Dear Family,
Hello again from your favorite sister missionary at the CTM!! :)
It's been another busy week... a lot of awesome things have happened and
we've been learning like crazy. We added a new elder to our district
this week! He was at the Provo MTC for the
first week waiting for his visa, but it came and now he's here with
us! His name is Elder Andreas-Miller and most of our elders call him
"Elder Hyphen" for short. :) He told us that there is one more
missionary in Provo who's still waiting on a visa....yep,
a sister and my long-lost companheira! So yes, she does exist! :)
Now we just have to hope that her visa comes before too long. In the
meantime I'll be here doing the solo-sister thing...it's hard sometimes,
but it's okay. God knows me and He knows why
I'm here, and I'm sure He knows why I get to be a solo sister too. Now
I just have to figure it out! :)
Well, everything is going well here. I'm seriously loving being in
Brazil. The food is sooo good and the weather is perfect. I've had a
couple more opportunities to play piano and sing with different choirs,
which has been amazing. We have THE best
teachers and even though the classes are long, we have a ton of fun.
:) This last Saturday our district had our very first TRC... Everyone
in the older districts has been telling us how awful they are ever since
we got here, so we definitely weren't super
excited for it. :P Giving an entirely Portuguese lesson WHILE being
filmed and observed by anyone in the MTC who feels like
watching...pretty intimidating. But we had a lesson planned and were
feeling pretty confident about it - until we showed up and they
told us to forget everything we had planned because we were going to be
teaching a REAL investigator, not just another missionary or a member
acting as an investigator. That had us
totally panicking. I don't SPEAK Portuguese, I don't
UNDERSTAND Portuguese, and this guy was possibly going to be basing his
opinion of the Church off of what
we taught in that 20 minutes. We went in there and did our
best to give a good, spiritual lesson. It went well, even though I
don't think I understood a word the investigator said to us, and we
survived it. The three of us in our companionship each
had the opportunity to bear our testimonies to him, and even though we
spoke very slowly and used very, very basic phrases and vocabulary, I
hope that he felt the Spirit. It was definitely a cool experience, and
made me even more excited to learn this language
and how to teach people about the gospel. One of our teachers watched
the recording with us later that day and translated so we could actually
understand what he had been saying to us during the lesson. It was so
cool to hear him talk about God and life
and his family and the gospel...he seemed like an amazing man, so ready
to receive the gospel. I can't wait until I can find people like him
in Londrina, when I've learned Portuguese and can actually help to teach
them! :)
Thanks so much for all your emails, love and support. It means so
much to me! It sounds like things are going great for everyone back at
home. I hope you're all enjoying your summer vacation for me. :D
Please please write letters! I would love to
hear more from y'all. I love you so much and am always praying for
you. :)
Love,
Sister Gee
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