Coming
into the last week of the transfer, can you believe that? It’s literally been some of the fastest weeks
of my life! We were just finishing
training and now I’m a month away from 6 months ahh. I think I will probably go
to a
new city
this next transfer, but we shall see!
This week was wonderful!
Some highlights were our English class, the ward CTM, going to the
market, meeting new people and learning from Sister Felartigus (she is the
best!). It’s so fun to teach our English
class Sister Grundvig and I love it so much.
This week we were teaching the verb “to like” (gostar). She was a little late so I started
translating the first hymn, “Hark all ye Nations” when she got there we
realized that I had written a bunch of the words wrong L but they couldn’t tell
and we just fixed them . Anyways, we started teaching them “This Little Light
of Mine”, which went well! They like to
sing! I told Sister Grundvig that we
should draw things they like to do. She
thought I said “ write things with light”, she wrote the word sun first, which
worked for both. Then she wrote the word
lamp. I asked Sister Grundvig, “ Do you think a lot of them like lamps?:” and
she said no it has light. We are drawing things that have light, right?”. I said, “Things they like”, I think
Portuguese is weakening our English communication skills, haha. Some things get lost in translation still
when I speak Portuguese, but I feel like I can express myself (with a
personality YAY!!) and I understand when people talk to me. I am trying to learn more vocabulary and
practice writing, but speaking is going well!
They think I’m from Argentina!
J That’s probably not the best accent to have
since a lot of Brazilians don’t like Argentina, (the two biggest countries in
South America, so it’s always a competition and with World Cup around the
corner its even more so) but I am happy that at least they think I am from
south America J.
I’m really loving it here. The people are so amazing. They love to share and they are so open to
meeting new people. When it rains
(pretty much everyday), even if we
never met them before someone always lets us inside. Actually when
it’s sunny they invite us in too, haha. Everything is very calm here, there’s
no rush for anything. Stress is not a word to them, they just live each moment
and are happy. I’m learning so much
about true happiness here. We meet
people everyday that have little in material things but they are so giving with
all they have and are truly a happy people.
What a blessing it is to serve them. I know I’m where I need to be and
it is the right time. We are all
becoming who Father needs us to be. Keep smiling, loving, serving and growing!
I love you!
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| Hello Brazil !!!! |
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| Our Chapel |
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| our failed gostar description |
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| Bruna, such a sweet girl |
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| our favorite restaurant |
