Blonde in Brazil: Aug 18, 2014- Pelotas

HELLO!

This week was super cool! Still getting to know my area, and companion:) and i am loving it!

Sister Carvalho helps me a ton with Portuguese:) It´s so cool to finally have a Brazilian companion!:) She said that i am fluent! Ha can you even believe it? ;)

On Saturday we had a random little meeting with our entire zone, and a counselor in the Stake for missionary work. Man. He sure pumped us up. He talked about how some people are on missions, to plant, some are to prepare the fields, yada yada yada, ENOUGH PEOPLE HAVE PLANTED, YOU ARE HERE TO BAPTIZE! Haha it was so cool, so true! ha We are here to baptize and we are going to talk and share this gospel with everyone, because EVERY soul is priceless, we cant pick and choose who to share the gospel with. :)

Also, the famous sweets of Pelotas are very yummy ;)

Found out we have a McDonalds here! So we ate there for lunch one day;) Hahaha what am i doing..

We also made a new friend who is kind of like our security guard.. We named her Rebecca! shes a stray dog that somehow managed to find us these past couple of days. And she runs in front of us and barks at people ahaha it´s super funny..

Also this week, we found a man named Marcio, taught him about Joseph Smith and the Restoration of the gospel of Jesus Christ, and asked him to be baptized. He accepted and even went to church yesterday!! He told us that he went by the lake to pray about what we taught, he prayed about Joseph Smith and asked if he really needed to be baptized. He heard either in his head or someone saying "Vai!" (which means you will) And he took it as his answer and is preparing for baptism! Aw it was so cool! :)

I know that this is the true church of Jesus Christ. I love being a missionary!!

You all are super great:) Remember, "always share the gospel, and if necessary, use words"- i dont remember who said this.. haha sorry.

<3 Sister Holden