Hello Hello,
This last week has been interesting, and difficult. We did a risoto, which means you cook a ton of food in your house and sell tickets to raise money then they come and pick up lunch. The members donated the food so this couple could raise money to get married. It was a huge hit, but then the couple didn't go to church sunday...that is kind of sad. We are going to visit them tonight to see what's happening.
I am realizing how quickly my time is going, the mission continues, but my chance to do my part is going fast. This last transfer has been the worst of my mission and I am so excited to be able to really work. The good satisfaction at the end of the day of having worked my best and done all I could.
We have been studying the gospel of Jesus Christ lately. It is so perfect. I love it. Talking of faith, repentance, baptism, receiving the holy ghost and continuing to the end. I am so grateful for the chances I have had to make convenants. God has always made covenants with his people, from the very begining and its our privilage to make them with him. I am grateful for that. Its so simple but these covenants are necessary for us to progress spiritually. I am grateful again for the priesthood. God's plan is perfect and I feel it. That is the best part, when it makes sense in your head and then your heart feels it. The more I come to know and study the better it is.
Funnyish story this week. There is a hive of some kind of really intense bee that is in the bushes at my the chapel and one stung my head twice the other day. I didn't know it could hurt that bad so I put ice on it. Then I slept with the headband in my hair (as usual because the fan makes my hair go in my face and it's annoying) but I put ice cubes under the head band and it helped. It hurt.
I hope you all are doing WONDERFULLY. I love you all and hope you are all happy. Let me know what I can do to help anyone.
Love Always,
Kat
January 9, 2012
First off hello everyone! I hope that everyone is doing great! I hope it's not too cold there, but cold enough to enjoy. It doesn't seem like it's snowing there like it used to be, that is kind of sad but opposite of that it's HOT here!!! Really hot. It was 44 degrees C the other day. I think that comes out to a little above 100. My companions from the north of Brazil were dying!!!! I was dealing with it better than them. I thought that was weird but they live by the beaches there so it's hot but there is always a breeze and its not so humid there. As soon as we walk outside we are sticky and its so great showering 2 times a day!! Really I am learning to love it. Its like how there is always a week or two that is really hot back home. Its like living in that without any air conditioning. So ya, but its good!
I am liking our area. Our teaching group is still really small but we are going to get another Sister next week so we will divide our area and that will be good. I am excited for that. Then we can really work, but wow time is flying. This transfer has gone really really fast. I can't believe how fast it keeps going.
It seems like right now is a time of change in our family. It's always hard to change, and never comfortable, but we don't seem to grow without change. So it really is a blessing.
We were knocking doors the other day and met two sisters and their kids, Michelle and Rosane. We started to teach the restoration but we never got past prophets and we started talking about family. These girls remind me so much of our family. Talking about how everyone is always in each others house and all the kids running around together. (I look forward to that time when I'll be there with you) But I got to talk to them about the importance of eternal families. At the end Rosane said I would like you girls to come to my house. When are you going to come by? Then she talked about how hard it is to catch her at home. But she asked again, So when are you coming by? We said this next week and she said Ok, I'll try not to leave the house so much so that I'll be there to talk to you girls. That was a neat experience that I liked because if there is anything that I know more about because of the mission it's families and the power that families have. I am so grateful for each one of you. I am grateful that we have a chance to learn and grow and help each other. The gospel is perfect. I know the things I am teaching people are true. I know God lives, he loves us. He loves us so much that he created a perfect plan for us to live but with our imperfections he sent Jesus Christ to be our Savior. Everything makes sense in the plan that Heavenly Father has provided for us. Jarom 1:2 ´What can I say more. Have not our fathers laid out the plan of salvation?´ I love that. I know the Book of Mormon and Bible are sacred scriptures as well as the words of modern prophets and we are protected as we respond to their voice. I love you all.
Love Always and Forever,
Kathryn, Auntie Kat (portuguese ti-tia kat) and for the short time I have left Sister Taylor
p.s. i found out i have really low blood pressure, andi have a hard time staying awake in personal study and after lunch so if anyone has ideas please let me know.
I am liking our area. Our teaching group is still really small but we are going to get another Sister next week so we will divide our area and that will be good. I am excited for that. Then we can really work, but wow time is flying. This transfer has gone really really fast. I can't believe how fast it keeps going.
It seems like right now is a time of change in our family. It's always hard to change, and never comfortable, but we don't seem to grow without change. So it really is a blessing.
We were knocking doors the other day and met two sisters and their kids, Michelle and Rosane. We started to teach the restoration but we never got past prophets and we started talking about family. These girls remind me so much of our family. Talking about how everyone is always in each others house and all the kids running around together. (I look forward to that time when I'll be there with you) But I got to talk to them about the importance of eternal families. At the end Rosane said I would like you girls to come to my house. When are you going to come by? Then she talked about how hard it is to catch her at home. But she asked again, So when are you coming by? We said this next week and she said Ok, I'll try not to leave the house so much so that I'll be there to talk to you girls. That was a neat experience that I liked because if there is anything that I know more about because of the mission it's families and the power that families have. I am so grateful for each one of you. I am grateful that we have a chance to learn and grow and help each other. The gospel is perfect. I know the things I am teaching people are true. I know God lives, he loves us. He loves us so much that he created a perfect plan for us to live but with our imperfections he sent Jesus Christ to be our Savior. Everything makes sense in the plan that Heavenly Father has provided for us. Jarom 1:2 ´What can I say more. Have not our fathers laid out the plan of salvation?´ I love that. I know the Book of Mormon and Bible are sacred scriptures as well as the words of modern prophets and we are protected as we respond to their voice. I love you all.
Love Always and Forever,
Kathryn, Auntie Kat (portuguese ti-tia kat) and for the short time I have left Sister Taylor
p.s. i found out i have really low blood pressure, andi have a hard time staying awake in personal study and after lunch so if anyone has ideas please let me know.
January 2, 2012
My wonderful family,
How is everyone today? How are the new year's goals? I really am taking them seriously this year and I am excited, especialy because I want to learn more about endurance and then applying it into my life. It's something I think I seriously lack.
I am learning a lot right now about our responsibility to help those around us. I have been praying to know my purpose here in the mission but especially with my new area. It has nothing to do with being better than other people or trying to be impressive, it's all about how we can help other people reach their potential and in doing so at the same time reaching ours. The more we give the fulller we are. I love the way Heavenly Father works.
I know the authority of God was restored here on the earth. The priesthood is the foundation. We are not just another church or another people with different beliefs. It all has to do with authority. My invition for all of you is to study about the authority that God gives man. there are some great passages in the Bible and in the Book of Mormon. Then pray. Ask Heavenly Father if he really has restored it to the earth and ask where. I love that we can ask questions and based on our study and real intent, he answers.
I love each and every one of you. I am here if any of you need anything. You can count on me.
Love, Auntie Kat
How is everyone today? How are the new year's goals? I really am taking them seriously this year and I am excited, especialy because I want to learn more about endurance and then applying it into my life. It's something I think I seriously lack.
I am learning a lot right now about our responsibility to help those around us. I have been praying to know my purpose here in the mission but especially with my new area. It has nothing to do with being better than other people or trying to be impressive, it's all about how we can help other people reach their potential and in doing so at the same time reaching ours. The more we give the fulller we are. I love the way Heavenly Father works.
I know the authority of God was restored here on the earth. The priesthood is the foundation. We are not just another church or another people with different beliefs. It all has to do with authority. My invition for all of you is to study about the authority that God gives man. there are some great passages in the Bible and in the Book of Mormon. Then pray. Ask Heavenly Father if he really has restored it to the earth and ask where. I love that we can ask questions and based on our study and real intent, he answers.
I love each and every one of you. I am here if any of you need anything. You can count on me.
Love, Auntie Kat
December 26, 2011
Hey!! First off it was so great talking to everyone yesterday! I wish that Sarah and Rico and Bella and Sophia could have been there too!!
Everyone looks so good! I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and are well! This computer is terrible so I am trying to send pictures and its not working!
I love you all. Sorry time is short I spent a bunch of time trying to figure out the pictures!!
Everyone looks so good! I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and are well! This computer is terrible so I am trying to send pictures and its not working!
I love you all. Sorry time is short I spent a bunch of time trying to figure out the pictures!!
December 19, 2011
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!
WEll I want you all to know that I am thinking about you and I am so excited to hear about how everyone is doing!! OVER THE PHONE!!
So details about calling. You guys will be calling the chapel that is right next to my house, which is actually an old chapel from the time of my Mission President. Also infested with cockroaches. :) Not my favorite thing but I am adjusting and I'll send a picture next week (sorry it's always next week, but this week is really because I can't find my cable to connect to the computer, but it will show up). But talking about cleaning, which we are not but I would like to share with all of you, Monday cleaning stinks because the house/old chapel is big and the bathrooms are huge.
We have all three hours of church here on Christmas. Is that normal? Don't know.
I have been thinking about this email and how it will be the CHRISTMAS EMAIL.
In the Bible, Luke 2: 19,50-51 talks about how Mary ´kept these things in her heart´. It says it after the sheperds visit and when he was 12 and was teaching in the temple and they went back to get him. I love that it says that. Because she was a wise woman, she was the most blessed above all women. She knew the scriptures, she knew that she was the mother of the Only Begotten of the Father and all that entailed. She knew that an ultimate and everlasting sacrifice had to be made. She knew everything and she kept the moments in her Heart when our Heavenly Father was teaching her. He knew what she needed and how she needed to grow. That everlasting and ultimate sacrifice makes all the difference for us. What will we sacrifice? What are we willing to give up so that WE TOO can live with God one day? Because he has set the standard, the standard DOES NOT CHANGE. For any of us. We are the ones that have to choose and have to change our desires, habits, and our mistakes. It is only through him that we will overcome. To be a disciple of Christ we have to DO! in Doctrine and Covenants 41:5 it explains exactly what a disciple is. As we learn and apply, the Lord sees our desires and he will reveal line upon line for each one of us more and more light. But when we stop doing what we need to do, he can not show us. He will never force us. He has so much respect for our agency that he waits for us to come back to him and that coming back always includes repentance. WHAT A BLESSING. Because of all the Savior did, we really can be clean of ANYTHING we have done wrong. Literally anything. He will forgive us as we seek and work and pray and with time prove to him our change of heart. I am so eteranlly grateful for my Savior. I know Christ lives, that he will lead me by the hand as I trust in him. I know that he will judge me one day, before I can enter the Father's presence. In Moroni 7:48 there is a phrase I love. I am translating it from Portuguese so its more or less this, ´And when he comes, we will see him, because we will be like he is´. We can only be like he is if we repent!! If we use the opportunity he has given us to be better people. Because God Will NOT be mocked. My inviation to each of us is that we can think, as individuals, in our families and extended families about what we need to change BECAUSE Christ lives. And because he loves us. God's angels are around us, and as we trust in him, we will see what we need to do. But we have to be the first to act. We have to use our faith. It might be small things, it might be big, but please let us help each other, trust in the lord, forgive each other. See the bright and shining moments that await us, because it's the moments that carry us through and in the moments that the Lord teaches us. If we turn our back on the Lord he can not teach us. He is trying, ever so trying. I know we can be an eternal family, but we have to change, we have to be better because this won't cut it. God doesn't need us to be perfect yet, one day yes, but not yet, but we have to be improving. I love you all. I pray for you all daily and I wish I could be there with you all. BUT as hard as this is, I wouldn't give it up for the world. I love you all
Love,
Sister Taylor
Kat
Auntie Kat
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!
WEll I want you all to know that I am thinking about you and I am so excited to hear about how everyone is doing!! OVER THE PHONE!!
So details about calling. You guys will be calling the chapel that is right next to my house, which is actually an old chapel from the time of my Mission President. Also infested with cockroaches. :) Not my favorite thing but I am adjusting and I'll send a picture next week (sorry it's always next week, but this week is really because I can't find my cable to connect to the computer, but it will show up). But talking about cleaning, which we are not but I would like to share with all of you, Monday cleaning stinks because the house/old chapel is big and the bathrooms are huge.
We have all three hours of church here on Christmas. Is that normal? Don't know.
I have been thinking about this email and how it will be the CHRISTMAS EMAIL.
In the Bible, Luke 2: 19,50-51 talks about how Mary ´kept these things in her heart´. It says it after the sheperds visit and when he was 12 and was teaching in the temple and they went back to get him. I love that it says that. Because she was a wise woman, she was the most blessed above all women. She knew the scriptures, she knew that she was the mother of the Only Begotten of the Father and all that entailed. She knew that an ultimate and everlasting sacrifice had to be made. She knew everything and she kept the moments in her Heart when our Heavenly Father was teaching her. He knew what she needed and how she needed to grow. That everlasting and ultimate sacrifice makes all the difference for us. What will we sacrifice? What are we willing to give up so that WE TOO can live with God one day? Because he has set the standard, the standard DOES NOT CHANGE. For any of us. We are the ones that have to choose and have to change our desires, habits, and our mistakes. It is only through him that we will overcome. To be a disciple of Christ we have to DO! in Doctrine and Covenants 41:5 it explains exactly what a disciple is. As we learn and apply, the Lord sees our desires and he will reveal line upon line for each one of us more and more light. But when we stop doing what we need to do, he can not show us. He will never force us. He has so much respect for our agency that he waits for us to come back to him and that coming back always includes repentance. WHAT A BLESSING. Because of all the Savior did, we really can be clean of ANYTHING we have done wrong. Literally anything. He will forgive us as we seek and work and pray and with time prove to him our change of heart. I am so eteranlly grateful for my Savior. I know Christ lives, that he will lead me by the hand as I trust in him. I know that he will judge me one day, before I can enter the Father's presence. In Moroni 7:48 there is a phrase I love. I am translating it from Portuguese so its more or less this, ´And when he comes, we will see him, because we will be like he is´. We can only be like he is if we repent!! If we use the opportunity he has given us to be better people. Because God Will NOT be mocked. My inviation to each of us is that we can think, as individuals, in our families and extended families about what we need to change BECAUSE Christ lives. And because he loves us. God's angels are around us, and as we trust in him, we will see what we need to do. But we have to be the first to act. We have to use our faith. It might be small things, it might be big, but please let us help each other, trust in the lord, forgive each other. See the bright and shining moments that await us, because it's the moments that carry us through and in the moments that the Lord teaches us. If we turn our back on the Lord he can not teach us. He is trying, ever so trying. I know we can be an eternal family, but we have to change, we have to be better because this won't cut it. God doesn't need us to be perfect yet, one day yes, but not yet, but we have to be improving. I love you all. I pray for you all daily and I wish I could be there with you all. BUT as hard as this is, I wouldn't give it up for the world. I love you all
Love,
Sister Taylor
Kat
Auntie Kat
December 12, 2011
Wow, so I am here in Sao Borja! Right on the boarder of Argentina! It's cool. My part of the city you can't see argentina but I can imagine its pretty cool. Things are a little bit cheaper here, which is cool. We are going to have a zone conference on Thursday. That will be good.
So training! I LOVE MY TRAINEE!!! She is a doll! She is so small and so cute. She has all the desire to be a great missionary and she is strong. She is excited to try new things and is learning really well. Her name is Sister Nascimento, which actually means birth. So that is cool.
We are in a trio so the other companion is a little more complex. She does good things but doesn't have focus and talks about Elders and things outside of the work, more than is nesessary. I don't really feel much of the spirit with her, which is hard, I need to find the desire to work sometimes with her, it's hard but the area is great. The branch here LOVES missionaries and are willing to help. That is different. Everyone is so excited to see us and talk to us.
Corissa sent me some pictures she took at Thanksgiving! WOW that was so cool to see. The kids are growing up and changing so fast. I can't believe how big Sophia and Sadie are!! And the twins!! Kaylee and Shaddix too! Eddie is getting taller and taller! Nate is so cute!! Bella's hair is HUGE!! It's so cute!!!!! Shaden is getting taller! And in the picture the other three were still in their mothers tummys but Henry is born!! And I'll be waiting for the other two! The parents and sisters and brothers in law! Wow its so good to see you all. Just sad that Corissa was on the other side of the camera! But she sent me some of her too!! Gosh, thank you so much! I love you all and I hope that everyone is loving the Christmas season and remembering the reason we are here on earth and all the good things that are yet to come in our lives now, in the future and in the next life.
I am grateful for the chances I have to grow. I know the lord knows me and is watching out for me. I am so blessed to be here and getting the chance to learn from so many different personalities. I know that what I am preaching is true. I know God is the same yesterday, today and forever! Because of that, the restored Gospel is here, we have the privilage to make covenants with him and he promises us the greatest blessings. I am so grateful for the joys and struggles we get to go through to learn and be perfected. I hope we can always help each other with our struggles and grow together. Not judging and just looking to help.
I love you all and hope everyone is doing well!
Love you all,
Kat
So training! I LOVE MY TRAINEE!!! She is a doll! She is so small and so cute. She has all the desire to be a great missionary and she is strong. She is excited to try new things and is learning really well. Her name is Sister Nascimento, which actually means birth. So that is cool.
We are in a trio so the other companion is a little more complex. She does good things but doesn't have focus and talks about Elders and things outside of the work, more than is nesessary. I don't really feel much of the spirit with her, which is hard, I need to find the desire to work sometimes with her, it's hard but the area is great. The branch here LOVES missionaries and are willing to help. That is different. Everyone is so excited to see us and talk to us.
Corissa sent me some pictures she took at Thanksgiving! WOW that was so cool to see. The kids are growing up and changing so fast. I can't believe how big Sophia and Sadie are!! And the twins!! Kaylee and Shaddix too! Eddie is getting taller and taller! Nate is so cute!! Bella's hair is HUGE!! It's so cute!!!!! Shaden is getting taller! And in the picture the other three were still in their mothers tummys but Henry is born!! And I'll be waiting for the other two! The parents and sisters and brothers in law! Wow its so good to see you all. Just sad that Corissa was on the other side of the camera! But she sent me some of her too!! Gosh, thank you so much! I love you all and I hope that everyone is loving the Christmas season and remembering the reason we are here on earth and all the good things that are yet to come in our lives now, in the future and in the next life.
I am grateful for the chances I have to grow. I know the lord knows me and is watching out for me. I am so blessed to be here and getting the chance to learn from so many different personalities. I know that what I am preaching is true. I know God is the same yesterday, today and forever! Because of that, the restored Gospel is here, we have the privilage to make covenants with him and he promises us the greatest blessings. I am so grateful for the joys and struggles we get to go through to learn and be perfected. I hope we can always help each other with our struggles and grow together. Not judging and just looking to help.
I love you all and hope everyone is doing well!
Love you all,
Kat
December 5, 2011
EVERYTHING in my life is about to change.
I am going to train a new Sister! In an area called Sao Borja. Its right on the border of Argentina and we will be a trio. The other Sister I have heard some things about but I am excited to get to know her for myself and we will work it up!!! Lots of things I have learned in this transfer will help me in the next one and going into the Christmas season I need to get to know the members really quickly!!! It will be good. I am excited to hit the ground running and work a ton over there. I really do love this work, each day we wake up and I know everyday holds surprises for me. I never know what is going to happen at each house we knock. A lot of people say no, but then someone lets us in and I see their faces change as we get to know them and talk about our Savior. I am so grateful to be on the mission at this time and have the chance to talk to people about my love for the savior when people's hearts are more opened and turned to Christ. I want you all to know that I KNOW MY SAVIOR LIVES and it comes through experiences. That is the only way that we learn and grow like we need to - when we try. If we never try the Lord doesn't have a chance to teach us. We have to do our part.
I am so grateful for everything I have had the chance to learn. Cruz Alta has been good for me. I hope I get to make a difference. I love you all. I am not perfect, I mess up ALL THE TIME, but I can keep learning.
I feel good. I feel peaceful and I hope each of us can have this feeling at this special time of the year!!!!!
I love you all.
Love, Kat
I am going to train a new Sister! In an area called Sao Borja. Its right on the border of Argentina and we will be a trio. The other Sister I have heard some things about but I am excited to get to know her for myself and we will work it up!!! Lots of things I have learned in this transfer will help me in the next one and going into the Christmas season I need to get to know the members really quickly!!! It will be good. I am excited to hit the ground running and work a ton over there. I really do love this work, each day we wake up and I know everyday holds surprises for me. I never know what is going to happen at each house we knock. A lot of people say no, but then someone lets us in and I see their faces change as we get to know them and talk about our Savior. I am so grateful to be on the mission at this time and have the chance to talk to people about my love for the savior when people's hearts are more opened and turned to Christ. I want you all to know that I KNOW MY SAVIOR LIVES and it comes through experiences. That is the only way that we learn and grow like we need to - when we try. If we never try the Lord doesn't have a chance to teach us. We have to do our part.
I am so grateful for everything I have had the chance to learn. Cruz Alta has been good for me. I hope I get to make a difference. I love you all. I am not perfect, I mess up ALL THE TIME, but I can keep learning.
I feel good. I feel peaceful and I hope each of us can have this feeling at this special time of the year!!!!!
I love you all.
Love, Kat
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