Wednesday, July 18, 2012

First "baptism"; Churrasco!; Singing lessons for District 24-B

Helloooo everyone!!!  It's been another amazing week, and I have so much I want to tell you all about!  I swear, this 30 minutes of email time is the most stressful part of my week.  It goes SO fast, and I feel like I never have enough time to reply to all of your emails.  :P  I'm sorry, but know that I really appreciate all of them and wish I could respond! 
This past week I was SICK...gross congestion and a nasty cough and no happiness involved at all.  It made it pretty hard to study and teach, but I suffered through it and I think I'm almost completely through it now.  Thank goodness.  :)  There's so much coming up this next week, so I'm definitely grateful to be healthy again. 
Our first "investigator" is getting baptized today, which we've been REALLY excited about.  It's amazing how much happiness we feel for an investigator that isn't even real... hard to imagine how much HAPPIER we'll be when it's a real person accepting the gospel and changing their lives to come unto Christ!!  I'm guessing we'll be getting a new investigator to teach tomorrow, and the second one is supposed to be a lot more challenging....but it will be fun, and I'm looking forward to it.
Today we were able to go to the temple again, and then one of our teachers, Irmão Mauricio, took us to a churrasco place, a lot like Tucanos.  It was DELICIOUS, and so much fun to get out of the CTM and try some authentic Brazilian food.  Ahh, the food here is so good.  Oh, and Jamie, I've definitely tried the guarana and grape juice thing.  AMAZING.  Squeeze a lime in and it's absolutely perfection.  :)
 I've definitely been loving my time with the new district.  This last week we played basketball together during gym, and I had a ton of fun even though I'm definitely not very good.  The elders are really nice and patient with the sisters, so we all have fun playing together.  Oh, and one night all the sisters in our district had a yoga night...so much fun, and I'm pretty sure that never would have happened in my last district with all the elders.  Sister Keller and Sister Ellis are the other companionship of sisters in our district, and I LOVE them so much!!!  They're the funnest, sweetest girls, and we have so much fun together!  :)  We also decided to start having "singing lessons" during our study time in the evening, which is verrry much needed....singing is not the biggest strength of district 24-B.  :)  I sat at the piano and played while Sister Brundage tried to slooowly walk everyone through a scale.  It was so much fun to sit with everyone around the piano, singing and laughing and just having fun together.  :)
Sister Brundage and I are working on a musical number we want to perform in a devotional in a few weeks.  You know that beeeeautiful arrangement of "Savior, Redeemer of My Soul" from 17 Miracles?  I love it SO much, and it's so much fun to play, especially with Sister Brundage's amazing voice singing! 
Well everyone, thanks so much for your love and support.  It means so much to me.  :)  I'll write again next week, and try to answer your questions more. 
I love you ALL so much!!!
 
Sister Gee

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