first of all- it is the weirdest feeling being removed from all of your lives. i was talking to one of my investigators about tornados literally last night on the way home from conference and saying how we have never had much damage from one… then come to find out you all had just suffered probably the worst damage a tornado has ever done in our community during my lifetime. sorry if i jinxed you… but, I’m glad to hear everyone is okay. i will be praying for you! i love our community and neighborhood so much.
on
a happier note-- shout out to my little brother for being homecoming king! you’re
a stud. wish i was there but i am so happy for you and think you are just
awesome.
meanwhile
in brazil...
santa maria roommates & companions
good:•new ward mission leader! he is excited and i think he will be great help.
•general conference in english! i understood it all!
so excited to get to drive to watch general conference
this is what it looks like coming into santa maria
my district outside of where we watched general conference
•once again another disappointing week as investigators fail to keep commitments and hear the words of prophets and apostles
just trying to dry these wet shoes... rain, rain, rain!
•allergies. bad allergies. i just sneeze and sneeze for days.
•passing a guy wearing an iowa state t-shirt.... um what?
•my companion pranked us and said president called and was coming to our apartment now… we all ran home and starting cleaning and were so worried... she just laughed in our chaos.
•gave myself a nice little trim this week... my hair was driving me nuts.
someone explain this billboard to me
hopefully it wasn't against the law for sister jackman and sister faldmo to leave our mark
•i bought a coat!! and
boots! it is better than christmas. but… it was just in time for a beautiful
week of weather. oops
•tan lines in october :) be jealous
this
week was my favorite! having conference gave us something to look forward to
and explaining it to investigators was so much fun! i realized that this is the
first time in the past 6 sessions (3 years) that i haven’t actually attended
conference at the conference center. but it was so fun! all of the americans,
and even some brazilian, in a room together. sharing treats and taking notes.
conference was so great this year! there was definitely an emphasis on members
and missionaries working together and i hope the members here and all of you
will really heed this counsel. we do our best but it always works better when
members are involved and we really do want your help!
walking these roads
i
don’t really have any fun stories from this week… just keeping on with the same
thing. we have the same progressing investigators (more or less) and are trying
to figure out who of our new contacts is ready for our message and will
progress. people say they will do things a lot here but rarely do they actually
follow through. i need to get used to being disappointed because people keeping
commitments to come to church, etc… is clearly really h
ard for people.
my kitchen can you guess which bed is mine??
ah…
but conference! i loved it. i felt our leaders explained everything really well
so that members and investigators alike could understand the messages. i can’t
wait to use these talks to teach! i specifically loved elder eyring, nelson,
uchtdorf (as always), and elder edward dube's talks (how great was he). there were also some
very specific talks that i thought were very interesting and inspired.
anyways.
love ya all. things are good. help the missionaries... k? xoxo.
sister faldmo
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