Hello everyone!!! First of all, I have an correction to make. I guess I got a little excited with all of the transfer news....and I confused Cia Norte, a different area close to Maringá, with my REAL new area, Cidade Nova. whoops. :) But the rest of the stuff I told you was all true - I'm back here in my "birthplace", Maringá, living in the same apartment and everything. It's SO WEIRD to be here. It almost feels like I'm arriving in the mission field all over again...super deja vu! But it's awesome, and I am LOVING the new area so far! The ward is amazing. AMAZING. Everyone is very friendly and excited and united. On Sunday, our lunch appointment was scheduled in the house of an irmã who just happened to be throwing a family birthday party for her father-in-law that day, so we got to crash the party - CHURRASCO!!!! Chique demais, it was amazing. Grandparents, aunts and uncles, and a TON of little kids running around...Made me feel like I was in one of our crazy-wonderful Smith Family get togethers. :) I've also heard that the ward here throws a LEGENDARY party every year for Festa de Juninha, a traditional Brazilian holiday - I'm praying that I'll stay in the area long enough to catch that too. :)
My companion, Sister Saldanha, is wonderful!!! She is 19 years old, and just barely finished her training, but you wouldn't guess it - she is already so good in all of the aspects of missionary work, and is such a huge blessing to me. Arriving in a new area, learning all the investigators and neighborhoods and bus schedules and streets is rough...but Sister Saldanha has got it all down, and she guides me through every day. I would be so lost without her. :) She is from Manaus and can be super goofy and crazy, but has an amazing spirit and such a pure faith that really is an inspiration to me. It's going to be a good transfer!
We are living in the same apartment with the sisters from Parque dos Pioneiros (my original Maringá ward, remember?), while the mission secretaries hunt down a house in our area...apparently it's been quite the process, but I think we'll hopefully have our own house in about a week or two. In the meantime, that makes 6 sisters living in the same little apartment - it's an adventure, and always fun. The sisters here are craaazy! Sister Marques, Sister De Moura, Sister Rocha, and Sister Moraes. I wish I had a picture to send...next week for sure. :)
We're focusing a lot on finding new investigators...we haven't had too much luck this week. BUT we found a few pretty cool people - a man named Marcello, whose brother is a member of the church! He had already received the Book of Mormon from his brother and kept talking about how much he admired his faith and dedication to his religion. It was exciting to find him, teach him the Restoration, and invite him to be baptized - and he accepted! It looks like it might be a tough decision to make, as his 19-year old son wasn't very happy with the idea...but we're going to try to keep visiting him and helping him progress.
But yep, that's about all that's been going on. :) I'll keep sending updates and pictures as they come... Hope you all are well and happy and excited for summer. I can't believe it's June already!!!
Love love love,
Sister Gee
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