Monday, January 26, 2015

Sept 8, 2014 - Pelotas


ducks, 5 months, independence of Brasil, oh my!

 

Hi:)
Let´s see....
Ducks: i hate them. I have lots of fear of them haha. And this week, was my pleasure to help 2 little 7 year old girls laugh. :P i couldnt walk passed some GINORMOUS ducks, and they were making fun of me! hahah.
5 Months: i hit 13 months on the mission yesterday.. 5 Left. D: wow. It´s gonna fly by.
Independence of Brasil: Also yesterday! (the Day of the Gaucho is day 20 of Setembro, just you wait ;) i´m excited to see what the people do!)
This week we had a cool training about the scriptures. How we really need to use them more in our lessons( something i for sure need to work on, so it was cool to get a pep talk haha) and they gave us cards that have scriptuers to go with every section of every lesson! HOW NICE, I KNOW!:) So excited to use it! haha because the scriptures are super important. Words of prophets. :) How lucky are we!
Also found a funny old lady yesterday.. We greeted her with "Tudo Bem?" And she said "bem mal tambem é bem" ahah how can i translate.. (she is super sick) super sick is also super.. that doesnt make a lot of sense. Who else can speak Portuguese and translate for me? haha.. She is so funny, when she noticed i have an accent, she started speaking in English!:) pretty good english, i might add. She said "I love Jesus, He´s not American.... He´s Brasilian!" i died.. haha. Lea is her name, but not just Lea, Lea Maria. ;)
This week we visited a less active member. I asked her if she knew the Book of Mormon was true, and she said she believes it isn´t. So we talked about what kind of answer she thinks she should have gotten or was waiting for.. Eventually we got to the point where she was bashing us.. haha. And Sister Carvalho just testified. Man, it was so strong. The Spirit was SO strong. So i asked her, how she felt as Sister Carvalho spoke. And she didn´t feel it:( She has hardened her heart to the point, i felt so sad. I could feel the love that Heavenly Father has for her, i wanted to help her so bad! But obviously, we all have the gift of the right to choose. What i want to apply from that experience, is to never allow myself to get to the point where i can´t feel the Spirit. I always want to be able to have Him with me.
Made me think of things that i want to do after my mission... One thing Sister Carvalho said, we were talking about a type of music here, called Funk, it´s yucky. Everything about it. I think a tv was playing in a bakery one day and had a song that was kind of catchy, obviously, didnt pay that much attention, but i asked Sister Carvalho if it was a bad song, she wasnt paying attention to it either ha, but she said it was that type of music, Funky. She said it didnt sound like it was saying anything bad, but why waste your time trying to firgure out if 1 of 10 bad things is good? I hope that makes sense.. So i set new goals. Like for real walking out of movies, not waiting for the bad part to be over because the rest of the movie is good, get it?
Maybe i´m just crazy:) Maybe it just makes sense to me haha.

That´s my super long schpeel for the week... Love you all:) <3 Have a good week!
Sister Holden
REAL coconuts..

Sou Gaucha! ;) dont judge our mirror.. hahaha. oops. you cant really tell, but the pants are the pants of a Gaucho. the shoes too :)

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