Hey!
So this week wasn´t super
exciting....we just taught a lot and didn´t have any baptisms...so that was
kind of a bummer :/ But we have 2 marked for next week, so hooray! On
Tuesday, President Lanius came to our district meeting because our zone had the
most baptisms in the history of his presidency! 14! And our mission
had 216 last month, so we had a huge festa and it was so much fun! I love
my zone! Brazilians know how to party. It´s great! Also,
Coca-Cola is a thousand times better here than in the US, so we always have
that because the American elders are obsessed with it. That and Trelosos,
these Oreo-things that everyone loves. I can´t really see why, but
whatever.
Sister Seidmann and I worked so hard
this week, but a lot of our plans seemed to fall through. People weren´t
home, or they weren´t interested anymore, stuff like that. It would have
been discouraging, but Sister Seidmann and I really started to click and enjoy
each other, so it was fine! She is so great...super patient with me and
just obedient to a T.
Here´s a cool story. So we
were in the house of Cirlene, a woman that the missionaries have been teaching
forever with few results. Sister Seidmann started the lesson as usual,
and I could tell that Cirlene wasn´t interested or anything. I usually am
so preoccupied with trying to figure out what people are saying that I don´t
have time to listen to the Spirit, but this time I felt like I needed to stop
trying and just...idk, exist. So I tried to feel what the Spirit wanted
to tell me and what was really on Cirlene´s mind, and I got the prompting to
ask her about her family. I did, and she said that everything was fine.
I knew she was lying, so I asked her again, and she started to cry and
told us that her daughter´s husband was being unfaithful and she didn´t know
what to do or how she could help. All of a sudden I just knew what to say
in Portuguese and I knew what scripture to give her in the Book of Mormon and
after we marked it for her, she just held the book to her heart and thanked us
so much. I don´t know if anything will happen with her...she didn´t show
for church yesterday...but I finally felt like a missionary again:) I love how
the Spirit knows what to say when I do not!
So it´s been raining this week. No
seriously, RAINING. As in, we are soaked 78% of the time. The
streets flood and it is too dangerous to get to our appointments because of the
alligators that come out. HOW COOL IS THAT?! Alligators and cobras come out in
the streets when they are flooded! We can see them from the bus when we
ride out there....I feel so legit:)
It sounds like you guys had a blast
at Glenn Beck! Cool beans! Tell Cooper that all his cheeseburgers
are disgusting and not to eat himself sick and that I hope that his ankle gets
better! But he can totally use it to his advantage because the little
girls at EFY will take pity on him and just adore the little gimp. Tell
them I will pray for baldness upon them all if they go near my brother...and
the prayers of a missionary are very forceful! I will try to send a
present to ya soon for your birthday mom! It probably won´t get there in
time...but I´ll do my best! I love you so much and I think about you guys
a lot lately. Seeing these people...it makes me VERY aware just how
blessed I am. I thank my Heavenly Father every day for my blessings at
home, and here as well! How I got so incredibly lucky, I´ll never know.
Have a good week and HELP OUT THE
MISSIONARIES!!!!
Love,
Sister Dana
P.S. I can´t send pictures here dadgumit!!! I am so bummed!
