TRANSFERS!!!

Hello again!!!

Well, this has been kind of a crazy week/morning here in Recife! I found out this morning when I opened my email that I'm going to be leaving my beautiful first area of Rio Doce, for Boa Vista! It's super interior, and going to be way different, but I'm way excited!! It'll be an adventure for sure! I'll tell you more about it all next week when I'm there!

The other crazy thing of this week was Halloween... well, it wasn't exactly Halloween, but we did go to a cemetery for day of the dead on Thursday! All of the missionaries in the stake went to sing/comfort the people that were there. Before going, I thought it was going to be super calm, and a few people here and there- NOPE. The cemetery was literally packed with people, some sobbing, some selling water, some yelling, others running around offering to clean tombs for money. Definitely not what I was expecting. But it was really cool! We sang lots of hymns, and we sat with lots of people and shared the message of the plan of Salvation with them. We had lots of spiritual experiences in that crazy cemetery! Oh, and one more thing, cemeteries here are not like cemeteries back home. It's crazy- tombs are stacked on top of each other, each tomb has little sanctuary places to remember the people, and there's not a whole lot of organization to it all. There were even a couple of tombs that were broken open, and we could see the bodies inside (or what was left of them). :0

One more quick thing I want to share with you all. We had a literal miracle this week. As we were in the bus heading to the cemetery, Sister Trindade told us that she couldn't remember turning her hair straightener off. Well, it was too late to turn back- we were already super behind schedule- but we didn't want to risk the straightener being on and catching fire to the entire apartment building. So, the sisters of Jardin Atlantico called some members in their ward, and the members went to the apartment to see if the portero (the "doorman"/gaurd) had an extra key. Well, he didn't, so what they did instead, is they turned off all of the energy in the apartment. Perfect- no problem! It wasn't until we stopped by the apartment after the cemetery that we realized how inspired of an idea it was to turn off the energy in our apartment. The straightener wasn't a problem. It had been turned off. But someone had left the sandwich maker plugged in, and had the energy not been cut, it would've started a fire. Ah, miracles are real gente!

I hope you all have an incredible week this week, and you remember that your Savior loves you! Always remember "And lo, he cometh unto his own, that Salvation might come unto the Children of men even through faith on his name..." (Mosiah 3:9) 

Love you!

Love, 

Sister Shelton

Photo-

For Halloween my companion and I bought these toucas, and I painted on some gnarly eyebrows, and we were "women from the Nordeste" (north east Brazil)! Literally, everyone here uses these, and has super fake eyebrows- Hahaha!

We also switched name tags, and used flags of the other person's country. Like they do in Salt Lake. :)

Don't worry- this never left the apartment- only at night after we got home. Hahaha!