Family!
Happy New Year! Christmas here was a real blast! Seriously! I mean even just being able to wear casual clothes was so nice! Way fun! They did a lot to make the day special for all of us! It was too. It was really different, but really good at the same time. I will maybe tell you more later, but not now!
So I just have one last week here at the ctm. Mixed feelings about that! I love it here, but I am so ready to not be learning sitting a chair all day everyday! i think that I am ready to be in Brasil Goiania.
We went proselyting again and it was good. I know that is not the detail you are looking for, but it was great. I am excited to talk all day everyday with People of Brasil, but really a little worried at the same time, but this week I am making sure to study extra hard faith! I know that if I have the faith necessary that it will be okay! I sure love you! I was glad to hear from Grandma Alma, I love her so much, very sad to hear about Grandma Judd, and I will keep all the family in my prayers. I sure love her I am eternally grateful for the great opportunity that I had tot be with her this summer. What a great woman. What a unique experience to have both grandpa and grandma die while I was hear at the CTM. But, when I was at the temple today I felt them with me, even though I didn´t know at the time that Grandma had passed away! I hope that I will be able to feel their presence while I am here in Brasil.
I am a little sad to leave people here. I absolutely love Irmã Maitê. I feel like we are kindred spirits. I will miss her. She took sister Morrise and I out for lunch today which was a treat and a change from the CTM food. I love it, but it is the same taste, and it was nice to have a little change today! She will miss us a whole lot too. She is sad. But, I LOVE the blessing to know that we will see each other again even if not in this life! I have been really grateful for that blessing a lot lately for some weird reason:)
I get to e-mail Verle yay!!!! love you all so much
Eu te amo!
Sister Judd
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
December 23, 2008
Thank you for everything, and Irmã Maite did a great thing by having mom write that little thing! She is the best, and I totally cried, as did all the elders which makes me really happy!
Oh it is so good to hear from you and about people and everything. I cannot believe that I have so little time left here at the CTM. I can´t believe that in two weeks from today I will be out there teaching real people in Brasil.
Okay so you want more of the story about the man. Well, we were in this super busy place in Saõ Paulo, and there was a beautiful beautiful theater, the best infrastructure so far I have seen in Brasil other than the temple, and there a a bunch of statues there too they all have life jackets on. All the statues in Brasil have the same thing because people weren't paying good enough attention to them, so the city or something put bright orange life vests on them, so one has to notice them. It is funny. But, there are so many people!
We met him fairly close to the theater and by a bridge. It was awesome. Yes, I was able to get my message across, it just takes a lot longer and has to be in the words that I know. So, I didn't write it in the other e-mail, and you can erase this too if you want, but the first time we went proselyting a man jumped off the bridge. Definite suicide. Yeah, I am glad that we weren't anywhere near when it happened and only found out after we had left, but our elders were really close by. Yuck!!! SO I need Verle´s e-mail so that I can e-mail him, I guess he may not be able to e-mail while in the MTC.
What a great story about Daniel. [I wrote and told Kami of Daniel praying for Grandpa to live a couple more days so the Judds could see him when they went to take Verle to the Provo MTC December 10th. Grandpa Juan died Dec. 11th at 8:00AM]. Oh the faith of a child. What a great example to us all.
I would like to have a copy of the funeral if anyone has something like that. I so wished to have been there. I will remember grandpa everyday on my mission. I love love love him! Tell grandma that she needs to stick around for a good long time, that may sound selfish, but I need her! I will come home from my mission and I will take care of her! I have often felt like she and I are kindred spirits!
I am so excited for Christmas here at the CTM. I am really excited!!!!! It will be, and has been a little sad without all the kids and all the family traditions. I missed going to Pine Valley to get the tree that is for sure, but my companion is awesome on the piano seriously awesome, she plays the Brasil National Anthem. That is how good she is. You should look it up; it is so cool! We sing it every Sunday, and my goal was to be able to sing it before I leave this place! It is fast and hard.
I am so excited to go to Goiania! There are a few elders and now one brasileira sister who are coming with me and every time we see each other we are like "Yea! We are going to Goiania!" And then we high five and stuff! It is so fun!
SO, last week at the temple Dave Miz was there [Dave Miz is one of Kami's High School buddies also serving in Brazil]! I didn't get to see him though. I came out of the temple and my elders said we just met an elder from St. George who said he knew you and he wrote his name for us. I couldn't believe it! I wish I could have seen him! He was in the same place as me!!!!! Crazy!!!
I still love it here and am loving my learnings. This week will be packed with milestones. We have the third lesson in Portugues this week. WOW! Then I will be able to teach 3 lessons in Portugues! Continue to pray for me; I realize this is the only way that I am able to do this! Miraculous. Teaching with scriptures and all! 20-30 minute lesssons! Of course I only really know my part, and could struggle through my companions part, but it will come I am getting better at my part. Our brasilheira sister roommates left today. They are teh 2nd set that we have let go. They are awesome!
MMMMMMEEEEERRRRRRRRRYYYYYYY CHHristmas!!!!!!!! HAVE SO MUCH FUNN! Eu amo vocês! !! SOO much! I miss you too! Love love love!!!!
SISter Judd!
Oh it is so good to hear from you and about people and everything. I cannot believe that I have so little time left here at the CTM. I can´t believe that in two weeks from today I will be out there teaching real people in Brasil.
Okay so you want more of the story about the man. Well, we were in this super busy place in Saõ Paulo, and there was a beautiful beautiful theater, the best infrastructure so far I have seen in Brasil other than the temple, and there a a bunch of statues there too they all have life jackets on. All the statues in Brasil have the same thing because people weren't paying good enough attention to them, so the city or something put bright orange life vests on them, so one has to notice them. It is funny. But, there are so many people!
We met him fairly close to the theater and by a bridge. It was awesome. Yes, I was able to get my message across, it just takes a lot longer and has to be in the words that I know. So, I didn't write it in the other e-mail, and you can erase this too if you want, but the first time we went proselyting a man jumped off the bridge. Definite suicide. Yeah, I am glad that we weren't anywhere near when it happened and only found out after we had left, but our elders were really close by. Yuck!!! SO I need Verle´s e-mail so that I can e-mail him, I guess he may not be able to e-mail while in the MTC.
What a great story about Daniel. [I wrote and told Kami of Daniel praying for Grandpa to live a couple more days so the Judds could see him when they went to take Verle to the Provo MTC December 10th. Grandpa Juan died Dec. 11th at 8:00AM]. Oh the faith of a child. What a great example to us all.
I would like to have a copy of the funeral if anyone has something like that. I so wished to have been there. I will remember grandpa everyday on my mission. I love love love him! Tell grandma that she needs to stick around for a good long time, that may sound selfish, but I need her! I will come home from my mission and I will take care of her! I have often felt like she and I are kindred spirits!
I am so excited for Christmas here at the CTM. I am really excited!!!!! It will be, and has been a little sad without all the kids and all the family traditions. I missed going to Pine Valley to get the tree that is for sure, but my companion is awesome on the piano seriously awesome, she plays the Brasil National Anthem. That is how good she is. You should look it up; it is so cool! We sing it every Sunday, and my goal was to be able to sing it before I leave this place! It is fast and hard.
I am so excited to go to Goiania! There are a few elders and now one brasileira sister who are coming with me and every time we see each other we are like "Yea! We are going to Goiania!" And then we high five and stuff! It is so fun!
SO, last week at the temple Dave Miz was there [Dave Miz is one of Kami's High School buddies also serving in Brazil]! I didn't get to see him though. I came out of the temple and my elders said we just met an elder from St. George who said he knew you and he wrote his name for us. I couldn't believe it! I wish I could have seen him! He was in the same place as me!!!!! Crazy!!!
I still love it here and am loving my learnings. This week will be packed with milestones. We have the third lesson in Portugues this week. WOW! Then I will be able to teach 3 lessons in Portugues! Continue to pray for me; I realize this is the only way that I am able to do this! Miraculous. Teaching with scriptures and all! 20-30 minute lesssons! Of course I only really know my part, and could struggle through my companions part, but it will come I am getting better at my part. Our brasilheira sister roommates left today. They are teh 2nd set that we have let go. They are awesome!
MMMMMMEEEEERRRRRRRRRYYYYYYY CHHristmas!!!!!!!! HAVE SO MUCH FUNN! Eu amo vocês! !! SOO much! I miss you too! Love love love!!!!
SISter Judd!
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
December 17, 2008
This is an email we received from Sister Irme Maite. She sent it to all the parents of Kami's MTC district missionaries a week or so before Christmas. We absolutely LOVED seeing all the pictures she sent with the email from the MTC. We haven't received any from Kami yet.
Hello,
I am Sister Maitê, your missionary's instructor here at the MTC. For christmas i would like to surprise my students but i need your help. Would you please write down the attributes you see in your missionary and what kind of missionary you think they are. As stated earlier, i want this to be a surprise so please don't tell your missionary.
Thank you in advance.
Merry Christmas
Sincerely
Sister Maitê
This is what mother sent in response:
"Sister Kami Kaye Judd
missionary attributes Kami posesses -
cute and bubbly personality
interested in others
always wanting to serve
loves good humor and to smile and laugh with friends
great leadership skills - it's easy for her to be in charge - she always gets things done promptly when she is
tender heart, filled with compassion for those less fortunate
very very practical and prudent
Kami loves the gospel with all her heart and wants others to have the joy that she has. She is a great missionary and has always loved to be a part of sharing the gospel with her friends - member and non-member alike. She is a great example of service to our family.
Thank you SO much for sending the pictures Sister Maite!
Love,
Mary Judd (Kami's mother)"
*From the next letter Kami writes, we understand that Irme Maite did something really neat for the missionaries with this, but we have yet to know details. Hopefully Kami or some others in her mission inform us soon.
This is what mother sent in response:
"Sister Kami Kaye Judd
missionary attributes Kami posesses -
cute and bubbly personality
interested in others
always wanting to serve
loves good humor and to smile and laugh with friends
great leadership skills - it's easy for her to be in charge - she always gets things done promptly when she is
tender heart, filled with compassion for those less fortunate
very very practical and prudent
Kami loves the gospel with all her heart and wants others to have the joy that she has. She is a great missionary and has always loved to be a part of sharing the gospel with her friends - member and non-member alike. She is a great example of service to our family.
Thank you SO much for sending the pictures Sister Maite!
Love,
Mary Judd (Kami's mother)"
*From the next letter Kami writes, we understand that Irme Maite did something really neat for the missionaries with this, but we have yet to know details. Hopefully Kami or some others in her mission inform us soon.
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
December 16, 2008
I just got the news that I was planning on receiving this week, news that I knew would come and yet that I dreaded getting. I will miss grandpa so much what an incredible man he really is and was. I think by now maybe the funeral is over, or perhaps soon. I am sorry mom, and everybody, because I know tha Grandpa had a special place in all our hearts, it is kinda weird to be here in Mr. Cheneys Cookie and crying with lots of elders around. I guess maybe I will get used to it. Well, I wrote a whole long e-mail last week and the internet went out, and so I was not able to send it and I apologize for that. I know that a few people have asked that I share stories, oh my goodness I have been filled with stories lately here at the ctm all our instructors have great mission stories.
BUt, I have a good tender mercy story. We get to go proselyting here three times before we leave. It is so cool, and a little scary. But, something really cool happened. We went for the 2nd time and usually your district goes to a different place every time, but for some unknown reason my district went to the very same place that we went our first time. It is a super busy place with muitos pesoas. Last time I gave out a book of Mormon which was really neat, and it was great to be able to pray for the man and the family that I had given this book too. He was really interested and said he would call the number. Well, we were just about done, we had given out all our cards and our time was just about up, but we had not given out our Livro de Mormon yet so we went down one more street, mostly just for fun, but as we were turning to go back the man who we gave the Book of Mormon too came up to us and started talking. We asked if he had read, and called, and if anyone had come to visit him. It was awesome, he wanted our names he had thought that we would be coming to visit him and his family he said, and was a little confused, but he said that he had been reading the Book of Mormon, and that he was really liking it and I think that he said the missionaries had come over. I was so excited, and had prayed a few time for him since giving him the book because he just seemed so ready for it. I knew that the spirit had told me to give him that book, and he was ready. I keep praying for him.
I am happy! Way happy! At the same time a little somber because of grandpa. But, I will do as Annalyse said and let grandpa live on in me. Hope that the Holidays are going well, and that the family is making it okay with out mom at home and all that. Know that I pray for you! I got your package with Doritos and Cheetos and all that fun stuff! Thanks I love it! And mom you know me and my blueberry thing! I sure love you all so much! I know that I missed Kristina´s Birthday, and I am sorry about that! Happy Birthday! I hope that all is going well for Liz and Ruffin and their family. I haven´t heard anything yet.
Marci you are getting close! I am praying for you too, I wish that the letter that I sent last week had been sent before the internet went down. I love you so much!
I guess that Grandma Judd is hanging in there. I haven´t got any other news.I love her and sent her a note just the other day.
Lucy I love you too, I am not allowed though to send e-mail to anyone other than family, but Stringfellow e-mailed me so will you let her know!
I can´t believe that I only have 3 weeks left here at the ctm. That is a great, and yet kinda a scary thought. We have so much to learn and memorize and do this week in our classes. The lord is blessing me though, and my Portuguese is getting better, and I am understanding a lot more, yet I would say that I barely know anything.
Brasil never ceases to amaze me. It is awesome and so different, and just awesome is the only word I can think of to descibe it. I love my instructors here at the Ctm. I especially love Irmã Maite. She has helped me a lot with portuguese and is crazy go nuts, so of course I love her.BUt, I have a good tender mercy story. We get to go proselyting here three times before we leave. It is so cool, and a little scary. But, something really cool happened. We went for the 2nd time and usually your district goes to a different place every time, but for some unknown reason my district went to the very same place that we went our first time. It is a super busy place with muitos pesoas. Last time I gave out a book of Mormon which was really neat, and it was great to be able to pray for the man and the family that I had given this book too. He was really interested and said he would call the number. Well, we were just about done, we had given out all our cards and our time was just about up, but we had not given out our Livro de Mormon yet so we went down one more street, mostly just for fun, but as we were turning to go back the man who we gave the Book of Mormon too came up to us and started talking. We asked if he had read, and called, and if anyone had come to visit him. It was awesome, he wanted our names he had thought that we would be coming to visit him and his family he said, and was a little confused, but he said that he had been reading the Book of Mormon, and that he was really liking it and I think that he said the missionaries had come over. I was so excited, and had prayed a few time for him since giving him the book because he just seemed so ready for it. I knew that the spirit had told me to give him that book, and he was ready. I keep praying for him.
I am happy! Way happy! At the same time a little somber because of grandpa. But, I will do as Annalyse said and let grandpa live on in me. Hope that the Holidays are going well, and that the family is making it okay with out mom at home and all that. Know that I pray for you! I got your package with Doritos and Cheetos and all that fun stuff! Thanks I love it! And mom you know me and my blueberry thing! I sure love you all so much! I know that I missed Kristina´s Birthday, and I am sorry about that! Happy Birthday! I hope that all is going well for Liz and Ruffin and their family. I haven´t heard anything yet.
Marci you are getting close! I am praying for you too, I wish that the letter that I sent last week had been sent before the internet went down. I love you so much!
I guess that Grandma Judd is hanging in there. I haven´t got any other news.I love her and sent her a note just the other day.
Lucy I love you too, I am not allowed though to send e-mail to anyone other than family, but Stringfellow e-mailed me so will you let her know!
I can´t believe that I only have 3 weeks left here at the ctm. That is a great, and yet kinda a scary thought. We have so much to learn and memorize and do this week in our classes. The lord is blessing me though, and my Portuguese is getting better, and I am understanding a lot more, yet I would say that I barely know anything.
The food is something else here, but I like it all for the most part! I have class so much and spend so much time with my district, and it is fun most of the time, we have a great quote book that is for sure! The lord has already blessed me in so many ways and the more that I am here the more I feel how lucky a girl I am for what I have in so big a city one sees a lot of homeless and hungry people and people living on the street, but we have it so good. I know that the gospel helps us so much, but never take it for granted okay!
Daniel I just thought of a memory that I have of you when you Prayed that it would snow last Christmas, and I thought oh no. What have you done in praying for something impossible like that, but you are so faithful and the Lord showed his love for you and it snowed the next day! Amazing. I know that I get to witness many answers to my prayers while I am here in Brazil and look forward to every minute of this mission.
I think of my nieces and nephews all the time. I love you all and pray for you daily!Eu ama vocês sempre!
I love you always!
SIster Judd
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
December 9, 2008
My family, I hope I get to send this one today.
I just want to write a few things that happened this week that you might be interested in. I can teach the first lesson with my companion it is really awesome. In Portuguese, and we did it for members who come to the Ctm and pretend like they are real investigators. It is really cool. WE got to watch ourselves teach after we had taught.It is so cool that you can feel the spirit even when you are only pretending to teach. MY testimony has been strengthened and that makes me happy.
I am so excited for Verle, and I need his address so that I can write him e-mails. Let me know as soon as possible please.
I heard some news about Grandpa just now that he isn´t taking anymore platelets. Wow, I am so sorry and know that I mourn his loss too.
I am half way through my MTC experience and that is happy. I love the CTM, but i am ready to go to work. I guess that I will get a real kick in the pants when i realize how much portuguese i don´t know, but it will be good too. I have written an e-mail every week, but I guess that are not getting to dad, and I wish that they would, but maybe if Melissa checks hers she will get it.
Hey family! I wrote last week to Melissa´s e-mail, but the e-mail was for the entire family. I hope you got it. But, I just wrote all of you a real letter, and it tells lots of good stories about my life here at the CTM centor de traning for missionaries. I think that is the gist of CTM. But i wonder what everybody did for thanksgiving. I hope it was really good. It was sooo good here, although they don´t celebrate thanksgiving they did at the CTM< and it was soooo good. Like definitely the best meal here so far. They had the works all except pie, but they did have cake and ice cream.
So I am not sure if you can, but i need a few things and I don´t get too much money here to wrok with adn can´t use my own, i am wondering if you could send me a few things.
lets see i could use tweezers, more ped socks, sunscreen, just a little for Goiania, bug stuff, and contact solution just the cheapest stuff at Wal mart would be just fine, I think it is something like three dollars, and here it is about 25 reias or 15 dollars so i thought that would be worth it to me and you if you wouldn't mind. I could also use hairspray. I mean I hate to be practical and all that, but these are things that i need. lotion might be great too. I sure love you guys and look forward to the letter okay it is like 8 pages and tells all about my experience street contacting this last week. Totally awesome I love being a missionary.
The other day here they had a big little ceremony for the turning on of the Christmas lights at the ctm. it was so fun we sang Christmas songs and had real ice cream bars with chocolate coating! SOOO good. Chocolate is basically the best thing ever! I sure love all of you and hope that all is well. Remember you will be blessed while we are gone.
Youare all probably getting Verle all ready to leave and stuff. Oh he is in for a real treat, but we probably leave the MTC at the same time. Weird.
My bazilleria roommates just left this morning at 4 for Londrina for their missions. They were so cute. They only stay for three weeks. It is hard to believe that IO have been here almost a whole month now. Sometimes it feels like forever.
I am getting better at Portuguese, and almost cried tears of pure happiness when my Teacher Irmã Maite promised us that we would be fluent in Portuguese on our missions. I think though that we have the best teachers and especially Irma Maite in the whole ctm. She is so great and loves us so much and all that, and she is a great teacher and everyone says that the missionaries that have her as a teacher learn the fastest and speak the best Portuguese. I feel like I am in good hands.
I love my district. They are gfreat although i must say it is hard sometimes being in the same classes with the same people all day everyday. But they are really good elders and i think that we help them. Not too many districts get to have girls, sisters, so they are lucky I think. Verle good luck. I love you so much and wish you the best mission ever. And I want to give you some money I think Dad or mom can do that for me. 150 okay. You work your heart out, and remember your love for the Lord is why you are doing this great work. It will bless your life and the life of your future family so much I know it. and It will be a great blessing to our family as well. I think they will more than recognize these blessings. You are doing more for your family while you are gone than you could if you were there. I know it sounds weird, but it is soo true.
People tell me that Goiania is muito quente, and muito baptisms. Awesome can't wait.
SIster Judd
I wrote this last week, but I can´t seem to get anything to send to you at this address. You should know though that I am not supposed to e-mail, nor receive e-mail from anyone outside of my family so do not give this address to anyone else please.
love you
I just want to write a few things that happened this week that you might be interested in. I can teach the first lesson with my companion it is really awesome. In Portuguese, and we did it for members who come to the Ctm and pretend like they are real investigators. It is really cool. WE got to watch ourselves teach after we had taught.It is so cool that you can feel the spirit even when you are only pretending to teach. MY testimony has been strengthened and that makes me happy.
I am so excited for Verle, and I need his address so that I can write him e-mails. Let me know as soon as possible please.
I heard some news about Grandpa just now that he isn´t taking anymore platelets. Wow, I am so sorry and know that I mourn his loss too.
I am half way through my MTC experience and that is happy. I love the CTM, but i am ready to go to work. I guess that I will get a real kick in the pants when i realize how much portuguese i don´t know, but it will be good too. I have written an e-mail every week, but I guess that are not getting to dad, and I wish that they would, but maybe if Melissa checks hers she will get it.
Hey family! I wrote last week to Melissa´s e-mail, but the e-mail was for the entire family. I hope you got it. But, I just wrote all of you a real letter, and it tells lots of good stories about my life here at the CTM centor de traning for missionaries. I think that is the gist of CTM. But i wonder what everybody did for thanksgiving. I hope it was really good. It was sooo good here, although they don´t celebrate thanksgiving they did at the CTM< and it was soooo good. Like definitely the best meal here so far. They had the works all except pie, but they did have cake and ice cream.
So I am not sure if you can, but i need a few things and I don´t get too much money here to wrok with adn can´t use my own, i am wondering if you could send me a few things.
lets see i could use tweezers, more ped socks, sunscreen, just a little for Goiania, bug stuff, and contact solution just the cheapest stuff at Wal mart would be just fine, I think it is something like three dollars, and here it is about 25 reias or 15 dollars so i thought that would be worth it to me and you if you wouldn't mind. I could also use hairspray. I mean I hate to be practical and all that, but these are things that i need. lotion might be great too. I sure love you guys and look forward to the letter okay it is like 8 pages and tells all about my experience street contacting this last week. Totally awesome I love being a missionary.
The other day here they had a big little ceremony for the turning on of the Christmas lights at the ctm. it was so fun we sang Christmas songs and had real ice cream bars with chocolate coating! SOOO good. Chocolate is basically the best thing ever! I sure love all of you and hope that all is well. Remember you will be blessed while we are gone.
Youare all probably getting Verle all ready to leave and stuff. Oh he is in for a real treat, but we probably leave the MTC at the same time. Weird.
My bazilleria roommates just left this morning at 4 for Londrina for their missions. They were so cute. They only stay for three weeks. It is hard to believe that IO have been here almost a whole month now. Sometimes it feels like forever.
I am getting better at Portuguese, and almost cried tears of pure happiness when my Teacher Irmã Maite promised us that we would be fluent in Portuguese on our missions. I think though that we have the best teachers and especially Irma Maite in the whole ctm. She is so great and loves us so much and all that, and she is a great teacher and everyone says that the missionaries that have her as a teacher learn the fastest and speak the best Portuguese. I feel like I am in good hands.
I love my district. They are gfreat although i must say it is hard sometimes being in the same classes with the same people all day everyday. But they are really good elders and i think that we help them. Not too many districts get to have girls, sisters, so they are lucky I think. Verle good luck. I love you so much and wish you the best mission ever. And I want to give you some money I think Dad or mom can do that for me. 150 okay. You work your heart out, and remember your love for the Lord is why you are doing this great work. It will bless your life and the life of your future family so much I know it. and It will be a great blessing to our family as well. I think they will more than recognize these blessings. You are doing more for your family while you are gone than you could if you were there. I know it sounds weird, but it is soo true.
People tell me that Goiania is muito quente, and muito baptisms. Awesome can't wait.
SIster Judd
I wrote this last week, but I can´t seem to get anything to send to you at this address. You should know though that I am not supposed to e-mail, nor receive e-mail from anyone outside of my family so do not give this address to anyone else please.
love you
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
December 2, 2008
This is a story posted by Emma Fristoe - one that Kami wrote to her about, sharing many details about one man she and her companion contacted and gave a Book of Mormon to on the street. Kami references this experience in a couple other letters, and we felt that this one gave more information and details about the actual day she had the first contact with him, so I am posting it here for all of us to enjoy.
"I love it here in Brasil. My heart has been here for so long i think. We get to go to the temple every week and it is a great experience.
We were able to go for the first time proselyting on Friday. WE went to a really busy place and it was a little, okay more than a little scary at first, but it was really great too.
It is really weird being in a country with so many homeless, people and such. I am not sure I was really, or could really have been prepared for this, but it is great, and just new, it hasn´t bothered me mostly except that it makes me feel really blessed and feel bad for those who don´t have what I have. Why am i so lucky? I guess so i can share with others how they too can be so blessed as i am. But anyway... WE gave out all our pass along cards and two Os livros de Mormon. Really great story too that one is. I saw this guy and he was pushing a stroller, and that means family information card to give out.. so we approached him, and gave our shpill in Portuguese and he acted really interested. I was excited. So after committing him to call and such, I turned back around, and he was still there looking at the card, and I knew that he needed a Book of Mormon, i went back and gave the Book of Mormon short lesson, and basically said everything i know in Portuguese, which took about 30 seconds, no i am kidding, but it was awesome, he was asking how he could learn more, and we showed him where to call to have missionaries come and tell him more, and bore our testimonies in Portuguese about the book of mormon, and how it could bless his life. It was awesome and we committed him to read and pray, and call the missionaries to come. Then we left, and he said God bless you and good luck. It was awesome. I know that things ARE going to be great. We were only rejected probably five times, which i don´t think was normal, or at least not with the elders who said that for every card they gave out they were rejected at least once."
"I love it here in Brasil. My heart has been here for so long i think. We get to go to the temple every week and it is a great experience.
We were able to go for the first time proselyting on Friday. WE went to a really busy place and it was a little, okay more than a little scary at first, but it was really great too.
It is really weird being in a country with so many homeless, people and such. I am not sure I was really, or could really have been prepared for this, but it is great, and just new, it hasn´t bothered me mostly except that it makes me feel really blessed and feel bad for those who don´t have what I have. Why am i so lucky? I guess so i can share with others how they too can be so blessed as i am. But anyway... WE gave out all our pass along cards and two Os livros de Mormon. Really great story too that one is. I saw this guy and he was pushing a stroller, and that means family information card to give out.. so we approached him, and gave our shpill in Portuguese and he acted really interested. I was excited. So after committing him to call and such, I turned back around, and he was still there looking at the card, and I knew that he needed a Book of Mormon, i went back and gave the Book of Mormon short lesson, and basically said everything i know in Portuguese, which took about 30 seconds, no i am kidding, but it was awesome, he was asking how he could learn more, and we showed him where to call to have missionaries come and tell him more, and bore our testimonies in Portuguese about the book of mormon, and how it could bless his life. It was awesome and we committed him to read and pray, and call the missionaries to come. Then we left, and he said God bless you and good luck. It was awesome. I know that things ARE going to be great. We were only rejected probably five times, which i don´t think was normal, or at least not with the elders who said that for every card they gave out they were rejected at least once."
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