Oi Gente!

Hey famdamily!  Good to hear that you all are doing fabulously!  I was super happy to hear that Mima is better, and I´ll be sending her a letter this week!  I can´t believe that you guys are already planning the trip to Brazil...but I guess that it is time because I only have a year left!  What the weird?!  Umm I want to go to Fortaleza and Dad´s mission and show you around here...and ya´ll can surprise me with the rest, ok??

Also all of my MTC district is here except Sister McCleve and Elder Ryan, so that is sad  But they should be coming soon I think!

This week was great!  We worked a ton....and we finally had a baptism!  It was Sister Patino´s first, and it was so dang adorable.  Thaina is 8 years old and her fam wanted us to baptize her, so we did and it was awesome!  Baptisms are not as stressful for me as they once were, which is def a good thing.  I think that Sis Patino has caught the baptism bug and is hungry for more...Hooray!

Baptism of Thaina

 We had a division on Thursday this week too, and that was super fun!  I was with Sister Menezes, a tiny little thing who is our Sister Training Leader, and she is so adorable.  She is a feisty one though, and I learned a ton! 

Sister Menezes and Sister Dana

Sister Patino is doing so well...I love her!  We love to laugh and mess around together during the day, and that makes it easier to walk around in the sun for hours and hours.  Seriously, it is so freaking hot here....but I am not complaining!  So there!

Our house is pretty silent these days.  Sometimes everyone gets super focused and serious...and to be honest, I don´t like that.  I mean, I know that we need to have our minds on the work, but I really like to mess around and laugh sometimes.  This is why I love when Leslie sends me letters, because I remember that I used to be funny!  Ha, jokes.  So this week Sister Gomes and I had a wrestling match in the living room.  And America dominated...God bless the USA.

Oh, we had another cool thing happen!  So we only had like, one investigator in church this week, which was super sad, and I was running through all the things I need to do to repent and merit people in the chapel, when this new fellow came and sat down right next to me!  I started to talk to him, and he said that he was sorry, he didn´t speak Portuguese very well, but he knows English and Spanish!  Well that is just fine in my book!  He is stoked for us to start teaching him and I am too!  I love in when Heavenly Father throws us a slow pitch sometimes...it is very nice:)

Aw family, I just love ya.  I miss ya too, but I will be home in less than a year!  What the weird.  Also, can you send me Celia´s address?  I need to mail presents home!  Ha, Merry Christmas...if it gets to ya!  I hope that you guys have a good week and that Coop and Tiago do well in football and that Dad is a good bishop and that mom enjoys all of my Pintrest.  I love youuuuu!

6 month Anniversary

This is Shelby's face when the e-mail is slow

 

Love,

Sister Dana