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| Kirsten's District. I find it funny that she is the tallest of the Sisters, all 5'4" of her. :) |
We are using a new internet house this week, so I am not sure if I will be able to figure out how to send pictures. And right now we are in the middle of a conference call about transfers... EEP!
Okay, nothing's changing for the four sisters in my ward. Woot woot!!!! :D
Monday: Well we cleaned our new house for a few hours. Its pretty big, so it took a lot of work. We were supposed to have a lesson with Solange but that didn't pan out :( That night, we put all of our stuff into suitcases and boxes.
Tuesday: Well, most of our lessons fell through. But all is well!! We had the big move! A lot of Irmãos in our ward showed up to help us out, and one of them had rented a trailer for us to use. I don't know if I've ever seen people work harder, faster or be better at tetris than those members. It was so awesome!! I just felt so grateful for all the people who showed up to help us. Our district leader, Elder Hales, and his companion Elder Gauldim also showed up to help. It was amazing!! We finally got everything in and settled into our new house at about 9 o'clock. We planned, and then zonked out on our mattresses on the floor because our bed frames weren't set up yet. And you know what? I slept as good as I always do!
Wednesday: We did weekly planning because we had Nova Forças scheduled for Thursday. Nova Forças is a meeting for all the missionaries who are new to the mission and their trainers, to evaluate how well the first transfer went and what could be improved upon. Anyways, so we did weekly planning! We had a good lesson with Natanael that night. Natanael is a recent convert/less active member. We walked in, and his nonmember mother asked us to help her with some things she was putting together. We couldn't say no, so there we sat on the couch slipping white index cards into tiny folder things. The whole time I was thinking "There are THOUSANDS of these! How are we ever going to teach Natanael?? Its already 8:10, and we live far away now... What do we do?" And I could tell that Sister Rojas was thinking the same thing.
Here's where the Spirit comes into play. A thought came into my mind; "Have him teach you!" So when Natanael left the room for a minute, I turned to Sister Rojas and told her that we should have him teach us about the Restoration instead of us teaching him the Restoration like we planned. So when he came back in, thats exactly what we did. He laughed at first, but then realized that we were serious. So he talked about Joseph Smith and the experiences he had and the Spirit was so strong! He remembered so many things, and didn't really need any help at all. And all the while, his non member family members were listening. It was so cool! We had a prayer at the end, and then his mom fed us some home made sweets.
The Spirit always helps us when we don't know what to do. I am so grateful that I have the gift of the Holy Ghost!!
Thursday: We didn't have Nova Forças because the Metro decided to go on strike. As far as I know, its still on strike. At any rate, they called off Nova Forças to be cautious, and because nobody would be able to get there anway.
Also, I hit ONE YEAR on my mission!! Can you believe it? Over a year ago, I said goodbye to my loved ones and hopped on a plane to the Provo MTC. And from there, the biggest adventure of my life started. Who knew ome year would pass by so quickly? Omly Heavenly Father. That morning, I made some goals for my last six months. The kind of missionary I want to be at the end and such. The weeks are already flying by, and I really don't want them to. I love my mission.
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| 1 Year Celebration Pizza |
Once again, most of our appointments fell through. But! All is well! We had some good lessons! We were able to visit cute little Vitor, and he made us pão de queixo. Basically, cheese bread. I had in TX with Sister King and Kevin and I've had it so many times here. But its sooo good. And he gave us the recipe!
Friday:
Sister Rojas and Sister Laura did exchanges. For the day, I was with Sister Carazas in her area! We got to go to the Brazilian ghetto. And maybe Sister King remembers that I was super timid in the ghetto areas in TX, and basically we never really got out of the car there. But let me just tell you, for some reason I have no qualms about traipsing around the Brazilian ghetto. Its fun!
Anyways, we had some really good lessons. At one point, we were reading in the Book of Mormon with one of their investigators and Sister Carazas stopped to explain something. The girl couldn't understand Sister Carazas. So she tried again, two more times, before turning to me. I figured out what Sister Carazas was trying to say, and the girl understood me!! It was a miracle!! I was also able to have a really positive street contact while Sister Carazas was talking to an investigator. I was able to share about missionary work and missions and our church, and the lady was very impressed with us and my Portuguese! Thats basically how the whole day went, except for in our amazing lesson that night. Those people had a harder time understanding me. But all is well! They are definitely prepared by the Lord. We taught the Plan of Salvation because we knew that their grandpa had passed away. But then they started asking questions about why there are so many churches when there should only be one, and next thing you know we taught the Restoration! It was so awesome!
Saturday: It was an absolutely gorgeous day!! We did lots of contacting, and then...
That night we also had a session of Stake Conference. The last talk was so amazing. During it we watched several videos about missionary work, including one from the Worldwide broadcast a year ago. It was fun to relive that moment, and watch it and know that I was there! Then, the Irmão giving the talk asked all of the RMs to stand up. There were a ton! He commented on how strong our stake was, with all of the RMs. Then, he got emotional as he pulled out his own nametag from his mission, and told everybody that its time to put the tag back on. It was so cool, and the Spirit was so strong!
Sunday: Stake Conference was amazing! It was broadcast from Salt Lake, and I found out that Elder Richard G Scott can speak Portuguese. Who knew?? Not I!
We had lunch with Irma Adriana and her son Iegon (the guy in love with Alyssa and I thought he said that his name was Diego but its not....) and Bispo Tiago and his wife Andrea. It was so fun! I just love all of these people.
We had some good contacts and a fabulous first lesson with Fernando.
Ahh I don't have any time!! Gotta try and email some pictures... Love you all!
Sister Shell
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| Kirsten with Sister Tanner her Mission Mom |
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