Once again, it was so nice to hear from everyone on Sunday. I can´t believe that it´s already been 5 months! But then again I think about my next call home for Christmas and it feels like forever away. Mainly because at that point I´ll just have two more transfers and then I´ll be home. I can´t believe this Saturday I hit my 8 month mark. That´s almost half-way done! It feels super fast, but a long time too, lol. Anyways, I had a great time talking with everyone (even though my English was kind of all broken up) haha! I blame my other companion Sister Carvalho. She speaks English fluently and helped me change my grammar to how Brazilians say things. So my English has been coming across how Brasilians speak English, haha!
Idk that anything really that important happened this week besides yesterday. It was a holiday here (something for one of the Catholic priests) and EVERYTHING was shut down, so we explored one of the little parks here and took a lot of photos. So that´s what you´re seeing. Yeah, I took a lot of photos yesterday. And there will be more to come. I´d just gotten in the habit of forgetting my camera at home, but I'll try to do better this transfer :P Well my time is running out and this e-mail has been pretty long, but I hope you all have a great week. I love you all and hope that you all stay safe and happy :) And I´ll have to try to lose my Brasilian accent when I get back. There isn´t really much I can do here, lol!!
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So once again, we had a busy, busy week. No baptism yet, but we´re getting going on the right track. We have several couples who are great possibilities, they just need to legally marry. It´s really a problem here because it´s really expensive to marry. So a lot of people just skip the legal step and just start living together and call it marriage. Gosh, it´s lame because even after they´re together for a while it´s hard to legally marry and all-in-all takes about a month. Or more if they were already legally married. Yeah, it takes forever! But whatever. They just have more preparations to go through before they can be baptized.
It´s really hard for me to get a feel for the time here because the whole winter season here was hot too so it all just seems like one endless summer. Summer, summer, and more summer, lol. But it´s been good. I´ll just be super happy when I get home and can utilize our pool! Haha! One of the best parts of summer :)
Other than that, it´s been a normal week. Nothing really out of the ordinary happened. We just walked and worked, and walked some more. Oh, I heard someone say that when you eat watermelon when it´s hot outside, it´ll give you a headache. Haha! Yeah, the person who told me said she didn´t believe it either when she heard it. I told her about you Dad, how you always like to come home from work with a nice cold watermelon. Yep. I really miss it. They have it here, it´s just a little complicated walking home with a watermelon. So we just eat it when the members have some. And they don´t have the tradition to stick it in the fridge to get it really cold. But I like it anyways!
So this next week will be super awesome! Oh, backup. So a little history. It´s just me and my companion here in Lucas. We´re an hour away from any other missionary. The Elders were going to come here for District meeting last week, but at the last minute they discovered that the bus was full (they have to use a charter bus that schedules seat by seat). So it´s been two weeks since we´ve seen another missionary. And our cell phone has been acting up. Acting up by turning off whenever we want to call someone. Unless it´s plugged into the wall. So... it´s really felt like just the two of us in this area. But this week the Sister Trainers are coming to do some splits with us! Yeah, it´ll be awesome. Not just to have more people to talk to, but also to have one more set of missionaries here for a couple of days. So that´ll be cool. And then on Friday President Reber (our mission president) is coming to give a fireside for the youth about Missionary work! It´s going to be really great! And, we should get a new cell phone this week too, lol. So basically we´ll be in touch with everyone this week. It´ll be really nice and refreshing to have others to talk and work with.
Até mais!
Sister Grimes
1 comments:
Hey Angie!! I just stumbled upon your blog!
It's great to hear about how you are doing in Brazil.
It sounds like the area with a lot of people moving in and out because of the microwavable food factory would be a great place for first encounters with the LDS church because then the people can take what they learn with them to ALL parts of Brazil when they go home or move to other areas. So just remember that even if you don't get as many baptisms as you may hope for, know that you are still being a crucial part of the testimony building process of even those you didn't think were even listening because you and your companion will be the first people they hear about the church from. It may take them years to understand the value of what you teach, but many of them will one day realize that they need to look further into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Love you lots!
Hechale ganas! (Work with zeal!)
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