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
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
January 13, 2009
Well, I have so much to write and so little time, I had to re-write to my president of the mission and that took quite a bit of time, but I am in Uberlandia, and Marci has probably already had her baby! Oh my goodness!!! You have to let me know. I am grateful for the updates about the funeral, I love you all so much and think of you and home a little more right now,
But I got to Goiania finally on January 6! I met my president and he is so awesome so faithful! We have huge goals. The next day after interviews and stuff, we were sent to our places. I am now 600 miles south of Goiania in a place called Uberlandia. You will not believe who my companion is... There are only two missionaries in the Goiania mission from America, me and Sister Wells - Caralee Wells -, from St. George Ut, nonetheless, and I played volleyball with her in Club a little. She was on Red Rock. And she is my trainer, which is really weird and especially because she has only been here for 6 months, but I know that the Lord knows what he is doing because I have already learned a lot from her, and honestly if I were with a different sister I would be so frustrated at not being able to say what I needed to say! I love her she is great!
Also this is really awesome place. I love it! SO different from anything I ever imagined! But, wonderful at the same time. We have a lot of work to do here a ton!!! Especially right now we are working with this young man named Alexandre, the sisters that got transferred and one who went home, 2 Americans went home when I got here sister Buckley and sister Shirley. we had dinner the very first night with them and all those who were leaving. That is why there are only two white American sisters here now. They helped a lot and gave me some advice, I was still a little nervous though I must admit, but I am sooooo glad to be here. Please pray for me!!! I know you do, and I am so glad for this. Continue to, because I need that strength. I know that I can learn this language, but it is so difficult some times. It helps to have Sister Wells so much, and we definitely use our language study time here!
The people here make it worth it! Yesterday I was quite proud because I made 20 contacts. This is when you stop talk with people get names addresses and stuff. We also taught about 5 first lessons and a few other ones as well.
SO this is a little mixed up I know, I will explain more about Alexandre now. He is the perfect investigator, and a person that the gospel was made for. He has made significant changes in his life, and is continuing to come to church each week! He is awesome! Golden! We have many others too that we are teaching too. He is ready for baptism, we are just waiting for the mission president to interview him, because in his case it is necessary, but we pray for him every night! Wow he has made some great choices life altering choices! I am so grateful for the gospel in my life especially right now! When I partook of the sacrament this last week I truly felt the love of my savior. What a precious and beautiful thing the sacrament is for me. I am learning more and more of its´ significance.
I can´t wait to be able to speak better.
Oh, one last story. We met this girl, asked if we could teach her, but she was in front of a store, so we asked if we could come in and teach. She said yes, but the man who owned the place didn't want to hear. We started, and his wife came and told us to leave. I felt a little bad, but she said okay just come to my house, so we went there and we were able to teach her whole family - 2 brothers and her mom. They were all older too - in their 20´s maybe 30´s, but they were so interested in us. A lot of people are. And they are always surprised that we like Brasil and all. It is great, but I have to go. I will write a letter with more info. I love you all and pray for you all.
Kami Kaye
*We will post Kami's letter as soon as I can get a hold of it and type it up.* for the record, I have NOT had my baby yet.
But I got to Goiania finally on January 6! I met my president and he is so awesome so faithful! We have huge goals. The next day after interviews and stuff, we were sent to our places. I am now 600 miles south of Goiania in a place called Uberlandia. You will not believe who my companion is... There are only two missionaries in the Goiania mission from America, me and Sister Wells - Caralee Wells -, from St. George Ut, nonetheless, and I played volleyball with her in Club a little. She was on Red Rock. And she is my trainer, which is really weird and especially because she has only been here for 6 months, but I know that the Lord knows what he is doing because I have already learned a lot from her, and honestly if I were with a different sister I would be so frustrated at not being able to say what I needed to say! I love her she is great!
Also this is really awesome place. I love it! SO different from anything I ever imagined! But, wonderful at the same time. We have a lot of work to do here a ton!!! Especially right now we are working with this young man named Alexandre, the sisters that got transferred and one who went home, 2 Americans went home when I got here sister Buckley and sister Shirley. we had dinner the very first night with them and all those who were leaving. That is why there are only two white American sisters here now. They helped a lot and gave me some advice, I was still a little nervous though I must admit, but I am sooooo glad to be here. Please pray for me!!! I know you do, and I am so glad for this. Continue to, because I need that strength. I know that I can learn this language, but it is so difficult some times. It helps to have Sister Wells so much, and we definitely use our language study time here!
The people here make it worth it! Yesterday I was quite proud because I made 20 contacts. This is when you stop talk with people get names addresses and stuff. We also taught about 5 first lessons and a few other ones as well.
SO this is a little mixed up I know, I will explain more about Alexandre now. He is the perfect investigator, and a person that the gospel was made for. He has made significant changes in his life, and is continuing to come to church each week! He is awesome! Golden! We have many others too that we are teaching too. He is ready for baptism, we are just waiting for the mission president to interview him, because in his case it is necessary, but we pray for him every night! Wow he has made some great choices life altering choices! I am so grateful for the gospel in my life especially right now! When I partook of the sacrament this last week I truly felt the love of my savior. What a precious and beautiful thing the sacrament is for me. I am learning more and more of its´ significance.
I can´t wait to be able to speak better.
Oh, one last story. We met this girl, asked if we could teach her, but she was in front of a store, so we asked if we could come in and teach. She said yes, but the man who owned the place didn't want to hear. We started, and his wife came and told us to leave. I felt a little bad, but she said okay just come to my house, so we went there and we were able to teach her whole family - 2 brothers and her mom. They were all older too - in their 20´s maybe 30´s, but they were so interested in us. A lot of people are. And they are always surprised that we like Brasil and all. It is great, but I have to go. I will write a letter with more info. I love you all and pray for you all.
Kami Kaye
*We will post Kami's letter as soon as I can get a hold of it and type it up.* for the record, I have NOT had my baby yet.
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Kami's Last CTM Day
We are so thrilled with all the pictures that Irme Maite has sent to us. Here are a couple she recently gave us of Kami's District on their last day at the CTM.
Saturday, January 3, 2009
New Pictures
These were sent to me from Maitê (Irme - Sister) Araujo. She has been Kami's language trainer there at the MTC or CTM as she calls it. She will only be there another day or two before heading off to Goiania. WAHOO! Good Luck Sister Judd; we can't wait to hear from you. Enjoy the pictures!
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
December 30, 2008
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
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 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.
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