tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91146115355903487742024-02-19T01:27:08.222-08:00Sister ChatwinSavannahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05065476966301761280noreply@blogger.comBlogger60125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9114611535590348774.post-44302298914318958652015-01-07T19:08:00.001-08:002015-01-07T19:08:34.999-08:00January 5, 2015<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">I´m going to be in for a temperature schock in a few weeks. I am looking forward to the cold again. :) Is it snowing yet..</span><img class="CToWUd" goomoji="003" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/e/003" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0.2ex; vertical-align: middle;" /><img class="CToWUd" goomoji="gtalk.00E" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/e/gtalk/00E" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0.2ex; vertical-align: middle;" /><img class="CToWUd" goomoji="softbank_ne_jp.1BC" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/e/softbank_ne_jp/1BC" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0.2ex; vertical-align: middle;" /></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Our week was a bunch of working in other areas and not ours. We were out of the area until <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_132161380" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Wednesday</span></span> because of a Council meeting with the leaders in the mission. We were in Manaus. It was fun because I got to spend a lot of time with Tereza and family. It was fun to see everyone again! Monday night we did a family home evening and they invited Fernando to come. He really is getting ready to serve a mission. It is so exciting to see the change the gospel has made! Other than that, it was a very tiring three day trip to Manaus. I got to see one of my old companions and some of my other friends! It was great to see them all again. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">After the meeting on Tuesday we went to the temple. Going to the temple was a miracle and by far my favorite day of my mission! It was a miracle. I saw members from all of my areas in Manaus at the temple, including Parintins!! :) We were outside of the temple taking pictures when my companion tapped me on the shoulder. There was Marcos and his dad waving from the other end of the parking lot. I screamed while running to them. I thought that I was never going to see them again, expecially since I am leaving in two weeks. Marcos told me that his wife Irleia was there too. I don´t think you have ever seen such a big smile on my face. It reallly was such a miracle to see some of my favorite members all on the same day in the temple. Heavenly Father knows how to give some good gifts. :)</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">It is weird to think that I only have two more weeks here in Brasil. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">That family we spent Christmas with is really fun. We ate lunch with them yesterday. They let me sit in the hammock while we were waiting for them to finish cooking. Ana Alice is our neighboor. She is always giving us food, etc.. She let me make the beans the other day for lunch! It was fun. :)</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">All in all I am way excited to see you all in 2 weeks!! I cant wait for the day to arrive. We still have a lot to do in this area, in regards of divisions and trainings... etc. It seems like there is not enough time in the day to do it all.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">I had a good week. A really good week. :) I was getting nervous about coming home and having to say goodbye to all of my friends. It was really messing up my ability to work. I finally was able to turn everything around with the help of the scriptures. I decided to read in my english set. I looked up fear in the bible dictionary and started to read. I read how it was a feeling unworthy of Gods children. I stopped and made a list of what I was worried or preoccupied about. Then I kept reading. I finally came to the conclusion that the solution to get rid of those feelings was to really repent. I noticed that I hadnt really been repenting lately. Therefore as a consequence I began to build up all of these feelings of anxiety and fear. I said a prayer to Heavenly Father that moment. I prayed with confidence that He would forgive me of my sins, just like it said to do in the Bible Dictionary. Just like that all of my anxiety was gone. It is like I am a whole new person. It is crazy cool how the gospel works. This experience really opened my eyes as to how there is a consequence to every decision we make. My faith has grown so strong these past few weeks. I really am excited to come home and begin sharing the gospel from another persepective. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Mom, your crazy. I am glad that I was not home to witness that experience. lol. Remmi should cut his hair. Its so long that I dont recognize him anymore. Guys. I really am excited to see you in the airport!!!</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Anyways. I am looking forward to talking with you on Christmas. I am sad that you werent able to go to Colorado, but I am glad that I get to talk to you. How is the weather in Oklahoma... cold i bet. I am not so sure how I will handle the cold. It rained today and I got cold with all the wind. Boa sorte. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Last week was our Christmas Conference. It was a lot of fun. I got to bear my testimony because I was leaving in a few weeks. Two of the Elders that were in my district last christmas were in my zone again for this christmas. It was fun to see how much everyone has changed and how quickly time flies. :)</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;">So in my area we have been having difficulties finding people to teach. Which is uncommon in this mission. This is the first area where I have had people flat out reject what we have to say. We were kind of bummed out and resulted early on in the transfer to spend a day contacting people in the streets. Anyways, we made contact with an artist. He was sneaking pictures of us on his camera while we were giving him a friendship card. He told us he would go to church if we came to his exposition at and indian culture fair. He works a lot with the indigenous tribes here in Acre. Anyways, we couldnt leave our area to go to his exposition. We didnt see him again. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;">This last week I kept thinking about him and I told my companion that we needed to go see him again. She had forgotten who he was and wasnt very interested in going back to see him. This Saturday we were on the bus coming back from doing divisions with some other sisters. We took a bus we had never taken before. As I sat down I heard someone behind me say, hey! Your Sister Chata right?? I turned around to see who it was. No one remembers my name here, so I was very surprised to see this artist. We talked with him briefly and explained to his friends why we were so far away from home serving missions. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;">We invited him to church and he said that he would come. We passed by his house to leave him a Book of Mormon later that day to read. Come Sunday when we got there he didnt remember saying that he would come to church with us. He was very polite, and conversing with him was very interesting. You could feel the Spirit strongly. He started talking about his son Amon, and how we should invite him to church too. Ended up that Amon came to church with us, but his dad had something come up that he had to attend too. At church everyone made a big deal about Amons name and about how he wasnt a member yet. We sat down in class and a Sister (irma) pulled me out of class to tell me that she had talked with his dad before. She told me about how his dad had a vision and that is where he chose the name for his son Amon. We showed Amon where his name was in the Book of Mormon. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;">This family is very intelligent and active in learing about other cultures etc. We wont be able to pass by again until Wed. or Thurs. because we are in Manaus for a meeting. But I really hope to be able to baptize Amon before I leave. It looks like I will be spending my last week here in Flores because of a training that President will do with those who are leaving. Therefore my last sunday on the mission will be in the ward where I began my mission. It is a great blessing to be able to see everyone that I love so dearly. It sure will be hard to leave here!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;">p.s. </span></span><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;">That experience was inspirational because if we hadn't been having difficulties finding people to teach we would have never resulted to street contacts and therefore we would have never found this family. There is a plan in everything. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; font-size: 13pt;"><span style="color: white;">Right now we are looking for a family to
baptize before I leave. A miracle happened and we finally found the street
where a family that was baptized but never confirmed lives. We are going to do
a family home evening there tonight. I hope that everything goes well and they
accept the gospel again. Seeing as it has been more than one year they will all
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before coming here. She is filling me in on all that has happened. My second
baptism, Fernando, is now preparing to go on a mission. The rest of his family
moved to Manaus from Columbia and were also baptized. It is amazing the things
that can happen. I remember how it was a miracle that we found Fernando to
teach. It made me really happy to see the fruits of our efforts. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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missionary work when I come home. I have really loved to do retention work.
A.K.A visit the less actives. They are so much fun to get to know and help come
back to church. Plus there is almost always someone in the family or visiting
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Hi Dad!</span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">I sure do love you all a lot! :)</span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">I would love to have a late christmas with all of you when I get home. :) It will be a lot of fun!</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">So our big family home evening this week was a sucess! So many people came, and they even brought less actives! :)</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Our lunch yesterday was super yummy. Brazilian style pancakes. Then for dessert we had the best açai ever!!</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">I am having the time of my life working in this ward. It is so much fun! I am really going to miss it here.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Lots of things happened this week. I started a piano class for two little girls in the ward. I am the pianist for ward choir now. They are going to sing for our ward conferance.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">We had interviews, and conference with President Castro this week. Elder Aidukatis of the seventy also came to give a training. It was a lot of fun. Sister Marinho and I called all of the sisters to have them bring or borrow a pair of heels to wear at conference. We wanted to make Sister Castro really happy. She is always talking about how the sisters need to make an effort to be pretty and dress out best for conferance. She was so happy that she made us do a fashion walk and recorded it on her phone. Sister Marinho thinks she might have put it on the mission facebook page.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">We learned a lot about planning and about how we need to do a better job.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">My companion goes home in two weeks. YAY. It is fun talking about all the things we have forgotten about. Poor thing. She doesnt want to leave. She only spent the last 5 months of her mission in Brasil. Other than that she spent it all in the states waiting for her visa.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Funny story of the week. After lunch we walked out to see that the chickens left poop and pee in her shoes. I sent the pictures to you in another email. I couldnt stop laughing it was sooo funny. She was mad, so I took the advantage to record a video on my camera of her reaction. lol.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">I sure do love you all a lot! I am excited to share all of my stories with you soon!</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was super funny. I got a really funny video of her reaction. We were laughing for a long time. </span><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;">Also , I decided chickens are related to dinosaurs. I was listening to a rooster crow the other day, and thought it sounded more like a t-rex than a chicken.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">This week was really good. And it was really hot! First of all we set a goal as a district to find 75 new investigators this week. Sister Escobar and I were able to get 13. That is a record for us. Normally we get 5 or 6 a week without trying. I really enjoyed having this goal and trying to look more earnestly for people to teach. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">One of my favorite investigators right now is Michel. He is one of the young women´s boyfriend. She comes to every lesson with us. They read their scriptures together and she always answers all of his questions before our next lesson. I love that when we teach him he is completely honest if he has doubts or questions. He answers questions when we ask them... and basically he is just perfect! Normally we spend a lot of our time teaching the poorer people, but by far I love teaching the educated people. They aren´t afraid to hide what they think. It is so much nicer. We have some wealthier areas in our area, and I want to start proselyting in those areas. We may not be recieved to well, but we will find someone who is ready. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Today for p-day we got up early to go walk the trails in the forest at the college. We went with our neighboors less active husband. Unfortunately today is a holiday, so their were armed guards at the entrance that said it would be better to come another week. Lots of people like to do drugs and bad things in the forest. And all of this people were free, because it was a holiday. So instead of walking through the forest we did a 3 hour loop around the forest. 3 HOURS OF WALKING. It was fun, but I sure was tired. I took lots of cool pictures. We found an ants nest in a tree, a cinammon tree, I think I found soapberries. I tripped over a plant with thorns and cut my leg. After that we went to centro and did some shopping. It was a fun p-day, but I would rather walk through the forest next week. I am never going to walk around it again. I did see a lot of houses though, and thought that they have probably never heard the gospel, and also that if they have they probably never went to church because it is so far away. That is the hard thing. You find a lot of good people to teach, but they just dont understand enough to make the sacrifice to come to church. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">We spake in church last sunday. We had like a 20 minute notice, because the other people who were supposed to give talks didnt come. I decided to give a talk I had already given in Manaus. I talked about the tree of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Roots=Christ Trunk=Atonement Branches=Principles of the Gospel Leaves=us. I explained that leave get their nutrients from the branches which get it from the trunk which gets it from the roots. It is a nice way to think about how we really are reliant on the Atonement of Jesus Christ as our support. Without the Atonement out tree is nothing. If it weren´t for the Atonement we would be nothing. Everything is founded upon Jesus Christ, everything that gives us the proper nutrients to grow strong!</span></span></div>
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Unknownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10309866983525585910noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9114611535590348774.post-20865906738468271442014-11-24T16:14:00.000-08:002014-11-24T16:14:05.314-08:00November 10, 2014<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="color: white;">BE CAREFUL MOM. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">You should tell Ashley that she should come to school with me. I think that she would love it there. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">As for work.. I don´t know what I am going to do. Temping for Halsey again would be nice, but is also quite a drive and a lot of gas money. Start looking for options??? Maybe start having Bruce look for options where he is too. I don´t know what will happen, but I know that I need a job until the end of April. It might be good to spend some time living with your family... I dont know. It would be good for them to have an example around, and maybe I could help Laurel out a little bit. Sei lá. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Last week we did a big ward family home evening in a members house. Only a few members came, but they loved it! We talked about faith and then did a egg race. (the one where you have to hold the egg in the spoon) Only that the people with the egg didnt know that there were going to be sock balls thrown at them while they were trying to walk. They loved it and were laughing a ton. Adults are just like little kids. Anyways we are wanting to do this everyweek. This week the family that volunteered to host is planning on going to the temple in January. So our message is going to be a few morman messages about temples, and afterwards they are going to split into groups and build temples out of gumdrops and toothpicks. It is going to be great. I hope that more people start coming. Our goal with this is to strengthen the testimonies of the members and less actives of the basic principles of the gospel. IT IS GOING GREAT. Last week we invited an irma to bear her testimony. It was the first time ever, and she loved it! Now our goal with her is to get up next fast sunday and bear our testimonies together.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">I really like it here in Acre. It is super pretty. It can also get stinking hot. Mom, there is a pretty neat college in my area. They have a big lot of rain forest with some trails in it. We are going to try and get some members to take us there for p-day. I saw some people who were studying foresting ( i think) last week. I am really excited to look into this college. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">We went to centro today and there were a lot of cool things. We sat down and chatted with the hippies for awhile, and then we came across an native indian. He was really excited to be talking with americans who knew english. He said that he had never had that experience before. We left a book of mormon with him. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">I definitely prefer coming back during the summer if possible. Especially seeing that I am in a different state right now, it would make things difficult if you were to come pick me up. :) But then again, I will be back in school and I think I only get 1 week off during the semesters. But then again it is a whole week. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">It´s like you guys moved or something. Funny to think about all of the changes that can happen in a year and a half. New ward, new stake.. I am excited to see what it will be like. So where is our stake center now? Bartelseville??</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">As for adjusting to the new area... its going good. This area is really big and we travel by onibus a lot. I love it here. It is super pretty and the weather is nice. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">All of the members are really trying to speak english, there is an irmao who served in the states, and one more who learned a little english while on his mission. This last irmao, i love his family. They are so much fun! He loves making american pancakes, and the sister that was here before me gave him some maple extract. I was helping him make it one night and telling him about how you can put chocolate and fruit in the pancakes. He got super excited. We are going to mark a night with him just to make breakfast food. My companion Sister Escobar is going to make homade torillas so we can make breakfast burritos too. It will be a lot of fun!</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">It is super weird to think that I will be coming home soon. It is just unreal how fast time flies by.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Irmao David is a really fun person! He really likes to go biking. He passed us a reference once, and when I finally found the guy in his house, the first thing out of his mouth was, which one of you bikes? I said that I did a little, we tried to mark an appointment to come back and he tried to get us to biking with him, and just teach him during the bike ride. He was a vetrinarian, so he was hardly at home and that was the first and last time I talked with him. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Sounds like you all had a blast at halloZOOween! Haha, I wish I could have been there. It would have been so much fun! I am exited to do fun things with you all again. :) </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Ya´ll are going to love the presents i have picked out for you. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">I sure do love you guys! :)</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">I am staying here in Noel Nutells, probably for the next two transfers. My comp Sister Crane was transfered, and I am now with Sister Jensen. This will be her last transfer, so of course I will probably stay next transfer in this area too. It sure is weird staying. I got used to moving around, but it was nice not having to pack. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">I am excited for <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1332685051" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">next sunday</span></span>. Our ward is going to be having a big devotional about missionary work. My comp and I are going to speak along with the ward mission leaders. I hope that is will be very spiritual and that lots of people will come!</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">It sounds like you all had a lot of fun on your cruise. You will have so send some pictures. Sounds like life is moving on for all of you. You guys are such missionaries. Parabens na sua trabalho. :)</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Okay so we like to Disney music when we get home at night. Some of the girls have music from Frozen. I am going to have to get that CD when I come home. Those songs are just so cute! </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Our ward mission leader is the best. <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1332685052" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Sunday</span></span> he took two of the young men out to do visits and they marked two baptism dates with some of our old investigators that their mom didnt sign the baptism form. Hopefully we will baptize them this week. It would be a great animator for the ward before this big devotional!! We have a lot of potential baptisms, just that either the moms arent signing the form or they have to get married. So this transfer we should have a lot of weddings and baptisms. I am super excited. Also this area is really huge. I walked so much last week from one side to the other doing visits, and I still havent seen every part of our area. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">I´ll be a Sister Training Leader again. I hope that I stay one for the rest of my mission. I really like doing splits with the other Sisters. :) It is fun to see their areas, know their problems, give trainings and still have an area of my own to work in.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Okay, well I love you all a lot!</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">I hope you have a week full of missionary experiences and lots of joy!</span></span></div>
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Unknownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10309866983525585910noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9114611535590348774.post-10079643688977627502014-08-04T19:12:00.004-07:002014-08-04T19:12:46.685-07:00July 28, 2014<span style="background-color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;">It sounds like you guys are going to have a lot of fun! Be safe on the boat!</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">I am excited to have lots of experiences like that with people speaking portuguese. It will be super fun to see their faces. :)</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">I am glad that warrens prayers were answered. I am not looking forward to taking calculus when i get back, it is going to be a lot of work. I am happy that they are going to be starting ar Notre Dame. Have they already moved?</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">It is neat to see that so many people are going on missions! It really will be the best decision they will ever do. :) I would trade the experiences I have had for anything. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">I am jealous that you are going on a cruise, but I wouldnt want to go because it should be hott. Spending summer here in Manaus makes you greatful that air conditioning exists. I know that you two will have so much fun! </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">My week was good. :) Transfers are next week, so we will see what will happen. I want to stay with my comp because I like her so much, but then it is all up to the Lord. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">ANYWAYS, I love you all and am so glad that you are my parents. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Sorry I didnt have much to say today, but I have sent some pictures and included the stories behind them. :) Those should be fun for people to read. :)</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">YES. The time is flying by so super fast. July 31st is around the corner. 1 year on the mission, the day of transfers. We will see if I stay here again or not. My companion will be going home next transfer, so she´ll probably stay in this area, I could stay with her too. I don´t know what will happen. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Sunday I had a great suprise!! Halfway through Sacrament meeting a yound women walked in. I about screamed I was so happy! She was a member of our branch in Parintins, she was here in Manaus visiting family and decided to come visit me at church! It was so good to see her again. I really do miss Parintins. I think that has to have been my favorite area by far.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Before it I will be at home in your loving arms again! I wrote Bruce today. I told him that I would really like to see and spend some time with him and the family after the mission. I also thanked him for helping out with school. I really do love your family mom. I have some of the best childhood memories with them. They have taught me so much! They really are a great example.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">As for bringing home parasites, I hope that I don´t bring any. But, who knows? I remember how Remmi loved those shows! Maybe I will be one of those real life examples... :P</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">This week, we hope to set a few more baptismal dates. Some of the Elders made a dvd for us with some mormon messages. We sat down and watched them for awhile with an investigator of ours. She is really stubborn, but just watching these movies she felt the spirit so strongly and started asking about baptism. Which was a miracle, because when we try to talk about baptism she just shuts down completely. Then while we were walking home (gosh, just thinking about how much we walk makes me tired) another miracle happened. This car pulled off to the side of the road and rolled down the window. We were fully expecting it to be some weird guy asking us if we wanted a ride again, but this time was different. It was one of my old investigators that I had in Gloria. The week we were transfered was supposed to be his baptism. It never happened. He was a perfect investigator! I asked him if he had been to church, and he said that he went one time, I asked him if he would go sunday. I hope he went. He took down our number. So I am hoping that he calls so that we can teach him and get him baptized. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Well anyways, I love you guys!!! Before you know it we will be home laughing and having so much fun. My companion always laughs at how blong I am. I am not that blond when I speak portuguese, but I am still the same dumb old me. lol. It gives us lots of reasons to laugh. :) </span></span></div>
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Unknownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10309866983525585910noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9114611535590348774.post-3115179085240383082014-07-14T20:32:00.001-07:002014-07-14T20:32:10.407-07:00July 14, 2014<span style="background-color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;">I am so excited that youth conference will be in Nauvoo. We were watching some of the church history movies, and I really just love all of the learning experiences the saints had in Nauvoo. :) It really is a wonderful place!</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Sterling driving? I hope he has improved a lot since that time he drove me around the parking lot in the jeep... Maybe he can drive me home from the airport in 6 months. That´s how it was when Warren got home from his mission, I got to drive him somewhere because I hadnt been driving before he left for his mission.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">I bet mom and Remmi just had the time of their lives. I always loved my adventures with mom. :) She is a good travel buddy.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Send some rain our way! Once again it is summer time here, and it´s the worst. The sun can be so stinking hot. Like it is super super super hot during the summers here. It really stinks walking outside all day in this heat.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">So this week we got to do some divisions. I feel like I spent more time on the bus than I did walking around on my feet. One of the sisters had to go to the hospital to pick up her x-rays and then talk about the results. Her area was so super far from the hospital. When we finally got back, I never wanted to step foot on a bus again. The bus we took was packed full of people, like sardines in a can. Sweaty gross people. Think about crowd surfing, and then doing that in a bus. Trying to get through the center aisle was death. Everytime someone moved I got squished and I only had one hand to try and hold on and not fall on the man that was sitting on the step beside me. I covered my arm in germ-x after we got off because of all the sweaty people that we squished against me. I am so glad that we have cars, and that the mass transportation is not by bus in the states.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">The other area where we did divisions if full of hills. Not tame lame sauce hills,but calf killing hills. My legs were sore the next morning. There is a hill in our area that is huge and we call it death hill, but after visiting santa marta, death hill is tiny. In santa marta there is a hill where they had to cut of the top and re-level it, because the cars couldn't make it to the top. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Our baptism this week fell through. His mom didn´t let him be baptized. It was really sad and we tried to do everything. This little boy was so excited, the only problem is that the mom is not letting him right now. We even brought our amazing ward mission leader, who still teaches like he is a missionary and we couldnt get the form signed. His mom just didnt want to come out of her room and talk to us. We are going to be creative in trying to talk to her this week and see if we can´t help her understand a little more about the gospel. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">I am loving my mission and the things that I am learning. I love teaching the gospel, to the members and investigators. I love giving talks in church and sharing my testimony every fast <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1654379250" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">sunday</span></span>. I love playing the piano, conductiong, helping out in classes and what ever I am asked to do. I love being here in Brasil! </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Soo you might have gotten a picture from Manuel again. We saw him at the temple and took a picture together. Out of the blue we decided to dye our hair last p-day. It was meant to only have the tips dyed blonde, but I guess the lady doing my hair changed her mind about that and put a lot more blond in my hair. Dont worry though, it looks good... Just that in the picture youll see from Manuel,, well that was a bad hair day. My hair was super dry and it looked like Hermoines, but I didnt really care because we were just going to the temple. I promise it looks a lot better when I straighten it. I actually have a picture of it, but my camera has a virus so I cant send any pictures until I find someone to take it off. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">So there is this family that I just adore here. Mainly because the two little boys are super rowdy and their mom is always yelling at them to settle home. Saudades, kkk. Anyways I just adore their son Lucas. Everytime we go to there house he yells, OÌ SISTER CHATA! Its so great. This sunday I was conducting again and I saw his dad tell him to go up and bear his testimony. He went up to the front and back to where he was sitting three times before he finally stayed and sat down. When it was his turn he just stood there and breathed into the microphone and started to shrug his shoulders. He mumbled something along the lines of.. I dont even know why I go to church! Then he said something about baptism, and ran back to his seat. No one could hold it in, we were all laughing! I just love little kids. :)</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">This last week was super busy. We had a bunch of meetings in Alvorada and we also went to the temple. So we hardly stayed in our area. This week and next we are going to doing divisions with the sisters that we take care of, so we will be doing some traveling. Our ward is great and they are going to help take care of our investigators. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Anyways, things are going great here. I really love serving a mission, and my time here is running out. But 6 months is still a long time. :) I was talking this week with a young woman who was debating serving a mission because she didnt want to be far away from her family. I told her that you have to be far away from your family to serve a mission. Because you find parts of your family in the members and people you teach. That is what makes you love doing missionary work. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">I got a letter from Brother Halsey this week. I always like getting his letters! There is not a post office in my area, so I cant respond to any of them yet. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">I know i´m getting fat, but its not my fault I promise. These members, its like you dont have a choice! At lunches you have to eat until they are content. There are some Irmas, that want you to eat everything they make. They also have desserts at almost every meal. They seem to only drink soda. And there is always someone giving you snacks after lessons or having you come to dinner. They also get sad, de verdade, if you dont eat a lot. Every activity has food. All we do is eat. It´s just part of the culture with the missionaries They always say, COME MAIS SISTER. Its kind of funny actually. We were doing visits with an irmao, and when we were offered food, he just said that he didnt want any and the irma shrugged it off. We were kind of jealous, she even gave us the rest of the cookies walking out the door. I really do love brasil.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Anyways I love you guys a lot! :) :) I hope that you have a great week!</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">ENJOY THE SUMMER. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Dude. So I am totes jealous of all of you. Jealous of Warren and Ivy having so much fun without me. Mom in the awesome cheetah costume. I miss doing overnights with her at the fireworks stand. Missing sterlings amazing concert. I can only imagine how great it was!! ALL OF YOUR CREATIVE ADVENTURES. </span></span><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1404192926030_3800">
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Lislane was right in that comment on facebook. My tan lines are so freaking bad. I am on the lookout for a new bag, so that I can get rid of the tanline on my chest. When I take my bag off, half my chest is white, the other tan. When I wear my hair in a braid it is harder to see, lol. Good luck for my feet. The chacos tan is going to take forever to go away when I come home. Sometimes I am okay with that, other times I am not. Really guys, all the members of this ward keep telling me that my skin is the color of brasilians and not americans. It´s crazy how dark I am. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Yeah. SO Manaus is great as usual. The ward here really likes to help with the work. We have some great investigators, but are really needing to give some of them a push to get baptized. As for my new responsibilities... We are going to meet the new mission president tomorrow when we have our leadership council meeeting. Basically as a sister training leader we just do splits with some of the sisters. We have like 4 sets of Sisters that we will take care of this transfer. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">So I really like Sister Crane. We are going to be best friends. She is super sweet and blonde. Blond hair and blond in the brain too. We combine really well. She goes home in September, so we have fun talking about all the things she is going to do etc. The city where we live ran out of running water this week. Something broke the water line in the streets, and rumor is that it is not going to get fixed until the end of July. We spent a few days without water, taking showers with a bucket...all that. Then we called the Elders in the office when we found out it was going to be a whole month without water. They had us switch houses with the Elders (our DL) close by, and moved the Elders to the other Elders house. Every time our DL calls he wants to know if the water has come back in our part of the area. EVERY TIME. Oh. Sister Crane is from Dallas Texas. Her dad is a retired pilot. He worked for American Airlines. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">I am excited to get lots of pictures. Say hello and give big hugs to everyone at the family reunion for me!! Have a HAPPY 4th OF JULY!! Y´all are great!! </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">**Really mom. That tiger suit is the best. I love those pictures.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">I was transferred. I should have seen it coming, but I just didnt want to leave Parintins. I had so much fun there and I was sure sad to leave. I am in Manaus again, the area of Noel. (Christmas is in the air) I will be a Sister Training Leader this transfer! My new companion is Sister Crane. She is really cool, we are going to get along great. It will be interesting being in the leadership this transfer with the new president and all. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">I traveled alone yesterday, the other Elder missed the plane. When I arrived in Manaus it was filled with Americans for the game that night. IT was weird being around americans. They were all dressed so funny for the world cup and singing really loud. I stood outside waiting for my ride while they got on the busses. I kind of hoped for one of them to to yell SISTER! Would have been cool, but it didnt happen. Could have been that I was wearing a black shirt and you couldnt really seee my name tag. Also I look like a gaucho. ( The cowboys of Brasil) Everyone thought that I was Brasilian when I arrived in Manaus. lol. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">So the internet cafe will be closed this afternoon for the Brasil game. No one has emailed me but you... :) You will get a long letter today. When Brasil plays, no one is in the streets and nothing is opened. President allowed us to watch the game when Brasil plays, so we usually go to the house of a member and have a little party. Which sadly I will be missing in Parintins today. We always went to the house of Marcos and Irleia. We always made a cake with them and Marcos would make Pudim. I´m going to miss Parintins. It was a culture shock coming back to Manaus. Imagine how it will be coming back to the states. I prefer being in the small poor areas, Manaus is too much of a city for me. I need to see my trees and the river and the dirt streets. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">I am jealous that you get to go to Colorado! I miss it so much, and its cold. (I got so tan in Parintins...It was stinking hot) Bruce told me that I should put my pictures on a USB and send them to you. I would be doing that, but first I have to find someone to get rid of the virus. Give everyone a big hug for me! I miss going to the family reunions.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Send a picture of the snake skins! They sound really cool. I got to hold a baby Tambaqui last week. Its a fish. Sounds like Remmi is becoming an expert fishermen. I sure cant wait to have fun with you all again!!</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Today was the best p-day yet. There is a couple that I just adore here and we spent p-day in their house.They we both the first elder and first sister to serve a mission here in Parintins. The Elders made a churrasco for us, it was super yummy. After that we watched The other side of heaven. I love that movie, and it really made me think on the experiences that I have had on the mission and how much I have changed.... both physically and mentally. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">I am jealous that you are going on a cruise. You will have so much fun. I absoulutely just love the different cultures here in Brasil. I have been absorbing every moment of the mission, things will be different when I return home. There will always be a little brasileira in me. <img goomoji="gtalk.B0C" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/e/gtalk/B0C" style="margin: 0px 0.2ex; vertical-align: middle;" /></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Things on the mission are not always easy, but you deffinitely learn how to work out the differences, work in unity, and give all you have to these people. I have been blessed to see so many miracles here. I get sad thinking that one day I will return home, the culture is so different. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had to miss our baptism<br clear="none" />this week, because I was making the cake. We arrived at her house 8 am<br clear="none" />left for lunch at one, returned after lunch at 3pm, did splits with<br clear="none" />other members so I could stay and make the cake, while Sister Nina<br clear="none" />went to the baptism. It was a really good and busy week for us! We<br clear="none" />were all dog tired come Sunday. My portuguese stopped working, because<br clear="none" />I was practically sleep walking, and one of our investigator was<br clear="none" />holding my hand as we crossed the streets. She was a little worried.<br clear="none" />We had a good p-day too. Some of the Irmas spent the day with us and<br clear="none" />painted our nails. My camera isnt being recognized so I didnt send the<br clear="none" />pictures. We should be going to play dodge ball here pretty soon. Just<br clear="none" />wanted to send my love! The internet was slow and not couperating with<br clear="none" />me.<br clear="none" /><br />One thing I love doing on Sundays is teaching Gospel Principles. I<br clear="none" />only have time during the week to read the lesson once, and some how<br clear="none" />it seems like the lessons always last the time of the class. Most of<br clear="none" />the time, I feel really unprepared because of the lack of time I<br clear="none" />study, but I trust in the Spirit, and he makes up for the lack of<br clear="none" />time, and somtimes lack of knowledge that I have.<br clear="none" /><br clear="none" />Well, I better go and play dodgeball with the people we invited.<br clear="none" /><br clear="none" />I emailed bruce, praying for Ryan, forwarded the picture of the cake!<br clear="none" /><br clear="none" />Hope you are having a wonderful summer. I miss you lots, and am<br clear="none" />excited to see you all again.<br clear="none" /><br clear="none" />Sending a great big hug!<br clear="none" /><br clear="none" />-Sister Chatwin<br clear="none" /><br clear="none" />p.s. Congrats to Megan and her decision to serve a mission. It will be<br clear="none" />the best thing she has ever done!</span></span></div>
Unknownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10309866983525585910noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9114611535590348774.post-63154657083004957072014-06-03T18:36:00.000-07:002014-06-03T18:36:05.715-07:00Sister Chatwin - June 3, 2014<span style="background-color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;">Hi dad! </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">This week went well. We were walking by the river and I always look to see if I can see any animals. This week I saw dolphins. There were about 5 or 6 black dolphins and I even got to see a pink dolphin. He was huge. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Funny thing, in the super market they have sea turtles for sale. I think people eat them. It was weird walking by this huge bucket filled with water and lettuce to see 3 big turtles.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">I dont really know what else to say. I am really tired. There is so much work to do here and I feel like I am doing it all by myself, that and it doesnt help that when my companion wakes up during the middle of the night she turns the light on in the room and I wake up every time. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Thats crazy. School is already out. I bet it must be getting hot there. It sure is hot here. Walking by the river feels so good, sometimes I just want to jump in because I know that it is really cold.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">For p-day yesterday I went cloud watching. I just sat in the house with the windows open and watched the clouds and vultures pass by. This island is full of vultures.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">I am glad that you are starting to launch the new program. I hope it helps lessen your work load. I miss summer. It was always the time when I got to travel with Bruce and you guys. We will have to have some adventures when I come back. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Well, my time is up. :( I promise I´ll write a really good email next week. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Love your brain dead, tired little girl. <img goomoji="gtalk.B0C" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/e/gtalk/B0C" style="margin: 0px 0.2ex; vertical-align: middle;" /><img goomoji="ezweb_ne_jp.1B1" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/e/ezweb_ne_jp/1B1" style="margin: 0px 0.2ex; vertical-align: middle;" /></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Last night I was reading in an old liahona about a person who is a mountain guide in Japan. It was interesting to hear his point of view how most of the visitors just wanted to visit the top of the peak and take the easiest way to get there. He tried convincing some of the tourists to follow him to see some of the lower parts of the park, that were more difficult to get to, yet all the more beautiful. He mentioned that to understand and appreciate the view from the top, you have to know what is beneath. He then related that to the gospel. To appreciate everything about the gospel, we first have to understand where things began. He stated that at the top of the peak there were many fossils, but all those fossils lived their life below. It is the same, to appreciate what there is in store for us in Heaven, and the marvelous workings of our Heavenly Father, we first have to come to know and understand the bottom. Its so true, it will be difficult, but those treasures that we find and see will aid our future understanding of the plan that our Father in Heaven has for us. Nothing is possible without His help. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">I love you all so much! Things are going great here! :) We had a member organize a bunch of the Irmas (Sisters) here to do splits with us last sunday to go and find lots of people to bring to the second meeting in Palmares. It was a sucess. Not too many investigators came, but with the help of the members we will be holding meetings every week in Palmares filled with people. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">This week was amazing. First of all, I gave my second talk here in Brasil! It was great, I talked about the love God has for us, and how it is through that love that we are changed. I really recommend that you all read The Power of God´s Love by John H. Groberg. It is an old conference talk and I love listening to it. One of my favorite things to do on p-day is download random talks onto my usb. I come acros some golden ones once in awhile!</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Some how I didnt get your email... Maybe it didnt send or maybe you all were having such a wonderful weekend that it got lost inside your head.<br /></span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Either way I love you all berry berry much. Life wouldnt be the same without you all. This week was great. I love working with my companion Sister Nina. She literally talks to every one and doesnt lose an oppourtunity to teach a lesson.. I am going to learn a lot from her. We are such great friends already, and we pass the days laughing. Its great. We found so many new people to teach this week! Sadly pretty much all of them said they wouldnt be able to go to church until next week. We are trying to rescue the ward here right now. They have about 44 people coming to sacrament meeting every week. That is about the frequency of a branch. To avoid closing the ward they would join up with 2 other branches, but thats a little difficult. So we are working our tails off to begin to reactivate less active and baptize more people. The ward mission leader has some great plans to help with this and we are really excited. Really, the Lord is blessing us so much in the work here. It seems like every day we find someone who is prepared to recieve the gospel. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">We were in a trio this last week with sister waite. She had dengue,so she stayed one more week with us to make sure that she was all better before she traveled to her new area. We did a lot of divisions and made a lot of progress in the area. We stayed out until 9:30 teaching every night. It was great, but with the difference in climate, the hills, and waking up early after my travels from Rondonia it was a little too much for me. We all have our limits and we need to respect them. But really. I am just loving my mission. This last week we had zone conference with all 9 zones. I loved being in my first area and seeing all of my friends again! It was so great! We are going to the temple this wednesday! I am super excited!! It has been a few months since I have been there. It will be wonderful. Afterwords I hope to visit the shop and by a simplified piano book, our ward right now doesnt have one and they just happen to be lacking a pianist. Also, Sister Waite was giving to recentconverst and investigators piano lessons so I will be trying to continue them... hehe. Serving a mission is great! I also want to buy our investigator or some of the members an easter gift. I am excited for easter and I hope that all of our investigators will come this nest sunday. I am sad sometimes that I had to leave Vilhena, but I know that this is where the Lord is needing me right now! I couldnt be happier.<br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">The church is small here, there are three groups. (I was transfered before transfers ) So are sundays are busy visiting all three groups. The church recently bought some land to build a chapel, so we deffinitely have a lot of work to do. The nights are beautiful here, bats flying over your head.. bugs, it is paradise. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">The Elders that work in the office forgot to give us our cellphone before we lef, but hopefully it should arrive tomorrow. These last few days have been interesting. We get lost quite a bit, but we are figuring out that the island is small. All we have to do to find out where we are is ask where the cathedral is or the stadium. We live on the same street as the stadium, and the chapel is pretty close to the cathedral. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">This week was one of the best and worst weeks of my mission. Just as always I will start with the bad, because in the end of things it is always better to remember the good! And boy do I have good news!!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Bad news: Our house has rats. We have always had the problem with cockroaches and spiders, but rats.. thats new. I was washing dishes the other night and a rat ran across my foot climbed up the tube of the washing macheine that hangs out of the window to drain the water. Yeah, things went down hill from that night. The rats ate holes in 5 of my shirts, a skirt, and the sheet that mom wrote all over. They left their wonderful piles of poop all over the kitchen, bathroom and as I unpleasingly discovered last night right by my pillow on the top bunk. ITS SO GROSS. I bought a few new shirts today, to make up for the 5 that I lost. New clothes are always welcome, just happened to be in a time when I didnt want to spend the money. Life goes on. We are deep cleaning the house tonight. We had a man come, he was visiting all the mission houses and spraying for bugs and cockroaches, he left venom for the rats so I hope they all die! HA. Its nothing too bad, its just frustrating because I know they are filled with diseases and they are climbing all over my belongings and a can of lysol doesnt exist here. Mas tudo bem. Nephi 3:7</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">GREAT NEWS! Friday we had the wedding of two of our investigators! Even better was that they were baptized on Sunday. I have one of the most beautiful pictures ever on my camera. I waited outside the baptisimal font to take a picture of them leaving. Anyways the picture of Cesar is the greatest reward! His smile is celestial. That man is never smiling in pictures. I am really so super happy for the two of them. Our investigator Michael will hopefully be baptized this Sunday. He really is super, we made a goal for him to prepare to visit the temple and do his family history work. Only problem is that he works, a lot. He takes care of a little market, and basically if he isnt their they dont make money. But other than that he is perfect. He asks questions, and remembers everything we teach. I dont really have that much time today.... We took the wrong bus coming home so we arrived late. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">hmmmm, something funny this week. To cope with the rat poop by my pillow I sat down and ate Nutella straight from the jar. After that I made plans to kill all of the rats, because everyone keeps telling us that the rats here in Manaus dont die from eating venom. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">I really enjoy seeing the Vasconselos and random members from Flores. It really brightens up my day! I love being back in Manaus. I have so many memories here! So many people that I love! :) </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Sending you all a great big hug! OOOOOOOOO</span></div>
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Unknownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10309866983525585910noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9114611535590348774.post-23115673984571849952014-04-07T18:32:00.001-07:002014-04-07T18:32:12.099-07:00It's General Conference Time<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">April 7, 2014</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">I really dont have much time. News is I missed conference <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1265686285" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Sunday</span></span> because I was transfered. I was busy taking a bus ride of joy for 14 hours. So I am downloading the talks right now to listen to during the week. I am now in Gloria, Manaus. Its super hot and full of hills. My new companion is Sister Nina. She is from Bolivia and I absoulutely love her!! Also I am Senior companion. Woot woot.<br /></span></span></div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">It was great seeing Sister Rocha again today. She is still in Flores. We ran quickly to say hi to Patriarca and Tereza, Claudia, Rebecca and Nazare. I sure did love getting to see them again. (Except Tereza wasnt home. Send her my love over facebook!!)<br /></span></span></div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">It is amazing how attached I am to these people in such a short amount of time. Lislane cried her eyes out when she found out that I was being transferred. She walked an hour to the bus station Sunday morning to say goodbye. I cried a lot. I didnt want to leave, but am super excited with the oppourtunities that are here for me in Gloria. It is amazing how the Lord can change your personality. I LOVE MY MISSION AND LOVE THE SERVICE I AM DOING.<br /></span></span></div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">All in all it has been a busy past few days, full of love and tears and seeing lots of old friends. I am excited for all of the new ones I will make.<br /></span></span></div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">I really hope you all enjoyed General Conference for me! I really was sad when I got the call <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1265686287" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">saturday</span></span> morning where the Elders told me that I would be traveling <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1265686288" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Sunday</span></span>. mas tudo bem. :) I traveled with Elder Adams and Elder Brito. lol I am getting used to being the lone Sister while traveling.<br /><br />I love Ryans desire to be obedient to the rules of the mission. He is such an example and I love reading about his adventures. Japan sounds like a beautiful place.<br /></span></span></div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">Good luck with all of your work this week! Give my love to the ward!!<br /></span></span></div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">I got a few cards from Christmas and Valentines day. Also I got a letter from Kirsten!!! :) :) Thank you all so much for your kind words and support. I have an ever growing pile of letters to send and now and even bigger one of letters I want to write. :) LOL. We were a little lazy in Vilhena and didnt take advantage of the post office... also there is that fact that we wanted the keep our money. Some day I promise that I will send them.<br /></span></span></div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">I love the people I serve with all of my heart and I couldnt be happier with where I am!! I am going to suffer so much in 9 months when I come home. I will be a sad, but joyful day. You should bring tissues to the airport with you, because I know that I will be crying.<br /><br /><br /></span></span></div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<wbr></wbr>!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<wbr></wbr>!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<wbr></wbr>!!!!!!!!!!!!!<br /></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">... Proud of my brothers...... <3 and my parents!</span></span>Unknownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10309866983525585910noreply@blogger.com0