Hello Everyone!
I
cannot believe that we are already halfway through the month of
September! I hope you all had a fabulous week! This week was pretty
uneventful again, life just keeps moving here in Brasil.
First
a funny/gross story- Sister Lopez and I were teaching a 17 year old
girl and she has two huge dogs, like HUGE dogs. One of them is part pit
bull and the other is a full bred of something that I can´t remember,
but when they stand on their two legs they are just up to my shoulder.
They are also crazy heavy, but very loving, they just go a little crazy
when we come over :) Anyway, the owner had given them each a piece of
bread to calm down a little and one of the dogs walked up to me and
coughed up some of the bread he was chewing onto my skirt... Sister
Lopez just looked and was trying not to laugh and I was trying now to
get too grossed out. Don´t worry, the dog ate it again, so there was
nothing left. Needless to say when I got home, I threw that skirt in the
wash :) Good times on the mission :)
This week we also had
a Branch Talent Show which was fun and us sisters always go to every
branch activity whether we had investigators there or not because we are
really part of the branch here, especially when the branch averages on
60 people every Sunday- and we are 4 of them! I love being apart of the
branch though even though it is small, but I know everyone by name and
everyone is so sweet.
Yesterday I had a little bit of a
culture moment again. The son of a recém convert (she has been a member a
little more than a year) passed away yesterday morning so the other
sisters went to her house instead of church of help comfort here. After
church and almoço Sister Lopez and I went too and stayed there the whole
day. I don´t know if every death is like this because it is the first
one I have really been apart of in Brasil, but he died, they had a wake,
funeral and burial all within about 12 hours! I guess it is nice,
because you can move on quickly, but it is alot. It was an emotional day
yesterday for us and I didn´t even know the person who died! I had a
lot of time to think yesterday and it is so hard to see the heartbreak
that seperation brings, espcially when unexpected, but I thought that
maybe that was what it was like for each on of us when we watched loved
ones and friends come down to earth and be born while we stayed up in
the premortal world until our time. Just like death here on earth, in
heaven we knew that we will be able to see our loved ones again, we may
just wait years here on earth and then years after when we meet in the
spirit world after we had died. Seperation is always hard, but we had
the assurance from a loving Heavenly Father that this life is not the
end. Each one of us one day will leave this earth for a better world,
one without suffering or pain. I know that this is true. Our loving
Heavenly Father made a perfect plan for each one of us that allows us to
grow, that be with our families forever.
Well, not much
else exciting happened. I had a Zone Conference tomorrow in Aracaju
which means that I can see some of my friends who are in other zones,
that we are getting up really early tomorrow to get to the church by
7:30 in Aracaju, but it will be a good day :)
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