Helllllooooo!!!!
How is life in the
States? (my computer is extremely messed
up, and won’t let me do apostrophes or question marks, and the y is a z and the
z is a y, so I’m sorry if this is kinda a rough email! (I attempted to fix y's and z's, etc. for Jess)
Anyways, this has been
quite the week in Brazil!!! I’ll try to explain fast!
First adventure!
On Thursday Sister Nolan
and I got our hair cut by the CTM barber. But, he misunderstood Sister Nolan
(he only speaks Portuguese) and cut about 4 more inches than she wanted off.
She only wanted about an inch off, and now it’s above her shoulders. She was so
upset. Poor girl. But she’s doing a lot better now.
On Saturday, we got to
go Proselyting in the real world!!!!! They bused us to this busy street with
lots of stores, etc. and gave each of us 3 books of Mormon, and told us to go
give them out. At first Sister Nolan and I were really scared, and were afraid
to talk to people because of our Portuguese skills not being super great. But
then we had a man come up and ask who we were and what our books were. We
started talking to him, and we gave him a Book of Mormon. This kicked us off
really nice, and we were a lot more confident talking to people after that! We
handed out all 6 of our Books of Mormon, and got two referrals in less than 45
minutes!! I love the people here!!! Everyone we talked to was SO nice. Even if
they didn’t want our message, some people were a little too nice though.
Hahaha! We were talking to this one guy, and as were saying goodbye, he just
leaned in and hugged us and kissed us on the cheek. We didn’t know what to do!
hahaha!
Guess who got to teach
Relief Society again!! ME! I got to teach the English class on Sunday, and it
was really great! We talked about Christ like attributes! (Thanks for getting
me an Ensign, and all the family history stories Mom and Dad! They helped a
ton!)
Okay, it is such a small
world here at the CTM! One of the newer sisters here, Sister Henderson, is from
the Spanish Fork area, and guess who she knows! The Phelps! In fact... she
dated Joe. Hahaha. That was a fun moment when we figured that out!
But of the 35 Americans
here at the CTM, I have connections with 6 of them! One girl from my BOM class at
BYU, two twins who are really close friends with my roommate from BYU, a friend
from EFY, and a guy that apparently went to Oak Canyon the same time as me.
Although, I didn’t actually know him. (and then sister Henderson) It’s awesome!
No wonder they call Utah the fabrica (factory) of missionaries.
More small world stuff!
I have met so many people from Chile, Bolivia, and Peru! (Where my dad, mom,
and sister served) In fact, my instructor is from Santiago Chile, Dad! And I
met a girl last night from Lima, Rach!
It’s actually so funny
though. Both of my instructors learned Portuguese as a second language. Irmao
Fernandez is from Chile, and Irmao Renaltho is from Haiti. Irmao Renaltho is
insane though. He knows 5 languages! They’re both super awesome though!!! I’ve
learned so much from them!!!
I have so much more to
learn though!!! I realize that more and more every day!! Especially my Portuguese.
We’ve had some funny language mistakes this week! One time we were trying to say
sins, pecados. But we actually said pescados- fish. HAHAHA We told someone to
give away all their fish!
Life as a missionary is
so crazy, but so good. It’s really hard too though. This week especially. I just
felt super homesick one day, and then I’ve also just been super discouraged
about the language. Especially because it feels like everyone else is getting
it so much faster. But then, the other day, I was reading my scriptures, and I
just felt so much love. So much love from God to me, but also so much love for
all of the people here. It really is incredible to see how during your toughest
times is when you can feel the most love. I think that’s why the people here,
are so loving. They’re all just so incredibly humble, and I feel blessed to be
here serving them.
I love you all!! Thanks
for all the love, prayers, and support! (sorry again about the grammar and
spelling of this email... about half the keys on this keyboard aren’t actually
what they say they are.)
Love Sister Shelton!
Scripture of the week-
This has really helped me this week! Luke 1:37 “Porque para Deus nada sera
impossivle.”
*Jessica's district went to the Temple today. Her teacher Elder Renaltho sent these pictures to her so that she could share them with us.
No comments:
Post a Comment