good
●my warm boot
search finally ended and i spent less than i was planning. ten points for
sister faldmo!
in case you're wondering... cows are all good in santiago
●we had four
family nights this week! yay. all with less active families but the
investigators will come.
this is a video of games we play at FHE... not sure if you'll be able to view. May have to wait for it to load
●world cup
starts this week....
bad
●one of the
family nights was really interesting… it was with the elders recent convert.
the whole family is less active and the message was really good but then the
mom interrupted with some “strange” questions and soon I basically didn’t know what
we were talking about. so, i just asked her if she loved her kids and she said “honestly…
if i loved them i would be active in the church and sealed in the temple so no
i don’t truly love them because i won’t live with them forever.” .........awkward
silence, (all in front of her kids) i wasn’t quite sure how to respond to that
one.
●this week was
way rough and this whole past weekend we didn’t teach. then sunday our
investigator didn’t come to church because he stayed up until 6:30 AM on the
computer gaming. hmmmmm
●world cup
starts this week....
awk
●um yeah we kind
of spent like way lots of energy this month because of our heater and i got a
nice little call from the financial secretary... oops. #coldinbrasil
comps
●dia dos
namorados aka like valentines’ day aka #notfunasamissionary
●world cup starts
this week....
awesome
●rafaela
(niece of paloma, daughter to paloma’s brother-in-law—remember him?) said the
cutest prayer in front of her whole family and everyone… she said she liked our
church and baptisms at our church and she knows it’s the only true church and
true baptism. hahahahha. you go get ‘em tiger. She’s 7. #futuremissionary
●after months
without-- we finally have a ward mission leader!!!!!! but now the young men are
without a president... haha. sorry ‘bout that.
●irma marcia
is the coolest ever and made me a new skirt! and it cost me less than 3 US
dollars!
$3 skirt folks:)
●yay paloma
started seminary this week!
●mission tour
with a visiting Seventy (elder soares from recife and his wife) who has the
coolest accent everrrrrr
the labeled 14 yr old elder from provo mtc... aka elder knowles
the district
missionary favorite
provo mtc reunion during the seventy mission tour
●world cup
starts this week....
this week was.... quite the week. why did it seem impossible to
teach? we tried everything. talked to people on streets, knocked doors, prayed,
walked and walked… but nothing worked. we couldn’t even teach our
investigators. no one was home or no one wanted to talk to us. it was so hard.
i still don’t understand it all. and i don’t know when it will get better. i
hope soon. my time is winding down here in santiago and i really want to see
people progress like paloma. i don’t know…but the Lord definitely works in
mysterious ways, that’s for sure! also, with world cup starting this week we probably
won’t teach much unless our
investigators don’t care about soccer… which is basically impossible here in
brasil. I guess if we can’t teach then we’ll go home and study. wooohoooo. no jk
i really like studying but I love teaching the gospel of Jesus Christ to people!
idk. any advice on finding new investigators would be great.
also on a happy note, because some of you may find this letter
kinda depressing. i want you to know that i love irma mara. i think i’ve
already talked about her. but let me just refresh your memory. she was baptized
a couple years ago and has four kids. all of her children that are eight or
older have been baptized. her husband isn’t a member. but minha nossa she is so faithful.
the other day we had a family night with a less active that lives close to her.
this less
active invited irma mara to come but we hadn’t had a chance to actually
tell her about the family home evening because she works. literally five
minutes before it started we passed by her house to invite her and she truly
dropped everything and said “let’s go kids.” she seriously is such an example
of putting the Lord first in your life.
then at the family night the teenagers didn’t want to participate but she went
in their rooms, talked to them, and got them to come out and listen! she
changed the whole family night... it would have been a disaster without her.
then yesterday she sent two of her kids to the mini CTM with a big thing of
cake for everyone. who is this woman? i love her so much. one day i will be
like her.
i love irma mara! (far left)
anyways. go brasil. i’m sorry but the truth is, the US doesn’t
have a chance in the world cup. Please join me in praying for success and the
people in santiago. pray for miracles, because we literally need miracles here.
it’s so hard but i know my time here will be worth it. maybe i’m just here to
plant seeds for other missionaries... who knows? I’ll do my part, whatever it
is.
love you all. feliz copa.
xoxo sister faldmo
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