Happy Mothers Day!! I just want to say real quick that I'm so thankful for my mom. She's been the best influence of righteousness and love for me in my life!! Love you Mom!!
(This email covers the last two weeks)
On Tuesday we had splits again! we had splits with 2 elders named Elder Veronez and Elder Alvarado. We were able to visit so many new people and learn so much from them. Elder Veronez is going home this transfer and he is definitely trunky haha. Our day was so good and we were able to learn a few methods to better our teaching and how to find people to teach more quickly.
On Wednesday I had the longest day of my mission it seemed haha. We worked a TON and had a lot of good results which was really great.I was a little bit sick which didn’t help with the longness of the day haha. But when we get working as hard as we possibly can, I can feel the power of the Holy Ghost working in our lives more then ever. It’s such an amazing feeling that I want with me forever!
On Thursday we had another great day of work! Me and Abarca happened to end up in the richest part of the city and we decided to play a game where we make contacts to the biggest most beautiful houses. If it’s my turn I choose Abarca has to make the contact and vice verse. We didn’t have too much success but it was super fun nonetheless haha.
On Friday we left the house at around 10:30 to visit this person we contacted the day before but he wasn’t available sadly. Then we continued our day. Today I had a pretty fun experience were I was talking about the first vision and I was about to tell this women what Joseph Smith said and I said “right now I’m going to "cantar: exactly what happened at this moment” haha. I accidentally said that I would "sing: Joseph Smith’s experience. So everyone started dying of laughter haha. Usually the moment when we relate the story of Joseph Smith it’s super serious and full of the spirit but not this time. Oops. I was trying to say contar which is to tell in Portuguese but contar and cantar are so similar it’s easy to mess them up. Also, at night Abarca was trying to bless these two women that we were teaching (through a prayer haha) and while he was saying the closing prayer he tried to bless these women by name and he totally forgot their names hahaha. He would say “please bless........ this family with peace and safety. And we ask thee that......... may receive a response through prayer that this gospel is true. We thank thee for this opportunity to be with .......... these sisters.” Haha he did this three times. I was pretty much dying inside because I couldn’t laugh during the prayer.
On Saturday we were able to teach three families that are super amazing! Also, today it rained so much that the streets were pretty much rivers haha. Our last lesson of the day went good but then we had to walk home in the rain which wasn’t so awesome haha. But the temperature here is definitely dropping which is a huge blessing!
On Sunday we had 6 people go to church with us and Abarca had to give a talk. He was pretty nervous haha. I don’t know why though, we literally talk with people all day long haha. After church we pretty much continued our day like normal. It was still raining outside but not too bad.
Another week
On Tuesday this past week we ate lunch in the house which consisted of lasagna, rice, potatoes, juice and farinha. We left the house to go to the Redloviaria and check when our bus arrives for Chapecó for a zone conference. After that we were back to the area that we were back to the area of the apartment when Abarca said he wasn’t feeling too good. So we went to the apartment to check his temperature and he’s had a fever of 102.6. We walked to the hospital and I waited in that dump waiting room for four and a half hours just for Abarca to receive a prescription for medicine. We got home at around 1:20 in the morning and slept haha.
The next day Abarca’s fever was even worse. His body was hurting and he was super hot then super cold. We went to the hospital again. This time we were lucky enough to only wait 6 and a half hours for the doctors to say, “Oh just keep taking the medicine we prescribed”. Haha we thought at first that Abarca got Dengue which is a deathly virus from mosquitos but luckily no.
On Thursday we didn’t do much of anything because Abarca was sick. Still we left the house at around 3:00 because Abarca was feeling better. And we went to the bus station to go to Chapecó. We got to Chapecó and Elder Rojas and Ferreira picked us up then we walked to their apartment. That night there were eight elders in the apartment. Me, Abarca, Rojas, Ferreira, Rodriguez, Moura, Webb, and Dos Santos (my father). We all ate pizza, laughed, joked around then went to bed because we had zone conference the next day.
Friday we all woke up at around 5:30 left at around 6:30 and got to the church. We had an amazing zone conference and we learned a ton. We did this contacting activity where as a duplicate we leave to do contacts for a little while and Me and Abarca were able to get a baptismal date haha it was awesome! After that we came back to the church had out interview with. Presidents, left, got on the bus and came home.
Saturday nothing much happened. We got money from a member for lunch so we went to the store and bought our food. Then after that we visited some people during the day then came home.
Sunday was really good! We had stake conference transmitted from Chapecó. After that we visited some families that we weren’t able to visit because Abarca was sick. I was able to drink "Guarana Jesus" which is super good and is only made in Maurañao. Today there was a ton of lightning which was super AWESOME! But that was my week! I want to say that I am thankful for all that I have and I’m thankful for all those that read my emails and email me!
This week went by super quickly and not much happened haha we had our lessons and taught a bunch of people which was great!! we were in the middle of a lesson on Sunday at around 4 when our president called and told me that I´ve been transferred to Jaragua do Sul!!! My new comp is Brazilian and I´m super excited. But I'm sad also because we had some baptisms lined up these next few weeks and I wont be able to be here for them. But we all have purposes so I'm not worried haha. I'm also sad to leave Abarca, over the past few weeks we have really bonded and its going to be sad to say good bye and also its so sad to say goodbye to the members!!! But nothing else really happened this week.
Hope you all had an amazing week and I love you all!!!!
x
