Ugh
I have so much to say and so little time (45 min) and that equals more
stress thinking of what to say then actually getting to say and talk
about what I want to say lol.
Well
this week has been really hard actually! I miss everybody so much but I
can feel my saviors love that he has for me to send me on a journey to
teach his children! If it wasn't for him I would not know where I would
be today. I for sure would not be in the AMAZING country of Brasil now
would I? Well my week has been hard because they throw you into teaching
lessons just speaking Portuguese and sometimes the teachers have fun
asking questions making your brain work harder because you know what you
want to say but don't know how in Portuguese.
So
last week my district got split and even just being one week into my
mission I learned to love my friends so much but my new district is
awesome and I couldn't have asked for better friends. Sometimes you do
get annoyed with your companion aka how I was yesterday because I just
wanted to focus on what I had to do. We had a lesson coming up soon and
nobody was being serious!
The
food here is great! I mean the food in the city! There is a cookie
place across the street and the triple chocolate is literally to DIE
for!! I think so far I have gained 5-8 pounds here XD Its okay though
because we get to play basketball a lot and run and sometimes weights
but the weights are just cables that they don't let you go past a
certain weight.
Yesterday I watched a film and it showed the scene where the people killed our Heavenly Father (*He meant Jesus Christ)
on the cross and it made me cry because I think its tough here in the
CTM but he literally died for our sins and everything that we do so we
could be with him some day. I have also grown a greater testimony (in
Portuguese too) about how we can return to him some day and be happy
with everybody that we know and have grown to love. My favorite
scripture I heard last week is D&C 84: I think verse 85 or 88. If
that's wrong I will mail home for that to be corrected. Uhhh I am
hitting a wall of forgetfulness what happened last week because every
day is blending together like nothing even happened.
Ahh
so last week we started to use tooth picks a lot and tended to just
bite on it and everybody started to do that which now that I think about
it is dumb. But we all called each other tooth pick guys... yeah idk
why we even did that lol. But Elder Snyder that is in charge of kind of
all the Missionaries banned them anywhere but the cafeteria lol. Elder
and Sister Snyder are so awesome though! They welcomed us into the CTM
home and everyday checked on us to make sure that we were all okay and
if we are home sick that we could go to him and just talk. We are all
really blessed to have leaders like them willing to serve as older
couples to help the missionaries. All my leaders are awesome!
We aren't allowed to wear skinny ties here and I bought 6 very cool ties!!
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| This was such a fun surprise to get these pictures! This sweet sister (I think one of his instructors) sent these through FB messenger as I was reading Bryson's mass email. Thank you! 😊 She speaks Portuguese, so language is a barrier. I don't know how she found me on Facebook! I don't know if Bryson asked for these to be sent to me or what. Many mom's in the Brazil CTM are frustrated trying to get pictures of our missionaries. I found out it's not that the missionaries are "not allowed" to send pictures. It's that there are 600 missionaries in the CTM. All have only 45 min to email home and read their emails. There isn't enough internet bandwidth connection for several pictures to be uploaded and sent by all 600 missionaries. Some go across the street to Mr Cheney's Store (where Bryson said he gets his cookies from) to upload them and send home. Hopefully Bryson will get this chance at a point to send us photos from Mr Cheney's Store. I miss my boy!!! I love and miss you B!!!! - 💗 Mom |
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