Hello once again from the beautiful land of Farroupilha, Rio Grande do
Sul, Brasil! Oh how I'm so grateful I got to stay! I love this city.
Anyway, she´s absolutely wonderful. We´ve hit it off really well and I´m really grateful we get to be companions. She´s in her third transfer on the mission - she´s been here about 3 months now and she is just great. We laugh all the time. On our first night together, we were walking home from Primeiro de Maio and I was telling some story... she pointed out the HUGEST NASTIEST bug I´ve ever seen in my life. Seriously, looked like a turtle but it was a beetle. Like HUGE. I was in the middle of my story and just Fred Randall screamed with my hands flapping and everything and dove into my new companion´s arms. HAHAHAHAHAH Yeah... it was pretty embarrassing. We then proceeded to laugh the entire way home and could hardly tell the story to the others. Man, it´s been a long time since I´ve laughed like that! It felt good. :)
This
week was quite a good one. My new companion is Sister J. Ribeiro. But I
just call her Sister Ribeiro. haha They can´t have missionaries here
with the same name... I think it´s strange so they just put an initial
in the front to diferentiate. Anyway... It was kind of funny cuz the day
of transfers, we called them while they were on the bus to find out who
they were. I talked to Sister Ribeiro and she was like "I´m your
companion!" And I went to look her up in our missionary... thing... and
there were three Sister Riberios. So I still had no idea who she was!
haha it was kind of crazy. But Anyway... I don´t know why I said that.
She and Sister Jaramillo (Sister Amorim´s new comp) arrived safely and
we have had a lot of fun together. Sister Ribeiro is from Bahia!!!! She
is from Aaron´s mission and we haven´t stopped talking about it allllll
week. haha We´re hoping maybe Aaron passed in her city - Camaçari - but
it´s a long shot. haha I also got pretty excited hearing all about Bahia
knowing I´ll be there soon. :)
Anyway, she´s absolutely wonderful. We´ve hit it off really well and I´m really grateful we get to be companions. She´s in her third transfer on the mission - she´s been here about 3 months now and she is just great. We laugh all the time. On our first night together, we were walking home from Primeiro de Maio and I was telling some story... she pointed out the HUGEST NASTIEST bug I´ve ever seen in my life. Seriously, looked like a turtle but it was a beetle. Like HUGE. I was in the middle of my story and just Fred Randall screamed with my hands flapping and everything and dove into my new companion´s arms. HAHAHAHAHAH Yeah... it was pretty embarrassing. We then proceeded to laugh the entire way home and could hardly tell the story to the others. Man, it´s been a long time since I´ve laughed like that! It felt good. :)
Crazy fog that happens like every day in this city. You can´t see ANYTHING. It´s called Serração here. Crazy stuff. |
Sister
Jaramillo is from Colorado and has been waiting for a visa for ELEVEN
MONTHS. Yeah... That´s a long time. So she´s now a year into her mission
and starting everything completely all over. It´s crazy. But she´s
great and super fun to have in the house too. I´m just a happy camper.
Anyway,
there isn´t much to report as far as progressing investigators. The
beginning of the transfer is always our time to go thru all our
investigators, figure out who we´ll keep visiting and pray about past
investigators we want to visit again. So... we´ve been going thru a lot
of that this week and it´s been good. :) I´m so blessed to be here in
Farroupilha and am so blessed to have Sister Ribeiro! It´s gonna be a
good transfer. :) I love you all so much and hope you are all happy and
healthy!! I miss you!
Drea
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