tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38958858419501790652024-02-19T13:15:24.433+10:30The Best 1.5 Years "Now my brethren, we see that God is mindful of every people, whatsoever land they may be in; yea, he numbereth his people, and his bowels of mercy are over all the earth. Now this is my joy, and my great thanksgiving; yea, and I will give thanks unto my God forever. Amen"
(Alma 26:37)
MAY 2015 - NOVEMBER 2016Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16040288745441832336noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3895885841950179065.post-84786588442819730782016-08-26T20:40:00.000+09:302016-08-26T20:56:53.715+09:30June 2016 -<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><u>7 June 2016</u></b> - Rain, rain, go away...</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />But we taught really simply but personally to this family. The spirit was so strong and I knew that they were understanding everything (nodding their heads while we were speaking). Then Sister Escoto was about to say the first vision, Joseph's words, right …</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">When flipping satan walks in……. okay lol, so harsh, not really satan, but the pastor of Cristianos church….what. NOOOOOOOO. Go way. Like for one second I thought about just testifying and closing this lesson because I knew that they had no doubts and the spirit was testifying and I didn’t want to Bible bash with this pastor but then, I don't know, I just heard myself say don’t be weak Sez.. you're literally a missionary of God. Finish what you started!… so then André (the pastor) sits down with us, I introduced myself to him and ask him to explain to us what is a prophet? hehehe, I'm so sneaky, like he fully thought I wanted him to teach me something, but he got it so wrong, like he told everyone that he was a prophet. I thanked him heaps and got my Bible out then explained what we had kinda already talked about, but I used Cristano and Nade to help me expain (but really just to test their new knowledge, hehe) then we were <i>pronto</i> for Sister Escoto to talk about Joseph. SHE DID SO GOOD, mate, so much spirit and she really does teach so well. Andre the pastor was thinking so much, but we committed them ALL to church. And left so happy.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Then we were running to our last appt of the day with Pablo when our other investigator Manuel literally ran after us, because he saw us in the street and was so excited to tell us that his English teacher is a member of our church as well!!! He told him how he had an Australian friend..lol… and the teacher asked how he knew me and he explained how we are missionaries ect ect and obviously the teacher got so excited and happy, taught Manuel more and told him that he needs to continue meeting with us ect. Ahhhhh thank you teacher of Manuel!!!</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">….which brings me to the next point, I was so excited to see her and to know about our investigators that I left, (mate so homesick for Ribeirão) anways she tells me the updates about everyone but especially Luiz and his family, I don't know if you remember about him?? I talked about him heaps on Skype, anyway he's the best, like so perfect and he came to church for the first time when everyone bore the strangest testimonies but he loved it anyway and he kept coming and literally knew that he found Christ’s church…but he had a crazy problem with smoking!!! He cut down from smoking 20 a day to 2 a day!!! Ahhhh Sister Curtis called him on her phone so I could speak to him! It's crazy how much love I have from this 50 something Brazilian man, it reminds me about how much God really loves us. Sister Curtis and I talked to President and begged him to let me go to him baptism!!!! Hehehe and President at the end let me yayyayayyayaya, his baptism will be this Saturday (if all goes well, but it will!!) so this week I fasted for my old investigator but it was the easiest fast of my life.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This week was pretty great except that we thought we’d have 8 people in sacrament meeting….and then what happened? We woke up Sunday morning to the HEAVIEST RAIN of my life…. You know what this is?? Satan..or maybe it was just the weather but im blaming it on Satan. None of the 8 came!! Ahhhh, I was so stressed, but you just have to breathe in and out and know that you did all you could. At least Pablo was confirmed yesterday in sacrament!! It was testimony meeting and he leans over and says to me “since I’m a member now do I have to go up there and say something too?” awww love this kid.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Also lol… we met this guy named Jorge knocking doors and he was so elect and said to come back he's home like everyday… then we’ve never been able to catch him at home. We tried like every day.<br />Sister Escoto was literally trying to convince me that he doesn’t exist, that he was a spirit of God that we saw to help us stay excited and to keep knocking doors. Hahah like it’s a good point you got there <i>amgiaaaaa,</i> but hahhaha, noooo he was real I swear.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">So remember how I used to always write about the weather here…well that’s probably going to be a thing again since it literally dropped 20 degrees this week. It was so sudden and now it's like fully WINTER. Ewww you all know how I hate the cold. But all goods mateeeeyyys, I’ll adjust again ^.^</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">When we went to the chapel this week for her baptismal interview… guess who walked in holding hands… yepppp. Mahahah but this is great because every new member needs a friend right? ;) Just need to find a friend like this for our other new convert Angelica! haha!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Ahhhhh, it still feels like a dream that I talked to you all - it was so weird after I talked to you, like that day..English kept coming out of my mouth again and I totally remember that I actually have family! But it’s all goods bcause I have big transfer news right now that's soooo freaking crazy, that it will help think about you all a little less...</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">So the Ribeirão family split up…I'm so sad thinking that my time here is over, especially with my Sister Curtis. But anyways.. finally at 11pm we found of the news…( I nearly ate a whole tray of brownies stress eating waiting for this phone call! hahahaha)</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Hahaha when they said that I'm going to be STL, all the Sister's jumped on me, awwww. I hope one day I can be their STL and have a trade-off and a meeting with them!!<br /><br />SO, like I am pretty much freaking out and I have SO MUCH stuff everywhere that is probably not going to fit, and I have to take ALL my stuff to Diadema.. ALONE. This new way of transfer is sooo weird. But lets us pray right? aahh..</span></span></div>
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<span class=""><i><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-size: large;">It is with great joy that I inform you that Sister Bennallack has been called to serve as a Sister Training Leader. In the mission, this is an assignment of great responsibility. The Sister Training Leaders work with me and Sister Broadbent in training the missionaries in their designated areas. Sister Trainer Leaders are essential and important members of the Leadership Council of the mission, which meets monthly to help establish the policies, programs and vision of the mission and plan mission conferences and meetings.</span></i></span></div>
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<span class=""><i><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-size: large;">Sister Bennallack is an experienced missionary that is obedient to the Lord and mission rules. She works to achieve the highest standards of conduct and excellence in the mission. She humbly shows the way forward through her example to other missionaries. Sister Bennallack is indeed this class of missionary and we are grateful to be able to serve with her.</span></i></span></div>
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<span class=""><i><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-size: large;">We pray that the blessings from the exemplary service of Sister Bennallack may be felt in your home and in your lives.</span></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Wow what a week. 'RIP' me, I am literally so tired right now - I feel like I just had the first week of my mission again. I thought I loved changes but this week I learn't that I only love changes when I choose to move, haha, but my life will rule again..that I’m sure of once I’m used to my new area ;)</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">So my new companion is a Hondurhna! Sister Escoto from Honduras, she's so cute, like a litte firework but, my, she talks so fast! She gets so excited and no one can understand her (including Sister Machuca the other Hispanic we live with.) But bless her, we are becoming the best of friends and I know I'm in with her now since last night she wanted to tell me all her secrets awwww, <i>minha amiga</i>. And oh, my goodness, she can sing, <i>nossa</i>, she sings like a angel and like in all our lessons she ends by singing to our investigators! Then every night she sings to me in Spanish, awww.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">-Sis Escoto loves cereal and guacamole, how perfect!<br />-I’ve smelt more week in the week then in my year in other parts of SP. Lol, Diadema.<br />-I live with Sister Newell from my district from the Provo MTC! YAY<br />-I got pressured to sing at the end of our lesson from a 10 year old ^.^<br />-We tried talking to three people this week that turned out to be members! haha<br />-I went to my first leadership meeting thing with President and the Zone Leader, it was so on point, I love President, he’s so inspired.<br />-We locked ourselves out of our house. Lol don’t even ask..<br />- I LOST my planner…people, this is so seriously, so sad..I had so much in that planner. I put my planner on the top of some parked car to clap my hands to (like knock on the door Brazilian style) and I forgot to pick it up and then when I realised it was gone) I'm so sad, but it could have been worse.. lucky it's only week 1 and not week 5.<br />- Ohhh, I had the craziest Hic-ups (or however you spell it) We started teaching this family, and my hic-ups were out of control while we were talking to them and getting to know them. BUT then, when I started to teach, my hic-ups just went away. It was just a tiny thing but I knew it was a little blessing from God, hehe.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">So Pablo didn’t get baptized. Don’t you even worry I’ll tell you all about it….<br /><br />We called our LD to organise his baptismal interview and when I was talking to him on the phone he was so negative, like he slammed me with questions, but I knew we had taught Pablo everything…more than one time so he can really understand. Anyway it's good, we marked the interview.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Then Pabs had his interview and when they finished I could just see that our LD didn’t pass him. Hmmmmmmmm. As we are walking to our house from Pablo's (which like a 3 min walk) we start asking questions like “sooooo….??” What happened?</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Anways after listening to this talk he was giving me I was so unimpressed like he fully went into this interview with a mind closed and was looking for any reason not to pass him and then he was saying how he gets to decide since he is LD. Nooo stop, we are a team here? Like this is Gods church we are talking about!! It’s not some secret club that only adults can join. (Mosiah 18:8-11) Alma, but more importantly Jesus Christ invites EVERYONE to be baptised. To feel the song of redeeming love, to promise to keep his commandments and to be baptised.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sooooo maybe, just maybe, I got so mad, hahhahah, I even started talking to him in English since he’s American, I was so mad. Anyways that night my LZ called me right after he got off the phone with my LD. MY LZ was also my LZ in Riberao as well and he trusts me a lot, and as I explained what happed, he told me to not worry because Pablo will be baptised Sunday still since he’ll talk to President.</span></span></div>
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terminal and I invited this man to church ect ect… then this week this same man Roberto come up to me and gives me FLOWERS to say sorry for not coming to church!!! WHAT THE CRAZY hahahah I was given flowers, it was so funny walking into our house as the end of the day and the other Sisters “Whats is going here???” mahahahha</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 15.333332061767578px;">We spent a whole day knocking doors, street contacting and found a few people but nothing really solid, but yesterday we were looking for an address and somehow got so lost, but we know this area so well that we were working in, it was honestly like we were meant to get lost on purpose because we found 4 new investigators that are GOLDEN without trying!!! It was the craziest/coolest thing. Heavenly Father answered our prayers in the weirdest way. The last person what we found last night, I was STILL looking for this street and ahhhh.. then this man outside of his house said “are you missionaries?” UMMM YESSS WE AREEEEEEEE and we taught for like 30 minutes and are coming back this week to teach his whole family.<br />Anyway, we <i>never</i> found that street, and when we looked on our map when we got home IT WAS SO SIMPLE. I don’t know, maybe we are just silly girls who can't read maps or maybe it was a part of a bigger plan ;)<br />I have the biggest testimony that our convert Angelica was found because we talked to her brother on the street and he told us to teach him but that was the way the Lord worked to meet Angelica! I have no doubt about that.<br /><br />Isaiah 55:8-9</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; line-height: 15.333332061767578px; padding: 0cm;">“</span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 15.333332061767578px;">For my thoughts <i><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">are</span></i> not your thoughts, neither <i><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">are </span></i>your ways my ways, saith the <span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-variant-caps: small-caps; padding: 0cm;">Lord</span>.<br /><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;"> </span>For <i><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">as</span></i> the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.”</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Every time she saw us she thought we would talk to her… then, as we continued to talk to her we found out that she doesn’t really believe in the Bible since it's been translated too many times and she doesn’t really believe in God, because if God loved us he would't let all those horrible things in the world happen…ect ect. But we taught the teachings of Nephi how there has to be an opposition in all things. And we taught about how we believe in another scripture as well that has only been translated one time, and we bore a bold testimony of the Book of Mormon and told her that it could move her life. But we really needed to go…so we marked up to visit her the next day..which was also the best and now she’s a full on investigator!</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Remember when I said that we found that golden street with four people, in four houses in a row? In one of the houses we only taught the Dad and the kids but never the wife since she is Catholic and busy ect ect. One of our lessons fell through on that street and we thought we should try and visit that family one last time. Only the wife was home, Emilene. She had a new glow about her, she was SO happy to see us and she invited us in. What changed?? Her friend at work, Claudio, gave her .. A Book of Mormon, and she was so excited to tell us and she had so many questions. We taught her basic, simple doctrines that we believe and that being a catholic, she’s believes as well. We used lots of scriptures from the Bible to compliment the Book of Mormon, THEN we taught about the scared book in her hand, and after we taught she showed us the note that her friend had written about The Book Of Mormon when he gave it to her… she was so surprised to see that we bore the same testimony!!!! We then FINIALLY marked up to teach her WITH her family. <3</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Then yesterday we went to the other ward since we had investigators that were meant to go…but they didn’t come. So sad, haha always breaks my heart. Anyways since we didn’t have investigators and this isn’t our official ward/or chapel, I told sister Curtis that there is no point to staying and we should go visit the people we have in this area now since we'd be working in a completely other area after lunch. I don't know…probs should of stayed at church but I was way too stressed just sitting there with no investigators just thinking about everything …but I felt good about leaving and working.<br />ANYWAY, we have people on this street that we had never heard of but we asked a few people where to find the street and it was actually that street we were on. IT WAS TOO EASY. We taught this lady name Elane and it was such a perfect lesson. After the prayer she told us that her brother was recently baptised in this church and GAVE HER A BOOK OF MORMON. SOooo we did what we do best and taught about the Book of Mormon..<br /><br />I was thinking a lot this week, as usual but especially about the Book of Mormon, and how with these examples we were only let in because of the Book of Mormon.<br />SOOOOO hehehe, I have a challenge for you family dearest, we have so many books of Mormons in our house…. Write a mini testimony in the cover and give it to a friend or a work member, it doesn’t need to be a novel but just something about how this book is important to you and because you care about them you want to share this happiness. You never know what could happen, probs they will just except with a smile and not really want to heard anything else… but maybe later down the track they with meet the Sister Missionaries in Adelaide and let them in.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">So Jonny didn’t get baptised this weekend, it broke my heart a little BUT he still went to church yesterday so I still have the highest hopes. I don't know, I hate feeling like stuck or idea-less (don’t even know if that’s a real word lol) like we prayed and fasted and still had no idea how to help him, like what he really needs.. but what we need will come- it’s always does. All in the Lord's timing I guess.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">But yeah, I got a little/heaps stressed out about this, but then I read this quote that helped me chill and know that really it will all work out..<br /><br /><i>“There can be no failure in the work of the Lord when we do our best. We are but instruments; this is the Lord´s work. This is his church. His Gospel plan. These are his children we are working with. He will not permit us to fail if we do our part. He will magnify us even beyond our own talents and abilities when necessary. This I know.”<br />-Ezra taft Benson</i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Muito obrigada</i> for all your emails!!! your all excellent humans <3<br /><br />Okay………… this was like the most humbling week of my mission, okay maybe not my mission but that I’ve had in a long time! :(<br />This week I remembered that missions are actually hard as, BUT it was a great week to learn right??<br />SO it was a mixture between hectic heat and the most extreme rain you have ever seen in your life or in your wildest dreams, it rained heaps as!!<br />Because of the <i>loco</i> weather, our Baptism for Angelica fell through since shes so sick! Poor thing, and I was so devo as well, but I have the biggest hope for this week to come. Hey hey.<br /><br />Since we are opening our area again, (as we lost half of our area and heaps of our solid investigators) I had a lot of time to think to myself why we spent our days knocking doors? I thought of you Mum, and how you always quote to me that line from the hymn Silent night,<br /><i>“The thrill of hope” </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US"><br />I know you always said it to me when we were talking about boys, but I applied your wise wisdom into missionary work this week.<br />The thrill of hope: in finding people to talk to, people to teach and people to BAPTISE.<br />This week I needed to change the way I thought about working.<br />I thought about my all converts and the very first time I met them and how you do always get that “thrill” when you have a really good conversation about the Gospel and they tell you that you can come back. I sought to find that feeling as we went finding, all week to have that “Thrill”, that feeling of strong excitement to come back and to teach that person again.<br /><br />(Faith and) Hope is essential as a missionary. I loved these verses in Ezekiel 36:26-28 <3 <3</span><span lang="EN-US"><i>“ A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.<br />And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.<br />(…) and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.”</i><br />I felt the hand of the Lord this week in giving me that new hope that I needed to really work this week.<br /><br />Since we pretty much spent our week finding don’t really have <i>lol </i>stories for you all BUT I’ll write some highlights of this week:<br />- I saw my first snake in Brazil this week, <i>lol! </i>I</span> hid behind Sister Curtis. HAHAH, I'm the worst companion, take her life instead of mine plzz mr snake, we laughed about this after. But we laughed even harder when we realised that the snake WAS DEAD!! ahahhahaha!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Last district meeting we just got hectic and made the highest goals and everyone got so pumped, BATISMO!!!!<br />So this week sister Curtis and I literally got so ballsy and just started inviting everyone on the street to be baptised! It was so fun, we got into probs more Bible bash’s than we should have, but we also found some SOILD new investigators. <3 <3 AND this one man accepted to be baptised!!!! From a street contact, so now we are teaching him and he knows that we are preparing him for baptism. <3 <3</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">But finding is always interesting, Sister Curtis and I always find at the bus and train station (thanks to working at '<i>Educate Yourself'</i> lol) but just last night we had so many hilarious stories, </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">-Sister Curtis burnt this old lady in a hectic bible bash<br />-a man accepted a baptismal date in the first contact!!!<br />-I got kissed on the hand twice<br />-I got asked out for icecream <i>lel</i><br />-a man was selling deodorant and I told him that we can’t buy it because it's Sunday, and that it's the day of the Lord… long story short as I was walking off, HE LITERALLY THREW deodorant at me!!! And it splatted all up my leg, hahaha, oh my goodness, I just looked at Sister Curtis.. what even is my life. #damission</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3J7ET9p_1pJxX_Sv0a-Kn0wNX-hycsS_CsJbKJiSfBdXGczihgSWlH_aduCQkChmDDYZXrpRp5yWf_LYJr0ry94ZBx7qFFuUnqZmXGh5vg6FzN816PLgAlGz1dqESZTYlnVEnxebqPbY/s1600/P3021374.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3J7ET9p_1pJxX_Sv0a-Kn0wNX-hycsS_CsJbKJiSfBdXGczihgSWlH_aduCQkChmDDYZXrpRp5yWf_LYJr0ry94ZBx7qFFuUnqZmXGh5vg6FzN816PLgAlGz1dqESZTYlnVEnxebqPbY/s400/P3021374.JPG" width="400" /></a><span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Ahhh, this week it was hectic rain, but I'm not even bothered about it, as long as I don’t get sick. We got given clothes by our investigator and when Brazilians try and give you something you just accept it, or else you’ll be saying “no thank-you” 500 times before they give up! hahah, aww, love Brazilians <3, but anyway, one of the things we got given was this ugly as, swade red blazer, but one day after we got RAINED on we went back to our apartment to change and I was so cold that I just used that red jacket, hahahhaha this is probably a 100% you had to be there moment, but it was soooooo funny. Sister Curtis “what are you wearing? you cant be serious!” hahahhahah call me sistaaaaaaaaaa ;)</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">But this week was hard as, but Heavenly Father needs his most courageous daughters to serve him so I know that this all has a purpose, but pray for me and Angelica plz <3</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Today is 14<sup>th</sup> March, is the exact day I went through the temple a year ago!!!!! Woooooooo, it feels like yesterday. During studies today, we were talking so much about the temple and how perfect it is. How grateful I am for the House of the Lord and how remembering my covenants and the promised blessings has been such strength to me on my mission. I heaps want to work in the temple when I get back <3 ps. how old am i now? hahahah</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">What I random week I had………It rained so much and because of this, my beloved companion Sister Curtis got mad sick. :( it’s the worst watching someone be sick and you can’t do anything, but I tried being you mum, and made her toast and sat on her bed with her, hahaha. BUT despite Curtis' dying, we still saw some miracles!!!!!! </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Also this week, my dreams came true and I had a trade off with….get ready for this… SISTER GUDGEON!!! AHhh, I was so excited all week, haha, how much love I have for that woman. It was such a crack up day, but it was so cool seeing how much we have grown since the MTC. Truly, we will be sisters forever, and she’ll be the most easiest to visit after my mission, hehe.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We also had a conference this week with one third of the mission, it was so good! HOW INSPIRED is President?? He knows exactly what to say!! He talked so much about obedience firstly, since our mission had some heaps apostasy things going on and people went home ect, but it's all goods now. But President talks with such love! He also talked about the Godhead and how we as missionaries need to explain who the Godhead is before we teach anything else, how our investigators can’t really be converted if they didn’t understand this simple doctrine .<br />THEN we did role plays, Ohhh how I have a love/hate relationship with role plays. BUT I loved them at this conference, it was SO HELPFUL, one of them was when people have things that randomly come up for the day of their baptism and how we can save the baptism. SO GOOD. Like when they need to work, or will go on holidays ect. Sister Curtis and I had a role play that this boy had to play soccer. (lol so brazil) that day and he forgot that it was the final ect ect. It was so funny, first time I promised that if he gets baptized that morning he will play soccer the best he’s ever played, hahhaah but it was so in the moment and so fuuny. But President and one of the assistants was there and they loved it, haha…….. but way to make me nervous. But it was just a good activity.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">WE COMMITED a woman named Marina to baptism!!!!! One of the mircles while Sister Curtis was dying <3 She's a catholic so it's been a process with her, but ahhh <3 <3 <3 it was such a good lesson and we helped her realise that she already knew this is true “yeah you're right, I do feel that way”. But we still have to work with her on some things…..lol normal</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 17.25px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Firstly let talk about Angelica:<br />I had such a weird day on Saturday, like I totally lost my swag, haha, I was so nervous about our baptism interview with Angelica that night, I was doubting hardcore, i.e. in myself that this will actually happen. I taught so average that day and even said a word in ENGLISH in one of our lessons. ^.^ But my lovely companion was perfect, like she had enough faith for the both of us. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 17.25px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We said so many prayers on the street together. As we prayed in this random street in Brazil, I honestly could say to the Lord that I have done everything that I can for Angelica, I put my total: my whole heart, might, mind and strength. I have never said so many prayers or FASTED so many times for any of my investigators on my mission. But knowing that we have literally done our all, we pleaded with the Lord and told him how now it’s his turn to do his part, we knew we could ask for a miracle, and ohhhh we asked.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 17.25px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />After we prayed our guts out I felt a little but better, but still Angelica wasn’t answering the phone.<br />“but we went it faith” with the Elders to her house for her interview…… for the 3 time… haha and while we were walking the other sisters that we live with called me just to say that everything will be fine, that it will all work out and not to stress. AWWWW OBRIGADA SISTERS <3 (deffs answer to a prayer)</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 17.25px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />We got to her house and she was HOME and she had her interview.. nearly two hours later she came out with THE BIGGEST SMILE. I literally felt the biggest calming spirit come over me. It all worked out.<br />ANGELICA WILL BE BAPTISED ON SATURDAY AT 7PM <3 <3 <3 <3</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 17.25px;"><br />She came to church yesterday and invited people to her baptism and then she came back for this fireside Sunday night aswell.<br />I still will be praying my guts out this week that all will work out and it will go perfectly for this Saturday.<br /><br />The rest of my week was THE best, on Thursday Sister Curtis and I were giggling our heads off in our beds in awe about our day, like did that really just happen? A few weeks ago we knocked doors in the rain…. But on Thursday we went to that street and visited everyone that said we could come back. We taught 4 new people that were like GOLDEN, in four houses in a row!!! IT WAS THE COOLEST THING EVER!! By the fourth house we were joking around about how perfect this day was and how we are going to meet another elect and invite him to be baptised…..next minute we are teaching this man who lives at this house named Antonio and it was such a good lesson and HE ACCEPTED baptism.<br />What da hell mate.<br /><3 <3 <3 <3 <3 Blesssingggggggggs. #ÔHGLÓRIA!</span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 17.25px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 17.25px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sunday was such a mad day, since we are still working in two wards, we are mostly going to the other ward because that's where our investigators are, but this week we had such a miracle week that we knew we would have investigators here as well. We had a trade off yesterday with the sister who live with us, I went with Sister Das Graças to the other chapel and Sister Curtis stayed here. We had two new investigators come to church here! </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It was just the best afternoon, I literally couldnt stop smiling. We met at the mission office because I really wanted Tom and Jordan to meet President and Sister Broadbent which they did and ahhhh, it was so lovely. But I tripped out to the max, like every two seconds, it was like two worlds mixed into one. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We ate lunch at the shopping mall that we aren't normally allowed to enter but President told us to eat there, haha and I was SO HAPPY teaching Tom and Jordan about Brazilian food, heheheh all of us eating Rice and Beans together <3 <3 so happy.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Okay this week, was such a good week but kinda disapointing as well, but still a goodie. Normal as a missionary, that hectic up and down emotions of highs and lows. So Cristina didn't get baptised on Sunday, we prepared her all week, she had stopped drinking coffee and we talked about her being baptised all week and how she was excited ect ect</span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">But then, when we and the other Elders came to her house (which is a hike and half) she had disappeared? She wasn't home when we had just taught her that morning, ahhhhhhhh.. my heart broke a little. And we still haven't even been able to catch her to talk about what happened. But now that I think about it, I think it was the same with those churches in Joseph Smith's time, how they where close to God with their lips but their hearts were long from God. I think this is the same with Cristina, perhaps she likes the idea and us and the attention she received at church but I don`t think she really has felt that 'song of redeeming love……..' like she says she prays and reads, but I don't really know. We will pray about what to do for and about her.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I have hit my 9 months mark, 50% of my misson…what? that went so fast!!!!!!!! but what a blessing, I still have 9 more months <3 <3</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Also, I finished the Book of Mormon for the first time in Portuguese this week, how I just treasure the Book of Mormon!!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">So, today actually isn’t p-day since tomorrow we are GOING TO THE TEMPLE <3 <3 <3</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This was such a weird week…. Like the weirdest week ever, it seemed like we walked for days and it was so hard to find people in their houses. But we had a magical day Saturday and caught like everyone in their houses and had one of those epic perfect days <3 <3 which saved our week!!!!!</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This week I learnt heaps about how Heavenly Father really has a purpose for everything!! Like we now have two new solid investigators that we found through other investigators that weren’t really progressing.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We found Andrea through one of our RICH investigators Aline who we found knocking doors. We think that Aline really won't progress, but she just had a baby and is always home so she loves when we visit. We visited her “randomly” this one afternoon in the first time in like two weeks. When we got to her house she had heaps of visitors but since she likes us, she told us to come in. Anyways, hahah 'winner, winner, chicken dinner', we shared a message that was heaps light, cute and fluffy about God that we KNEW that everyone would love, then we got everyone's address! We didn’t stay long or even think much about it. Then one night we “randomly were knocking in this street and remembered that we have people who live on this street. Andrea. We knocked on her door and her husband answered, she wasn’t home but he told us that she told him about us!!!! Yayaya, and that he used to learn English at the chapel with the other Elders last year. How cool, he told us to come back that weekend. And we did….! We had such a good lesson, like I could tell that they could understand my portuguese perfectly, like 100%, a gift of tongues moment, the lounge room was filled with the spirit and tears were shed. Saturday was a day of miracles.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">SO, I had the most dramatic thing happen yesterday… we get to church and the two wards were randomly joined together for sacrament meeting and the Stake President and the Bishop from another ward and chapel was there and we knew that something was about to go down.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Remember how I told you how my ward was pretty small…and we didn’t even have a Bishop at the moment? Well yesterday they released our Bishop who is in America and then…</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">But then I called President Broadbent after church, hahahah “Sister calm down, calm down!” </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Minha nossaaaa</i> I just had the time of my life reading all your love you sent me for my birthday hehehe, thank you so much <3 <3</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">WOW it's 2016! 2015 went way too fast........</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This rest of this week was so CRAZY/good, so many things to write about, but one of the cool things that happened this week is Antônio! Antônio was a mini miricle of the week. He works on our street, so we literally see him every day. He sees us leave in the rain, in the heat, early and coming home late. We always say 'Good Morning' to him and we've had so many chats with him. We have even taught him SO many times in the street over the past few months. But he has always been our backup plan, like when a lesson falls through or we have extra time at night before 9pm, we say "ohhh, lets go see Antônio". We taught him way more than I thought, haha, I think we taught the restoration like 3 times, gave him a The Book of Mormon and ALWAYS invite to church. But honestly (need to repent a little) I always saw him as a number and not a Child of God, he was one more extra contact or one more lesson for the day. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">But this week while leaving our street we did the usual "BOM DIA ANTÔNIO!!" and he come out of his work and asked us if he can talk to us. He then tells us how much he has listened to what we have taught him and always admires our work. He has being praying for an answer, praying for months since we starting teaching him in the street. ANYWAYS, for Christmas he went and visited his daughter in another State close to São Pãulo right, and his daughter then tells him she's been going to a Church frequently and invited him to come with her. He of course did and when he arrived he saw what church she now goes to. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint <3 <3 <3 He was so excited to see that and told her how we live on his street and then during that Sunday in that chapel Antônio had his prayer answered.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I learnt a HUGE lesson this week about how we, and especially me, as a missionay can't judge who's really ready to hear our message. How our 'Plan B' is Gods 'Plan A'. We need to pay more attenion to what his Heavenly Plan is and not ours, after all this is HIS work. We openned our mouth preaching but not with alot of faith and we weren't really confident. But the Spirit took over and taught what we didn't teach. Sister Ramos and I both said, if only we actaully taught Antonio and really followed up he'd already be a member.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">PS. Transfers are next week ….eeeeek, feeling nervous about this one, I think there will be a change with Sister Ramos and I, but miricles are real right? haha! Stay turned. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">AND, not only am I training….I'm training an American Sister….Oh, my goodness!! 911! My Portuguese is still so interesting and now I have to be the strong one in Portuguese and actually understand everthing that people are saying and what's going on!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Maybe I cried in the shower last night......... I so don't want to leave and leave sister Ramos as well.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">But now I’ve got it together and “I’ll go where you want me to go” you know ;)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">But still sad about it, AHH, STILL FREAKING OUT!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">So in our mission now, well actually all the missions in the world, there will no longer be transfer meetings with the whole mission, now on Sunday night our District Leader calls us and tells us not only if we are staying or leaving but where and with what companion.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">So a bit different and so weird, agh, I still can’t imagine my mission not being in São Bernardo and without Sister Ramos.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Yesterday at church I told everyone I was staying, haha, and that my mission isn't really Sao Paulo South, it's Sao Bernardo 5! hehe</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It was so hard packing, I had stuff EVERYWHERE after 8 months here, and Sister Ramos thought she was leaving so she was all ready packed to go since Friday! hahaha but still so sad.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Anyway, this week was such a soild week, we have a baptism next week (well....sister Ramos and her new companion). Two ladies, Maria and Jussara, their story is soooo cool and but I have no time to even write about this right now... ^.^</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">OHHHHHHH, and Christmas came this week, heheheh like literally! I received my package you all put together! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!!! Ahh I cried and laughed at the same time while stuffing my face with aussie chocolate reading all of your letters!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Okay, so My companion is Sister Curtis from TENNESSEE,USA. Awww, she’s great, obviously I miss my 'sister from another mister' Sister Ramos HEAPS, but I’m so happy to be here with Sister Curtis we are already the best of friends. We speak Portuguese but at times we throw in a few English words here and there, haha, it’s the best.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 21.299999237060547px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">-we “Opened” this area… just to add to the changes right? But this was the Elders area. Anyways, when we got here, we looked through the area book.. NOTHING hahhah, the last entry we found was from September. Cool mate.<br style="line-height: 21.299999237060547px;" />-Our ward mission leader is on Holidays<br style="line-height: 21.299999237060547px;" />-Our ward doesn’t even have a Bishop at present (he's away in USA trying to move there).<br style="line-height: 21.299999237060547px;" />-Our house didn’t have a fridge or microwave for most of this week and was hella dirty when we got here… smelly Elders haha ^.^<br style="line-height: 21.299999237060547px;" />-I got asked to give a talk in Sacrament meeting yesterday….20 mins. Oh My Goodness! I’ve never spoken for that long in English! So I was the final speaker on my first Sunday. <br style="line-height: 21.299999237060547px;" />(I spoke about missionary work obviously, but…how what a blessing it is that we have had the Gospel shared with us and how we are SO thankful to whoever shared the gospel to us (our parents, a friend, the missionaries) and how when we share the gospel we are giving the best gift we can give. Then I gave a million examples of missionaries in the scriptures and the different ways they shared the gospel, through love, service, obedience, ect ect. We are all different, just the like the prophets of old, so we will all have a unique special way to share the gospel. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It went well I think… except when I couldn’t pronounce Portuguese words in the scriptures….awkss)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">BUT honestly, I had the BEST WEEK!!! Even though finding and knocking doors for the whole day/night isn’t always my favourite thing to do and how training and not having investigators is a little overwhelming, but not one moment did I think I couldn’t do it… and I just want to be the best trainer for Sister Curtis and I want her just to love being a missionary. I know what it’s like at the start and what it’s like to have a trainer who's negative, so I never said anything negative this week, only positivity and SMILES, haha, aww I love Sister Curtis. She’s a great missionary and she’s going to smash it here in São Pãulo sul!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We had so many 'LOL' moments this week, with getting mad lost in our area, oh by the way, MY AREA IS HUGE, but it’s so, so, stunning here, so GREEN and Brazilian and I'm just in love with how pretty it is here. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We live with two other Sisters who are in the other ward here, the same chapel though. Two Brazilians, one of them, Sister Das Graças was in my district for 4 transfers in Sao Bernardo 5, so I already love her HEAPS. It’s so fun living with other sisters, but <i>nosssa,</i> someone is always making food, I ate way to much this week! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I’m so happy! It's still so weird that I’m here and not in Sao Bernardo, but I love it here, and I love Sister Curtis. It will be a solid challenge but we are up for it. #GringastakeRiberao haha! okay I need to stop with these hashtags!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I am emailing late as, because today I went on a fancy, STUNNING hike with most of my Zone. Sister Curtis didn't come because she hurt her foot this week, but I went with SIster Das Graças since her companion didnt want to go....</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I'M FAMOUS! not really but...<br style="line-height: 21.299999237060547px;" />"hey mum, remember that time I was in the newspaper...IN BRASIL" lololol - Sarah 2017</span><br />
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Missionárias dão aulas gratuitas de inglês a partir de sábado em Ribeirão Pires.</h2>
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<i><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Missionárias de A Igreja de Jesus Cristo dos Santos dos Últimos Dias (também conhecido como Mórmons) ensinam inglês gratuitamente em Ribeirão Pires. As matrículas já estão abertas com formação de novas turmas. De acordo com a missionária norte americana, Sarah Bennallack, a pronuncia correta é o objetivo das aulas. “O foco do ensino é a pronuncia correta, pois temos missionárias que falam a líng<span class="text_exposed_show" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">ua nativa desse idioma”. Os interessados devem se dirigir a Avenida Francisco Monteiro, 331. As aulas têm início no próximo sábado (23), às 10 horas, na Igreja de Jesus Cristo dos Santos dos Últimos Dias. O curso será ministrado pela australiana “Sister Curtis” e a norte americana “Sister Bennallack”.</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Interessados em obter a sua árvore genealógica poderão no mesmo endereço realizar a pesquisa gratuitamente.</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">So us Sisters here in Riberião have been taking preaching the gospel to a whole new level, thinking of all the things we can advertise to find new investigators, since we all opened our area. And so we went to the local news papers and "told our story" how we have come to this community to help people and listed all the programs the church ofters including Family History, Zumba and ENGLISH classes. Obviously free English classes got the most attention, and the first interview went so well that we found another local newspaper that we also made!!!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">SO, I taught English on Saturday, oh my goodness, I can't speak English anymore, it's so sad, but I had an Elder from utah helping since he taught English in his old area and Sister Curtis taught the basic class. It was so good! We had 25 people come and hopefully will have more next week. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">About the late as email… Last week we received a text message that P-day on Monday was cancelled and P-day will be on Tuesday the same day as transfers. Our mission (being the best mission in the world) has a transfer meeting that the whole mission goes to, it’s the best. But because our mission is small geographically, everyone just goes, even if your not leaving your area and President, he says, hehe, “My missionaries just like a party” haha!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">But from now on, the week of transfers P-day will be on Tuesday so we can choose to go or not. It's cool but matey, mate, yesterday was a struggle, its' like my body knew it was Monday! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">BUT I WOULD LIKE TO HAPPILY REPORT THAT SISTER RAMOS AND I ARE STAYING IN <i><b>SÂO BERNARDO 5 </b></i>FOR ONE MORE TRANSFER!!!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Oh my, I'm so happy, this whole week I would literally wake up during the night just thinking and praying about how much I didn’t want to leave. But President Broadbent is the best, hahah he’s so funny, when I called he’s like “sister I was just moving your name on the transfer board” NOOOOOOO! <i>Presidente</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 21.299999237060547px;">..which brings me to my next topic: </span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 14.566667556762695px;">Dulcinete</span> was BAPTISED on Sunday!!! <3 <3</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">WHAT?! She was just baptised and doesn’t even have a membership number and is already paying tithing <3 <3 I shed a tear, so happy.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Kedley and Prascilla are perfect still, looking forward to their wedding but more importantly their BAPTISM, on the 13 Dec. We had such a great lesson with them this week about the Priesthood and about how Kedley is going to be such a blessing to their home because of the Priesthood and will be able to bless their two BEAUTIFUL girls when they're sick or worried/nervous. It was quite a spiritual lesson. I’ll be FOREVER grateful for knowing this family and for having this opportunity to have taught them about the Gospel of Jesus Christ. After the lesson, Sister Ramos told Kedley as one of the standards to hold the priesthood, he’ll need to take out his eyebrow piercing, but when he’s ready. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 14.566667556762695px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Took it out right then and there. So prepared. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Kedley is also so FUNNY, our lessons are always so hilarious but with the perfect amount of spiritual, but he was telling us how on Sunday when our other investigator Arnaldo told the Gospel principle teacher he was an investigator, Kedley thought, 'WOW! He’s investigating the church, so legit, like he’s tops' and then after he asked us what an investigator was and we are like…umm "you’re an investigator as well." Hahahah He always jokes about how he’s way fancy since he’s an investigator! hahaha, BEST FAMILY!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Alrnaldo has a baptism date for this Sunday, he’s has so much faith and really is searching but still wants a more stronger testimony of The Book of Mormon before he gets baptised. But we are working with him and we are confident he will receive his answer before Sunday.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">PS. On Saturday, I hit my SEVEN months of my mission! Wowzaaa, went so fast.. what da crazy ^.^</span><br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This week went so fast, LIKE A FLASH OF LIGHTING fast, but I think that's because we had P-day on Tuesday last week? </span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">So..Arnarldo didn't get baptised yesterday). :( SAD but only like 2% sad because HE GOING TO GET BAPTISED THIS SUNDAY ) He has a testimony of <i>O livro de Mormon</i> and knows that his time is now. <br style="line-height: 21.299999237060547px;" />Anyway, we want so wait till this Sunday becuase he has invited his WHOLE FAMILY.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Next Sunday will be the best day of my life I reason, because not only Arnarldo will be getting baptised but so will Kedley and Pracilla! It will be such a great baptismal service.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Duliente was confimed a member of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints yesterday <3 <3 She was so happy ,she's just the best!!! She calls Sister Ramos and I her <i>angels</i>. Hahaha! But I secretly think that's because she still has a trouble with my last name........ haha! bless her!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">.....Still my dream to have a confimation and a baptsim on the same Sunday...but lucky I have plenty of time to make my dreams come true haha ;)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We are also teaching these primary age girls now as well...they sit next to me during sacrament and can't stop touching my hair... #spotthewhitegirl haha! They are seriously so cute.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We had so many cool experiences this week, but one that I knew would happen (I don't know, so weird). We where teaching Bruna, one of our converts, and her cousin who is kinda scary was in the room as well but on his phone with head phones in. We tried to teach him ages ago but he wasn't keen at all… anyway, we taught her the Plan of Salvation again but way simple and really tailored it to her, using her name in scriptures ect. Anyway, it was such a good lesson, like so smooth. ANYWAY, after the lesson, Wesley (the cousin) told us that we really must love Bruna and asked if we can teach him as well AS HE WAS LISTENING to us and not music THE WHOLE TIME.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">AHHhh! What a crazy week, it was probably the best/BUSIEST week of my life!!! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I am so HAPPY to annouce that Kedley and Prícilla are now husband and wife!!! And WERE BAPTISED YESTERDAY <3 <3 <3</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">What amazing weekend it was. The wedding was Saturday morning, they just got married in that office place. (Legit, I can’t think what it’s called in English, lol!) But it was beautiful still, and we had permission from President to attend. They picked us up at <b>7am</b> because lots of people will be getting married, and mate, they were right. So many brides in white. It was cool though. So in Brazil the law is a little different, like the same as in New Zealand, how as members you can't get married directly in the Temple. But it was so cool to see this happen. Their daughters Taila and Sofia where SO EXCITED haha..but so were Sister Ramos and I!!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">A few couples from the ward including the Bishop and his wife came as well to support, it was the best! <3 After they got married, we went to this park nearby to take photos. IT WAS SO FUNNY, so São Paulo right...parking is a nightmare and we where driving around for ages looking for a car park.. then next minute we turned this corner and what do we see..? Another chapel of our church. Ayyayayay haha! IT was so funny, Kedley was like, "Can we park here?" Sister Ramos and I were like, "They will not ask any questions when they see our badges." They thought it was so cool, hehe, you've joined the right church guys ;)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">But Saturday was so hectic. After the wedding, we has such a full day we were literally RUNNING from appointment to appointment, and it was SOOOO hot in the morning, like for the wedding. Then it RAINED THE REST OF THE DAY, so heavily as well, and I didn't bring my umbrella…… I looked like I had just jumped in a swimming pool?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Then that night we had a Christmas dinner at the chapel, so we had to walk from one end our area to the next to bring investigators. But the activity was the best. How much do I love Brazillian food <3 <3 <i>Churrasco Brasileiro!!!</i> (Brazilian BBQ)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Then Sunday was the best, such a perfect day. Kedley and Pricilla were so happy and ahhh!! It's the best seeing them so happy. We were meant to have another baptism yesterday, Arnaldo but he didn't even come to church.... haha nahh! All goods, he had some family thing on, he told us before, but he’ll get baptised this Sunday. He’s all ready, he has had his baptismal interview and everything :-)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">So because this baptism was a family, we put so much more effort in it…We paid this less active member who bakes cakes, to bake a fancy cake for the baptism. She was so happy we asked her.. but it was expensive, #poormissionarylife but we wanted her to make the cake for a way for her to come to church and to the baptism to remember why she decided to be baptised... but she didn't even come to church :( that was so sad. But another member who lives in the same apartment block brought the cake to church. Her cake are always so delish.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Also, we invited our <i>pesquisador</i> (investigator) Lisando to come and be our musical item at the baptism. He was the best, he sings and plays the guitar. He performs in his church all the time but loved our chapel. It was something a little different since his church is one of the PRASIE THE LORD/HALLUJAH churches but it was perfect and he wrote a song about baptism. I'm so happy he came and performed. There is always such a beautiful spirit at baptisms <3 <3</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The rest of this week was such a blurr because these last 3 days were so GO, GO, GO. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>How I love being a missionary. <span class="" style="line-height: 21.299999237060547px;"><span style="line-height: 14.566667556762695px;"> I c</span></span></i><span style="line-height: 14.566667556762695px;"><i>an't express the <b>joy</b> that has come to me from serving the Lord, for the experiences I have had and to be able to witness the changes in the lives of people here, but also in my own life. That personal progression that I gain everyday in serving my Saviour!</i> <i>(D&C 18:15-16)</i></span> <3 <3</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I’ve had the best week EVER - AGAIN! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">But mate………, I am so tired, the struggle is so real right now!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">But it's all good, I can sleep tonight!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I'm so excited to skpye!! The time difference is so hectic, like 12.5 hours?? I forget all the time how far away Aussie actually is.............</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">ARNALDO WAS BAPTISED ON SUNDAY! Yayayyayay! A Christmas present for him and us and HEAVENLY FATHER <3</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">So we had a lesson with him on Saturday morning, just to prepare him 110% and to get him mad pumped to follow Jesus Chirst. After the lesson he tells us he has a lot of doubts and questions still….OK, I got so nervous, please don't say this Arnaldo! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">But it was SO good, it just proved to us how prepared he really is, and how the Spirt can only really teach a questioning mind. I think we all learnt new things through the Spirt as we answered his doubts and questions. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Baptism was perfect, only his mum came which was was so great but at the same time we where hoping to meet the rest of him family. We have already taught his sister the first lesson, but she didn't come to the baptism.... but all good, we’ll have many chances to see her still ;)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">MY MOST HAPPIEST MOMENT that day was after the baptism when Kedley who had just been confirmed a member that same day came up to Arnaldo and gave him the biggest hug with a huge smile on his face to say congratulations. <3 <3 <3</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">PS. So my ward is the best, its like my Brazilian family here, on Sunday Sister Ramos and I recived so many presents!!!! It was so unexpected, so, so, nice. I got so awkward.. But wow! It meant so much to us. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was a special treat to have a 4-way family s</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">kype</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> from Adelaide & Perth in Australia, Europe & Brazil with Sister Sarah Bennallack. She struggled at first with English and impressed us as she flipped over to rapid Portuguese to ask a question of her companion. It was great to spend this time!</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Ahhhhhhhhh It was so, so, cool/THE BEST THING EVER to be able to speak to you all. Just love you guys so much and skpye just confirmed again how much I really have the best family in the WORLD.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Arnarldo was confirmed a member of the Church of Jesus Christ yesterday which was perfect! YAYAYAYA Also, yesterday at church we taught the Doctrine Principle's class, but they didn't really ask us they just told us when we walked in if we could teach. Hahaha, of course we can, we are missionaries right??? But Oh my goodness, 911! What are we going to teach? But it went well, and we had two new investigators come to church yesterday which I'm so happy about. But teaching yesterday had such a “my life rules moment” as we were looking to the class, filled with converts, including all the people Sister Ramos and I have taught an Baptised. They all had such a different light and when we called upon them to answer a question or to share a experience about their baptism or when they received an answer to their prayer... I just wanted to cry of happiness and give them a hug as I'm so HAPPY to see them happy and here and converted to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. At times Sister Ramos and I say how we don't actually believe this is real life, that these people aren't our investigators anymore, they are MEMBERS of the Church of Christ.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This week was awesome, freezing though… I had soggy feet for most of this week but it's all good, I can't do much about the cold weather (STILL) but embrace it right? And pray hard for sunshine! hehehe</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I also had a <i>divisão</i> (trade-off) with Sister Wright, yes, she aint a Brazillian, she's American. It was heaps cool spending the day with her, I always learn so much from trade-offs, but ALWAYS the next day is such a struggle, like I'm tired x100000000. I also realised how bad my Portuguese is still. She speaks Portuguese so perfectly! #GOALS</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We had so many amazing experiences this week, but EXTREMES, very different. We have one investigator which is like <i>'ELECTO'</i> and will be baptised next week and then we have others that were really progressing but were a lot colder towards us this week.... so sad. It breaks my heart every time. We had this one lesson, and where we got smashed with crazy question because he had been watching Anti-Mormon Doco's. But my companion is so calm and answered his double sided paper filled with questions really well. I always learn so much from her. <3</span><br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This week was filled with such highs and lows like to the extreme. The best of times were where Sister Ramos and I just laughed our heads off because it literally rained all week and we kept forgetting our umbrella’s so we would get to our house at the end of the day DRENCHED! hahaha! But it was so funny.... And then like the most disappointing/sad times with our investigators and new converts. <span style="line-height: 21.299999237060547px;"> </span>:( I don’t even want to write about it because I’m still so devo. But all goods, this week it’s a new week!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">But that’s pretty much standard for my life as a missionary.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">P-day last week was cool, we went the Institute Building here and just hung out with our Zone and ate so much food. We watched '<i>17 Miracles'</i>. I forgot how good that movie is, I may have shed a few tears, but Sister Ramos cried way more so it’s all good! hehe ;)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Yesterday at church was like flash back Friday. I was sitting at church with Kedley and Prascilla and was sitting behind Katya and in front of Mônica. All my investigators from the very start of my misson, but now they all have such a different light about them. They truly have been converted to the Gospel of Jesus Christ.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Kedley and Prascilla are perfecto!!! They come to church everyweek without us even calling or visiting, they look so at home as well and they have friends in the ward. AHHHH, I just love this family so much!! They are so soild, we are just waiting on a date for their wedding, (and Baptism hehe) but they are exciting about it and their two daughters are excited for the wedding as well. AWWWWW, they always talk about their goal to be sealed in the temple in a year. <3 </span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Katya is the best, it had been a slow conversion but a strong conversion. We visited her yesterday after Church and she was telling us how since she’s been coming to church these past 6 months her life is so much better and her family have so much more love. She's so grateful, she told us how she's ready to be baptised!!!!!!!!! She's been ready for a while but she had some worldly things she wasn't ready to give up, but she ready now. The only problem is that she and her family move to the United States in three weeks.............. so, we are going to try to have a baptism before she leaves, but these are going to be some crazy busy weeks for her and her family so we will see. But we are all praying together and I have faith ;) However, I'm 100% sure that if she doesn't get baptised here she will in America. After all, they are moving to Provo! haha !</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We found some really great people this week and I was feeling so good about them except only one of our new investigators came to church yesterday..wot. <span style="line-height: 21.299999237060547px;"> B</span>ut, then we taught some really cool lessons this week. It’s just crazy how ready people are to receive the gospel <3 <3. I'm excited for this week!!! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It's crazy, my Bishop here has been called to be a Mission President next year!! I don’t know where yet, we just know it’s in Brazil. Hahha! My ward here is so funny trying to guess who's going to be the new Bishop. Ward gossip! lololololol But its' crazy that he’s was called to be a Mission President since hes only 38 years old!! B ut he’ll be such a GOOD President! </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 21.299999237060547px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Also this guy in my ward here got his mission call to England, Leeds!!!! S O exotic for Brazilians. he bore his testimony yesterday and was SO EXCITED!! It took me back to when I got my mission call and how excited I was ! <3 Missão São Paulo sul <3</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 21.299999237060547px;">He told us how our mission starts again right now, it doesn’t matter if you have 3 weeks left or 23 months left, it's a 'New Beginning'. A charge to change and recommit our selves as representatives of Jesus Christ. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We have a lot more rules, which are changes from the Seventy not just from President. Such as, we have to study for two hours on P-days and no more District and Zone P-days, we and President aren’t allowed to leave our mission boundaries, even with permission, (only for the Temple hehe).</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">And now we are only teaching elects, and our day is 80% finding and 20% teaching. We have to stop to talk to 50 people per missionary, per day. That a lot different since, it was 10 per day.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">ANDDDDD this week we have another conference but with Elder Costa from the seventy, SO EXCITED!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Dulcinete is the house keeper of one of the members here, she so amazing, like seriously so prepared. I just love her, anyway, she believes everything we taught/teach her but didn’t want to be baptised till next year. But we promised her that if she prays and asks God, he will answer her questions and at our next lesson she told us that she had received her answer and wants to baptised asap. <3 <3 <3 </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 21.299999237060547px;"> We had the most special experiences teaching her, it's like the Spirit is teaching her and me at the same time? I don't know, but it's soooo cool.</span></div>
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whole lot less, as we now only teach elect, we had to cut a lot of people that aren’t really progressing. We have so many investigators that love us, and are so grateful for our messages and will pray and read and they believe, and they even accept baptism dates…….but they never come to church. It like the most disappointing part of my week…..</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">BUT a new start. Since we talk to so many more people, we will have a new teaching pool, this following week will be so interesting :) Stay tuned ;)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Because Sister Ramos and I are on the street more, we have so many 'LOL' moments like when we where talking to this guy and a flying creature flew into my mouth and I nearly chocked to death! hahahaha! Oh! My goodness! It was probably a ‘had to be there’ moment but we laughed about it for the rest of the day.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This week went so, so, so, so, fast, but it was such a goodie!!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sister Ramos is the best, and I'm praying hard that we get to stay here together for another transfer!!!! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I want to badly to be here for Chrsitmas but more importantly I want to be her for Kedley and Prascilla’s WEDDING!!!! And BAPTISIM.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Ahh! At church yesterday they told us the they are booked in for the 12th of December to be married!!!!!! Ahhhhh, I'm so happy! I want to see them get baptised so badly, my favourite family and it had been such an amazing journey with them <3</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">(transfers are next week btw, I’ll tell you next week if I'm staying or not, so everyone, start praying for me to stay, <i><b>por </b></i><b><i>favour, </i></b>hehehe!)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">But I'm pretty sure we will stay here, well, because President told us at the Conference with Elder Costa. But Sister Ramos told me that he told her that she was going to stay in her old area and then she got transferred but.... I HAVE ALOT OF FAITH!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Oh, My Goodness! It's nearly December and I'm so, so, so, excited for Christmas. I live across the road from a giant shopping plaza thing and it is decked out with Christmas lights, we can see the lights from our kitchen window. Just a little bit of happiness! hehe!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Dulcinete is amazing still and her baptism is next Sunday after church!! She's so prepared and has invited everyone to her baptism, including this girl that we are now going to be teaching that works at this clothes shop!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Dulcinete is such a perfect example of being converted. She has experienced the mighty change of heart and now wants to tell EVERYONE of her joy she’s experiencing. We can all learn from her example <3</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Conference with Elder Claudio R.M Costa was the best. Seriously I have no doubt that he has been called of God, so, so inspired. I learnt SO MUCH and wrote so many notes. It was an all morning thing and we had lunch with him as well. Afterwards he talked to me so much about Australia! He’s like, "Oh Australia is beautiful...beautiful like Brasil!" But he’s traveled the world with his calling, training missionaries in so, so, many missions. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Talking to 50 people everyday is a lot different, but it's cool…I'm just such a missionary. Yesterday Sister Ramos and I knocked 40 doors each.. She was on one side of the street and I was on the other and we knocked and knocked and set up heaps of appointments for this week but every now and then we would get invited to come in and teach right then.. So funny, Yelling at Sister Ramos “now, now, now” and she’ll run over to me. Hahaha!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">But the changes are heaps good, I love being busy and always having something to do or people to see. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We had the funniest moment this week, we were about to teach a lesson at this appartment block and the lady went to drop her keys out the window for us to unlock the door and come up to her...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">But when she drops her keys out the window to us... her keys get caught in this Palm tree!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It was like one of those movies moments where you think “OK, that didnt just happen, what is even our life”. Then you have Sister Ramos on my back with this pole thing we found, jumping to get the keys.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It was so funny. Hahahah! We laugh about this for the rest of the day.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Firstly, we had <i>Conferencia de zona(s)</i> on Friday, with President and Sister Broadbent, the Assistants, our zone and about three other zones. It as so good. It was firstly the best because I got to see Sister Costa, SISTER GUDGEON and all my other favourites on the mission <3 haha! My family right now. But, it was such a good conference! My mission President is the best, he is so inspired, I was surprised he didn't get called to be in the Quorum of the 12 yesterday! But seriously, he’s so great. He talked a lot about the importance of the Book of Mormon and talked a lot about doctrine in the church. It was so good!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">But my companion is such a 'boss' missionary, she just puts up her hand and starts teaching President so boldly, and after she spoke she ended it “in the name of Jesus Christ, amen” and everyone at the conference was Whoa! hahah and President just smiles and nods his head, “AMEN” haha! so good. Sister Ramos is the best!! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Hehe my companion is better then yours. OHHHHH this reminds me, today is 5 months on the mission yaay.. And I woke up to the cutest note and choccies from Sister Ramos! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Friday's conference was the best right, then Saturday and Sunday were GENERAL CONFERENCE!!! Brazil time difference isn't as hectic as Australia's is, so we saw all of conference this weekend. The morning session we saw live at 1pm here and the afternoon sessions we saw live here at 5pm.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">AHHH SO GOOD! I got to see both the Saturday and Sunday afternoon sessions in English at the Stake Centre, but watched the morning sessions in Portuguese since we had investigators, it was such a cool experence watching in Portugues as well (But I got so much more out of it when I watched it in English haha. ;)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">So many goodies, but my favorites are always President Uchtdorf and President Eyring!! <3</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">BUT Elder Holland's talk in the Saturday afternoon talk got the tears going, haha mateee. You’ll understand when you watch it! I was thinking so much about you Mum and Karlie. Such amazing examples of what mothers should be. Love you both so much!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This week, the work continued here in São Bernado! We really have such good investigators BUT we had a pretty average week in finding new investigators... sometimes it's annoying that people have free agency hahahha! joking!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">But FAMILIES.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We have been praying to teach families and we started teaching this new GOLDEN family this week, only taught them once since the husband was away for most of the week working.. But he took with him the Book of Mormon and has been reading everyday. Such a beautiful family. They loved Church last week and were so welcomed!!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Then we also had the best lesson with Kedley and Pricilla this week. We have been teaching Kedley and Pricilla for a solid amount of time now, but oh my gosh I love this family so much. The only problem with them was they aren't married right? Anyway, we had a lesson with this other couple present, Sandra and Luiz, they live in the same apartment complex. We shared that video of Heavenly father, Earthly father and talked about the purpose of families, Sandra bore a powerful testimony of the importance of marriage in the Temple. Kedley and Pricilla know alot about the temple since we have been teaching them for a while and they have been pretty frequent in coming to church. But it was such a perfect lesson and then Kedley said how he wants this, he doesn't want to get married (because he thinks it's just paper) but he will because he wants to be sealed in the Temple in a year! They made a goal!!! Then next minute, Luiz is texting Bishop, starting to plan their wedding! hahah oh my gosh, so perfect.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I can't express with words the amount of happiness I felt in this lesson and after, I am so grateful for the Temple and for families. It was quoted again in conference yesterday what Elder Perry said in his last talk to us, about the older he gets the more clear it gets that family is the centre of happiness. (defs quoted that so wrong, haha) BUT SO TRUE. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">So grateful for my <i>FAMILIAAA</i> <3 </span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">PS. OH my gosh, I nearly forgot to write, my life is so “missionary”. I had my first experience being chased by DOGS this week, FIVE OF THEM! I never screamed so much in my life, they were huge and had teeth like dragons hahahhah! But I'm so thankful for my companion, she lives in the Amazon in Brazil so she knows what to do! She starts stomping her feet and pretended to throw things at them. SO crazy!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Then the next day, I stood on a rat... that is now a dead rat.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">But anyway, since today is a public holiday we treked to our internet cafe place and it was CLOSED... ^.^ So we had to call President and get permission to email from a members home... which he granted. But then we remembered we don't have credit on our phone so we just prayed what member would have and let us use their computer. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This member's house I'm at is the one of my favourite families, they are so happy always, and they live really close to us so they always feed us. ;) And today I got my first present for Children's Day! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">But also today isn't P-day.... so we only get an hour to email...BECAUSE TOMORROW IS TEMPLE P-DAY!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Okay, so this week was honesntly so hard, so emotionally and physcially draining, like so many moments of disapointments. Yesterday was the 11th October, which was the Baptism date for Mayara.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We have been working with Mayara for this whole transfer, love her so, so much but we had a few hurdles to overcome with her, coffee being one of them. Since you have to have one week clean before your baptism, we weren't sure if she could be baptised yesterday.. She had her baptism interview but our DL needed to talk to President.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Since our President is the actual best man, he himself called Mayara on Friday night and had a chat with her to see where her heart is. HE GAVE US PERMISSION. So Friday night we called Mayara and we were all so happy and excited, I was jumping on my bed with Sister Ramos, it was so great.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Then Saturday afternoon at 5pm we had another lesson with Mayara just to check up on her and organise everything for Sunday right? Then she tells us that she doesn't want to be baptised on Sunday (the next morning) because she doesn't feel ready etc, etc.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I was praying my heart out in my head as we continued to teach her as planned, but bearing our testimonies so boldly with our whole souls.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">After we said the closing prayer and as we were leaving, I told her that her Heavenly Father loves her and knows her doubts but tomorrow we have her baptism planned and if she changes her mind that we are ready. She said she would pray, but doesn't feel ready.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">That night was so depressing. All our appointments for Saturday night where false addresses, one was even a BAR ^.^</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">That night we prayed with everything we had that Heavenly Father will answer Mayara's prayer and that she will have a strong and powerful answer and will be baptised tomorrow.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">"HEAVELY FATHER I KNOW MIRACLES ARE REAL, and I'm asking for a miracle"</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">That night I awoke at 1am, dying of thirst. I got up and was drinking water in the kitchen and prayed some more, then I woke up at 4am and prayed some more, then again at 6am and prayed some more.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Once it was 6:30am I was telling Sister Ramos how I pretty much prayed the whole night and she was like, "I WAS TO, whenever I woke up!"</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">When we were walking to church, we were just hoping at least Mayara would still come to church today.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">To our great surprise when we got to church Mayara was already there!!!! We talked to her some more and she continued to tell us she does not feel ready.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Then during Relief Society we got asked to go teach Primary for 15 minutes, no worries. Once we came back into Relief Society, Mayara was crying, another sister in the ward was sitting with her talking to her.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Then we continued to Gospel Doctrine class and I was sitting with our other investigators and Sister Ramos sat next to Mayara and I hear her say: "okay, I will but I don't have clothes,"</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>BOM DIA minha bonita familia (e Amigas hehe)</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">WHAT A WEEK. I'm so sick, it's probably from this hectic weather, like this week we had a 40 degrees C day then two days later it was 15 degrees C and it's been raining ever since.....</span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">WOT. Eu nâo gosto.</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">My body is like, "what the heck is going on??" I have an impressive sunburn and now I'm wearing my coat and boots, so weird. The second coming must be soon I swear! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">BUT IT'S ALL GOOD because I'm SO, SO, SO, SO happy. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">1. Because today is P-day so i can just sleep this cold off and 2. SISTER RAMOS AND I ARE STAYING TOGETHER HERE ANOTHER TRANSFER!!!!!! <3 <3 <3 <3</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We literally jumped up and down and danced all night in the kitchen once we heard transfer news. I was so nervous that I'd be transferred because I have had a solid amount of time here, but once again GOD IS GOOD to me. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I love Sister Ramos so much, she is perfect!!!!! And in these past 6 weeks together my Portuguese is SO MUCH better, all the memebers tell me when we have lunch at their houses how much better my Portuguese is and how much happier I seem! haha!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It's true, because Sister Ramos is so, on SO HAPPY, her vibes rub off me and I'm so much more bubbly, finally getting a personality again! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">OHH, HI BRAZILAN SARAH! Okay, I think everyone just felt how happy I am though my words ;) </span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Last Sunday after the amazing day/baptsim of Mayara we felt like really need to focus on our next investigator that's SO READY..</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Matteus.<br style="line-height: 21.299999237060547px;" /><br style="line-height: 21.299999237060547px;" />Matteus is PEFECT, he comes to church every Sunday and has the strongest testimony, but (there is always a but, right?) He's only 17 and needs permission from his parents, which is impossible because they are SUPER Cathloic and believe that Matteus doesn't need to baptised again etc.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We have really built a relationship with his mum Kaita, in that she loves us! We talked to her after a few weeks again, after praying our hearts out about Matteus and she told us that she has to respect her husband, but if he gives permission, then okay.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">So since then we have been praying for courge and help to talk to Matteus´ dad. He's never home and has a pretty big problem with drinking, so it's complicated. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">But last Sunday we were teaching Matteus and his dad came home, Sister Ramos being the most perfect companion decided that right in the moment we needed to talk to him while he's home.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I said a prayer and then we went, <i>NOSSAA.</i> Talk about courage, Sister Ramos first talks to him about his drinking problem.........</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Ahhh, so nervous, but then talked to him about Matteus and God's will. We told him that Matteus needs to be baptised the following Sunday but we need his approval. At first he was really jokey? Like laughing alot and not really keen to talk but we talked about how beautiful his famliy is etc. Then Sister Ramos boldly promised him that this week God will speak to him through the Holy Ghost and tell him that Matteus needs to be baptised.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">He told us, okay but if I don't get an “answer” Matteus won't be baptised right? Sister Ramos once again BOLDLY told him that he will, and he needed to listen.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Anyway, that Monday after lunch we fasted together; for Matteus´dad to receive a strong answer and that his heart will be softened.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Then the whole week we could not seem to catch his Dad; ^.^</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">On Saturday we went to Matteus' house, his Dad was at work but we talked to Matteus a bit then decided to go to his work……. We caught him for a few minutes and he was happy to talk, YAY. We asked him if he had received his answer and if the Holy Ghost had spoken to him.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">He told us he didnt believe in this stuff, BUT he couldn't stop thinking about it all week!!!! And he woke up thinking about about it. And then he said “fine okay” </span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We literally danced in the street. I can’t express with words how much this is a miracle, like SUCH a change of heart. God indeed listened once again to our prayers.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">SADLY, I can't really end this story happily (YET). Matteus didn't get baptised yesterday, Katia his mum thought that his Dad would never approve, so that's why she said that. She was really upset, so we didn't want to go ahead with Katia being upset. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This week I also had a <i>divisão</i> (Trade off), but I left not only my area but went to a whole diffent zone in Santo André with Sister Ribas my Sister Traning Leader. It was such a good day, her area is a lot richer!! I could not stop tripping out how weird it felt being in a new area, new companion, new investigator eeeeeek! I felt like my first day in the mission again! But it was a fun Trade Off, I really really like Sister Ribas as well. It's cool seeing how different missionaries do things. Like sister Ramos is so bubbly and bold and calls everyone brothers and sisters, where Sister Ribas is SOOO lovely and speaks so beautifuly and smiley and talks deep to your souls. Both such solid missionaries. <3</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Yesterday was also the first day of daylight savings.... loosing an hour of sleep was so rough! ZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 21.299999237060547px;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The start of a new transfer is always the best, lots of new things, even though I’m staying in the same area with Sister Ramos, there's still lots of new things, like goals and zone/district changes ect ect. We had such a mad goal planning session this week, including language goals. Sister Ramos helps me so much with Portuguese, but this week we started her English! hehe! I nearly died when I heard her speak English, like she can kind of speak?! SO COOL , hahhaha, but so weird. She's so smart and knows a million songs in English, aahh, just love her. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I'm so excited for this next transfer, I have a new District Leader now, like they switched the district we are in, so that cool, there are completely different people in my district. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This week we found heaps of new investigators, but especially a legit, an elect called Adailton. He came to church yesterday and loved it! And he doesn’t smoke, or drink or drink COFFEE ( coffee is always the deal breaker…haha) and he wants to get baptised!!!!! We are preparing him for DOMINGO!!! Once again Miracles are real, but stay tuned.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Okay, do I have a story for you or what??? So I nearly got rolled this week.. Sister Ramos and I were coming back from transfers in São Paulo and when we got back to our area, we were walking back to our house dying of hunger right… then Sister Ramos hears “Now, now, now” and all of a sudden we see these three old mates chasing us. Sister Ramos can scream!! She screams “SISTER RUN” and she's screaming her lungs out! Well, I’m so confused (so normal lol) but I ran with my whole soul, like I was on the 'Amazing Race' or something. We entered this garage Salon that’s near our house and they shut the roller doors so fast!! Once we entered the Salon, Sister Ramos looks at me and asks me where my shoes are??? I didn’t even know they fell off while I was running and I wasn’t going to stop to pick up my shoes. Lol. The whole street came to see us after and this nice lady from the spa took us home. We then called President. Once we got home we changed our clothes, and finally had lunch at 3:30 in the afternoon. I emptied my bag as well. I had so much stuff with me, like money, my camera and photos and just so much stuff I would have been too sad to have lost. That day was I was so jumpy, like a little scared but I know we were protected and Satan wants us to be scared to preach to gospel.. and I aint going to let him win mateyyyy! But I learnt a big lesson about the fact that this is Brazil and I need to be more careful.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Also rained this whole week…. When does summer start here ? :( I am still using my Canadian coat…….. but its all good… A story: We entered this home to teach a lesson but after the lesson Sister Ramos' umbrella was gone. And it was POURING!! We got so very drenched, but for some reason it was sooooo funny. And we kept quoting 'Titanic' hahahha!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Since it’s a new transfer, that means new missionaries.. President called me this week to call one of the new American Sisters that was having a hectic time settling in. Man, it took me back. It was such a shock when you first get into the field and don’t understand anything. She was so homesick and cried so much. But it was so cool that I got to share my experience with her and tell her how much she will love her mission. I bore my testimony of the Atonement and how real it is and how it will literally carry her. I told her I love her and how excited I am that we are serving together!!! We literally are serving in the best mission in the world. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">First thing, Germano didn’t get baptised yesterday….sad, BUT he had his baptism interview on Friday and has a new date for this coming Sunday the 6<sup style="line-height: 17.749998092651367px;">th.</sup> So ’ll be praying hard for him!! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I had an impressive cold this week, like hectic… had some rough days as I “endured to the end.. (of the day)“<span style="line-height: 21.299999237060547px;"> </span>Not much you can really do with the flu, took a lot of drugs and used all the toilet paper in our house blowing my nose every two seconds. hahahah! Sister Costa: “Sister Bennallack Where’s my toilet paper!?” SOOOOOZZZZZZ my bad, haha #POORME</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 21.299999237060547px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">But how crazy blessed am I that I am feeling 99% better! wooohooo.<br style="line-height: 21.299999237060547px;" />We as human beings, especially me, take being healthy for granted!! I learned this week that I need to add in my daily prayers how grateful I am for my health!!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">SO our fridge died this week/ over froze and we had to use all our force to open it! hahaha #RIPFOOD. Was rather funny/eventful. SO we had to unplug it for a few days and let all the ice unfreeze and start new…..WE came home to our kitchen flooded hahahah! oh my goodness, so much <i>agua</i>! Late night swimming anyone? But happy to report that our fridge/freezer is working again! Yaaay for grocery shopping today.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Last week was P-DAY <i>de Zona</i>. It was heaps good, although I had a cold.. We played pool and of course Soccer!!! (AHHH I LOVE BRASIL) and we watched a moive!! On the projector with popcorn. It was 'the Prince of Egypt' in Portuguese ,but still so cool!!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We had some pretty amazing experiences this week even though I was zombie, relying on the Saviour's atonement to be able to teach lesson. We taught Kaita again this week, the Plan of Salvation, I was practicing new vocab all day for this lesson. Ahhh <span style="line-height: 21.299999237060547px;"> </span>I have so much love for our investigators that I want to be able to speak correctly, and not like a robot. ONE DAY. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We also taught Kedley and Pricilla again last night, haha ,so funny when we knocked on the door ,the daughter Sofia answered and saw us and them slammed the door on us! hahahaa, its' funny because she's 3! My first door slammed on me in my mission! But the lesson with Kedley and Pricilla went so well, it always does and they came to church yesterday again. Ahhh life is beautiful. We are working with the members more trying to get them involved; we are having a <i>family home evening</i> with Kedley his family and another family who has kids a similar age this week! I’m excited!!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The funny highlight of my life/week happened this week. I don't know, it might be “a had to be there moment” but… Sister Costa and I always sing!! Always always, in our house and on the streets, while we are walking and during “<i>Contatos</i>” (finding)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">On Saturday, it marks my fourth month on my mission, Crazy that I’ve been gone for four months (you better all miss me! mahahha) What a crazy, but amazing four months it has been as I serve the people of Brasil.</span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">“Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: That whatsoever ye shall ask of the father in my name, he may give it you.” </span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">hahhahahah! oh my gosh Dad, your name is so hilarious here. Because in Portuguese the "r" is said like "H" so it kinda sounds like "Hitchardch" but with a Brazilian accent. It's the best!!!!!<br style="line-height: 21.299999237060547px;" /><br style="line-height: 21.299999237060547px;" />TRANSFERS!!!! I'm continuing in São Bernado 5 but Sister Costa is being transfered!!! We have been excited to hear the news all week!!! It was so funny, because we hear the news on Sunday night at 10 pm, so Sister Costa and I made popcorn and waited for the phone to ring! So nervous, that nervous feeling like when a 'hot as' boy calls you for the first time! hahaha</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Alot of changes in my zone as well, but we don't find out who our new companions are or area till tomorrow at <i>Reuniâo Transferência</i>!! SO excited to know. Ahhhh, I'm honestly so nervous about my new companion, like I've been praying all week that she'll be patient with me and my Portuguese!!! But I know that having a new companion will help me grow!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">ALSO I'm so happy to annouce that Germano was finally baptised yestersday! Mate, this was a real miracle. Sister Costa and I fasted on Tuesday for Germano. I believe in the power of fasting, because Germano relapsed this week, and you are meant to have one week clean before your baptism. But we worked with him and our leaders and prayed a whole lot to know what is to be done. But through his pleading desire and a real broken heart we got permission to go ahead with the baptism yesterday. What a perfect end to another transfer!! It was a beautiful baptism service, small but lovely. Germano gave William (our Ward Mission Leader) the biggest hug after he came up for the waters of baptisim, clean and ready to start his new life in Christ.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">But after the baptism service, we left heaps quick because Sunday is the last day of the week to reach all our goals and we had a lot of "lesson with a member present" to fill.T he only way we could maybe reach it is if we did a 'trade off ' with two of the young women in our ward. AHhhh so scary for me, haha, so I had to run the show without Sister Costa. But this was perfect practice for me as I'll have to expain the area to my new companion tomorrow!! But it was a fun afternoon, knocking on doors (clapping in front of doors because this is Brasil, hehe) asking to share a message right now. Kinda proud of my self, of the fact that I had to do all the talking... in Portuguese!!! We were one member short of reaching our goal, BUT we where "sprinting to the finish line" trying to end the week and this transfer with a perfect ending. SO close. But still a solid effort.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Minha nossa</i> (Wow) It is raining so hard right now!! SO today I'm emailing later because I'm emailing from a members home, my faviourite member in the ward, Lene. We got permission to email from her house today since its a public hoiliday here in Brasil and all the shops are closed including our internet cafe.... But so perfect because its Sister Costa's last day here and she can say <i>bye</i> as well.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This week we taught a lot of new investigators, which is always exciting/ nervous. We had an amazing first lesson with our new investigator Jean. Ahhhh! I understood everything I said !hahahah! I memorise phases all the time but don't really understand all the words, but this time I did! hahhaa , so funny.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I felt like a real missionary this week, I wake up in the night thinking about my investigators and getting answers to what I need to study/teach them. It's kind of stressful at times when you think about how important it is, what I'm doing right now. I honestly can't wait until I can really speak PORTUGUESE and express what I would say in English.</span></div>
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<b><u><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">15 September 2015</span></u></b></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Firstly: I know that God answers our prayers, </span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Her name is Sister Ramos, from Porto Velho, Rondônia, Brasil <3 <3</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I am so, so, so, so happy!! I was so nervous about my new companion, but mate, God listens.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">She's so happy, like just a happy person and she is so excited to help me learn Portuguese!!!! So surportive! When we got our names called out at transfers she just screams like “WOOOOOW” and gives me the biggest hug!! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">She is a newbie as well, like she's only been out one more transfer than me, so I'm so stocked to have someone who's in the peak of their mission and excited to be here. (Ahhh she's so great, I want to be her companion for the rest on my mission!) </span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Oh, my langugue has improved so much in a week! SOOO HAPPPYYY! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We had an amazing week this week, despite the FREEEEEZING weather. Oh, my goodness! I ’ve had wet feet every day, it rained and rained for this whole week, except yesterday which was so nice, but it was also only a top of 13 degrees C. Not sure if this is Canada or Brazil? Hahaha, but with an amazing happy companion, the “cold never bothered me anyway” lol, yeah, I just quoted 'FROZEN' hahahha, and thats' a lie as well, I really so not like the cold weather but this week was still amazing despite the freezing Alaskan weather. Can't wait for summer, but no idea when that even is here, but I think is pretty similar to Australia /Adelaide.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We had amazing time finding and teaching new investigators this week. we committed TWO people for baptism!!!! Mayara and Aline, for the 11th October. We want to baptised 4 people this date, so more teaching and finding this week!!!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Mayara especially is just so prepared, before we could even set up a return appt she asked if we would come again! GOLDEN. We still have got along way to go with our <i>novos</i> (new investigators) but I'm so excited.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">With Aline, we taught her on the steps of the <i>favelas </i>our first lesson, then the second lesson we taught her in her home with her whole family and all these random other people she knows! We taught a powerful lesson, I've learnt so much about boldness with Sister Ramos. We taught the Gospel of Jesus Christ about Faith, repentence, baptism, the Gift of the Holy Ghost and Enduring to the end. We had about 15 people in this lesson, with two less actives. Sister Ramos called the less actives to repentance, hahah , so bold, so Samuel the Lamanite! But mate, it was such an amazing experience and I spoke the best I've ever spoken Portuguese. As I was talking I was watching people nodding their heads in agreement. They understood everything I was saying. AHHHH, I knew that God was helping me speak. Such a special experience!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">After the lesson, Sister Ramos gives me and big hug and thanked me for my words and tells me how good my Portuguese is. WHATTT?? SO NICE! I love her!!!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Ahhhh so happy, if only it was 10-20 degrees hotter, haha, Sister Ramos is from the Amazon of Brazil. SO COOL RIGHT!? But where shes from is like 40 degrees C everyday.. sooo she's so cold all the time. 25 degrees is cold for her.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Saturday night we had a movie moment, where a truck drove past us and this huge tidal wave of water from the side of the road got us real good.... but we where already wet so, <i>yolo</i> haha!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">AT transfers, I saw Sister Gudgeon which is always the best but I also saw SISTER NEWELL !!! (insert Jonny B´s beatboxing here) She finally got her visa and is now in Brazil!! For those who don't remember, Sister Newell was in my District in Provo MTC, I love her so much!! When she walked in, both Sister Gudgeon and I ran and jumped on her! hahah! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Tuchu</i> (ciao) </span><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sister Bennallack </span><br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 21.299999237060547px;">I have so much to write and not much time..... eeeeekkk we only get an hour to email today since it's not actually P-day today. Tomorrow will be our p-day because tomorrow is… </span><i>P-DAY DA MISSÂO</i>!!!!!! Woooohoooo P-day with the whole mission. I seriously am serving in the best mission and right now with the BEST COMPANION!!! Ahhh I thank God every night for my companion, she is the best!!! And we leave the house so pumped and excited to work our 'buts' off which leads me to the next part to my epic email for you today..</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I believe in miracles. Okay, so last Monday night at Zone meeting, we had the best training and lesson, (I LOVE the new changes to my zone as well, my leaders are so 'on point' and excited) anyway, we had a lesson about miracles. What is a Miracle? What miracles do I want to see on my mission? Ect ect, and made goal setting.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 21.299999237060547px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">My new zone leader talked about how real miracles are and we WILL see miracles on our mission, and the first miracle that we will see is us, our personal progression. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 21.299999237060547px;">So on point. </span>Such a good zone meeting. So Sister Ramos and I left last Monday night to a lesson with Jean. I had only taught Jean once with Sister Costa and it was only like a spiritual thought/family home evening thing. Jean has been coming to our ward for a few Sundays now, he’s dating a member from another ward Luana, she is also the best.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Since we were so inspired from Z.M we decided that we will invite Jean to be Baptised this lesson!! For the date of 11<sup style="line-height: 17.749998092651367px;">th</sup> October. Miracles happen right?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 21.299999237060547px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We had such a good lesson, I have learnt so much from Sister Ramos, anyway, she invited Jean to be baptised as planned….but she says for the 20<sup style="line-height: 17.749998092651367px;">th</sup>..of SEPTEMBER </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We taught Jean pretty much everyday this week in preparation for Sunday. I wish I had a 'go-pro' strapped to my head so you could have been there for our lessons, mate, such amazing experiences this week with Jean, a “miracle”. My testimony has grown even more literally watching him accept the gospel of Jesus Christ in his life. The Baptimal service yesterday was so so so beautiful as well, ahhhhhhh! My life rules.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It was a pretty cool experience at Jean's baptism because Saturday was also Chloe’s baptism, (CONGRATS AGAIN CHLO, CHLO) and how homesick/sad I was thinking about missing that, but watching Jean also enter into the waters of baptism makes missing family events worth it. Just a solid reminder of why I’m here.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Okay, right now I sweating hardcore trying to type so fast. I know I talk about the weather a lot..probs way to much ,but it so dramatic that it's worth writing about. Last Sunday is was a top of 12 degrees C.. Literally Greenland, but by yesterday the following Sunday it's 34 DEGREES C, what the crazy!??? Stoked about it though, but it won't last long, back to rain this week I’ve been told… but the days of the heat were the best!!!! Can’t wait for summer, summer!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Random story, so we live in a house, but its like an apartment house? So hard to explain but we have people that live above us, next to us and underneath us… so kinda like an apartment. Anyway, we were both wide awake at 4am last night because the man that lives next to us has his TV BLASTING! Like so loud, I don’t even under stand?? So I'm trying to bribe Sister Ramos to chuck a shoe at his window, haha, but she was to scared… I don’t know what happen to me, but I just got up and opened the window and spoke/yelled the perfect Portuguese I've ever said! hahhahah! Telling him that we want to sleep. Sooooooooo funny. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I can’t believe its P-day already!???? Actually I totally can, but this week went so fast!!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">First things first, <i>PDAY DA MISSÂO!</i> Ahhhhhh, was so fun! We went to the Botanical Gardens here in São Paulo.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Like, so beautiful!!! It tromps Adelaide's haha. SO Brazillan, like exotic and GREEN. I was such a tourist for a day. The whole mission met there and we firstly, just got to walk around and take photos and hang with our homies, then after, we had activities physical, like touch or war and all these random other running games that I've never played before and have no idea how to explain, but it was so fun. I got 'mad sweaty' because is was also SO HOT. Mateeey mate, but don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining at all, I LOVE THE HEAT SO MUCH. Come back <i>por favour,</i> it's currently raining and cold again.... but no more about the weather this week ;) maybe next week! haha</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">After games, we had lunch, so much food and just hung out. I got to have the BEST catch up with Sister Gugeon and Sister Newell <3 <3</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Half way through our chatsies we were like, what the heck? Let's just speak English! hahah! so much easier, I'm not going to lie, it WAS SO NICE to speak English, ahhh I felt like I had a personality again. It was also so interesting to hear about their experiences so far. We all have had the same amount of time on the mission but all have different struggles (okay well, we all have Portuguese as a struggle haha) but also hearing about all the things we have loved and currently love was so refreshing, BRASIL <3. SO happy we are all serving in the same mission.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">After lunch we had a talent show. I can't tell you how much I've missed music!! So cool, we all know I love those reality singing shows, so it was nice to listen to people sing songs in English and BRAZILIAN and songs in Portugugese. SOO COOOL</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">After the talent show, President spoke to us for a while, HE IS SUCH A INSPIRED MAN. Ahh, I seriously love <i>Presidente </i>Broadbent, he so motivating and just knows what to say. I am SO blessed to be in this mission.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This week was also the best but on Wednesday after <i>P-day da missão</i> I experienced a tiredness at a whole new level........ my whole body was so sore and we were like zombies ' 911 help', but all goods! We were stoked just to have a chill p-day today. Especially, that it's raining.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This week was ward conference here, which meant Saturday night the ward had a <i>Churrasco</i> (BRAZILIAN BBQ) we had quite a few of our investigators come! And so many members brought friends… ahh, the dream, we got everyone single one of their <i>amgios </i>addresses! THIS week will be so solid.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">SUNDAY: Sunday was the best day of my life, not really life. But sooooo good. Ward conference was so 'on point', so, so solid. All the talks were perfect, since we had 11 investigators attend Sacrament meeting!! ELEVEN!! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sunday was so so busy, we were literally RUNNING from one investigator to the other. So crazy, but a busy Sunday for a missionary is a succesful Sunday!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I can't express the feeling of pure happiness when I see our investigators walk in the church gates, like so, so, so, so happy. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sunday was also the best, because we got to go to the stake centre and watch the Women's Broadcast of General Conference!! It was sad that I wasn't sitting next to you mum, but it made it all goods because I was sitting with my family here in the mission, all the sisters in our zone.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It was like Christmas! I felt a little guilty just sitting and watching but it was so nice! I can't say i understood it in total, since they had Portugues voice overs but I understood a soild chunk of it, just got lost in the last talk with Pres Uchtdof. But I'll read it when the <i>Liahona </i>comes out. ;)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I had one of those '<i>my life is beautiful'</i> days yesterday, like, how good is life? BEAUTIFUL. I love that as humans, we adapt to change so well, and as a missionary you firstly have to change so much (rules, bye-bye English) and it's so hard, but you get to watch first hand people changing their lives for a more fuller and beautiful life. We all are changing together.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I know that God is our Heavenly Father, we are literally His children and because we are His children He wants only the best for us. I am so grateful for my life, and the opportunity I have everyday to improve myself, to come to realise more and more my potential as a daughter of God. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I had such a good week this week, Sister Costa and I <i>smashed</i> it!! I'm so happy it's P-day though, hehehhe!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Well you already know that Sister Costa and I were staying in Saõ Bernardo together another transfer, but we still get to go to transfer meetings to welcome all the new missionaries. Seriously 'transfers' here are crazy, like the transfer meeting is so CRAZY! hahaha, Brazilians are so loud, it's the best!!! It was also cool not being the newbie this time ;) hehehe. We received 14 new missionaries but said goodbye to 21? I don't remember, but most of the ones that left where American Elders. There are no American Sisters in the mission at the moment. OHHH, but one of the new sisters that arrived is from Finland!!!?? How cool. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">At Transferenica, after we state our purpose and our vision, we will always end in <i>“Missão São Paulo Sul, Mehlor Missão do Mundo” </i>Which translates to "São Paulo South Mission, Best Mission in the World".</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Later President Broadbent talked about why São Paulo </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sul is the best mission in the world, it was awesomee! Sorry to everyone else that is not serving! heehee. But one of the reasons is people, there are HEAPS of people, members and Stakes in such a small area geographically. Such a blessing since it's a walking mission, but also because</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> it's such a small mission geographically, us missionaries get to meet together easily, for example for transfers! Cool!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This week was the best week I’ve had teaching lessons! That is, the most lessons I’ve taught in a week. It was awesome because I’m actually teaching more instead of just smiling and saying "yes", and bearing a simple testimony about how I love Jesus!! haha!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">First, we have Cida, we only taught her once but it was the lesson I felt the Spirit the most. I taught about Faith and Repentance. After the lesson we asked her to say the closing prayer which she did and was crying, it was so beautiful. Sister Costa was also so in tune with the spirit she decided to talk about how we help people overcome our trials and problems, for example if people have a problem with drinking, this gospel of Jesus Christ can help.... Well it turns out Cida has a massive drinking problem. It is so cool when you feel in you heart and mind what the person you're teaching needs to hear. Teach people not lessons. PEM <i>(PMG) Preach My Gospel.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">But, we had this amazing, amazing first lesson and set up an appointment for the next day, but she was sadly 'smashed' when we came back the next two days. We will try again this week.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />Next we have, Monica. Remeber Monica? She’s the sick one that we are teaching. Love her. We taught her again this week. She’s progressing and she was at church yesterday as well! SO praying hard for her. The hurdle with her was that she wasn't married to her partner, like all of Brazil seems to be... But this week, she told us that it's over and he's moved out and YAYYYYAYA, Progressing.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />We talked about it the whole way to the chapel which was like a 30min walk. AHHHHH! SO HAPPY! I love, love, love Bruna. She's so funny, she wants to be baptised on a different day than her Mum. Her day! Haha. What a legend.<br />But out of everyone in the whole of Brazil, Bruna can never understand me. Never.... it's so sad! So when we teach her, I have to sit right across from her and talk really clearly and practice the correct words, and make sure she understands by making her repeat everything after I teach. AAgh! But this is probably both good for my portuguese and for her understanding.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">FESTA FRIDAY! The ward activity was so good, we had lots of our other investigators come. Matteus and GERMANO. It was a great turn out and we met lots of members' friends and got their details etc. It's so funny, because they had a fiesta the first week I was here, which was the</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">best but so overwhelming, as I could not understand anyone and I couldn't tell who was a member and who wasn't. But Friday night was the best because even thought I still don't really understand what people are staying, I can get the gist. I now have friends in the ward and it's just great. And, the food was 10/10. I'm in heaven.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">To answer a question on what I study in personal study: It just depends, but mostly the lessons for that day in 'Preach My Gospel'. I always read the Book of Mormon, the same chapter in English and Portuguese. I have also been reading the Bible alot since Brazil is so Catholic, it just depends on the day really. BUT I LOVE PERSONAL STUDY. I try and get ready quickly so I have more time to read the Book of Mormon in English without feeling guilty... Sister Costa always gives me that look when I pick up the Book of Mormon in English and not Portuguese! hahaha, Sorry, not sorry! mahehehehhe!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I think I just had the best week of my life.. okay, maybe not my life, but definitely the best week of my life here in BRAZIL.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">BRAZIL! Sometimes, actually quite often, I still can’t believe I'm in Brazil <3 <3 <3</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I HAD MY FIRST BAPTISM YESTERDAY!!!!! Oh my gosh, it was so perfect!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Bruna was baptised yesterday after church! Bruna is the daughter of Monica, just incase you haven’t been reading this blog...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I have so much love for Bruna, it was so amazing to see the full experience of conversion. From starting to teach her by sharing brief messages, to inviting her to activities, to her wanting to say the opening prayer and recapping what we taught her the last time we visited so she would remember. Her heart was so prepared. I know how much this gospel will bless her life as she’s learning her purpose on the earth, how she truely is a princess of an almighty king who always wants the best for her and is her biggest support system. LOVE HER. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Yesterday was also the DREAM situation at church. What the crazy? We had 8 attend sacrament meeting. EIGHT!!!!! I was sitting with Bruna while we had another new investigator Diego behind me sitting with the ward mission leader, who's a legend, Sister Costa was sitting with other investigators. THEN I look over to Sister Costa and she's gone... </span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Gone to greet my favourite family that just walked in!!! Yayay! So much happiness. Remember Kedley and Pricilla? They attended church a few weeks ago, anyway, they decided to come again on their own and this time they were all dressed in church clothes and ahhhh! so cool.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We taught Kedley and Pricilla last night as well about the Plan of Salvation. It was a good lesson, but I didn't really understand a whole lot as I still need to learn the vocab...<i>awkward</i>. BUT, you could feel it was so good. We couldn't get a member present for this lesson, but we had Mateus come. Mateus is our golden investigator if you don't remember who has the biggest testiomony and attends church every Sunday, but cant get baptised yet because his family is hard catholic and his Mum won't approve yet. But one day!! Anyway, Mateus bore such powerful witness of the truthfulness of our message, so perfect. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />Kedley told us that when I stoped him on the street he was thinking about God in his life and that he felt like we were the answer to his prayer!!!! I love this family so much, they have the cutest two litte girls. We are teaching them this week, they still have a long way to go as they need to find out for themselves that the Gospel of Jesus Christ is for them. (Also they aren't married.... )</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This week was also the best week because we had <i>conferencia de zone</i>. Zone conferenece/training with President and the Assistants. It was 10/10, so good! But it wasn't just our zone, it was with 3 other zones, so I got to see Sister Gudgeon again!! Seriously, it's like seeing family when I see her, she told me that Sister Newell, another sister in our District in the MTC recieved her visa and she arrives next week in our mission!!! So excited so see her, she's been 'visa waiting' in Denver.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Also, while we are talking about food, I cannot eat lasanga without rice. It goes so well together! lols! so Brazilian.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Also this week, we had over night tradeoffs. I left the area this time and was with Sister Mendonça the new 'Sister Training Leader'. Normally, I would've been stoked about it but it was for Friday and we had so many lessons planned including Bruna's baptismal interview and lunch with one of the coolest families. I was so sad leaving, BUT it was a really good experience, It was also so cool to see another area and another house which was a tiny apartment. I had a lot of cool experiences with Sister Mendonça. But when I came back to my area and my bed the next day, I was so happy! hahaha! Sister Costa understands my Portuguese so much more. But a soild, soild experience!!!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Ola Familia (e minha amgias hehehe)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Yesterday was Stake Conference here and we left our house at 8am because we needed to meet an investigator, but it's close to an hour walk out of the way. but he couldn’t make it which was sad. So, we walked back to the metro station. A soild walk done so early, then we caught the bus to the Stake Centre but we weren’t quite sure where to get off… of course we stayed on too long and entered the highway! oh mate! So we get off at the next stop and there you have it, two sister missionaries in skirts, running and trying to cross a highway in São Paulo to get to church on time! hhahaha! It was so funny, but I was also scared for my life. Luckily we prayed for protection that morning ;)</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This city that I’m living in is so giant. Crazy, crazy! My mission is such a different experience to what I thought would be Brazil. When we talk to people while finding everyday, you have to pause about every two seconds or repeat yourself because it’s so LOUD here, all day/night. A 'jabillion' cars and so often when we are teaching lessons, especially in the <i>favels,</i> you have to talk so loud because music is constantly blasting!!! <i>Louca!</i> And I'm not even in the heart of the city! Which brings me to the next topic..</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">So, we got permission to go to <i>25 de Março</i> which is in the heart of São Paulo and it was this street of outlet shopping and markets and two 'jabillion' people trying to sell you things. I was so scared I was going to loose my companion hahahaha! But seriously I have never seen so many people!!! This <i>smashed</i> New York! It was so fun, but so overwhelming. I bought cool things and ate lots of street food WOOOOHOO! It was so fun, however, I am glad to be having a 'cruisey' P-day today! hehe!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 21.299999237060547px;">I feel like last week was was so good and we had so many lessons and investigators that it was too good to be true, which it kind of was…. This week was also solid but a lot of heartbreaking times when investigators aren’t progressing or not home or avoiding you (one of our investigators, hahaha, literally ran away from us when she saw us outside her house, mahahhah! but probably because she just came back for the street bar, lols).</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">But we <i>are</i> teaching a new family, Adriana and her family! I can't remember if I talked about her last week but she is such a gem. She loves us so much and when she prays, she calls us angels, aww bless. We taught them a few times this week but we need to teach them again the restoration, why it's important to have the correct authority. Etc, etc, but so beautiful.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 21.299999237060547px;">One of our other investigators, Carlos, is slowly progressing. Since he´s been coming to our church, he wanted us to go to his church, so last night we went. Oh wow! So different. It was just like in the movies with African soul singers praising with 'hallelujah!' every two seconds, but instead of African's, it was Brazilians in this packed building in the <i>favelas</i>!!!! So Brazilian so cool! What an experience.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 21.299999237060547px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">I am so blessed to be serving here in Brazil because people are so, so religious. When I think about Australia, it makes me sad how so many people I know, don’t even believe in God or have never even said one prayer in their whole life. It was cool being surrounded by good people last night worshiping and singing with them. I’m not going to say anything negative about their church because I don’t think that would be right, but one thing I will say and what I was thinking about the whole time I was there, was I love how our religion adds more. We don’t take away from other Christian religions, we add more. We can answer questions about why we are here and where we are going after this life, and that families are forever and we have the Book of Mormon which is anther testimony of Jesus Christ. My testimony of The Book of Mormon has grown so much. It is literally evidence that the Gospel is true and that God loves his people in this time as well as in times of old.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We had lunch at a members home, it was so cute, they had balloons everywhere! I love Brazilian culture and Rosilene, the <i>lrmã</i> home we where at, made the biggest cake and gave Sister Costa the biggest piece. After I saw her piece, I just asked for a tiny piece but…. They gave me a giant piece as well! </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">They thought it was so funny they were filming me! hahahhahaha! ohhhh, bless!</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">First, and this IS first, now I don’t really quite understand the situation right now since I really don’t understand everything when people talk.. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">But sister Costa did a good job at explaining the situation by acting it out and using basic vocab. Anyways, apparently this police officer killed this guy in jail, who must have been an important bad person? I don’t really know, anyway now all these people in the whole of São Paulo are killing anyone and everyone to send a message to the police or protest? WHAT THE CRAZY? I’ve been hearing about it all week as people are all talking about it, but I didn’t really pay attention to it until our Zone Leader called this week and told us that President want us to all be in our house at 7pm for now on until he says else wise. And not just our mission but all others in São Paulo too? What. So now we leave the house early and study at night.. Sister Costa said at least three people have died in our area. Probs have the story slightly or dramtically wrong, but something is going down and now we have to be in our '<i>casa'</i> at 7..</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Yesterday Bruna was confirmed a member since last week was Stake Conference. It was a lovely experience and she was so excited/nervous. Her mother Monica didn’t come to church again yesterday, we don’t really know what is going on with her, but she has a new bloke and he doesn’t really like us? But we’ll figure out what to do/ what she needs this week!!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 21.299999237060547px;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We are teaching this lady Kaita, she's the BEST, so beautiful. Her husband is a member, anyway, she is so soild. I can't remember if I told you about her last week or not? We teach her on Tuesday nights since she works so much. She's so knowledgeable and reads The Book of Mormon everyday and the <i>Liahona</i> and ahhh, so good, we also had lunch at their house after church yesterday, which was the best food, they always make the most delicious food, not sure if it was Christmas or what? Ehhehe </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">You remember our investigator Germano? Who was meant to get baptised ages ago but broke his arm the day before? Well, his arm is better now ;) no, but seriously he is doing great, he had some really hard times between then and now and yesterday at church he expressed how badly he wants/needs to be baptised. Ah, really Germano? Well we could probably help you with that!! SO we have a baptism date for him this Sunday! Wooohooo just have to pray the he won't relapse with the word of wisdom. I have faith though!!!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><i><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">As a slightly concerned mother, I of course 'googled' the Sao Paulo news.. It turns out that the police </span><span style="font-family: "arial", "helvetica", sans-serif;">officer</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> didn't do the shooting but was shot in a drug related incident. Then some concerned citizens in retaliation to the drug situation and shooting, randomly started shooting anyone with a criminal history particularly drug related.. (something like that..) No one was shot in Sister Bennallack's area of San Bernardo 5, but scary </span></i></span><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>nonetheless.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Well lots and lots of great things are happening here in Brazil, hating the cold but obviously I can't control that so I'm CHOOSING not to be sad about it! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">P-day last week was the bomb.com,</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">SOOOOO good. We took two buses out of our area to this Botanic Park type park, had a picnic and RODE BIKES!!!! It was such a fun day with a whole District, and, it also was really sunny. BLESSINGS!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-size: large;">'Nova Forca' was also the best thing because I got to see Sister Gudgeon!!! I was looking forward to seeing her all week!!!!! It was like seeing family seeing her, even though she was only my companion for two weeks, I have so much love for her!! We spent the whole day together and it was so good talking to her about everything!!! She struggled with homesickness in the MTC so it nice to hear her wise words of wisdom! We also got to talk about our companions and share advice etc, she feels the same way I do...like the struggle is real when it gets quite lonely and when your companion has '0' patience somedays, so it was really, really, good to see her! I can't wait to the next time I see her, it probably won't be for a few months.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-size: large;">This first start of the week was bit of a struggle with Sister Costa. She's been in this area for ages, so I think she's a bit over it ... but she wasn't in the best of spirits and didn't have any patience with my Portuguese. It was a rough few days, but then we had 'Nova Forca' and then this rest of the week has been the best!!! Being wary of her made me really try and speak correct Portuguese and yesterday she even said I have improved this week!!! Silver linings? </span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-size: large;">But all is well, I love Sister Costa, I know we are meant to be together as companions! I've learnt so much from this unique human experience living with someone who is from a whole different culture/world from you and YOU have to try and speak their language and love their culture! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-size: large;">This week we also said goodbye to Sister Rodrigues! She's my Sister Training Leader. She was in a trio and for her second to last night, President gave us permission to have a festa/sleepover!! SO at 9:30pm the three '<i>amigos'</i> came over and we ate and played games and it was such a fun night..... But the next day was sooo long, hahah! so tired, LIKE DEAD but definitely a great mission memory. This was also perfect timing because one of the sisters that came over was Sister Malgby. Love love love her! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-size: large;">SO, Sister Malgby was telling me that there are no other American Sisters in the mission, besides us newbies, three of us (Yes! I just called me and Sister Gudgeon American! lol) There are only three including her! And the other two haven't been out for that much longer than me, so it looks like I won't been getting an American/English speaking companion for like a year. Interesting though!! They had such a problem with visas for ages...I feel so blessed that mine came so quickly.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-size: large;">Another cool this about Brazil is that in our area is this athletics track and everyday we walk past and people are training.... FOR THE OLYMICS next year. On the signage is says 'RIO 2016'! Sooooo cool, haha! we tried converting everyone that was watching, so funny, but they all don't live here in São Paulo...sad.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US">This week was a good week teaching and finding, but we didn't get to teach my favourite investigators, but we are this week so I'm stoked!! That family that I talked about last week, we are teaching today I think? (</span>The Dad was away for work last week.)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-size: large;">This week we started teaching this lady Monica who has serious cancer, and during one of the lessons she ran to the bathroom and threw up, it was so sad feeling so helpless, but she wanted us to stay and finish the message. She said she needed to hear to words of the scriptures to help her. Well, my testimony of the scriptures just hit a whole new level once again! Seriously, such a power and comfort comes from the scriptures. Anyway that night I awoke up at 3am in pain, it was the WORRRST. I was awake for two hours, not knowing what to do just praying that I would be able to go back to sleep, which I did. The next day was Sunday and I was so tired from such broken sleep, feeling really sorry for myself. We went to church and Monica was there!!! In the same clothes that we had taught her the night before, carrying her rag just incase she vomited. I felt so much love for her, because my pain was nothing like the pain that she goes through everyday. I really learnt to forget myself in the moment. I thought a lot about the Saviour's atoning sacrifices for us, and how the atonement of Jesus Christ literally carries us through all pains, both physical and spiritual. My heart is filled with such love and compassion for both Monica and my Saviour, Jesus Christ. I honestly don’t understand how people can face life’s challenges without the knowledge that they are not alone, that every single pain, worry and heartache that we feel, Jesus Christ has felt before so we don’t have to go though it ALONE</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">WOOOOOHHHHHHOOOO!! I made it alive through my first transfer in the field!! All week Sister Costa was counting down the days till Sunday night where we would find out the transfers news!! When the phone rang at 10:20pm Sister Costa screamed for me across our house while I was brushing my teeth hahhaha! I just jumped on her bed and listened to all the changes in our zone.. finally “Ala 5, Sister Costa and Sister Bennallack will continue”. SO we are here for another transfer (6 weeks) which was no surprise at all! </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">But by day three, I was sooooo homesick, I'm in Sao Paulo the biggest city in South America and I have never felt to alone. Sister Costa is great, but she doesn't speak English at all and my Portuguese isn't very good yet. I was getting ready on day three and I was so cold and homesick, then I remembered Mum packed me stockings. OH MY GOSH! stockings = Mum. I was so happy she knows best and packed them. As I put them on, I just burst out in tears. Never have I been so homesick in my life!!! That whole morning during study I couldnt' stop crying, hahahha! SEZ, get it together!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 21.299999237060547px;">This week has been filled with many ups and downs....HILLS ;) Get it? I'm funny!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">But over all, I'm settling into mission life much better this week. Lots of prayers and lots of tears, but the hardest things I can't control like how freezing cold it is here!! (not sure if I'm in Canada or Brazil) and of course the language, but each day I learn something new. I can't wait to be able to speak less like a robot in a few months, and for the weather to get warmer ;) hehe but I'm feeling alot more confident in speaking TO EVERYONE in my basic Portugues! Ahhhh, I have learn't alot of patience as I want to say so much, our message is so important, but I go to speak, and I can't say things, Sister Costa help 'por favor!'</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We don't really have any real soild investigators, we have appointments but eveyone is so 'flakey'.... so sad, BUT we're hopfully having a baptism this week!! woooohoooo, Germano, not that I can take any credit in this one, but it's so cool to see what can become of hard work. Germano has been investigating for 3 months, knows it's true but has been having a hard time with giving up the wild lifeeeee. So hopefully he doesn't relapes this week :)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Since we don't have many soilds, we do lots and lots of finding, which is also good for my Portuguese, people here are very nice but very busy!!! Brazilians know how to work!!! Most people work Monday-Saturday. Busy beavers, but they give you their address pretty easily. I'm yet to really teach a proper lesson that was planned. BUT THIS WEEK!! (hopefully)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Last night I literally saw a dog get hit by a car, THEN it crosses the road and starts chasing Sister Costa and I. Ahhh! hahah! at the time it was so scary I was pushing Sister Costa closer to the dog, both of us squirling like girls, lolololol!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">-Someone important/ famous died here this week, very sad, everyone was talking about it, but I couldn't really understand who he was.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">But so freezing here, our house is all tiled and a basement house, so extra chilly, but the good news about cold, windy weather is lots and lots of KITES were out this week. Brazilians and thier kites, SO COOL!! Everywhere, love how people find happiness in so many differnt ways. I'm buying a kite when I get home. lols.</span></div>
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BOM DIA FAMILIA!!!!!!!!!!</span><br />
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What, what ,what, what, the 'flipping dippidy' crazy?! I'm in BRAZIL !!!!!!!!</span><br />
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I'M SO IN LOVE, I JUST WANT TO CRY WRITING THIS !!!!</span><br />
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So, we got in in the morning at 6am, and it's only 12:30pm right now so not alot to report on yet. Today (Wednesday) might be our P-day but we won't know until tonight, it's ethier today or Friday, so you might hear from me again really soon..</span><br />
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Already I am so in love with the Sao Paulo MTC!!! It's beautiful!!!!!!!!!! So Spanishy/ Latin!!! It is way nicer than Provo, also a lot smaller but I am so extremely excited and GRATEFUL to be here.</span><br />
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Flying into Sao Paulo this morning was magic upon magic, sunrise and mate, this city is HUGGGGGEEE!!! So soooooo beautiful though!!!</span><br />
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I was traveling with 4 others, Sister Van Ry, Elder Mickle also from my Zone, then another sister, same week as me but from another zone, Sister Freeland got her visa last minute and another Elder, Elder Lowe that has been out serving in Oregon for 3 transfers 'visa waiting'. SOOO the squad! None of them had never been out of the Untied States, so they where all freaking out! hahahha! Most of them had never got that east past Atlanta. Lolololol, so funny. Sister B, so proud of them. None of us where sitting next to each other but this beautiful Brazillian man switched with me so I could sit next to Sister Van Ry, OBRIGADA!!!!! He was still in the same seat, just a few rows behind me. He was so nice, we love Brazillians already. Everyone knows what missionaries are here, sooooo cool.</span><br />
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Walking/driving out of the airport was insane, like this is Sao Paulo, my new home!!!!!! It is sooooo cool here, third world then, boom! Fancy Brazil. Alot like Mexico. But from the airport, the first half an hour was sooooooo ghetto like, G h e t t o. Watching all my Americanos was sooooo exciting, one Elder I swear, has only left Utah once, he couldn't stop staring out the window. AWWWWW soooo exciting for everyone!!!!</span><br />
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SOOOO MY DREAMS/prayers came true and Sister Van Ry and I are companions, hehehe but we are also in a threeo with Sister Freeman which is the best, her portuguese is really good! We share a room with us 3 and two Brazillian sisters that we haven't met yet, which is super exciting!!!!!!</span><br />
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All the Bazillian sisters here are soooo nice, like when you go to the bathroom they all hug amd kiss you and speak such fast portuguese that you have no idea what they are saying! hahahahah it's soooo exciting though, like when I was in the shower, they where all singing in Portuguese. I'M SO HAPPPPPYYYYYY...</span><br />
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SOoo whenever it is P-day, we get to go to the Temple which is the best thing of my life. We also aren't confined like the Provo MTC, we can walk around the streets, get a feel for Brazil and talk to people and buy brazillian goodies. SO excited for that.</span><br />
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SO the buliding here is just one big building with huge windows everywhere so you can see the city. In our room, the lady opened our curtains and BOOOOM the city was right there. SO incredible.</span><br />
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Nahhh, but it will be really hard, we have classes later today, sooo I´m nervous/super pumped to get started here, get back in the swing of things. I think it's just going to be us three sisters in the class so that will be SOOOOO GOOD for my Portuguese. No hiding, they'll know exactly where we are at.</span><br />
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I feel so incredibly blessed on my mission so far. I really have seen the miracles of the power of prayer, ready to work hard and to teach these beautiful, beautiful people!!!</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 21.299999237060547px;">My Portuguese is coming, we teach 2-3 times a day, sooooo it just has to come. I can bear my testimony pretty well now, but still have along way to come. However, the Brazilians love to help you. There are only 5 Americans here and me! wool! Then the rest are Brazillian/ Latinos/ Africans.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My zone is the Americans, Mexicans (soooo many Mexicans here, like wow!) and the Chillians. All such beautiful people, I love this culture so muchhhhhh!!!!! We just all speak porta-spanlish, hahhah, but it's so fun. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm excited to see what else is to come.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I had to get up 5:30 this morning for the Temple, we do service at the Temple for two hours before our session. The Sao Paulo Temple is soooooooooo stunning. The inside - Wow, wow, wow! hahah! The ladies that work at the Temple just kiss and hug you and call you 'bonita' all the time, haha, so 'white' here. It's the best. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I love Brazil and the people here so, so, so much!!!! The coolest part about the Brazil MTC is that they really do trust you. We have been able to walk in and out of the MTC all the time! There are random shops all around us! Last week after emailing, we went to the local grocery shops, it was HUGE! Sooo cool seeing all the Brazillian food! ahhh home sweet home.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The highlight of my week was on Thursday where we got to go proselying!! I FELT LIKE A REAL MISSIONARYYYYYY! Mate, I can't wait to get into the field....but I do need these last 2.5 weeks left for my Portuguese! So, we went on the local bus for 45 mins to these markets in the middle of Sao Paulo. (On a side note, I knew that Sao Paulo was huge, BUT ooooohhh my goodness, it's sooooo huge!!!) So these markets are soooo extremely busy and I'm in a threesome which is always more 'awks' to try and talk to people because three is such a crowd, expesh when we are all 'grings' and there are so many people EVERYWHERE, ahhh! But because of traffic, we only had an hour and 12 Book of Mormons! But it was the best hour of my life, talking to people in broken Portugues and telling them that I love this book and it will change their life. "Do you love Jesus???" Everyone loves Jesus in Brazil! And people are soooo friendly here, they hug and kiss you straight away when they meet you!! ahhhh so we did get rid of all 'O livro de mormon´s!' </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">SOOO HAPPY. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Missionary work is truely happiness!!!!!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The streets here are so crazy, the footpaths are so cracked and not smooth, I can't even think of the word right now and also there are mass hills everywhere. Soooo straight skirts are a 'no go' here, can't even walk! hahha, I'm going to have to buy more skirts when I get into the field, but I've got a few for now. Anyway... so we got to the church and it makes me soooo happy, like playing sport with my Brazilian and Latinos friends in the hood, members are always at the chapel as well as playing basketball, it's really cool. But soccer is banned, since there isn't any grass. </span></div>
<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 21.299999237060547px;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 21.299999237060547px;">After Relief Society last week, this lady that was speaking came up to me after and was so excited to me, meet me because she lives in Sao Paulo sul (south) boundaries and wants to have me over for dinner! YAY! </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.299999237060547px;">Brazilan food is the best thing of my life, I just can't even describe it adequately. IT'S SO GOOOOOD! We have the best meats for lunch and dinner, all you can eat rice, beans and salad and fruit - but it's sooo not good for you, this amount of food. I try really hard to eat well, but it's not a self serve thing, the ladies give you your food when you come in and in Brazillian culture it's rude not to take their food that they are so proud of.. soo I just don't eat desert. But it's all good.</span> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 21.299999237060547px;">I wish you could all taste the goodness I've been eating.</span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 21.299999237060547px;">We commited our 2 investogters to baptism this week!!! Soooo cool!! My </span><span style="line-height: 21.299999237060547px;">Portugues has come a long way in a week but I get so lost when people speak at a normal speed. </span><span style="line-height: 21.299999237060547px;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Boa Tarde FAMILIA!!!!!!</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What? Man as if it's already P-day again!!! I swear it was only yesterday! The phrase "the days feels like weeks and the weeks feels like days" is way too true!</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">This week was obviously amazing!So many ups and downs, but in a good way? You're always stressing about something as a missionary even when your investigators aren't even real! Haha! Learning a language always will be a little stressful BUT missions are mostly lots and lots of ups!!!! l'm laughing most of the day!! Funny story time for you all.. already laughing again while writing this! </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">We teach a minimum of two lessons a day but up to 5 or 6 some days so you have lots of funny, funny, Portugues moments. Sister Van Ry (my companion/ best</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">On a more spirtual note, we get to have a weekly doctrine class on Sundays taught by the MTC President, Pres Swensen. It's seriously one of the highlights of my week. Such a powerful speaker. And since it's just us 5 "Americans" (hate always being called an American, hahha I'm actaully Brazilian guys!) It's just a little class for this English doctrine, and we get to know President and Sister Swensen so well. Sister Swensen even used me in an example last Sunday in the devotinal, so nice. Anyway, after the devontional on Tuedays Sister Van Ry told Pres Swensen that even though Provo MTC just got the hear Elder Holland speak, we get to hear you speak each week which is pretty much the same. SO true though, so inspired. He loved that we said that thought! Then in doctrine class on Sunday he tells the class that he has a surprise for Sister Bennallack and tells me that he got the devotional from Provo MTC with Elder Holland speaking just for me and that everyone is watching it that night! WHAaaaattt THANK YOUUUU!!! He's the best!!! </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">So Sunday was even more cool as we got to watch the Devotional, of course I don't have my notes with me but the biggest thing I got out of it was the knowledge no one can be converted if I don't open my mouth, so simple right? But just like Satan held Jose Smith's tounge, he'll do anything to keep us from opening our mouths. That hit home to me beautifully, I am not afraid of talking to people, that doesnt scare me 1% but I do get so nervous about how average my Portuguese is, but "fear not, the Lord is with me". SO this week when I doubted myself and when I couldn't find the words, I would just drop that sentence and try to express what was needed to be said in a different way. The people of São Paulo need to have a change to hear this amazing/ exciting message that we missionaries have, and I WILL open my mouth. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Elder Mbera is the funniest Elder from Malwai, Africa who spoke to us with the craziest stories about people always dying and how he was so hungry one day and didn't have any food, so he prayed to God to send some food. Then a bird flew straight into the window and BOOOM food, cooked and ate the bird for dinner.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">But I'm so excited about getting out there, also pretty nervous about my Portuguese, but it will get there! So this will be pretty short as next time I write, I will have SO MUCH to say!!!!!!!!!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This week ,we had 10 new Americans come. Yayayaay, English speakers. We got asked to do a lesson 'demo' for them on stage, then right before we went on, they told us "of course you'll be speaking English" as it's their first day etc. Ohhhh, yayayya! We get to preach the gospel using big words, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">BUT what the crazy? I couldn't even speak English!!!! It was the craziest thing I've ever experienced, talking about the gospel in English..NOPE.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">HAHAHAH where Sister Van Ry is going, Belo Horizonte is also a big city but also where all the farms are and they have this HILARIOUS accent that my teacher was putting on. hahhaha They also have rodeos there, so funny she's going country!</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16040288745441832336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3895885841950179065.post-49975214789012139092015-05-30T15:45:00.002+09:302015-07-19T18:07:58.338+09:30May 2015: The Missionary Training Centre - Provo<b><u><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">6 May 2015</span></u></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Reporting to the Provo Missionary Training Centre. Photo's courtesy of Kelsey & Donna Mercer. Thank you so much Kelsey for looking after Sister Bennallack!</span><br />
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<u><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">8 May 2015</span></b></u><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">My P-DAY is on Tuesday's here in the MTC.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">But the reason for this email is, I have the greatest news ever for you mumma, I get to call home for Mothers Day on Sunday!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">(but Sunday here, so I'll actually miss Mothers Day. GaaaaaAAAyyyyy.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I'll be calling at 3:00-:3:30pm Provo time which I think is 7am-ish Monday morning, so Mumma bear you might want to be late to work. I only get to talk for 30 mins but that will be BEM!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">My companion is Sister Gudgeon from NEW ZEALAND. (She lives in Utah now.) She's the best, she's also going to Sao Paulo South and there is also is one other sister in my district that is going to Sao Paulo South. Yeah boy!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">America is so American and I forget that every time! haha! Portugese is so beautiful but it's going to be hard. Sister Gudgeon and I practice alot though!!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The MTC is crazy, so many missionaries everywhere! I'm learning lots, growing lots and I'm so stoked to be a missionary. The first day I got here, I didn't have a companion as the American missionaries don't come until Wednesday, so I was a floating missionary and throughout the first 24 hours I had 6 different companions! hahah, but that was fun. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Everyone loves that I'm Australian which is fun, but sister Gudgeon still has her kiwi accent so it's the best.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Pray for me and my Portuguese por favor</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">O</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">la minha familia!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What a crazy 1.5 weeks it has been!! like, CRAZY</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Missionary life is the best, like I'm so happy here and wouldn't want to be anywhere else!! Can't imagine what my happiness levels will be when I'm actually in BRAZIL!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">My whole district dream of Brazil every night hehehee <3 <3</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Minha Compiniara is Sister Gudgeon. She's grown up both in Utah and NZ, her family moved between both frequently for her Dad's work, but she currently lives in Ogden, Utah. SHE'S THE BEST and she still has her kiwi accent so it's fun being the foreigners together, she is such an amazing example!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">My district is made up of only 6 sisters including Sister Gudgeon and I. It's the first 'all sister' district in the Portuguese program ever. YEAH BOY #thatsisterpower lol</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">But I love my district so much, we literally spend every single waking moment together. Study, eat, study, study, study, teach, eat, study, study, eat, study, study, study, sleep. hahah so crazy, but SO many hilarious times all day!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Life is the best, and my portuguese is slowly coming along. It's harder than I thought it would be, but it's such a beautiful language. We mostly speak in Portaingles all day which helps the language come along. We teach lessons, everyone....in PORTUGUESE!! ahhh crazy but you slowly see the improvements in every lesson. Our first lesson we had to teach in portuguese was on day 3 of being here.... 911 help. It was short but powerful, it's not our words that convert anyways, and we were able to somehow get our message across. So scary/cool.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">My language skills would be better if I did go to the Brazil MTC but it's okay, Provo is.... America! haha, nahh all goods mate, Provo is a cool experience. SO many missionaries here!!! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">But if another sister in my district gets her visa in the next week, they'll send her and I to the Brazil MTC and Sister Van Ry in my district does have her Visa approved so I guess we'll see if it comes this week!?? I'm not expecting it though, and leaving Provo would be so bitter sweet, love my companion and my whole district and Zone. At least I know that I'll be in Brazil in 5 weeks!!</span><br />
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'<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Being a missionary is just the best, it still trips me out sometimes, haha, but I'm SO HAPPY all the time...so tired all the time, what is even sleep? Like by the end of the day you are so mentally, physically and spiritually exhausted, I found a good scripture about this that made me lol!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">1 Nephi 47:17 "....Behold, I am full of the Spirit of God, insomuch that my frame has no strength."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">(just so spiritual haha ;) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Tchau, Sister Bennallack</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">O</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">LA AMIGOOOOOOOOOOO'S</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So there is a Sister in my district, Sister Van Ry who has become one of my eternal bestfriends!!! I just love her so much, and I was praying the other day how sad it is that I won't see her, or get to be her companion after the MTC, since we are going to different missions in Brazil!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Selfie: Sister Gudgeon, Sister Van Ry in the centre</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Then on Thursday we both get called to go to the front desk....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">They causally hand us both flight plans. TO BRAZILLLLLLL</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">OH MY GOODNESS! OH MY GOODNESS!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">FAMILIA I'M GOING TO BRAZIL!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">They are sending us to the Brazil MTC,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">WITH MY BESTFRIEND, SISTER VAN RY!!!!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">She got her Visa last week, we are also flying with an Elder from our Zone.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We leave Tuesday morning at 6am. (It's still Sunday here at the moment.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I am so overwhelmed with joy and excitement right now! How extremely blessed I am to be able to have the worlds' perfect mission call and then experience both the Provo MTC and the Brazil MTC. I will finish my last 4 weeks at the Brazil MTC. I have been praying my heart out and fasting my soul out that I'd get help learning this language.... then that night I find out I'm going to Brazil.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">WOOOOOOOOOOWZAAAAAAAAAAAAA</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I don't even know what else to say, I'm so excited!!!!!!!!!!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I'm so happy,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">SISTER B OUT</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16040288745441832336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3895885841950179065.post-56081586078191875892015-05-30T15:44:00.001+09:302015-07-10T23:03:52.374+09:30May 2015: 'Setting Apart' as a full time missionary & ADIEU<br />
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<b><u><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">S</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">unday evening: 3 MAY 2015</span></u></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sarah was 'set apart' as a full time missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, to serve in the Brazil Sao Paulo South Mission for a period of 18 months. Her time is now dedicated to serving the Lord and the people of Sao Paulo South. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">L-R:Stake President, Pres Korte, Sister Sarah Bennallack & Bishop John Orth</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A TIME FOR CLOSE FAMILY AND FRIENDS:</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The CROSLEY Family</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The FOSTER Family</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The HERRICK Family</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Besties: Cassie, Lucy, Sarah & Ella</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nathan & Karlie, & nieces, Zayla & Chloe</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Going to miss these two...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">All five siblings: Karlie, Jonny, Sarah, Tom & Michael</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sarah with Dad & Mum</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">OUR FAMILY: L-R: Tom, Nathan, Karlie, Zayla,Sarah, Chloe, <br />
Michelle, Rick, Elyse, Jonny & Michael. (We missed you Jordan!)</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Family, togetherness for a few more moments until we meet again in eighteen months...</span></div>
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<u><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Monday 6am: 4 May 2015</span></b></u><br />
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The time has come, we are so proud of you Sarah, parting is bitter sweet..</div>
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… We will miss you! All our love and best wishes! ADIEU until we meet again xxx</div>
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16040288745441832336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3895885841950179065.post-12878556813087959612015-05-30T15:42:00.002+09:302015-07-10T23:04:09.524+09:30December 2014: A CALL TO SERVE<span style="font-size: large;">28 December 2014:</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Sarah's mission call came while she was away at the the YSA Convention in Sydney. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">We all had to stare at this envelope and wait until she finally came home to open it!</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">AND FINALLY….</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">….EARLY JANUARY 2015..</span><br />
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"December 16, 2014</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Dear Sister Bennallack:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">You are hereby called to serve as a missionary of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. You are assigned to labor in the <b><i>Brazil Sao Paulo South Mission</i>.</b> It is anticipated that you will serve for a perod of 18 months.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">You should report to the Brazil Missionary Training Center on Wednesday, <b><i>May 6, 2015</i></b>. You will prepare to preach the gospel in the <b><i>Portuguese</i></b> language.."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"REACTION OF THE CENTURY, STILL CAN'T BREATHE! BRAZIL HAS MY HEART ALREADY!" - Sarah</span><br />
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