Family!
This is a week of miracles! Seriously! I love the mission. I just spent a bunch of money buying a new outfit for conference with Presidente tomorrow! I actually felt proud of myself. All my clothes were getting sooo old, so it will feel good to go in something beautiful.
So this week we baptized an excellent man named Iris! he is so awesome and it was an answer to many prayers we are doing something super neat as a mission we are all praying for the missionaries who have not baptised this month, by name and a miracle is happening. I was on the list, but we baptised, thanks to heavenly father and all the other prayers of the missionaries here, but right now we still have a week and there are only 5 companionships who have not baptised, one companionship of sisteres and I will leave tomorrow to work with them this week while my companion works in my area with Sister Chaves and We baptise this weekend with sister Almeida and Sister Romero! I will go with lots of prayers in my heart! I am so super excited with these miracles!
I love life I just received some really good news. I am super happy! It´s rough, tough and amazing!
Sister Judd
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Thursday, January 14, 2010
January 12, 2010
Familia,
This week was super awesome, but super different as well, I went to Uberlandia like I said and was able to visit some of my recent converts, including the milton, and andrea family. They are as beautiful as ever. They started not coming to church because of a few things that happened in the ward with some of their really good friends and leaders in the ward, but they have resolved to come back into full activity and want to actively prepare for the temple. They will go to the temple in São Paulo in Feb. to check it out and I think that will help them out a bunch. I love them so much.
But, we also had another miracle as we helped the Sisters there. It had been a good while since they had baptised and we added our faith to theirs and helped them teach and close a baptism. He was baptised the day we left! It was really neat. I also found out yesterday that SIster Gonçalves and Sister Wells baptised Maria the cassio´s mother and wife to Antonio, my first baptism in Hidrolandia, I was so happy for her. I think I invited her a thousand times to be baptised and actually I had a split in Dec. with sister Gonçalves and invited and pretty much told her that she would be baptised the first week in Jan. and she was!!!! What a blessing! Now it is just about a complete family that can more actively prepare for the temple. Wow we worked so much with her! I think I also wrote about another baptism Irmã Iracie. She is a wife of a recent convert as well who we worked a ton with. I am happy to have pictures with both of them. Lots of work, prayer, love and help from heavenly father! Fruits of our labors even after we leave the area.
I know I have already written about MAria before, nad that grandma wrote saying that she needs to know that she can´t wait too long to be baptised and that Grandma was praying for her. I told her that too. She is so special and even said to sister Gonçalves... Sister Judd will be so happy to know that i got baptised. It is true! I am happy as a lark! We are helping a young man named william prepare to be baptised this weekend. he is really neat! and received an answer about J. Smith and the book of mormon.
So yesterday was transfers and not too much changed, well that is not true pretty much everything changed, but nothing with my companionship. But now there will now be 2 sets of missionaries here in Parque Amazonias, and it will be sister Chaves and a missionary that will serve for two months because we are uneven right now. Sister Wells stayed the night with us and sister Gonçalves and sister chaves as well. We had a great adventure on the bus because we helped sister chaves and sister almeida move their stuff, but it was crazy because in one terminal sister chaves and i got off the bus just to help the sisters a second and the bus left with out us and with sister olsen my american companion. It was so crazy sister and I started running after the bus screaming for the bus driver to stop, we ran for two bus stops and a guy on a motorcycle asked us why we were running we told him to stop the bus, he asked what it had on it and sister chaves yelled breathlessly Americana! he totally stopped the bus and yelled who is the american woman on the bus? He saveed us and a young man helped her and then paid for another bus pass for us and we returned home safe and sound, but it was a good adventure. I am grateful that heavenly father sent angels to help us last night. WE presented him with a book of mormon and all of us wrote in it to our angel that helped my companion. He willlbe baptised adn said he would come to church next sunday!
P]What you won´t do for a missionary experience!
Sister Judd
This week was super awesome, but super different as well, I went to Uberlandia like I said and was able to visit some of my recent converts, including the milton, and andrea family. They are as beautiful as ever. They started not coming to church because of a few things that happened in the ward with some of their really good friends and leaders in the ward, but they have resolved to come back into full activity and want to actively prepare for the temple. They will go to the temple in São Paulo in Feb. to check it out and I think that will help them out a bunch. I love them so much.
But, we also had another miracle as we helped the Sisters there. It had been a good while since they had baptised and we added our faith to theirs and helped them teach and close a baptism. He was baptised the day we left! It was really neat. I also found out yesterday that SIster Gonçalves and Sister Wells baptised Maria the cassio´s mother and wife to Antonio, my first baptism in Hidrolandia, I was so happy for her. I think I invited her a thousand times to be baptised and actually I had a split in Dec. with sister Gonçalves and invited and pretty much told her that she would be baptised the first week in Jan. and she was!!!! What a blessing! Now it is just about a complete family that can more actively prepare for the temple. Wow we worked so much with her! I think I also wrote about another baptism Irmã Iracie. She is a wife of a recent convert as well who we worked a ton with. I am happy to have pictures with both of them. Lots of work, prayer, love and help from heavenly father! Fruits of our labors even after we leave the area.
I know I have already written about MAria before, nad that grandma wrote saying that she needs to know that she can´t wait too long to be baptised and that Grandma was praying for her. I told her that too. She is so special and even said to sister Gonçalves... Sister Judd will be so happy to know that i got baptised. It is true! I am happy as a lark! We are helping a young man named william prepare to be baptised this weekend. he is really neat! and received an answer about J. Smith and the book of mormon.
So yesterday was transfers and not too much changed, well that is not true pretty much everything changed, but nothing with my companionship. But now there will now be 2 sets of missionaries here in Parque Amazonias, and it will be sister Chaves and a missionary that will serve for two months because we are uneven right now. Sister Wells stayed the night with us and sister Gonçalves and sister chaves as well. We had a great adventure on the bus because we helped sister chaves and sister almeida move their stuff, but it was crazy because in one terminal sister chaves and i got off the bus just to help the sisters a second and the bus left with out us and with sister olsen my american companion. It was so crazy sister and I started running after the bus screaming for the bus driver to stop, we ran for two bus stops and a guy on a motorcycle asked us why we were running we told him to stop the bus, he asked what it had on it and sister chaves yelled breathlessly Americana! he totally stopped the bus and yelled who is the american woman on the bus? He saveed us and a young man helped her and then paid for another bus pass for us and we returned home safe and sound, but it was a good adventure. I am grateful that heavenly father sent angels to help us last night. WE presented him with a book of mormon and all of us wrote in it to our angel that helped my companion. He willlbe baptised adn said he would come to church next sunday!
P]What you won´t do for a missionary experience!
Sister Judd
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
January 5, 2010
Yesterday I had the unique opportunity to be invited by Presidente to a cousel. It was with all of the Zone Leaders and a few district leaders. It was amazing, but a little weird since the only sisters there were me and my companion sister olsen. Presidente asked me to come with her because we reviewed a lot of information about the mission and he taught a few things that he would like me to pass to the other sisters. It was really great to be with great leaders, even missionary leaders, but who you know will be great leaders returning home as well.
Something kinda interesting is that elder Casey, chad casey, is one of the assistants to the President. It is fun working with them. I love the mission it´s in my blood. This week Renata and ROberto were confirmed, it was beautiful, and another lady who has been less active for about 7 years who wwe have worked with came to church. it was great!
Another thing that President asked me to do was to go to Uberlandia, my first area to work with the sisters here sister hatch and sister santos. They are both great sisters and I will be visiting some really beloved people in the next couple of days. I am hoping to visit my recent converts tonight, I am not sure how it will be, but I am positive it will be wonderful! So this morning i took the long 6-7 hour busride to uberlandia to work for 2-3 days. I am hoping that all will go well in my area.
We left an investigator named Fransisco. He came to church for the first time last sunday and enjoyed it. Our 2nd visit to him before he came to church he gave sister and I a present a box of chocolate bon bons! It was so sweet of him. He truly believes that it was the lord that put us in his life and surely it was!
I am so grateful for the gospel of Jesus Christ. It has changed my life. I have learned some really great things and a couple I think I will share with all of you all. I don´t usually do this, but I think it will be something different that you might enjoy.
just some food for thought about adam and eve. Yesterday an elder asked why did GOd give adam and eve commandments that couldn´t be kept? when in Corinthians i believe 10:13 it says that GOd will provide an escape before the temptation. I had already asked this question and thought of a few really neat things in the temple. I believe that it is true there was no other way that adam and eve could have children with out partaking of the fruit, but who´s to say that they had to partake when satan offered it to them. Eve asked of satan a question very interesting and he gave one lie and a truth, you´ll remember. there must be oposition in all things, this is something that I have learned well on the mission, but if eve had not partaken of the fruit, perhaps like what happened with Abraham and Isaac could have taken, and in my mind most certainly would have happened. WHo did she ask the question so important is there no other way? Satan and what did the father of lies tell her?
Well, just some food for thought. I read moses today on the busride! My love has grown for the scriptures and the ensign words of the prophets. I challenge all of you to take better care of the scriptures, don´t put them on the ground, they are sacred. I have learned some other very personal things that show our respect for the things that GOd has given us and for the temple! I love you all and hope that all is going well! I feel sad because I was so excitedto have received letters last week and then I left them in GOiania. Oh well! We have transfers next week I will let you all konw what happens.
Sister Judd
Something kinda interesting is that elder Casey, chad casey, is one of the assistants to the President. It is fun working with them. I love the mission it´s in my blood. This week Renata and ROberto were confirmed, it was beautiful, and another lady who has been less active for about 7 years who wwe have worked with came to church. it was great!
Another thing that President asked me to do was to go to Uberlandia, my first area to work with the sisters here sister hatch and sister santos. They are both great sisters and I will be visiting some really beloved people in the next couple of days. I am hoping to visit my recent converts tonight, I am not sure how it will be, but I am positive it will be wonderful! So this morning i took the long 6-7 hour busride to uberlandia to work for 2-3 days. I am hoping that all will go well in my area.
We left an investigator named Fransisco. He came to church for the first time last sunday and enjoyed it. Our 2nd visit to him before he came to church he gave sister and I a present a box of chocolate bon bons! It was so sweet of him. He truly believes that it was the lord that put us in his life and surely it was!
I am so grateful for the gospel of Jesus Christ. It has changed my life. I have learned some really great things and a couple I think I will share with all of you all. I don´t usually do this, but I think it will be something different that you might enjoy.
just some food for thought about adam and eve. Yesterday an elder asked why did GOd give adam and eve commandments that couldn´t be kept? when in Corinthians i believe 10:13 it says that GOd will provide an escape before the temptation. I had already asked this question and thought of a few really neat things in the temple. I believe that it is true there was no other way that adam and eve could have children with out partaking of the fruit, but who´s to say that they had to partake when satan offered it to them. Eve asked of satan a question very interesting and he gave one lie and a truth, you´ll remember. there must be oposition in all things, this is something that I have learned well on the mission, but if eve had not partaken of the fruit, perhaps like what happened with Abraham and Isaac could have taken, and in my mind most certainly would have happened. WHo did she ask the question so important is there no other way? Satan and what did the father of lies tell her?
Well, just some food for thought. I read moses today on the busride! My love has grown for the scriptures and the ensign words of the prophets. I challenge all of you to take better care of the scriptures, don´t put them on the ground, they are sacred. I have learned some other very personal things that show our respect for the things that GOd has given us and for the temple! I love you all and hope that all is going well! I feel sad because I was so excitedto have received letters last week and then I left them in GOiania. Oh well! We have transfers next week I will let you all konw what happens.
Sister Judd
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
December 22, 2010
Familia
Well this was a rough week I am not gonna lie. We had 2 baptisms that fell through. We found out that One was not married and the other was no where to be found the day of her interview and we haven´t gotten ahold of her since, we had a Christmas dinner for our ward which started late so we had to leave when it had barely began. It was okay we also had many miracles we had a special fast with a lady named Isabel that has been coming to church for the last two years but her husband doesn´t want to get married, but after the fast she talked to him again and they will be getting married in Jan. 2010 I am so happy for her she is such a neat person.
By the way I will be calling christmas day around 2:00 here which I think is between 9-10-11:00 in the morning there! I am so excited to talk to all of you I will already tell you that I have 30-40 minutes at the most okay! I sure do love you and thank you for the package I received this week. Thanks aunt nancy and uncle wayne. Thank you becca for the sweet picture you are so beautiful! I love you all tons!
We had the special experience to have ELder Zwick and his wife come here and do a mission tour. It was great and very uplifting and inspiring. It was also the very first time I have seen my Presidente Tobias be brought to tears. He is a fantastic man and I feel so blessed to have had so many wonderful men and women in my life! I love sister Tobias as well. I feel like I need to be a better woman so that I can be worthy to marry a wonderful man and priesthood holder.
I have felt a great anxiety my last months on the mission. I want to be absolutely the very best that I can that the lord may accept this mission. I love Him so much I know he loves me too. he is so patient with me.
I love my companion she is maravilhosa! She helps me a lot and we are very excited for christmas!
I would like to ask you all to pray for Roberto and Mauricio they are our baptisms this weekend!
We went caroling with our ward and visited 9 families and a few investigators t was fun! My companion sings really well in fact we have sung a lot lately, for the ward party for church and a member invited us to his apartment complex to sing for their party which was cool and spiritual. I said sister Olsen, we sing for food and references this is so awesome! I hope I will stay with her for a while yet!
It was great to hear about the bsptisms of Wyatt, Amanda, Verle I pray for all of you and love you all!
SIster Judd
I am not sure what we will do to make our christmas awesome!
Well this was a rough week I am not gonna lie. We had 2 baptisms that fell through. We found out that One was not married and the other was no where to be found the day of her interview and we haven´t gotten ahold of her since, we had a Christmas dinner for our ward which started late so we had to leave when it had barely began. It was okay we also had many miracles we had a special fast with a lady named Isabel that has been coming to church for the last two years but her husband doesn´t want to get married, but after the fast she talked to him again and they will be getting married in Jan. 2010 I am so happy for her she is such a neat person.
By the way I will be calling christmas day around 2:00 here which I think is between 9-10-11:00 in the morning there! I am so excited to talk to all of you I will already tell you that I have 30-40 minutes at the most okay! I sure do love you and thank you for the package I received this week. Thanks aunt nancy and uncle wayne. Thank you becca for the sweet picture you are so beautiful! I love you all tons!
We had the special experience to have ELder Zwick and his wife come here and do a mission tour. It was great and very uplifting and inspiring. It was also the very first time I have seen my Presidente Tobias be brought to tears. He is a fantastic man and I feel so blessed to have had so many wonderful men and women in my life! I love sister Tobias as well. I feel like I need to be a better woman so that I can be worthy to marry a wonderful man and priesthood holder.
I have felt a great anxiety my last months on the mission. I want to be absolutely the very best that I can that the lord may accept this mission. I love Him so much I know he loves me too. he is so patient with me.
I love my companion she is maravilhosa! She helps me a lot and we are very excited for christmas!
I would like to ask you all to pray for Roberto and Mauricio they are our baptisms this weekend!
We went caroling with our ward and visited 9 families and a few investigators t was fun! My companion sings really well in fact we have sung a lot lately, for the ward party for church and a member invited us to his apartment complex to sing for their party which was cool and spiritual. I said sister Olsen, we sing for food and references this is so awesome! I hope I will stay with her for a while yet!
It was great to hear about the bsptisms of Wyatt, Amanda, Verle I pray for all of you and love you all!
SIster Judd
I am not sure what we will do to make our christmas awesome!
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
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
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
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Dec. 8, 2009
Well, I have plenty of time to write a nice e-mail today and it was wonderful that some of you decided to repent and wrote to me. Thank you so much.
I can use your prayers.
I am loving the mission and the people here. We have just a couple of hold ups with the baptisms because one needs an interview with our President and the others need to come at least one more time to church. Fransisca is awesome still and in progressing. It was great when she came to church and everyone just loved her. This is what members are for. I love working with the members but to do so a person has to be patient and loving and really careful!!!! I am not sure if I have to explain what that means, but it is great. We planned an excellent activity these days for allthe returned missionariesin the ward, we thought of how we could baptise a family every month here in our ward and thought that we needed the help of the members to do this, so we thought of a couple of ideas and thought that there already exists in our ward people who know how to do missionary work... returned missionaries.. So we made invitations and withthe help of the ward mission leader we asked them to bring there name tag, pictures, and an experience to share, and wife or husband, afterwards they would go out to eat somewhere.. it was a success, after the most spiritual part sister olsen, who has pretty much the best voice of all time, and I sang Que manhã maravilhosa. Oh how lovely was the morning and presented our plan and asked for a reference every month from them as a couple. they all accepted the challenge and I believe it will work. It is so great to use members. It is so important to be worthy of their confidence.
We had transfers but I am staying here thankfully with my wonderfully wonderful companion Sister Ginger Olsen, I think I will name one of my daughters Ginger so no one take my idea. and NO I am not trunky!
I felt a little sad to hear that it may not be possible for mom to pick me up. I want you to know whatever happens it is okay, but after about 3-4 months on the mission and especially after 9-10 I thought wow what a wonderful thing itwould be. If it works out that would be the desire of my heart. I will finish the mission May 11, 2010. Merrry christmas to all you all!
SIsster judd
I love you all and ask that you all pray for me!
I can use your prayers.
I am loving the mission and the people here. We have just a couple of hold ups with the baptisms because one needs an interview with our President and the others need to come at least one more time to church. Fransisca is awesome still and in progressing. It was great when she came to church and everyone just loved her. This is what members are for. I love working with the members but to do so a person has to be patient and loving and really careful!!!! I am not sure if I have to explain what that means, but it is great. We planned an excellent activity these days for allthe returned missionariesin the ward, we thought of how we could baptise a family every month here in our ward and thought that we needed the help of the members to do this, so we thought of a couple of ideas and thought that there already exists in our ward people who know how to do missionary work... returned missionaries.. So we made invitations and withthe help of the ward mission leader we asked them to bring there name tag, pictures, and an experience to share, and wife or husband, afterwards they would go out to eat somewhere.. it was a success, after the most spiritual part sister olsen, who has pretty much the best voice of all time, and I sang Que manhã maravilhosa. Oh how lovely was the morning and presented our plan and asked for a reference every month from them as a couple. they all accepted the challenge and I believe it will work. It is so great to use members. It is so important to be worthy of their confidence.
We had transfers but I am staying here thankfully with my wonderfully wonderful companion Sister Ginger Olsen, I think I will name one of my daughters Ginger so no one take my idea. and NO I am not trunky!
I felt a little sad to hear that it may not be possible for mom to pick me up. I want you to know whatever happens it is okay, but after about 3-4 months on the mission and especially after 9-10 I thought wow what a wonderful thing itwould be. If it works out that would be the desire of my heart. I will finish the mission May 11, 2010. Merrry christmas to all you all!
SIsster judd
I love you all and ask that you all pray for me!
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
December 1, 2009
Family that is so beloved. I want you all to know that anyone can e-mail but I have to respond to everyone by letter okay. just for you all to know. I am happy happy happy. Our baptism this week needs to wait a little bit more time but the lord has been blessing us with others who are solid and we are hoping for many baptisms. Today was transfers but I am staying with my Companion sister Olsen, she is wonderful adn I am loving it! We will be together for christmas and that should be a whole bunch of fun. I was happy that a member invited us to have christmas with them, it should be good.
Renato is ouir baptism and he is so awesome really intelligent and is very religious already I know that he will be a great help to the church and the church for him as well.
We also have a lady named Fransisca who is pretty sweet as well she is 69 and is getting excited for her baptism. She is really great!
I am learning and growing and will be planning to go on splits with all the sisters this transfer! I love all these gals they are some of my best friends and I will enjoy working with and serving them in this new calling as sister trainer.
I am learning how to plan and make it so my plans work, before the mission I did this, but I think that I will be even better after the mission. I love missionary work!
Marci I am not sure if mom did this, but I doubt it if you could send me a CTR ring that has the spinny part in the middle, I am sure that you have seen one. You can take the money from my account like normal it would be wonderful! I love my companion and my old comp. sister goncalves she asked for one and I would like to get it for her.
Thank you tons!
The other day I started singing horsy horsy on your way and sister olsen totally started singing with me! It was so awesome!
Sister Judd
Hope all is well with all you all!
Renato is ouir baptism and he is so awesome really intelligent and is very religious already I know that he will be a great help to the church and the church for him as well.
We also have a lady named Fransisca who is pretty sweet as well she is 69 and is getting excited for her baptism. She is really great!
I am learning and growing and will be planning to go on splits with all the sisters this transfer! I love all these gals they are some of my best friends and I will enjoy working with and serving them in this new calling as sister trainer.
I am learning how to plan and make it so my plans work, before the mission I did this, but I think that I will be even better after the mission. I love missionary work!
Marci I am not sure if mom did this, but I doubt it if you could send me a CTR ring that has the spinny part in the middle, I am sure that you have seen one. You can take the money from my account like normal it would be wonderful! I love my companion and my old comp. sister goncalves she asked for one and I would like to get it for her.
Thank you tons!
The other day I started singing horsy horsy on your way and sister olsen totally started singing with me! It was so awesome!
Sister Judd
Hope all is well with all you all!
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