Minha familia querida!
OH I love you all! Thank you for all the loving and kind words of encouragement! They help so much. Thank you grandma!
Mom, for you, please don´t worry about me too much. I am doing just fine, and i just learned how to use my card here, honestly I haven´t had to use it because the mission money has been sufficient, but this week I had to for the first time. We get reimbursed for things like medicine, water and things like this, but I really would like to buy a new pair of shoes, sandals. My shoes are great, but for everyday i think it is better to have some good sandals and i can buy them here, honestly i think things are just fine, and the dollar here is worth 2 raise so it is great! If you want to send money, put it in my fund, like Jim did, and now i know how i can use it, but don´t worry i don´t think that i will need it. I had to have some work done at the dentist, this is why i needed a little extra money this time.
But I would like recipes. With all this Portuguese in my mind recipes for the most part have escaped, i am only remembering about half. I think I would like recipes for cookies, and banana bread, and i don´t know what else is important in life! :) Life is good!
I am loving, living! happy. Interesting though something that happened just yesterday for the first time on my mission. I taught a lesson and was clearly rejected, but for some reason this made me really sad. I get rejected all the time, but this time it was a different feeling. I had been happy, but seriously I started crying as we walked away. It was such a strange feeling. my heart yearned and agency prevailed. My companion was sympathetic. Interesting and I remembered my setting apart and how President Doty counseled to not become too discouraged when people rejected.
I am enjoying the work. It is difficult to feel like I am doing the very best I can, but I know that it makes a difference. Many times people will say the difference our message has made in their lives, and i have honestly made friends with some of our investigators as my prayers, and an increase of vocabulary have been working in my life! Yay! I am feeling a little more comfortable with Portuguese. I love this ward and area, We have transfers next week and i hope i will not be transferred. I would love to witness the baptisms of the people, my friends, that we are teaching now.
This is a scattered e-mail, sorry!
You are all in my thought and prayers! Not a day passes when I don´t think about you all!
I am so grateful for the trails I have especially when we visit others and hear what life is like outside the gospel. It is amazing that these things happen in the church to people, but with Christ things have so much more hope. So much more bearable to bear our cross with Christ. So many don´t know this. I love being a missionary to bring this hope to all the world!
I love you all!
Sis Judd
Friday, March 27, 2009
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
March 17, 2009
Olá familia!
OH how I love you all, I am sorry last week the internet went down and this is why I was not able to e-mail, but I am happy that now I can.
Well, I just ended a week that was for some weird reason difficult for me. But it was good and we always learn from hard experiences, it was a difficult week for our entire district, but I know that this week will be better. In our district from example 9 baptisms that were planned fell through. But we have encountered some of the elect for sure and I am really happy about some that we have!
Caeser, he is a young man 27-28? but we taught him for the first time the other day, we were batendo portas, (clapping doors) and he was very receptive, the spirit was very strong when we taught and he said he would come to church with us this week.
Lenir, She is a wonderful woman we met she can´t hear very well, and really didn´t understand me very much at all, so the first couple of times we taught there sister j. lima taught basically the whole lessons. I bore my testimony knowing that she wouldn´t understand, but hoping she´d feel the power of testimony. But, the first time we met her she accepted baptism too, and told us that her son died 8 years ago due to a drug overdose. Very Very sad and now she deals with depression. She couldnt come to church because she was depressed a lot, and her medicine was gone, but we called three members to give her a blessing and it was wonderful, we taught the plan of salvation and felt the real power it has!
This work is heavy a lot of heavy people who have real problems really real problems, and this helps me to thank my heavenly Father for the way I grew up and the things I had that so Many others don´t have and also have questions like why was I so Blessed? I know that we all, all that have this wonderful gospel were given these blessed opportunities because we can be the tools to share with others and help others to hav the happiness we have! What an incredible experience!
Milton,Andrea, and Mirela- Yay a family! This is the first time I that I have had the opportunity to teach a whole family! It is awesome! This was a reference from Bispo. This is a wonderful family! They live way far from where we work, but it is so worth it to visit them. We have only taught twice , but with members always and the members were so awesome and helped us a lot at church with them! Adilson is awesome member who sat with them and explained everything. He has been home from his mission for only 7 months, and the whole milton family loved him!
We have a baptism scheduled for this weekend, but are not sure if it will happen, we found out some information we have to work with. Oh Please keep the commandments!!!!!
Sandra- Way awesome! I love her a lot! She definitely recognized us as representatives of Christ and it is so great to visit and teach her.
I love you all, my time is gone, but here was a little about the people we are helping and teaching right now, hoping to have baptisms, Thank you for your prayers, I need them!
Love love!
Sister Kami Kaye Judd
OH how I love you all, I am sorry last week the internet went down and this is why I was not able to e-mail, but I am happy that now I can.
Well, I just ended a week that was for some weird reason difficult for me. But it was good and we always learn from hard experiences, it was a difficult week for our entire district, but I know that this week will be better. In our district from example 9 baptisms that were planned fell through. But we have encountered some of the elect for sure and I am really happy about some that we have!
Caeser, he is a young man 27-28? but we taught him for the first time the other day, we were batendo portas, (clapping doors) and he was very receptive, the spirit was very strong when we taught and he said he would come to church with us this week.
Lenir, She is a wonderful woman we met she can´t hear very well, and really didn´t understand me very much at all, so the first couple of times we taught there sister j. lima taught basically the whole lessons. I bore my testimony knowing that she wouldn´t understand, but hoping she´d feel the power of testimony. But, the first time we met her she accepted baptism too, and told us that her son died 8 years ago due to a drug overdose. Very Very sad and now she deals with depression. She couldnt come to church because she was depressed a lot, and her medicine was gone, but we called three members to give her a blessing and it was wonderful, we taught the plan of salvation and felt the real power it has!
This work is heavy a lot of heavy people who have real problems really real problems, and this helps me to thank my heavenly Father for the way I grew up and the things I had that so Many others don´t have and also have questions like why was I so Blessed? I know that we all, all that have this wonderful gospel were given these blessed opportunities because we can be the tools to share with others and help others to hav the happiness we have! What an incredible experience!
Milton,Andrea, and Mirela- Yay a family! This is the first time I that I have had the opportunity to teach a whole family! It is awesome! This was a reference from Bispo. This is a wonderful family! They live way far from where we work, but it is so worth it to visit them. We have only taught twice , but with members always and the members were so awesome and helped us a lot at church with them! Adilson is awesome member who sat with them and explained everything. He has been home from his mission for only 7 months, and the whole milton family loved him!
We have a baptism scheduled for this weekend, but are not sure if it will happen, we found out some information we have to work with. Oh Please keep the commandments!!!!!
Sandra- Way awesome! I love her a lot! She definitely recognized us as representatives of Christ and it is so great to visit and teach her.
I love you all, my time is gone, but here was a little about the people we are helping and teaching right now, hoping to have baptisms, Thank you for your prayers, I need them!
Love love!
Sister Kami Kaye Judd
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
March 3, 2009
Familia,
I am a little sad because I had no e-mails from my family to read today, but last week was wonderful and so thanks for all the sweet e-mails, and today I will get to rewrite what I wanted to say last week!
First of all i hope everyone is well and life is going great!
I am so happy to hear of successes. I wanted to say to Marci that I fasted for you and for your baby, without knowing that anything was wrong, but I just felt like a fast would be a good idea for you! I am so glad the lord knows us, whether we are in Brasil, or any other place in the world!
WE had a baptism this week.We thought we would be having two, but one fell through. Monique I hope will be baptized soon, but Hernani was baptized this week and confirmed! It was wonderful! Alexander has been helping us visit him which is great because we need to see Alexandre more too. He bore his testimony at the baptism, and walked with us with Hernani for the baptism. Wonderful! The only thing that was sad was that Monique was not baptized with him. Her sister wants to be baptized as well, so we hope in the next couple of weeks to have their baptisms together.
Very interesting to have a Brasillian companion. Sometimes interesting to try and explain what you are thinking and feeling in another language and culture, but I can tell that she has helped me a lot. Just the other week I realized that I was saying my prayers for the most part in Portuguese. My thoughts were coming in Portugues! Way cool! Always pray with others in Portugues but in my own personal prayers most all the words and thoughts and feelings I wanted to express are coming!
I am learning the lessons a lot better too, and learning other words and examples to help investigators understand.
We have a couple we are teaching right now who are so awesome and we hope will accept a baptismal date. Janesio e Alesandra. They are very cool. His father and mother were baptized but are inactive now. HE attended church a lot with them, and he and his wife came to church. They are awesome! And they are married really married which eliminates an obstacle. Here people have to wait a long time, or pay a lot of money to get legally married. interesting!
I sure love you all and want to know how things are going for all of you! I hope you are doing well mom! I can´t wait until we have a meeting with President Tobias because he will bring the letters you all have been writing. Yay, I will make sure to send you my address next week! And I will send pictures of the baptism of Hernani! He is awesome!
I love the lord. In Him my soul delights!
Sister Judd
I am a little sad because I had no e-mails from my family to read today, but last week was wonderful and so thanks for all the sweet e-mails, and today I will get to rewrite what I wanted to say last week!
First of all i hope everyone is well and life is going great!
I am so happy to hear of successes. I wanted to say to Marci that I fasted for you and for your baby, without knowing that anything was wrong, but I just felt like a fast would be a good idea for you! I am so glad the lord knows us, whether we are in Brasil, or any other place in the world!
WE had a baptism this week.We thought we would be having two, but one fell through. Monique I hope will be baptized soon, but Hernani was baptized this week and confirmed! It was wonderful! Alexander has been helping us visit him which is great because we need to see Alexandre more too. He bore his testimony at the baptism, and walked with us with Hernani for the baptism. Wonderful! The only thing that was sad was that Monique was not baptized with him. Her sister wants to be baptized as well, so we hope in the next couple of weeks to have their baptisms together.
Very interesting to have a Brasillian companion. Sometimes interesting to try and explain what you are thinking and feeling in another language and culture, but I can tell that she has helped me a lot. Just the other week I realized that I was saying my prayers for the most part in Portuguese. My thoughts were coming in Portugues! Way cool! Always pray with others in Portugues but in my own personal prayers most all the words and thoughts and feelings I wanted to express are coming!
I am learning the lessons a lot better too, and learning other words and examples to help investigators understand.
We have a couple we are teaching right now who are so awesome and we hope will accept a baptismal date. Janesio e Alesandra. They are very cool. His father and mother were baptized but are inactive now. HE attended church a lot with them, and he and his wife came to church. They are awesome! And they are married really married which eliminates an obstacle. Here people have to wait a long time, or pay a lot of money to get legally married. interesting!
I sure love you all and want to know how things are going for all of you! I hope you are doing well mom! I can´t wait until we have a meeting with President Tobias because he will bring the letters you all have been writing. Yay, I will make sure to send you my address next week! And I will send pictures of the baptism of Hernani! He is awesome!
I love the lord. In Him my soul delights!
Sister Judd
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