World Cup and emergency transfer

I was out of town and wanted to send out Bethany’s last 2 emails.  She  has been transferred mid transfer due to an emergency situation in her mission.  She was bummed to leave her new area as she was just getting to know the people and had a great companion.    Grace

 

Familia! (June 23)

 

Hello everyone! This week alright with the World Cup and everything. There´s another Brasil game tonight and i´m glad that it´s on p-day. Oh, I got your package 2 weeks ago! I kept forgetting to tell you. I loved it!! :) I couldn´t believe it was all food! I shared some of my food with the Barbosa family (irmão Paulo, Gustavo, and Luis) when I was still in Conchal.

 

We have a good group of people that Sister Sá and I are teaching. We´re teaching this old lady named Célia. She´s in her late 70´s, she´s super sweet. We set her baptism date for this past Saturday but that fell through. She´s a smoker. We set a goal with her to stop smoking and i´m hoping it will work out. We see her every night and share a message with her to help her stay strong. Her baptism will be this Saturday! I´m excited! We´re also teaching this older couple named Lázaro and Alexandra. I swear they´re golden!! :) We taught the 1st lesson and planned to come back. Alexandra made a comment about how she believes she can be with her husband forever even after she dies. We talked about how families can be together forever and she had this relief on her face. She told us how excited she was to have found a religion that believes in that. She looked at the LDS.org website and found more info about our religion.

 

the world cup is crazy. when i went to pouso alegre for my district
meeting, they were putting up this big screen tv in the middle of the
street to show the brasil game. i heard germany is super good this year. i
hope they win the cup ;) no offense to usa. i heard they won last night.

 

I hope everyone is doing great! Loved the photos of my newest nephew! :) Can´t wait to meet him soon! Hope you have a great time in Utah and be safe! LOVE YOU LOTS! TE AMO! :)

 

-Sister Whitnah

 

 

Familia, (June 30)

This week was really good! We made a goal to do 25 other lessons with our zone. By Sunday night, if anyone didn´t do 25 lessons would have to buy a açai for everyone. So Sister Sá and I worked our butts off to not have to buy a açai for our zone. My week was really tiring but rewarding. We made it to 25 other lessons and we got a bunch of new investigators. Brasil played Chile on Saturday and it was difficult to visit people. Brasil won and will play Colombia on Friday.

I´m really sad. I got emergency transferred today. That´s why I wasn´t on earlier. I got transferred to Mogi Mirim. I´m with a brasilian named Sister Aquino. I guess Presidente is making some last minute mix ups and decided that I should leave Ouro Fino. He called Saturday night and said I would be transferred Monday morning. I thought it was a joke. But he was being serious. I was just getting to know the members and the area. It sucks...and I won´t spend my birthday there. :( I´m sorry this email is kind of short. I´ll write more next week. My comp and I have a lot of things to do. But i love you and thank you for the early birthday wish! :) LOVE YOU! TE AMO!!!

-Sister Whitnah