January 27, 2009

Oi minha grande familia,
Oh I am so grateful for all your letters I finally got this week! It was so fabulous and I was so thankful! We can only receive letters and read them on pday. Today! It was so refreshing. I hadn´t had mail at all for a month about.
I am just about three weeks in the field, and it is great, I am getin gused to the missionary life still, but it is nice. Please continue to pray for me to help me learn Portuguese! I can always use your prayers!
Oh I was so excited to hear about the new addition to our family in Baby Sean Scott! What a treasure! We are so lucky, and it sounds like you did great Marci! What a great opportunity I had to be there for Eliza, but you must know that I have been praying for you so much. For Liz too! Oh babies truly are a gift from god in our lives are they not!?//
Oh and thank you for the pictures! He is huge! Oh I am so happy for you all! Take good care of him and remind him that Kami Kaye is his favorite aunty okay! I will feed him all the candy in the world when I get home okay! You let him know that!:) I am not sure if you remember that conversation marc! Oh your letters were wonderful! 14 letters I had what a blessing a thunderstorm after the draught!
Oh and speaking of thunderstorms it is so rainy here right now. It is summer and it rains a whole lot in the summer here. And it is hot when it is not raining.
I think I told my companion, and dad I thought I told you about Dave miz. I was so sad that I didn´t get to see him, but it was awesome non the less that my district got to see him. I will try to send pictures sometime, it is difficult, I am not sure how to do it on the computer and it takes a long time, which I don´t have, but I will try to print some one of these days for you all”
Our circumstances this week are really interesting because we had to move for several different reasons one of which is that our kitchen rains a lot. I will miss the house, but for this and other reasons we are living with 2 other missionaries sister Chaves and sister Carvalho! It is so much fun to live with other sisters and I love them so much. They are in our same ward, but they live about 45 min. walk from our area, so we usually take the bus I hope we find a house soon because it will get expensive, we walk sometimes but lose time for working when we do.
We have many new investigators and are praying for them a lot! We need people to come to church with us so that they can be prepared to be baptized, we taught two girls Monique and Mariza yesterday and the spirit was very strong, both accepted a baptismal date and we are praying that they will keep it. Both want to come to church this week so we will pass by early Sunday morning. It doesn´t really help that church starts at 8:30, but I guess this heklps us know who the elect are right.
W e also are trying to do better with having the members help us. If you have any ideas tell me!
Oh marci I just looked again at your beautiful baby! Ohhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!
Brent And Rachael thank you for your letter! I cant believe Tyler is walking amazing! You give him tons of kisses for me okay!
Liz, it was great to hear that the baby is alright and what a miracle you all had.
It is so great to see the miracles every day here on the mission. I started with my companion to write a miracle list every night and we do and it is so great! Truly this is the \Lords work. Sometimes the miracles are small, like the rain waiting to pour, or being able to achieve our goals, but everyday there is something that happens that is a miracle. Look for them and thank god for them.
Keep sending letters to my mission home address not my other one that I wrote on the letter because we will be moving soon.
Oh I can´t even express how much I love all of you! SOOOO Much!
If you would like to pray for the investigators here please! Alexandre is so awesome! We hoped that we would be able to baptize him this week because our mission president came here and spent the day with us, but for some circumstances in the life of Alexandre, he needs to wait until next month to be interviewed. But he remains firme! Steadfast and immovable! He said I will wait!!! What great faith he has. I want to record his testimony! We taught him about temples this week so awesome!
The food is great so far nothing too different and I like it all. Thanks I love y ou all!
Sister Judd