Happy Halloween this week! How is October already coming to a close? It seemed like General Conference was just yesterday.
So this past week was pretty great. I love looking
back on even a short amount of time and seeing how much things have changed.
When I first came to Taguatinga it was a pretty difficult adjustment for me. I
loved Guará I and wanted to stay there. Getting used to a new ward here (and
them getting used to having sisters) was definitely an adjustment period. I am
pretty sure my emails kind of showed that I was a little down and tired from
the challenges that I was facing. In just a short amount of time I have come to
LOVE Taguatinga. When I first came here I asked myself, "Why did I have to
leave Guará I?" In the past few weeks I have had that question answered a
million times. There are so many reasons I am here. It is so humbling to see
how perfectly Heavenly Father´s plan is for me.
Having Sister Blair as my companion has also been a
huge blessing! She is hilarious! You probably all remember how much I loved
Sister Ryan in the MTC (She is doing well, by the way. We send emails almost
every week. That girl still cracks me up with everything she says haha), and
Sister Blair reminds me of her. Her sense of humor fits perfectly with mine so
we spend pretty much the whole day laughing about everything. There are some
things that my Brasilian companions wouldn´t have found funny, but Sister Blair
and I cannot stop laughing. I missed joking around in English but this transfer
I have been able to be sarcastic (a trait I should probably try to leave
behind) and make jokes that wouldn´t have made my other comps laugh. Sister
Blair is always laughing and happy which is great. I love her!
I am happy to be her companion because I remember
what it was like for me after having served in the states. Even after only one
transfer in the San Fernando mission I fell in love with the mission president,
the missionaries, the area...everything. Falling in love with a mission and
then having to leave stinks. Getting used to a new country is difficult, but it
is even harder after you have had a taste of serving in your own country where
you speak the language and know the culture. I see her going through what I
went through, but I imagine it has to be even harder for her because she spent
2 transfers there. I am just thankful the Lord trusted me to be her companion
and help her get used to the mission here. What´s the point of passing through difficulties
if you never have the chance to help somebody else with what you learned?
This transfer I have felt like our district is more
fun. Maybe the only difference is that my attitude and perspective have changed
:) I am loving the work in Taguatinga. The beginning of this month, President
Gaertner gave us the challenge to read the New Testament before Christmas. I
started October 1st and am planning to be done by December 24th but it will be
tough. If I only used my hour of personal study to read the Bible it would be
easy, but I only allocate like 20-30 minutes so I can use the other half to
study for our investigators which is what we are supposed to do. I am currently
in John 10.
Anyway, hope everybody is happy and healthy! Enjoy
Halloween this week! :) Love you all very, very much
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| This is a picture of me eating pequi for the first time! People either love it or hate it. It is a fruit that you have to like scrape with your teeth because if you bite it it has little spines that go into your mouth. Yeah, sounds dangerous right? One of the irmãs made arroz & pequi for me because I wanted to try it. |
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