If the Lord calls, just do it. Don't say no!

Família!

 

I´m an aunt again! WOO :) Thank you for the pics. Domenic looks super duper cute! :) 

LOVE the pics!! Domenic is so cute! I love the one of him smiling and the Yankee pic! :) 

 

Tuesday we had transfers and I got transferred to Ouro Fino, Minas Gerais. It´s REALLY far away. We took a 4 hour bus ride to get to my area. It´s at the end of the mission boundaries. And it´s also in another state. It´s pretty cool, the people talk a different here. Their accents sound a little hick ha-ha. They push their R´s a lot. But I like it here! It has a lot of green hills and the city is bigger than Conchal. A little bit more movement and it feels a little more city like. My comp is Brasilian, her name is Sister Sá and she´s from Fortaleza. She´s been out about the same time as me but i´m 1 transfer older than her. I like her a lot. She super friendly, loves to joke around, and she´s bold. It´s only been a week, but i´m learning a lot from her.

 

Ouro Fino is a small city like Conchal, but it´s a bit bigger. It has about 35,000 people, Conchal had 33,000 or less. I´m serving in another branch again. There´s 40 active members. There´s 37 women and 3 men. It was really interesting yesterday at sacrament meeting. All these women singing. It felt like we had Relief Society 2 times because there´s so many women. I wasn´t to thrilled to serve in a branch. Sister Sá knew she was coming to Ouro Fino since Monday and she told me that she wasn´t excited either. But Presidente told the both of us that he trusts us being in Ouro Fino. So, I guess that helps a little bit. If the Lord calls, just do it. Don´t say no.

 

Thursday, COPO DO MUNDO started! Man, don´t know what´s its like in Campinas, but here it´s SUPER crazy! We aren´t allowed to watch it. We have to stay in our house an hour before the game starts until the game is over. It´s funny, every time Brasil scores a goal, I hear all these fireworks going off, cars beeping their horns, people screaming their heads off. It´s like 4th of July! It´s super crazy here. Brasil is going to play again on Tuesday and i´m going to be in Pouso Alegre for my district meeting. It´s an hour from my area. Luckily it starts at 3 but still, it´s going to be crazy traveling back to our house.

 

Well, this was my week. I´m going to try my best here in Ouro Fino and have a positive attitude. I love you guys! Thank you for your love and support. Have a great week! TE AMO! :)

 

-Sister Whitnah

I'm being transferred! I'm excited for a new area!

Família!!

Hey everyone, how´s it going? So... I got transferred out of Conchal along with Sister Morgan.   It will be good.   That´s my news! I was super shocked that Presidente took us both out of here. I think he´ll put elders in Conchal now. I stayed up till 11:30 packing my stuff so I wouldn´t have to do a lot of it today. I´m excited to go to another area! Sister Morgan says that I´ll go to Itatiba. They have a açaí there and there´s a ton of hills, so I can get a beach body in a transfer ha-ha. Overall, i´m okay with leaving and going to another area to get to know a different city. It will be a good change. 

This area has taught me to love the people when they were really hard to love. It  also taught me to not to judge.  I’ve learned criticizing people doesn’t get you anywhere, and your heart just becomes more bitter towards that person.

 

I know I will miss Irmao Paulo and his family.  They have been so supportive of us.   That is the family’s house that we skyped from.   We’re planning to have dinner at their place tonight as a last hoorah.  I will miss them a ton.  They are one of the best families in Conchal.

 

Yesterday we had stake conference and we watched it over the projector. Elder M. Russell Ballard and Richard G. Scott talked. Their talks were super good! Richard G. Scott served a mission in Brasil and he spoke in Portuguese! That was pretty cool. He talked about prayer and how we should always know that we have Heavenly Father hearing our prayers. He talked about when we ask for things and the type of responses to our prayers and how we should be obedient to act on those responses. Elder Ballard talked about missionary work and how we can help our families become stronger in the Gospel. I thought this was pretty neat, he said reading the Ensign, and scriptures, and doing FHE will strengthen your family the most.

This week was a little tough trying to contact Silvana. We couldn´t teach her at all this week because, her aunt was putting a party together and needed Silvana´s help. We wanted to set her baptismal date, but couldn´t find a day to visit with her. It was kind of annoying.

 

On Tuesday, we had another investigator named Sarah. She goes to the congregation church, but she loves hearing and talking with us about the church. We talked about the Book of Mormon with her and she knows it´s true. We invited her to be baptized, but she didn´t accept. Although she wants to know more about the Gospel. Her brother is a little weird. He started yelling at us about random stuff he has heard about the different beliefs of churches. He didn´t give us a chance to talk. He told us that God doesn´t love us and that he abandoned us. Then out of the blue Sister Morgan said ``No, Heavenly Father does loves us and he will never abandon us. I know this because i´ve felt his love in my life.`` After that the man shut up and was quiet. It was so funny and awesome. The Spirit was so strong when she bore her testimony. Sarah felt so bad with what had happened, and what her brother said.  She asked that we come back and teach her more because she still wants to learn about the Gospel. 

This sums up my week and i´ll let you know where i´ll be at and who my comp will be! Love you guys and thank you for always being here whenever I need it! Have a great week! TE AMO!! :)

-Sister Whitnah