Como eu amo voces! Seriously, I really do love you
guys. Thank you so very much for the emails, they make my day! I
just love Mondays! Also, this week I got a few letters from Mom, Brandon
and Jen, and a few other peeps that I will definitely write back to today!
Aw Mom, Cooper is so cute in his uniform! Awwwww I want to be there
and seee himmmm....dadgumit! Tell him Happy Birthday this week! I
am sending a letter, but it is probably going to take about a million years to
get there. And as soon as I get to an area that has cool stuff, I´ll send
good presents! I promise! And this week Leslie hits her
halfway mark! What. Wow...missions really fly, don´t they? But
Congratulations to her!!! I love my best friend.
It is so good to here that you guys are doing well. Congrats
on the baptisms in the ward! Way to be! I am super proud:) Mom,
EVMCO sounds like it is incredible! I miss playing so badly.
Really, I was surprised at how much I want to. The other day I was
listening to Lamb of God and it smacked me in the face. But I am glad
that you are still keeping up with that and doing well!
Today is transfers! I am still here in Jaboatao
Litoral...more than 4 months now, but that´s ok! I´ll go where you want
me to go, dear Lord! More like I´ll stay where you want me to stay,
actually....but oh well. I am happy that I get to finish training Sister
Ducky! Can´t believe that she is already halfway done! Sister
Clarke, my American amiga, was transferred, so that was sad, but I like change
up in here:)
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| Our House! Sister Rocha, Gomes, Patino and Dana |
This week was pretty boring, but we did have one cool
experience that I´ll tell you guys about! We have an investigator,
Alexandra, who I didn´t think would be progressing too much, to be honest.
She has a few things to work out, ya know? But we challenged her to
pray and talk to God about what she should do in her life, and she did.
And he answered! She told us that she had a dream twice where the
Lord told her 3 numbers: 31, 20, and 90. She woke up and called her
daughter, who is a member, and her daughter told her to look in the Livro de
Mormon for the answers. So she opened it, and lo and behold, I had marked
2 Nefi 31 for her to read, and I had written the word "batismo" right
next to it! Aha! She didn´t understand the other numbers, so her daughter
told her to wait until we got there for her lesson.
When we got there, I immediately had the feeling to go to
page 90 of the Livro de Mormon, which talks about all of Israel coming to the
mountain of the Lord, which is the temple! So we explained this to her
and she freaked out! Then on to page 20....which describes the Savior´s
example of being baptized! We marked the baptism that night for November
3rd:) I was so happy! She lives with a guy and they aren´t
married, but she said "I am going to walk this path. If he won´t
walk with me, I will walk alone.' What the faith! That miracle
carried me through for a couple of days, that´s for sure!
Other than that...this week really wasn´t super exciting.
Sister Patino and I are knocking a lotttttt of doors. And it is
very, very hot. Every one in our ward is commenting on how we must be
working so hard because I am super brown. Yeah, they are right! But
we will work harder until we have the miracles that we want! I think I will try
Dad´s goal of making 100 contacts every...week...because that is a freaking lot
of contacting, Dad. But we will try!
I love you all so much! Thank you thank you thank you
for everything! Have a lovely week!
Love,
Sister Dana
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