December 15, 2009

Familia e amigos!
I love dia de preparação! Wowsie it is tiring to be a missionary sometimes, well pretty much all the time... But there are sweet rewards like in everything that is worth anything in this life! I love the work I feel so happy serving my father in heaven and I know He has been helping me.
I love this area. We have some amazing people we are working with, we had a stake conference this weekend so a couple of our baptisms need to wait a bit to hop in the water, a bit like this weekend. The sweet Fransisca 68 year old and Luanna 16 will be baptised this weekend. We also have a couple of activities planned with the ward with a dinner ect... that should be fun.
I am learning so much.
As for the training, it is going well. I love all the sisteres here in my mission so that helps and when they baptise it is such a great joy to me. I had a split with sister Gonçalves my baby girl that I trained and it was so great to see her. I love her so much. Some friendships I am pretty sure were planned in the Pre- exisitence and this is one. I love her so.
My companion is the bomb! She is great to work with and really easy to live with. I think about marriage and how great it is that you get to chooose the one that you will live with and love forever. I am sure the mission is helping me prepare for marriage. I was thinking about how awesome that it is to every week have an companionship inventory. There are many things that I would like to apply in my marriage and one is inventory where we tell of the others strengths and then how we think they could improve. We are thinking about our temple covenants and making a sacrifice, increasing our obedience, and consencrating something everyweek for the bettering of the work of god. it is amazing and I know that the Lord will bless us here quickly!
Some of the sacrifices we have made include special fasts, negative words,and english, and 30 min of sleep to read o Livro de Mormon. Some obedience has been in inviting 140 people to be baptised every week ect... it hasbeen great. I am happy and excited for christmas I will see what I need to do to get a phone card I can use! I love you all!
Sister Judd