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At the "Parque dos Passaros" (bird par), a nice little break from reality! |
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| Is it art, or a statement that soccer turns people into happy brainless infants? |
Today was a good
day. I bought two new pens! #itsthelittlethings We spent our first half of the day as a
normal P-day, then after lunch we went out and worked until 9 P.M. There is a Brasil game and we aren’t
allowed to leave/work after 3 P.M., so our second half of our p-day will be
tomorrow.
We went to the
“hospital” today to see if we could help Sister B. She hasn’t felt well since December and there has been very
little done to try to help her.
Hopefully we can get things figured out for her so she can start to feel
better. She is a really tough girl,
and she barely complains, but I can see that she is just feeling really crappy.
June 17, 2014
Today was our P-day which we spent eating popcorn and watching church movies. While every other human being in Brazil was watching the World Cup, we were rooting and cheering for the people building the Salt Lake Temple. When our DVD player froze during President Monson's biography, we both instinctively exclaimed, "NOOOooooo!" Funny how things are different on the mish! Anyways, it was a chill day. I wrote the family some letters.
June 17, 2014
Today was our P-day which we spent eating popcorn and watching church movies. While every other human being in Brazil was watching the World Cup, we were rooting and cheering for the people building the Salt Lake Temple. When our DVD player froze during President Monson's biography, we both instinctively exclaimed, "NOOOooooo!" Funny how things are different on the mish! Anyways, it was a chill day. I wrote the family some letters.
June 18, 2014
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| "Freezing" in the rain. |
Today was a great
and busy day. We walked a lot,
taught a lot, and the Lord just really blessed our work. I’m loving my companion a whole lot,
and we just teach easily and really well together. We taught 7 sit down lessons today! I think that is a record for me at
least. We taught several lessons on one side of our area and then took a van to the complete opposite side of our area to teach another great set of lessons. We have a good group of people t teach in Ancora.
June 19, 2014
It was a dull day
today. We held our weekly planning
meeting, then our lunch fell through, then our teaching appointment fell
through, then we has to leave on a 4 hour bus ride to Andarai. At least we got to rest and talk and
relax a bit on the bus ride. We
once again realized how blessed we are to be in this companionship. I just stinkin love my companion and an
growing to really love our area – especially now that our house is in order and
we are focusing on teaching.
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Sister Brown with our very first district leader, Elder Van (I think there is a similarly awkward picture from October of last year....) |
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| Reunion with Sister Brown |
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| Wall collage |
June 20, 2014
We had a special
mission conference with ½ of the whole mission. I got to play prelude for 1
whole hour, and it was awesome!
(Totally worth lugging my heavy music binder all the way to Andaria.) The conference itself was an amazingly
spiritually uplifting, reflective, and inspiring conference. We have these conferences every 3
months so sometimes they get to be routine. But this conference was exceptional. It is neat to be able to look back and
measure my personal progress. One
of my favorite parts of conference is hearing testimonies of the newbies and all of those ending their
missions. There is such a
spiritual change that comes within these jam packed 18 months-2 years. I can feel myself changing, growing, and learning throughout this journey. I hope that when my time comes to go home, that my family will be able to see the change that has taken place (minus the sunfried thinning hair and the zitty sunscreened face.)
President and Sister Lima were pretty emotional this conference - it is literally the last time they will see many of us. They were uncharacteristically complimenary. it was the first time thatI've heard them give us "atta-boys/girls" or a "you're doing good things!" Usually conferences are a long list of, "REPENT, you sinning missionaries!" It was a good change. We got to each individually shake their hands and say goodbye. We ended up leaving late and didn't get back to our area until 12:30 ---LONG DAY! We were super wiped out.
President and Sister Lima were pretty emotional this conference - it is literally the last time they will see many of us. They were uncharacteristically complimenary. it was the first time thatI've heard them give us "atta-boys/girls" or a "you're doing good things!" Usually conferences are a long list of, "REPENT, you sinning missionaries!" It was a good change. We got to each individually shake their hands and say goodbye. We ended up leaving late and didn't get back to our area until 12:30 ---LONG DAY! We were super wiped out.
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| Out-going Mission President Lima and wife with Sister Burris |
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| Out-going Mission President Lima and wife with Sister Colvin |
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| Elder Van and Elder Siebers |
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| Sister R, Sister C, Sister Z |
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| Sister Rosario with Sister C |
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