That means weekly letter. I am running out of creative titles for these things. Welp, it is super good to hear that all of you guys are still alive and kicking! I am too...barely. This week was killer! Started out with a pday from...heck. Seriously, last week after we sent out the emails, we attacked the house of Gravatá. Holy cow. It looked like Elders were living there. I spent a solid 3 hours in the shower with steel wool and straight bleach. Nasty nast! Also there is a fun little attribute of our house where you have to use a bucket to use the bathroom and the washing machine. That´s been pretty great. Lies, it is disgusting. Anyway...
We had a good week, as far as teaching goes. Tarcisio is progressing well, and a recent convert´s brother came to church with them and wants to be baptized! Happy to help you there, sir! Unfortunately, we got some sad news about Luis and Maria, our lovely family. They are not married, and have little or no desire to change that facebook status. BUT I have faith. And the way we found out is kind of hilarious, so I will tell that story.
We get to their house, and I am super sly about finding out if people are married or not. So we started talking about all the stuff that you can do in the church, like dances and soccer and...marriages....And this is how it went down.
Sister Dana (S): Maria! How was your wedding?!? What was it like!? I looooveee weddings....
Maria(M): Oh, we never got married.
(S): Ah. Well, how did you meet Luis??
(M): We are cousins!
(S): ........Really! Wow!
(M): Yep, our dads are brothers!
(S): ....Oh my! Cute!
(M): Yes, we´re very lucky! None of the kids have any defects, so that is a blessing. Oh, just this. Tiago, Tatie, show the sisters your feet!
*Tiago and Tatie stick their feet on the table*
(S):Wow! Six toes! How fun!
(M): Yeah! It´s so cute, right?!
(S): .....uh-huh!
And this is where we had to change the subject real fast or I would lose it. So the moral of the story is....Uncle Tyler was wrong. You can never ever kiss your cousins. Because there is a reason these things are illegal. But the best part was Elder Woodland, my ZL´s reaction when I called him to ask if we could marry them and told him the story. He said no way, then asked his Brazilian companion, and found out that we can! So...if you ever want to marry your cousin, you can come here!
This week, Sister Rodrigues passed the 9 month mark! We had a party and she did the whole belly thing and it was reals cute! Then I woke up this morning and saw that they decorated the house for my 10 month mark too! How adorable! I really do love the girls in here. We have a blast!
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| 10 Months! |
Oh, another story. I was asked to play the violin this week for a Primary presentation, so I did and it was fun! But before that, I had to do some serious work on the violin because it was in bad shape. Then we got to the program, and they turned the A/C up so high! It was sososo cold! So of course I had to run out of the room every 10 minutes to keep tuning the darn thing! But it was really good, so that is all that matters!
Today we climbed a giant mountain in our dresses and took some cool pictures, so I´ll send some of those. Oh, I also got to go on a division with Sister Seidmann
on Tuesday and be her companion for the day! It was so great to be back with her! That girl inspires me and is an incredible missionary. It was even better than before because the language barrier is non-existent. She is really one of my best friends and I want to be like her! So glad that I got to meet her and be her companion!
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Today at the top of the cruzeiro
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Found Jesus!
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| Division with Seidmann |
One last story. So this week I was reading about charity in 1 Corinthians 13, and decided that I needed to be more charitable. So I prayed and asked the Lord to help me out with that and give me opportunities to be charitable. Ohhhh how He did! That day was literally the hardest of my mission, physically speaking. Every single muscle in my body was crying, I was hurting so bad! And no one wanted to talk to us...it was just a rough day. Then I got home and looked at the scripture...."Charity suffereth long...." Good grief. Ask and ye shall receive.
Oh, one more thing. Here, I only get letters about once a month. Or every six weeks. So...it stinks. But send them anyway!
Love love love you all! Have a great week!
Love,Sister Dana
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| This is what happens when I try to hammer in a nail with...a straightener. Mission houses have no tools. |
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| My companions! Sister Rodrigues, Butler, and Seidmann! Same zone! |
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| We are Pretty:) |
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| With Sister Butler (MTC companion) |
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| With Sister Perez |
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