Hey famdamily! Sounds like you guys are all doing so well! First things first, noooooooo!!!! The DePaulas are moving?! No! Who will I speak Portuguese with?! Dadgumit, I was so excited! Tell Norma: Por favor, esperar até pelo menos setembro?? Quero muito falar contigo! Vou sentir tanta falta de voces!
Ok, other than that, good luck to Cooper on his talk and volleyball tryouts! I had no idea that he even liked volleyball...oh well, learn something new every day! Also I am sending out a mandate to everyone that reads this email to go look at Leslie´s pictures with dark hair because my best friend is pretty much the most beautiful missionary in the world. Without a doubt.
Ok, so here! Nothing really cool happened... welll, some cool stuff I guess. First, sadness. Maria and Luis dropped us because they really just don´t want to get married. I think deep down in their hearts, they know that it is super weird to marry your cousins. But that was really hard because they are such a beautiful family! It is rough here sometimes because NOBODY keeps commitments very well. They are always super welcoming and willing to listen when you knock on the door, but when it comes time to get their buns to church on the Sabbath...that is where we begin to have problems. It is super frustrating as a missionary because you have to realize that they have agency. Dang it. But really, we can see all the potential that they have and then when they don´t want to make a few small changes, they give up everything. It is really heartbreaking, to be honest! But imagine how Heavenly Father must feel....probably a million times worse. That is when I remember that we are really not alone in this work.
Good news! Tarcisio will be baptized this week! Yay yay yay! Whew, that one almost didn´t happen. We had a lesson with him last week and he goes, "Maybe I don´t want to be baptized yet. " Ummm. Why. "I have a few things I want to do first...." Yikes. Sorry buddy, that one doesn´t fly. So we fasted and prayed with him and talked a lot about true repentance, and then he decided that the time was now and he needed to just do it! So he gave up all the garbage and will be baptized this weekend. Please pray that the Lord will protect him!
Other than that, we had an awesome zone meeting this week with President and the Assistents. I had about 45 minutes of an interview with President Lanius because I had tons of questions! This is what happens when you study the New Testament. But he cleared them all up, so it was really good! Also, the Assistents gave a great training about using the authority and power of our calling and leaving blessings on peoples´ houses. So now what we are doing are telling them immediately that we are representatives of Christ and saying a kneeling prayer with the whole family right of the bat. We write down the stuff that they want to ask from the Savior. It is really, really cool. Hopefully we start having some success with this new technique!
Have a wonderful week, remember that I love you! Also, I got letters this week! Mom, the Christmas card....next year, you should not take pictures like that. But it was a cool idea!
Love love love you!
Love,
Sister Dana
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