This week was the last week of the transfer so Sister Ramos (my trainer) and Sister Lima stayed in our tiny little apartment for the week. On Thursday they all left, including Sister Souza, and so we stayed in a trio with Sister Ribeiro. Trios are kinda rough, but Sister Ribeiro is awesome so it wasn't too bad. We found out about the transfer kinda early, and we are all going to stay, and Sister Shields (who has been Sister Olsen's companion) will be Sister Ribeiros new companion! We spent like 3 hours deep cleaning our apartment today for her lol
One of the recent converts has told us that she is our new mom on the mission and that we need to tell our mothers back at home that we now have another black mom.
We aren't super close with the ward members here, just a couple because we have Family Home Evening usually every Monday night with a group of us. Our group includes Felipe, he served a mission here and he moved back here and he is basically a missionary with us. He always organizes these Family Home Evenings, etc. Then there's Daniel, he is returning to the church after living a really non church life. He has such a strong testimony and a cute little son who just got baptized. He's fluent in English and German. Then there's some recent converts that are also fluent in English, and help us out a lot. Then some less actives who we reactivated; one is Elin and she is pregnant about 8 months, and then Vagner, they've been through some rough stuff, but they're super great now. That's basically our Family Home Evening group
Sister Jarrett and I have started making a bucket list (pic attached) for when she gets home. It's kinda fun having an American companion because then we can actually plan stuff to do after the mission!
So the other week some random lady gave us 4 avadcados idk how to spell advocados and they finally were ready yesterday, so we made guac and went to a member's house and had tacos with doritos and that was great. (photo attached)
Joao Francisco had an interview this week and he passed! and then he made us more pao de queijo...However we just found out that he is the leader of some prayer circles in varios churches? Not sure how we are going to deal with that, but he at least went to church on Sunday. And he showed us a picture of his ID, which basically clarified for us that he was a part of the Brasil version of the FBI.
We also got a call on Friday from a reference we passed on. One day we were walking on the street, saw some dude at a bus stop and felt impressed to talk to him. We got his number and passed it to the missionaries near his home. Usually missionaries who just receive a number don't really follow up too much, but we got a phone call saying that he was going to be baptized the next day! I couldn't believe it, he told us that we were inspired by God to stop and talk to him so that was super cool to find out!
I also recieved a package this week which rocked because it's like Christmas every time we get a package. Valentine's Day here is on the 12th of June, but since I'm living with 3 Americans now, the decorations are much appreciated (pic included) Oh and one more thing! Since Jarrett and I now have matching bags (thx mammmm) we took pics
We arent super close with the ward members here, just a couple cause we have family home evening usually every monday night with a group of us. The best one is probaby Felipe, he served here and he moved back here and he is basically a missionary with us. He always organizes these family home evenings, etc. Then theres Daniel, he is returning to he church after living a really non church life. He has such a strong testimony and a cute little son who just got baptized. Hes fluent in english and german. Then theres some recent converts that are also fluent in english, and help us out a lot. Then some less actives who we reactivated so now theyre normal, but one is Elin and she is pregnant about 8 months, and then Vagner, theyve been through some rough stuff but theyre super great now. Thats basiclaly our family home evening group
Oh and one more thing! Since Jarrett and I now have matching bags (thx mammmm) we took pics
Thank you so so so much for the package!! I love the new bag, it rocks, its just what I wanted. And all the beef jerky and food wohoo!! We put up all the decorations, thanks for keeping the traditions alive haha! Thank youuuuuuu
Boa Semana!
Sister Cecil
Pictures: The first one is because we literally had 0 money because our allowance hadnt gotten put in yet and that was literally all the money we had
The second and third is when we went on splits with a member so we could have better numbers and i went on splits with her then the others just...dont have an explanation.
The shots were fine, i just ignored what was happening. Living with the sister trainers is good, i wouldnt want to live with just 2 normal missionaries for sure.
