Ola!!!
This has been such a
good week!!! I honestly love the CTM more than I ever thought possible. I'm so
excited to get to the field, but I sure am going to miss it here!
Speaking of the field, I
leave this Tuesday!!! WAHOO! But because of it, I don't know when the next time
you'll hear from me is. So, don't worry if you don't hear from me next week.
:)
Okay, so first things
first. HAPPY 4TH OF JULY!!!! I've never been as patriotic as I was yesterday
for the 4th of July. Something about not being in your Country, sure makes you
love your country! All of the Americans dressed up in red, white, and blue. And
the cafeteria was all decorated, and they served chicken nuggets and french
fries for lunch!!! Then, at dinner, all of the Americans stood up at the exact
same time, and started singing the National Anthem. It was so awesome!!!
Overall, one of the best 4th of July ever!!
I'm sure you're all
wondering what my subject line is about... We went Proselyting again this
week!! it was way different than our first time. The first time we were in a
really poor area, and had a bunch of Books of Mormon to give away. But this
time we were in the middle of the city, with lots of busy people rushing
around, and we didn't have any books of Mormon to give away. We just had to
talk to people and get references. It was still SO good though! We talked to
one really humble guy (he's from the North- Really close to Recife. The people
are a lot more humble there apparently), and he was really interested in our
message. We got his contact information, and will send it to Salt Lake. But
after him, we didn't see much more success. Three funny things from it:
1st- Sister nolan and I
accidently started talking to the Jehovah’s witnesses. The conversation just
went really south, and they kept telling us their church was better. We weren't
sure how to get away, and our instructor had to come up and wave us over. HAHA!
2nd- There was this man
we were talking to, and the conversation started out really great. He was super
nice, and we were just chatting. But when we started talking about the Book of
mormon and church stuff, and he totally changed. One thing he said, after we
told him we had a living prophet was, "Nao! Somente Jesus Cristo e Deus
vive hoge!! Voces fala com pessoas mortas!!" (No! Only Jesus Christ and
God live today!! You speak with dead people!) hahahaha, it was really
interesting! We had a good laugh afterwards.
3rd- There was this one
lady, who when we tried to talk to her, said, "Eu tenho uma caminha, e nao
e jesus!" (I have a way, and it's not Jesus!) We were just kinda like, Oh.
Okay. Good luck. hahahahaha
It was definitely an
interesting experience Proselyting! It was so good though.
Another fun thing about
this week, was for our Sunday night devotional, we got to watch the Provo
broadcast of Elder Bednar. It was SO good!! And, we actually got to hear it in
English!! The funnest part of it, was I saw a ton of people I know in the
choir!! Including Brother Eggett the choir director! (I did a couple of choirs
with him) Oh, and Brother Doman, (my home stake mission prep teacher) was
sitting right behind Brother Eggett, so I saw him a bunch! It was so exciting!
Our other devotional
from this week was by a member of the seventy here in Brazil. It was really
really good as well. (I can't remember his name right now... sorry) It was cool
though, because I got to lead the music for the devotional, so I was sitting up
on the stand, and got to talk to him for a while!
Well, it's been an
exciting week here, and I can't wait to see what this next week brings! I love
you all!! Have a great Week!!!
Tchau!
Love Sister Shelton
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