Oi Minha Querida Família!!
This week was so
wonderful!! First of all, getting to talk to you on google+ was the best
thing EVER!!! I´m so glad we could meet there and that everyone´s
internet was functional!! Seriously, I was so so happy. I just miss
seeing your faces so much and it was so refreshing to be able to talk to
you all again!
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| The wonderful Familia Baptista who fed us on Christmas Eve, and
Christmas and who let us call home from their home! AND who gave us all flip flops! :D Love them! |
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| Our district swapped presents this year. My companion drew my name and gave me a NYC tin with a little elephant, Oreos and peanut butter inside! She´s great! haha Can you guess which present I gave? Yep. The batman mask and bowling pins. |
This week was kind of a Christmas miracle week for
us. Do you remember the mission goal I told you about - trying to have
200 baptisms this month? And how, as a part of the goal they had
challenged everyone to find someone to baptize this week? Well, we
really started to think and pray and Simone (#1) was baptized this
weekend!!! We had lost contact with her for a few weeks and were sad
about it, but she called us this week and she was ready to be baptized!
She is absolutely incredible. During our last lesson with her before she
was baptized, she asked SO many questions she had had in life. She
asked "If baptism is essential, how is it fair that my family who never
had a chance to be baptized won´t ever get the chance?" So we talked
about temples. Then she asked "Well, what if there´s family we don´t
know about who were never baptized either?" So we talked about family
history (yeahh FamilySearch)! Anyway, it was just so cool. Her baptism
was Sunday and Andressa and Marcio were there to support her. They´ve
come with us teaching a bunch of times this week! SO COOL!!!
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| Simone´s baptism!! Unfortunately my pictures weren´t great. But it was such a happy occasion! |
The other Christmas miracle was that we had a week
of excellence this week!! :D This basically means that we met all the
mission goals for the week with lessons, new investigators, contacts,
etc. We were so excited. It is especially exciting because the beginning
of the week was very slow for numbers with the Christmas festivities.
:) Anyway, we were pretty excited yesterday and earned ourselves ice
cream today! (That´s not a mission thing. That´s an "I´m Andrea and I
just want ice cream" thing.) haha I´m stoked.
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| Semana de Excelência celebration pictures! |
I also learned a new trick this week. I can turn
into a waterfall! Seriously. I don´t even have to be in the sun! I can
just be sitting down during a lesson and I have the great Merimeyre
Falls (I can´t spell) cascading off my body! My companion can do it too.
I think it´s a brazil thing. I also learned that when people tell us
the temperature, they don´t actually know what the temperature is. I
found out this week it´s only hit the 40s ONCE here this year. And I´m
already dying. It is supposed to get into the 40s more often, but not as
hot as I was telling you before. haha so... I´m sorry I lied to you. I
really didn´t mean to. All I know is that it is HOT. And I seriously
look like a waterfall sometimes. haha sorry for that image.
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| I found a butterfly tree! Seriously, this hedge had TONS of butterflies. I held one!!! I know this picture looks like I´m sticking the butterfly in my ear. But you can´t move much when you have a butterfly on your hand. So... it is what it is. haha |
Well, it´s been a wonderful week. I´m so glad I got
to talk to you this week!!! Ahh, so so good! I love you all so much and
I´m so grateful for you! I hope you are all well and happy!! I will talk
to you NEXT YEAR!!! :D haha
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| Just because I was creative and I´m proud, this is my planner cover for
this transfer! You should read the dove wrapers. They´re pretty great. haha |
Drea
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