Mamãe! :)
It´s crazy to think that 7 months have gone by.
At times it feels like it has gone by slow and fast at the same time. I had a
great 7th month anniversary! On Sunday, we had the primary program. Sister
Howell and I sang batismo or baptism in English. It turned out pretty well. The
whole program was so good. I felt the Spirit so strongly. I had the chills and
goose bumps! My favorite song that the primary children sang was If the Savior
Stood Beside Me. Talk about POWERFUL. I´ve never felt so much love while
listening to that song. That song bore witness to me that I do have a loving
Heavenly Father and a Savior who love me so much.
I have some AWESOME news that I´ve been waiting
to share you with! On Dezembro 17th, our mission is going to the temple for an
endowment session!! Everybody from our mission is going! I´m so freakin
excited!! :) I´ve missed the temple a lot since I was in Idaho. I´m excited for
this opportunity to get to go again. Especially in Brasil! I heard there´s a new
film for the endowment. Some people have told us that it´s a lot better than the
other film. I´m looking forward to seeing it.
For p-day, we had all of the sisters from our
mission join together for a Sisters Conference in Campinas. The sister training
leaders and Sister Perrotti spoke. They showed Mormon messages of President
Uchtdorf´s talk about The Ugly Duckling. I can´t remember what it is in English.
But the video was about how we look at ourselves in the mirror. How we are
daughters of our Heavenly Father and how we have so much potential and divinity.
Towards the end of the conference, we watched a video about Emma Smith. How she
was a women of great worth. It was so good! I cried while watching the Emma
Smith video ha-ha. I got to see some of the sisters that i´ve become good
friends with and the new sisters too.
Like every week in Barao Geraldo, this week was
good but tough. There was a stake activity for all of the relief society sisters
on Friday. We took our investigator Fernanda to it. She loved it! They had the
stake president speak and had different people speak about their experiences
while reading the Book of Mormon. That was one thing Fernanda has been
struggling with. Reading the Book of Mormon everyday and praying. I´m hoping
that it helped her to see other people´s testimonies about the Book of Mormon
besides mine and Sister Howell´s. After the talks, we had a huge dinner. It was
a great night! We tried this week to see Kelly and her sister. Kelly is about 28
years old and her one sister is 15. They didn´t come to church yesterday because
of work. We have a huge list of less actives that we are searching. Meaning, we
go to find their address and see if they still live there and invite them to com
back to church. Most of these people live about 30 minutes away. Our ward
mission leader is AWESOME! He helps us with anything we need. He has some great
ideas to help us and the ward to be more active and excited about missionary
work. It´s great! :)
Honestly, I don´t know what´s going on with me
not being able to send pictures. They show up on my camera, but when I try to
send them they don´t show up on the computer. Maybe it´s my card reader or even
my memory card. I´m sorry that I haven´t been able to send some in a while. I´m
trying my best!
Sister Howell and I bought a mini Christmas tree
for our house! It´s really cute! :) We put lights and mini ornaments all around
it! We call it our alvore bebezinho ha-ha. The more we decorate our house with
Christmas decorations, the more I´m excited for Christmas! I´m guessing
Christmas in Brasil will be really hot and humid. Yay....ha-ha. But i´m sure it
will be good!
Well I hope you have a good week! I´m really
excited to Skype with you in 4 weeks! WOO! I love you and i´m praying for you
everyday! Love ya! :)
-Sister Whitnah
These are photos from the Sisters Missionary Conference that was held today.
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