Família! (July 21st 2014)
Familia! (July 28, 2014)
Mom,
(August 11, 2014)
Hey how´s it going in Pennsylvania? I hope you´re
having a great time camping and that everyone is doing well! Tell everyone that
I love and miss them! :) This week was super tiring and I couldn´t wait for
p-day. It was one of those hard working weeks and I got sick from working so
hard ha-ha. On Friday, I could tell my body couldn´t handle much walking,
talking, and a bunch of headaches. I had a fever and almost went to the
hospital. Luckily, I didn´t have to go. I stayed in bed and slept for hours and
hours. I´m feeling a little better and i´m hoping it will only continue to get
better. Some sad news for this week. We had transfer calls last night, and
Sister Loekfe will be leaving us. :( Sister Aquino and I stayed and Sister
Loefke´s comp will stay in Mogi Mirim. It was only 3 weeks, but I loved being in
the same house as Sister Loekfe! She´s super sweet and fun to be with! It´s a
good thing I´ll get to see her again right before we leave to go home!
:)
One family that we´re teaching this week has
grown a ton! Her name is Mariana and she has 2 kids (Gabreil and Patricia).
Mariana has had problems with smoking and drinking café. We taught her the
commandments and she stopped drinking and smoking. The next 2 days, she told us
how she´s getting sick of doing drugs and that her body can´t take it anymore.
She´s going completely healthy from not doing drugs. It´s been a huge blessing!
Her husband has been in jail for 7 months for something that he was accused of
involving drugs. The story is kind of complicated and long. But we was released
on Saturday, another blessing. Mariana is super happy and loves him being
home.
I´m on my 2nd to last transfer, can you believe
it?! It´s going by so fast! Well, i gotta go here soon. I love you and hope your
week is GREAT! TE AMOO! :)
-Sister Whitnah
This week was pretty good! This last p-day I went
to a city named Holambra. It´s a city that has flower pageants. The city is made
to look like Holland. It was super pretty and I felt like I was in Europe. :)
They had some buildings that look like what you would see in Germany. It was
cool. I took a bunch of pictures. That´s so cool Sister Wilcox got her visa! I
bet she´s excited to finally go to Brasil (her real mission).
This week we marked a wedding with my
investigator Rosi. She´s in her late 40´s and she´s been living with Mauro (her
boyfriend) for 9 years. She´s also pregnant and is 6 months along. She seems
like an awesome lady but at times she´s kinda lazy with some things. She´s
already decided to get baptized until she has the baby. She´s scheduled to have
the baby at 8 months because of the risk of how old she is. The other family
we´re teaching is Mariana and Marcelo. They´re doing really well! We gave a
lesson on Friday that was awesome. The spirit was super strong! They also need
to get married but I think it´ll need some more time. Mariana wants to get
married so that she can get baptized but Marcelo likes the idea of living
together but not being married. Marcelo´s family are active but he´s the only
one that´s not a member.
I´m sorry this is short but i have a ton of
photos to send! I love you and hope your trip is going great! Have a great week!
LOVE YOU and TE AMO!! :)
-Sister Whitnah
You will never believe what I bought this week? I
bought a card reader, I can finally send you pictures!! :) it took me long
enough, I bought mine for 15 reais. I will send some pictures today. Yesterday
was Father´s Day in Brasil.I thought of Dad a lot and how I wish I could give
him a hug. Dad has been emailing me a lot and I love that. :)
This week, my comp and I are working things out
better. We were able to fix our problem and I was able to have Presidente´s
help. The work in Mogi Mirim is going slow. We dropped a few people like Rosi
(the one that´s 50 years old and is pregnant) and some others that just didn´t
care to continue with us. One of my investigators Mariana has been doing really
good. She can´t get baptized yet because she needs to get married. She has been
having some problems lately and we´re helping her out with not drinking coffee
and smoking. She told us the other day that we´re a blessing to her family. She
started crying how much we´ve helped her son and her family to be closer
together. It was really cool. I love teaching this family even though it´s super
hard, but they´re worth it. The ward is getting a little better at the whole
reverence thing. We´re doing training meetings to help the members be more
reverent during sacrament.
I´m reading Jesus the Christ. I´ve learned a ton
about the Plan of Salvation and the Atonement. The Atonement is becoming more
and more special to me. My testimony has grown a lot the more I learn about it.
I found a quote in my journal that I don´t remember writing in. But it´s really
good. I love this quote because, we all make mistakes and nobody is perfect. If
we have faith and continue on, we can learn from our mistakes and the gospel
will help us to know how to be happy.
``As long as we´re willing to rise up again and
continue on the path, we can learn something from failure and become better and
happier.`` - Dieter F. Uchtdorf
I hope you have a safe trip home and know that
you are always in my prayers. I love you so much and i´ll be sending some pics!
TE AMO! :)
-Sister Whitnah
Dad,
Yesterday in Brasil was Father´s Day. So Happy
Father´s Day! :) I wish I could give you a hug, I can tell you that I love you
so much. Thank you for your emails that you send me. Every one of them always
has something that I can use to better my life. I´m so grateful that you´re my
dad. I love your stories and the advice you give me. I read that mission
blessing a lot. I can imagine you reading it to me in person.
I´m glad that high adventure was such a great
success. That´s such a crazy story about you ha-ha. Are you okay? :) I´m glad
you had a great time! I´m doing better this week than last week. Mom emailed me
telling that she told you about me and my comp having problems. I talked to my
presidente and he was able to help me out. I feel like my comp and I are more
friends than just comps. I felt impressed to share this quote with you about the
atonement.
my life is a miracle
and death have no hold
on the blessings to come
from the sins i have sold
i gave up my past with an eternal
view
to know my Savior
so i can become new
i have taken a new life
and with it a new name
because of my Redeemer
i shall never be the same
I love you so much Dad! I know the atonement is
real. I know it can work in our lives if we let it. I know Heavenly Father loves
me and Jesus Christ is our Savior. I was reading the Jesus the Christ book a lot
this week and my testimony for the Savior grew and I know for sure that he was
suppose to be our Savior. Again, i love you and I hope you have a awesome week!
Talk to you soon! :)
- Love, Sister Whitnah
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