japanese, portugues and Lagoa
Dear Blog Readers,
I am now living in what i feel like is a lot like lincoln city, cute little beachy town (with not a beach in sight). With that in mind, please also note that the internet connection has gone down A LOT and with lots of pictures being sent this week, i have little time to write whats been happening. so I will give you a three paragraph summary-
1. EVERYONE and their dog thinks i am from japan here. kids, adults, everyone. A lot of the time people ask me to speak japanese for them. which is hilarious because i think i look more brasillian than american, but whatever. squinty eyes for the win.
2. yesterday we took a bus to Neves (Riber鉶 das Neves) and its a 45 minute harry potter knight bus experience with beautiful tropical green flying past the whole way. I sat by a woman who had lots of questions about the 创mormons创. 45 minutes later i realized not only had i answered her questions, she had understood me completely AND it was all in portugues all by myself. i might have high fived myself and then did a victory dance...in my head that is...
3. I am now living in a green grassy beautiful town, its just a suburb of BH, but it is no where near centro. the ward is incredible and we feel very blessed and that we have a whole lot of potential here. So i will let you in on a secret. President met with us and the zone twice this past week because by march they want to split the stake. The only thing is they need 80 more men to be baptized and reactivated by march. We feel extremely capable of accomplishing this and president thinks its more than possible. With this goal, sister Anderson and i also have a goal of 10 baptisms by the end of the year (standard of excellence is 4 a month) and all lessons with a member present. Our mission struggles to get 15 a week with a member present, this past week alone we had 24. This week we are shooting for 40 and if all goes as planned, it should happen.
sorry this letter was very missionary numbered and probably didnt make much sense. I will write better next week i promise. also, pray for us? We are expecting miracles and all, but a prayer would definitely help :)
thats all for now, love you all!
sister mad
p.s. GUESS WHAT? you can now email me. Email me as much as you want, however i will not be responding-i will have to handwrite you back, which now that i live in lagoa it goes by horseback to the states. Also, keep in mind i do still enjoy getting letters and i only have so much time on the internet, but you can email me till the dogs come home now.
I am now living in what i feel like is a lot like lincoln city, cute little beachy town (with not a beach in sight). With that in mind, please also note that the internet connection has gone down A LOT and with lots of pictures being sent this week, i have little time to write whats been happening. so I will give you a three paragraph summary-
1. EVERYONE and their dog thinks i am from japan here. kids, adults, everyone. A lot of the time people ask me to speak japanese for them. which is hilarious because i think i look more brasillian than american, but whatever. squinty eyes for the win.
2. yesterday we took a bus to Neves (Riber鉶 das Neves) and its a 45 minute harry potter knight bus experience with beautiful tropical green flying past the whole way. I sat by a woman who had lots of questions about the 创mormons创. 45 minutes later i realized not only had i answered her questions, she had understood me completely AND it was all in portugues all by myself. i might have high fived myself and then did a victory dance...in my head that is...
3. I am now living in a green grassy beautiful town, its just a suburb of BH, but it is no where near centro. the ward is incredible and we feel very blessed and that we have a whole lot of potential here. So i will let you in on a secret. President met with us and the zone twice this past week because by march they want to split the stake. The only thing is they need 80 more men to be baptized and reactivated by march. We feel extremely capable of accomplishing this and president thinks its more than possible. With this goal, sister Anderson and i also have a goal of 10 baptisms by the end of the year (standard of excellence is 4 a month) and all lessons with a member present. Our mission struggles to get 15 a week with a member present, this past week alone we had 24. This week we are shooting for 40 and if all goes as planned, it should happen.
sorry this letter was very missionary numbered and probably didnt make much sense. I will write better next week i promise. also, pray for us? We are expecting miracles and all, but a prayer would definitely help :)
thats all for now, love you all!
sister mad
p.s. GUESS WHAT? you can now email me. Email me as much as you want, however i will not be responding-i will have to handwrite you back, which now that i live in lagoa it goes by horseback to the states. Also, keep in mind i do still enjoy getting letters and i only have so much time on the internet, but you can email me till the dogs come home now.
Pictures will be attached in next post! There are a lot! :)
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