Bom dia!
Olá! Como vai?
Este semana fui BOM! ;) I got to talk to someone in Brazil! In PORTUGUESE. :D
There is this family, I love em so much. And they knew how much help I
needed with my Portuguese, so they called up their friend in Brazil
(who happens to be interested in the gospel by the way) and we got to
skype with him! Found out that he's even been reading they Book of
Mormon! All the way to Mosiah! Wow! It was really nice to be able to
get feedback on my now horrible Português :( hahaha
Stake conference was also this week, are you a fan of Christ?
Better not be! Fans are: enthusiastic admirers
Be a FOLLOWER of Christ. When your teams losing, do you switch teams?
Not if you're a true follower ;) soo many good talks were shared. A
TON about missionary work.. I wonder why..
Something else that was talked about was the priesthood and how it
shouldn't be used as a last resort. I thought that was awesome. The
priesthood is for everyone and for everything.
We also got to teach the Law of Chastity this week! Wahoo! Hahaha why
do they have us 19 year olds teach this... It went really well! The
investigator we were teaching accepted it, had lots of interesting
questions, but understands it and is committed to living it :) yay.
We also got to go on exchanges this week! Guess what broke the day of.
That's right. The GPS. I've been here for about 2 1/2 weeks... And the
gps breaks. Man. So we were pretty much lost the whole day :) we did
stop by a less active though. Sister Hernandez. She is 9 months
pregnant, and her husband is over seas in the Air Force reserves.
He won't be home for 5 months.
And so just talking with her about her life and everything, we could
just tell how overwhelmed she was. Well on Sunday we had an
appointment to go back, and a member offered to drive us/ go with us.
Sister Phair is super awesome and nice but I never thought about her
being the friend that could get Sister Hernandez to the Michigan City
Branch. Good thing I'm not in charge, because they had so much in
common!! I am just so grateful that we had Sister Phair with us. It
was super cool:)
The rest of exchanges was trying to find our way around haahha. Fun!
The branch asked me to give a talk on covenants... Guess who is going
to be called to repentance on Sunday! ;) just kidding. I'm excited to
talk about this. Still nervous to talking in sacrament meeting, even
if it is only 50 people.. But this is such an awesome topic. Covenants
are just so great :) the talk I'm talking about it, "The Power, Joy,
and Love of Covenant Keeping" by Linda K. Burton. READ IT! :)
Also read this talk: What Are People Asking about Us? By President
Gordon B Hinkley in the November 1998 Ensign. He answers questions
that the world is asking about us. It's scary how true the answers are
even 15 years later :) I LOVE PROPHETS
Pretty much, I love being a missionary, love this area, Português is
awesome, and I'm almost at 8 months, what?!
Love y'all
I mean, eu ama vocês!
Sister Holden
PS why don't dinosaurs talk?
PPS because they're all dead.
PPPS who knows what that's from?! Hahahaha
Este semana fui BOM! ;) I got to talk to someone in Brazil! In PORTUGUESE. :D
There is this family, I love em so much. And they knew how much help I
needed with my Portuguese, so they called up their friend in Brazil
(who happens to be interested in the gospel by the way) and we got to
skype with him! Found out that he's even been reading they Book of
Mormon! All the way to Mosiah! Wow! It was really nice to be able to
get feedback on my now horrible Português :( hahaha
Stake conference was also this week, are you a fan of Christ?
Better not be! Fans are: enthusiastic admirers
Be a FOLLOWER of Christ. When your teams losing, do you switch teams?
Not if you're a true follower ;) soo many good talks were shared. A
TON about missionary work.. I wonder why..
Something else that was talked about was the priesthood and how it
shouldn't be used as a last resort. I thought that was awesome. The
priesthood is for everyone and for everything.
We also got to teach the Law of Chastity this week! Wahoo! Hahaha why
do they have us 19 year olds teach this... It went really well! The
investigator we were teaching accepted it, had lots of interesting
questions, but understands it and is committed to living it :) yay.
We also got to go on exchanges this week! Guess what broke the day of.
That's right. The GPS. I've been here for about 2 1/2 weeks... And the
gps breaks. Man. So we were pretty much lost the whole day :) we did
stop by a less active though. Sister Hernandez. She is 9 months
pregnant, and her husband is over seas in the Air Force reserves.
He won't be home for 5 months.
And so just talking with her about her life and everything, we could
just tell how overwhelmed she was. Well on Sunday we had an
appointment to go back, and a member offered to drive us/ go with us.
Sister Phair is super awesome and nice but I never thought about her
being the friend that could get Sister Hernandez to the Michigan City
Branch. Good thing I'm not in charge, because they had so much in
common!! I am just so grateful that we had Sister Phair with us. It
was super cool:)
The rest of exchanges was trying to find our way around haahha. Fun!
The branch asked me to give a talk on covenants... Guess who is going
to be called to repentance on Sunday! ;) just kidding. I'm excited to
talk about this. Still nervous to talking in sacrament meeting, even
if it is only 50 people.. But this is such an awesome topic. Covenants
are just so great :) the talk I'm talking about it, "The Power, Joy,
and Love of Covenant Keeping" by Linda K. Burton. READ IT! :)
Also read this talk: What Are People Asking about Us? By President
Gordon B Hinkley in the November 1998 Ensign. He answers questions
that the world is asking about us. It's scary how true the answers are
even 15 years later :) I LOVE PROPHETS
Pretty much, I love being a missionary, love this area, Português is
awesome, and I'm almost at 8 months, what?!
Love y'all
I mean, eu ama vocês!
Sister Holden
PS why don't dinosaurs talk?
PPS because they're all dead.
PPPS who knows what that's from?! Hahahaha
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| My companions mom sends the best stuff |
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