Semana 42 HAPPY NEW YEAR

this week was good!! we had a lot of fun on Christmas! we (all the missionaries in the mission) went to santos and we had a mission conference. president and sister cabral talked and we sang and ate! the food  was so good!! one of the sisters made cinnamon rolls for us and i felt like i was in heaven. after we all ate some of the missionaries performed for us. some sang, some danced, some did some really funny dancing and singing together, and some did skit thingys. i dont really know. it was funny! then we got our packages and went back to our areas.  this week we had sister Martinez with us for a couple days. the sister training leaders are in a trio and they don´t have an area they just travel every single day and week so they will be with us a lot more now. but she came with us and the few days before Christmas we went to members houses and sang to them and then asked them if they wanted us to send us singing to someone else so we got a lot of referrals because of this. it was cool. this week was full of singing. yesterday we went to an investigators house and  i dont even remember what happened but he wanted me to sing in english for him and then he played the guitar for us. and yes i sang solo. i felt so bad for everyone there. haha their poor ears. youd think that because we sing so much id be getting better but I´m just not meant to sing. 🎶🎤 its not my gig.. haha but anyways this week was good! we found some more investigators but they all work on Sundays so they didn't go to church. oh and Saturday night the elders called and the ward mission leader passed by their house and said that two missionaries needed to talk and i was delegated..... i had to talk about using members in the work but i talked more about the atonement and how much the savior loves us and he gave everything to us so that we can have the gospel and because god restored everything through Joseph smith we can know the atonement more fully in the church of jesus Christ and so if we love Him and we love our friends and family we should help them use the atonement by taking the sacrament every week and so the members can do the work of the lord and offer everything the gospel has to offer for the people they love. :) it wasnt so bad. every time it gets just a little easier but i still tremble and get nervous... we are going to make some goals this week and start the new year!!!:) hope you all make at least one goal and plan how you will achieve it:) love you all happy new years!!!:) 🎉🎇🎆🎊🎈🎉🎉🎉

Semana 41! MERRY CHRISTMAS

hello frens:) miss you all and i hope you all have a wonderful chirstmas!! this week was good. i dont have a lot of time but i just wanna share an experience real quick. so this week i was having some trouble and i asked the elders for a blessing and it was so crazy what he said. i havent ever told anyone here that it has been hard for me let alone what has been hard. only the lord knows and so when the elder was giving the blessing i knew that it was from our father in heaven because only he knows what i needed to hear. the power of the priesthood is real! all you have the priesthood should always be worthy to hold it and those who dont should use it when they need to.:) i hope you all are remembering the true meaning of christmas!! the birth of our savior. not just a dude but our savior. he will save us and only him!! we had the contata de natal and our chior sang. it was good!! love you all and i hope you have a merry christmas!!!!!!:) loves from brazil!! 

o ps our water had a problem this week haha 

Week 40

this week was good! i felt the spirit a lot! we found lots of new investigators! we had transfers and both me and my comp stayed in the same area! yay! when the stl´s came this week both me and one of them hit the 9 month mark. it was cool. its hot hot hot so hot. i sweat like crazy. we have to drink like a thousand bottles of water. we are learning a lot! i dont remember really what happened this week. it was good though. we went to mcdonalds with the a member last pday it was cool. my comps first time eating there. dont worry she liked it. the choir thing is next sunday so pray that we can do good and please pray that our investigators will go to church! hope you all are having a good day. love you all!!!:) 

Semana 39

this week was good. we had the sister training leaders with us for weekly planning and it was kinda weird but tudo bem. we did a lot of service this week. we painted a house and it was cool. we also did  a lot of little services for people. one is kinda funny. so we live by the freeway and the overpasses are kinda different one side goes up and then where you pass across the freeway is flat and then on the other side it goes down. its like a giant u thats tilted over the freeway and there was a lady with a shopping cart trying to push it up the over pass andwe asked her if she wanted help but she said no but then she was still having a lot of trouble so we just went and helped anyways and she was happy when we got to the top but she just took over and said thank you i can go from here but she couldnt turn the cart to go the direction she wanted so we helped her turn in and were about to help her more but she just said that shed get a man on the other side and there was another girl with her too so we let her go and when we were walking down the other side we looked over and she was running down the other side and she looked over and waved. you guys dont even know how funny it was because she was chasing her groceries and looked over and waved at us. i almost died of laughter. things are getting better with the recent converts here. we have one who wasnt reading or praying. she was just going to church becasue she like the missionaries and she has been reading and praying and yesterday when we went there she asked us to help her make goals :) it  was awesome. and another was having really bad health and shes like 87 but when we went there yesterday she was jumping up and down because she was feeling so much better and her life is finally getting better! it was awsome:) you guys need to watch the video the church made for christmas! in english i think its something like the savior was born. its way cool:) makes ya stop and think:) i hope you are all having good holidays!! :) love you all!!!:) 

Semana 38

bom dia america! :) so this week was good. we found 11 new investigators! whoo hoo! but a lot of them were going out of town this week so not a lot were at church. but it was good. we went on splits with the sister training leaders this week and it was good:) they are so awesome. we had a zone conference with president and it was so good. i learned so much!! so i had a lot of spiritual moments this week it was awesome. one was when we were teaching a couple (they already went to church with their friend in guaruja and they already have a bom and they are just way cool) but we were teaching them and when my comp was testifying about what we had taught i felt the spirit so strong! it was amazing:) and then we finally got to watch the womens part of conference! it was awesome because we got the liahona that has the conference talks a couple days before and so when we watched and marked the liahona as we were listening the spirit was wonderful! there were a lot of others too:) oh and a funny thing happened this week. so we ran out of gas the other day and so we called the gas dude and he brought us some gas and when he was leaving we paid him and my comp talked to him about the church a little bit and then we asked him for a receipt and he went to his truck and grabbed some chicken flavoring and gave us the chicken flavoring and then drove away without a receipt. so we were kinda confused and didn't really know what happened but we had to leave so we decided wed call the next day for him to bring a receipt.. but when we were walking to an appt we saw him driving and so i ran over to his truck and told him that we needed a receipt and he said hed bring one to us. so a couple days later he showed up and gave us a receipt. and then last week when we did a thing at the church about genealogy he stopped by and wanted to know more but he was working so we left him with a couple of papers and a my family booklet and he left and then when we were on splits with the sisters we saw him again and he told is he was looking for a path to follow and that he felt like this was it and so the sister i was with set a date for him to be baptized and he accepted and then he gave us his number to mark another day to meet with him at his house because he didnt know what day he had off this week. so saturday we called him to remind him about church sunday and when he found out who it was he said I PRAYED  all excited and so i said oh yeah and how was it all excited too and then he said this.. ``god said you will be my wife and ifi need to be baptized in your church to do that i will do it.`` then i had to explain to him that i will not marry him and that he needs to read the book of mormon to know if he should be baptized and then after he said oh ya i was just kidding but i really prayed and this is the path i should follow.. so it was wierd but we gave him to the elders. so ya. good bye i love you all:) 

SEMANA 37

what a week! i finally had a Sunday that it didn't rain!!! whoo hoo! there were 7 investigators there! some live in other places though but still it was good! we had to drop maria because she wasn't keeping any of her commitments and not going to church so that was sad and hard to do. maybe shell be ready for some other missionaries in the future. the days that it didnt rain it was hot hot hot! i thought i was going to melt into a puddle. but i know it will just get worse. gotta drink lots of water!! our numbers this week were bad but we are trying to find new people to teach but we aren't finding anyone at home when we go there. we got a Christmas tree! yay for Christmas!:) there was a cool thing about family history at our chapel this week and we got to help a little. there was a non member there and she was really interested but she lives in another state but we invited a bunch of people. i was handing invitations to everyone even the people riding bikes. :)  in church we watched a tiny clip of Ephraims rescue and it looked so much like Utah and i realized i could never live in a city for a long time. i need outdoors a little. but  we watched it to show us and example of priesthood. and i thought for a long time about that. priesthood is one thing that is different in the church of Jesus Christ and all the other churches here. i don't remember if ive already told you guys this but there are a whole lotta churches here. just because some dude wanted to open a church in the garage. but even the more common ones and ones that are bigger. some have the sacrament some have other things the same but not one of the other ones has the priesthood and when Joseph restored the church he didn't just restore the organization but the power to do all the things of god too. how lucky we are to have this and to have worthy men to bless the lives of so many people! the rest of the week was good too! oh and another thing. the dude who delivers gas to us stopped and asked for a pamphlet and said that when he doesnt have to work he will go to church. and we have an investigator who is a members boyfriend but we gave him to the elders in the ward because they can go to his house and we cant but we have already taught him a couple times so he knows who we are and he saw us the other day on the road and chased us down just to tell us he would go to church. but imagine this. two girls walking down the road and all the sudden we see some dude following us chasing us out of the corner of our eyes. #scarymoment but he didntgo to church so i dont really know what happened. this week was just a lot better than normal and i am feeling a lot better. our numbers are bad and president probably thinks we arent working but really we are and really were trying to get better. if you have tips ill take them:) i love you all and i hope you all have a great week:) 

¡Semana 36!

time is flying by like crazy! its crazy!! i feel like this week didn't even happen. we met a woman named maria this week and she is way cool. shes probably like 65ish but she gets so excited when we go to her house. she smokes... a lot! she started smoking when she was 11 and she smoked like 4 packs a day. this year she went to the doctors and shes lowered it to like 1 pack a day  but still that's a lot. shes had a crazy life. she started working as a cook for some lady when she was 8 years old because her mom didn't take care of her. started smoking at 11, was married at 15 and had her first kid at 16. her husband is in a wheelchair and two of her kids are having surgery this week. we made a goal with her to stop smoking and she has been cutting back but she still is smoking.. i told her i would quit eating chocolate if she stopped smoking and so its been a week and i haven't eating anything with chocolate. its a lot harder than you think. also a less active in our ward asked us to visit her so we went there yesterday and when we just got there the elders showed up too to give a blessing to her husband because he was hit by a car. he was in pretty rough shape but he was so grateful for the elders and he said he would go to church next week. but what is more crazy is this.. their daughter is 9 and when this happened the mom walked into her bedroom and heard her praying and she said god please don't let my dad die like this. please give him time to repent first. it was amazing. when the mom told this story the spirit was so strong in the room! kids have a huge influence on their parents! Sunday was the primary program in our ward and there was a lot of less actives and part member families at church because of this. it was awesome!:) this week was a good one! oh and i cut my hair... i don't know why people who cut hair here always want to cut more than i want but the always do. she cut like 6 inches and i almost cried.. oh and yesterday there were a bunch of fire flies by our house. it was so cool! everyone is preparing for Christmas already!!!!!:) whoo hoo!!! this is the house next to us! anyways please pray for maria and have a great week! love you all!:)