I´m glad that you had a great time in Utah! What
was the weather like? I bet it was nice and cold. I wish it was cold here in
Brasil... :( Summer hasn´t official started here yet, but it seems like it gets
hotter everyday. The sun is so strong that I can feel it almost burning my skin.
Plus the humidity with it sucks. We had a couple of huge rain/thunder storms
this week. One of the storms lasted for a good hour of non stop raining. It was
fun getting soaking wet. :)
Saturday, I went to the temple and all of the
missionaries were there! There was a choir that sang at the temple. We weren´t
suppose to sing, but we had other tasks to do. Like greet all of the people who
arrived at the temple. I saw a couple of families that were from my first area.
One of the members (Rafela) was so excited to see me! She ran up to me and gave
me a huge hug. It was so good to see her!
I talked with Sister Menden a little bit and she
told me that my package is here! I´m so excited to get it! I actually can´t get
my package until Dezembro 27th. Sister Perrotti is making all of the
missionaries wait to get their packages until that day. So it won´t really
matter if I can´t open my package on Christmas day. I do have some plans with
some members in our ward for Christmas Eve. A popular thing in Brasil is having
a HUGE barbecue! It´s very different to the barbecue that we know but I think
it´s a lot better! In Brasil it´s called a Churrasco. It´s the same thing we had
at Tucanos.
I´m excited to Skype with you too on Christmas!
I´m excited to see pretty much everyone! I´m hoping that Skype will work okay.
If it doesn´t, Sister Howell mentioned to me that she uses Google Plus or
something like that to talk to her family. If you can, make an account and give
me the username and password. That will be our next option if Skype doesn´t
work. But i´m sure Skype shouldn´t be a problem. I will use my account to talk
to you. So when you see me, it will be through my account. I was told that I
can´t call on the phone for Christmas and Mother´s Day.
This week went a lot better. We taught the 1st
lesson to Sabrina and her mom Claudia. They had watched the Restoration video
and read a little bit in the Book of Mormon. We gave them the invitation to be
baptized and the first thing Claudia said was WHEN?! She seemed really excited!
We found out that she has a ``husband`` meaning she lives with her boyfriend. A
common thing here is that a lot of people live together but aren´t married. So
it may look like Claudia and Sabrina´s baptized might have to wait a little bit.
A new batismo rule in Brasil is that if you have an investigator that´s between
9-15 years old and the parents don´t want to be baptized, they have to wait 3
months to be baptized. It´s really crazy. We also taught Cida and Edina the 2nd
lesson. They´ve been having trouble with coming to church. Cida works a lot and
is tired when Sunday rolls around. We´re inviting them to an activity that we´re
having at the church. It´s going to be a Christmas dinner!
P-day, Sister Howell and I went to Shopping Dom
Pedro! It´s this huge mall that has Walmart and a bunch of shopping centers. I
bought this cute Brasil shirt! Sister Howell bought a lot of Christmas gifts for
her family. I thought about getting one gift for all of you for Christmas but I
couldn´t think of anything. If you do want something let me know! For lunch we
ate açai! It´s so yummy! Ask Sister Woodhouse about it! It´s a type of fruit in
Brasil that they use to make it like a slushi. They put granola, strawberries,
and leite condensado! I took a picture of it and it was so good! You might want
one just by looking at the photo ha-ha.
The work here in Barão Geraldo is going slow but
is progressing. Sister Howell and I prayed a lot about how we can help our ward.
The answer that we both felt was working a lot with the members and less
actives. There´s a HUGE list of less actives that we´re trying to figure out who
wants to come back to church or doesn´t want to come back. It´s a good 22 page
list. It´s a lot! So we are focused on helping the less actives to come back to
church.
I´m glad to hear that you found out about your
foot. I´m sorry that it´s broken, but I hope you can find something to do to
help you keep yourself busy. I hope you enjoy the pictures that I have for this
week! I love you so much and can´t wait to hear from you soon!!
-Sister Whitnah
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