he always makes us food for our lessons and it is always delicious! We shared a message with him, the classic Joao (John) 3:16 but it was perfect and exactly what he needed!

Thursday- Okay, so talking about that rain! It's crazy!!! It was raining and then it was calm and all was good! We got a reference from the mission office to go and visit! Her name is Anny, we marked with her, and she didn’t think we would actually show up so she was still sleeping when we got there! She is really cool and is really interested in the church and learning more about the gospel! We then walked to the church to visit with a recent convert before seminary, she is really strong in the church and we all just ended up at the seminary hanging out with all the youth! It was really fun!! Then we went to Andiara's house and we started to teach her about the Plan of Salvation, she had a few questions so we were able to help her understand them a little more.

Friday- We had lunch with one of our favorite members here, Irma Vanessa! She is awesome and then we had a long day of walking after that... We were trying to find people that were in their houses, and we ended up taking a little detour to the beach for a few! It was a beautiful day! After this we had a lesson with the mom of Irma Vanesa, and she is really great we are going to start teaching her and we hope that she will come to church next week with the primary program and see her granddaughter will even speak!

Saturday- Another very rainy day! We went to our friend Oberson's house and he made us fried bananas, SO GOOD! That is another food that I'll be making when I get back home, it's actually not Brasilian, but he is from Haiti so it is Haitian food! We were able to talk a while with him! After this we went to another lesson with Raquel, the lady that just had the baby last week! We found out that her daughter is studying with the Assembleia de Deus church, and it was very weird when we got there but we shared our message and we will see what will happen.

Sunday was SO fast! Church as a missionary is wild! We are running around and everyone wants to talk to us haha! We were almost leaving our house to go to church when the ward mission leader gave me a call telling me that we needed to get to the church early because there was a lady and her son that were there already and he told us that they are interested in the church! So we ran out the door to go and meet her! She is definitely what we would consider a golden investigator that's for sure! I'm soo excited to see her and her family this week! For lunch I helped put chicken hearts on skewers to barbecue... That was definitely a new adventure so there is a video of that for sure! Then we were supposed to have a lesson with another recent convert here but the bus system on Sunday is really strange and by the time we got to his house he wasn’t there!!! We were able to share a message with his dad, that was really really cool! I was joking around with him and invited him to come to church and usually he is a little shut off but because we were joking around and talking to him in a more chill way it was really good and really cool. At the end he goes ( "I think I’m starting to like Mormons" Hahaha I love being a missionary and being able to help people find happiness!