Monday, September 29, 2014

a baptism! It was wonderful!

Familia,

 

Thaynara was baptized on Friday along with another girl that the other sisters in my ward are teaching. There´s 4 sisters in our ward now. All 4 of us sang the famous primary song called ``I like to look for rainbows``. The Spirit was so strong at that baptismal meeting. Thaynara looked so happy and had a glow in her face. We watched the young women´s general conference last night with Thaynara and Leila. They loved it! Dieter Uchtdorf spoke and i loved everything he said.

 

I´m so glad Bryan is doing a lot better! That´s great how he´s getting back into things. I´m happy for Robbie and Tessa getting that house. I bet they´re excited about that. My plans for p-day are gonna be a little crazy. Today, all of the missionaries in my mission have to get a bus pass. Starting tomorrow, the buses won´t except money anymore, only the cards. So my comp and I will need to get one. I already have one. 

 

Thank you for your prayers. We found a lady this week that looks really awesome! We taught her the 1st lesson and she accepted baptism. We´re gonna teach her again on Tuesday and mark a date with her. Leila (thaynara´s mom) is doing really well. She´s super stoked about her baptism in November and she loved going to Thaynara´s baptism. I think this baptism was a spiritual one for Leila. 

 

That pretty much sums up this week! I love you and hope you have a great week! TE AMO MUITO!

 

-Sister Whitnah

Monday, September 22, 2014

Obedience is the Price

Mom,
 

I´ll definitely keep Bryan in my prayers. I´m glad that he´s doing good and nothing bad showed up on the tests. That´s scary that he´s having seizures. I´m glad that everything is going okay for him now. We finally had some rain for the past 3 weeks. It was great! We´ve been lacking about a year and a half worth of water here and it finally rained! :)



This week was good. I´m gonna have a baptism this Friday! Thayanara will be baptized! I´m so excited for her! We see her pretty much everyday and she loves my comp and I! She loves reading the Book of Mormon and praying with us. We had Stake Conference this weekend and she went to it. She told us how she´s more excited about getting baptized and that she knows it´s the right thing for her. I feel like she was my miracle for this transfer, well their whole family. They´re all just amazing! I love them! Teaching Fátima was a little hard this week. She received an answer to be baptized but hasn´t decided a date yet. She´s been having problems with her boyfriend and he doesn´t want her to get baptized. We´re trying to help her focus on the answer that she received. We´re going to see her tonight and help her more to recognize the promptings of the Spirit. In my area is hard to find new people to teach. We´ve been struggling with that for a couple weeks now. I´m praying a lot that we´ll be able to find some new investigators. 



There´s a quote that I found this week! ``Obedience is the price, faith is the power, love is the motive, the Spirit is the key, and Christ is the reason.`` I thought this was the perfect quote for a missionaries´ purpose. I found that this quote is so true in missionary work. Everything has a purpose and it´s all centered on Christ. 



I´m glad everything is going good, especially that Bryan is getting better. Thank you for the many prayers and for your love every week. I love you so much and i´m happy that you´re so supporting. Know that i´m doing good and that i´m fulfilling my part at not having any regrets after my time is up. I love my mission and I really don´t want to leave. I´m not liking the fact that i´m leaving here soon. I would like to stay longer but oh well. Have a great week and talk to you soon! TE AMO MUITO! :)



-Sister Whitnah




Dad,
I´m glad Bryan is doing better and that Heavenly Father is taking good care of him. I felt that a lot throughout my time here. I pray for you guys every night with the safety and that everything will be okay. I know that my blessing told me that the Lord would protect my family. Know that i´m doing really well and i´m HAPPY. :) i´ve truly learned what it means to be happy. It´s a choice that we make constantly. The attitude to choose to be happy when our circumstances go bad. I´ve chosen to be happy when things go wrong or fall through. 
Love you lots Daddy! :) I hope your week goes good and that jury duty will be fun! :) again, love you!


-Sister Whitnah






Família!                                                                      September 15, 2014

Hey! This week went really well. I went to the temple on Tuesday and that was great! The session was in Portuguese and that was cool. I understood a lot more this time. I went to the temple again on Wednesday. We took our investigator Fátima to have a lesson there. It was so cool! I´ve never had a lesson at the temple before. The spirit was so strong throughout the lesson. It was neat! :)
About a week ago, we found this family. Leila (mom), Taiyana and Neilton are her kids. They have been progressing a lot since we´ve been teaching them. Taiyana will be baptized on September 26th! She´s so excited! She can´t stop talking about it. It´s so cute, she loves to read the Book of Mormon and when she prays she tells Heavenly Father that she knows it´s true. She has grown a ton in this short week. She´s only 12 years old and she loves going to Young Womens. Leila isn´t legally married, so we´re planning her wedding for October.
I got my airplane info today. It was really weird but exciting! :) Hoping everything is going great! This was my week and i´ll send some pics! Have a great week! TE AMO MUITO! :)
-Sister Whitnah

Tuesday, September 9, 2014

I'm dying In Campinas!! YAY!!

Familia!!
 
So big news, I got transferred and i´m in Campinas! I´m serving in Presidente´s ward Iguatemi. I was a little nervous about that but not anymore ha-ha. I´ve a good companion and her name is Sister Remund. She´s been out a year and she´s from Missouri. We get along pretty well. So far, I like my area and the people that i´m teaching. My area has a couple of huge hills and my legs want to break most of the time. But it will be good! I´m living in an apartment that´s the most beautiful apartment that i´ve ever lived in while being on the mission! I took some pics! :)
 
P-day, I didn´t write yesterday because my zona was going to the TEMPLE today! :) it was awesome! I took a bunch of pics! It was good to go to the temple and be spiritually uplifted! Now this 5 weeks will be a little bit more easier to deal with than stressing it. Oh tomorrow, i´m going to the temple again because we´re taking an investigator there. Her name is Fátima and she´s so awesome! I think she´s going to be my next baptism here in a few weeks! :) she has accepted baptism and we´re planning her date for October 4th! A week before I go home.
 
That´s so cool that we´re going to Utah for Thanksgiving!! You just got me all excited! :) But don´t worry, i´ll try not to loose my focus! :) Today has been a great day with going to the temple and everything! I´m really happy and excited for these last 5 weeks. It´s going by so fast. I hope everyone is doing great and all! Have a great week, TE AMO MUITO!! :)
 
-Sister Whitnah 

Tuesday, September 2, 2014

One Transfer to go!

HEY FAMILIA!
 
So, are you ready to hear the news?! I got transferred for the last time. My guess is that i´ll be going to Campinas.  I won’t know till tomorrow where I will be going, but I am guessing Campinas. 
I heard sister Loefke´s comp got transferred and I could have that chance of being her comp again! :) I hope so!
 
I was kind of bummed to be leaving Sister Aquino. I can´t believe  I´ve  got 6 weeks, holy cow! It´s gonna go by really fast! I´m excited and yet nervous. I love Brasil so much that I don´t want to leave but I´m ready to go too. It´s a bittersweet feeling.  Today is going to be super crazy because i´m going to pack my stuff. I´m gonna go to lunch after I’m done emailing.  Thanks for the pictures you sent.  Little Duke is so cute! 
 
 
I got sick with a really bad migraine headache. The weather here is super hot and dry now. I found out that whenever I´m in a temperature that´s super hot, I get headaches really fast. I can´t have chocolate, or milk when I´m in this hot weather. I´m trying to stay away from chocolate anyways because it´s starting to bother my stomach. But other than that my week was good! We marked a couple baptismal dates and some are in 2 weeks.
 
I gave a talk yesterday in sacrament meeting about missionary work. Towards the end of my talk I bore my testimony how missionary work is important and out of no where i started to cry. I was a little surprised, but I knew it was the spirit. :) Well, i´m sorry this email is short, but i´ll have more to talk about next week! LOVE YOU and have a great week! TE AMO! :) btw, enjoy the pics Mom!
 
-Sister Whitnah