Sister Carley Sanovich in Brazil: Season 2 Episode 12

Us with Anny at the BEACH

November 18, 2019

This week was so much fun, and it flew by so quickly! Ya know the saying “Time flies when you are having fun!!” And this week it is so true!!!

Monday my comp and I had a family home evening with a cute little family and we prepared a little message about gratitude and all of the many blessings our Heavenly Father gives us!

Tuesday it rained and rained and rained!!! We went to sweet Miria´s house and she gave us a tour around and showed us basically everything that she has inside her house and all of her photos that she took from her trip to Baiha! She is so funny, we talked a little bit about the Plan of Salvation, we chose to teach this topic because her husband passed away a few months ago and she is really sad. But then we went and had a little photoshoot with Marjorie, we took pictures and ate dinner and of course shared a message!

Wednesday- THE BEST DAY EVER! Okay, so for reals today was such a fun day!! We started out with a fun little lesson with this lady named Maryanne that was at church on Sunday! We taught her and her two kids, it was really good, we learned that her husband is Espirita (a member of a different religion), so that will be interesting... But after this we had a fun lunch with Irma and her daughter who wants to serve a mission herself, so she wanted to sit by me and gave each of us a bag of cute seashells that they picked out at the beach. Afterwards we went to our friend Anny’s house, we started teaching about the Restoration, but there were a bunch of distractions so we couldn’t finish but we invited her to church with us! Then we were on our way to Jeverson´s house and we ran into Desiree so we stopped and chatted with her, she is so excited, and we are too! Her family is finally coming to Brasil to be with her again after a year and half apart! Then we show up to Jeverson’s house and he was making a Churrasco! So we got to eat a giant feast!!! His mom made rice and mayonnaise for us too! It was a really fun night with them, we invited a member to come over and do the dedicatory prayer blessing for his new house which was really really cool. I am so thankful for the members here and really for everyone I get to meet here!

Banana Bread YUM!!!

Thursday- Was very very eventful! We started out the day not waking up to our alarm.... Throwback I honestly think I turned it off during my sleep. But then we start our studying and the fire/carbon monoxide alarm goes off... We hadn’t even been cooking or making any kind of food that day. So I called the fire department and they told me to open a window... So we go back in and make banana bread! We then had a weird lesson with Andiara, she tried to give us back the Book of Mormon and that was really interesting... We will have to see about that... Then we got a call from the secretaries and they told us that we were going to be staying together and that another set of sisters would be coming to live with us and we will be splitting the area, and that they would get there that same night!! So they get here and the two Sisters are both from Recife Brasil: Sister Feitosa and Sister Rodrigues! It has been fun to have them here with us so far!

Friday- We went to the bank but neither of our cards were working so we had to go downtown on a little field trip to the bank. It was a holiday and there was literally no one there!!! It was really interesting and very exciting. Afterwards we went to a lesson and drank chimarrão, which is literally my favorite drink here!

Saturday- So we went to the hospital kkkk my companion got a little cut on her eye, so we got a ride from an uber to go to the hospital and figure out what was up with that. But she is really okay and she got some eye drops and she is doing great now! That was about the highlight for the day, because nothing too interesting happened after that.

Sunday- Sister Romero and I had to sing during the primary program. We had a bunch of people show up, it was so much fun! Afterwards, we went to Anny’s house and finished our lesson about the Restoration, she was so excited, and we gave her a Livro de Mormon! she couldn’t wait to read it! The funny story about teaching the Restoration is that for some reason something always seems to happen when we go to tell them about Joseph Smith’s first vision. This time the moment that I was saying the first vision, my favorite Brazilian song turned on in the streets... Now that was a little bit of a distraction. Even though that happened it was still a really great lesson. And she was so excited to start reading the Book of Mormon...