●winning hearts of 18 YO elders one chocolate chip cookie at a time at district meeting (in the most appropriate way obviously) #favoritesisters
●because we’re the favorites… receiving a 2 pound bag of sweetish fish from an elder who got 4
others from his mom.
●perfect weather days!!
●our missionaries can fly in and out of santa maria now! and the airport is in camobi… my area of santa maria! i probably won’t get to see my provo district when they come, but how cool would that be?
●seeing a missionary family here open a letter from their missionary. it was fun but weird to be on the other end of things! hopefully my family gets that excited for my letters :)
●got my talk at church over with-- and people said they understood it! it actually wasn’t that bad and the sisters helped me practice a lot. i even made a little joke in the beginning! came up with it all by myself on the spot!
BAD:
●hearing miley cyrus twice in one week. we won’t
stop (or whatever it’s called) it was not good in the
states and it’s even worse here. goooo away!●daylight savings- one hour less of sleepL
●we were supposed to have a zone volleyball game today but it got rained out. i was sooo excited but it’s probably a blessing because my zone is weeeak. but spiritually so strong J
yellow felt accessories coming out of retirement to help the Brazilian youth
●because of this ^^^i got to show one of the
young women my product on yellow felt instagram. it was
sooo weird. ●when it’s sister clays bday and she was sooo excited… and then she threw up. poor girl-- haha.
ya... that's chocolate on the left side of the pizza
●there’s no ladylike way to say this-- a fly
went down my shirt in a lesson. see details below.●trying to make our contact goals when everyone is watching grenal- the game between the two big soccer teams down here. it was a ghost town.
●trying again to make contacts later... and stopping everyone who was on their way to church. give me something here!!!
AWESOME:
●5 letters last week.
#myfamilyandfriendsarebetterthanyours
●going into this candy/party store. it was no
hobby lobby but my creative juices were renewed J
●having a birthday in the apartment-- cake and
pizza. and brazilian pizza is DANG good.
●riding in the cart behind the horses!!!
details below.
●i felt like i was watching the grenal game
because the whole town errupted when there was a goal.
my testimony... shared in portuguese with an investigator
where I go to church
the horse thing! i don’t know what to call
it. It’s a carriage… but not that pretty, slash a buggy slash who knows
what??!! but we had told a recent convert we thought they were so cool and
wanted to ride one... which we seriously did but we didn’t think she’d take us
serious. but then she said she knew someone who had one! so when we went to her
house yesterday she took us to her friend’s house… and this cute little man who
we don’t even know let us ride in it! after we asked the man he told his
grandson to go get the horse. we had actually met his grandson on the street one
day. we were talking with the man and then all a sudden there’s the grandson
riding the horse bareback! they hitched it up and we only rode it for 3 or 4
minutes but we were laughing and screaming the whole time. we made quite a
scene but i don’t even care. YOLO in camobi i guess! it was a little scary at
first and i didn’t know how i would tell president i got seriously injured
doing that… but it was so fun. and then we taught them a nice little lesson
about the book of mormonJ
get ready to go....
so fun...
adues!!!
and then we rode through the streets of camobi
and now the tricky part... getting off in a skirt
this week was a lot of fun. but we really did
work hard and taught a ton of lessons.
we had to cut some people who aren’t progressing in our teaching poolL
we would have two baptisms this week, but one of them couldn’t come to church
because her dad was in town and he said she couldn’t go... so she will have to
wait until next week to be baptized. i think the other girl will probably be
baptized. she is so sweet and has A LOT of potential. it is hard when people
don’t keep their commitments. we need to prioritize and remember what’s most
important. i would hope our salvation is high on that listJ
it was sister clay’s birthday so a member
made us cake one night and we ordered a pizza and had a little party before
bed. also-- this week will be the last week of before transfers! what? where
did the time go. pray my companion doesn’t get transferred! haha. kidding. but
kinda not…
time for companion prayers...
we are a great team!
have a good week!
xoxox-
sister faldmo
Portions of a Snail
Mail letter Received October 16 but written September 30, 2013
We
are teaching Lidia and she’s the best teenager I’ve ever met. She’s super smart, almost done with her
personal progress (which makes me feel horrible), reading the Book of Mormon
and already in the book of Alma, oh… and she’s not even a member! She’s so ready to be baptized and she’ll
probably be the next General Relief Society President, but her dad is a
bum. He never talks to us, I’ve seen him
twice for about 15 seconds total (I’m not be dramatic, serious) and I guess he
just keeps doing things to delay her baptism.
The bishop made a visit once and he still didn’t stick around to
chat. He just goes back to his
room. He said she needs to read the Book of Mormon 1st, but now he says after she finishes it he will have to
think about it. I’m so worried she will
finish it and he will say no.
Although
people don’t have all that we have they are perfectly fine. I don’t want to say they’re lazy, but they’re
content. The modern conveniences don’t
tempt then. Not having a car doesn’t bug
them, but I think sometimes it gives them an excuse for no progression… if that
makes any sense?? They don’t complain about
not having things, they just don’t test their limits and hope for more. I think that’s the difference between home in
the states and here. At home, it makes
us more prideful but promotes innovation.
Here, it helps with humility but hurts progression and improvement.
My
mission President’s wife … Sister Parella talked for two hours during zone conference about diet and exercise. She’s REALLY into it! She suggested that we do our evening planning
when we are walking home so that then we can exercise when we get home instead
of plan... hmmm.....
Sometimes the members serve us
soda!! We're not supposed to drink it according to Sister Parella, but President says if members serve it to us then it's ok:) They feed us lettuce with vinegar stuff, sometimes sliced tomatoes,
beans and noodles with meat stuff or rice.
There is not as much straight meat as I was thinking there would be. The desserts here aren’t good. I usually don’t even want them. But I try to eat a little because I don’t want to
offend anyone as the American picky eater or whatever.
Our
chapel is super NICE!! It has heating, A/C and carpet--- which is way rare
here because carpet can get moldy and heating and A/C just doesn’t happen. Oh
my goodness, I saw a building being built the other day… they should be praying
for no natural disasters! It’s just so
different. It makes me think a lot of
things here are similar to the late 1800s in American. I’m not saying this in a bratty way… just
100% serious. But then again, we do have
washing machines here (well most people do) so that’s a step up!
I’m
going to start reading Jesus the Christ again (I didn’t get to finish it in the
Brazil MTC). Please don’t get of sending
letters in the mail. They make me so
happy. Being unable to talk to my family
and friends is the hardest part of the mission for me.
Eu
Amo Voces!!
Sister
Faldmo
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