What a week...lots has happened and I have felt lots this week.
Its getting hot and sticky. Definately into the phase of two showers a day.
Tranfers are tomorrow. I was feeling so ready to leave then we got the call and they said I am going to stay and my comp is getting transferred! Pretty sweet. Then they said I am going to be a comp with Sister Dunford! I am so excited. I have so much respect for her. She helped me a lot when I had that complicated companion. I am excited about that.
We cut Claudia and Robson the other day. I cried trying to explain there is no way we can justify teaching when they are choosing not to do it. We talked about transfers more though so I need to tell them clearly again that we can't go back if they won't change. Its hard because he wants it still but isn't willing to give up what he needs to. He wants it so much but she is so closed to anything. She shuts down. Its sad to see. I really do understand now what my blessing said that some people's desicions will break my heart...its so true.
I am in a great area, with lots of people and an amazing ward. I have made some really good friends here in this ward.
Its really funny to see, my companion is so excited to leave. I love her but I am done too. Time to learn something else.
Lots of love.
Love, Kat
October 17, 2011
Hello family!! how is everyone doing? it's getting warm here in the Rio Grande do Sol! People from the north of Brazil say that its even hotter here! I think its because its more humid here and in the Summer there is no breeze.... That will be fun. I am getting tan lines, especially on my neck and my feet!!!! Its pretty night and day, I can only imagine the end of the summer how crazy that will be. The equivalent of day light savings was Sunday. They only have that here in the south of Brazil. At 9 pm at night we will be going home and the sun won't have set yet, pretty cool.
Those red shoes I bought were pretty worn out so I took them to a shoe repair guy and he fixed them for way cheap and did a great job, I was pretty happy.
We had Brazilian barbeque 3 times in 2 days. Believe it or not, I am a little sick of meat. But we have been finding a lot of avocados in the street and we made quacamole. Its weird for them to eat it with spices and salt because they always eat avocados sweet with sugar or in a smoothy (which is super yummy by the way, you guys should try it! ust puta little sugar on it, or add milk sugar and cinnamon for a smoothie).
We had 3 baptisms Saturday. That was pretty cool. We had a white Saturday, I think we will be doing it like this every month now. Work all month for people to be baptized on the 3rd Saturday of every month. President was here in our zone. The day before we made a ton of cake! It was pretty cool but I learned how to do it. Its called Nega Maluca which means like crazy black woman. But its a really good chocolate cake.
I love you all. Next week will be 9 months..... wow.
Lots of love.
Love, kat
Those red shoes I bought were pretty worn out so I took them to a shoe repair guy and he fixed them for way cheap and did a great job, I was pretty happy.
We had Brazilian barbeque 3 times in 2 days. Believe it or not, I am a little sick of meat. But we have been finding a lot of avocados in the street and we made quacamole. Its weird for them to eat it with spices and salt because they always eat avocados sweet with sugar or in a smoothy (which is super yummy by the way, you guys should try it! ust puta little sugar on it, or add milk sugar and cinnamon for a smoothie).
We had 3 baptisms Saturday. That was pretty cool. We had a white Saturday, I think we will be doing it like this every month now. Work all month for people to be baptized on the 3rd Saturday of every month. President was here in our zone. The day before we made a ton of cake! It was pretty cool but I learned how to do it. Its called Nega Maluca which means like crazy black woman. But its a really good chocolate cake.
I love you all. Next week will be 9 months..... wow.
Lots of love.
Love, kat
October 10, 2011
A lot has happened this last week!!! A couple that we have been teaching for months and are dying to be baptized but needed to be married first, got married! My companion is really smart and she figured out something with the laws here and how they can be married religiously first and then civily but don't have to wait the 30 days to be technically married and it's cheaper. This week we were running to get everything done and they got married. They are so poor but I love them so miuch. So they will be baptized on Saturday!! I lent her my brown dress and we bought her a pair of shoes and a ribbon to use with the dress. She was so pretty. She has a lot of personality but at one point she hugged me and gave me a big kiss and said thank you for all you are doing. The moment was so tender. It meant so much to her. She has never really been taken care of and I think the wedding was really special for her. I gave her the dress. I love her so much.
There were three weddings that night. It was so cool.
I love the gospel. I know God lives and He loves us. We are literally his children and he wants to talk to us and bless us.
Sorry it's short this week. I hope everyone is doing great, loving the fall weather and getting ready for all the holidays. Know that I love you all, I miss you and I can't wait for the time when we can sit and talk and share good family times together with all the kids running around. I love you all.
Love always and forever,
Daughter, Sister, Auntie and Friend - Kat
October 3, 2011
Hello all!
General Conference was great this weekend. IT WENT SO FAST!!! We had a baptism in the break between the sessions! Her name is Carol. She is great. One of those people who you know will stay strong in the church and help where ever she is. I really like her. She was living with a less active and we started teaching them and then they got married and she was crazy excited to be baptized. I think she kind of got married to be baptized. I know she loves him but she was always talking about when she could be baptized. In the mission we will have all the baptisms of the month on the third Saturday of every month and she didn't want to wait two weeks to be baptized so she was baptized yesterday. The font was cold because the gas has a leak in our font and the water slowly drains so it was cold and there was very little water. :) But it was great.
I got proposed to. That was exciting. Someone said "you can stay here in Brazil and we will get married and follow the mormon church...". Not what I was expecting to hear but funny at the same time.
Claudia and Robson. Robson is loving the Book of Mormon. They have a little foresty area in the front of their house and he has gone out there several days to read the Book of Mormon and sit and think. She still has the hardest heart I have ever seen. We can't teach more spiritually or clearly. He is getting impatient with her. I am afraid he doesn't have the courage to keep going to church alone...that scares me.
Love you all family. I loved General Conference yesterday! We only got to watch it in English on Sudnay and it meant so much more to me!! It entered my heart and I loved it. I know the gospel is true. It was restored by Christ. This is His church, with the authority he has given to worthy men to guide and bless the lives of others. I love the Book of Mormon. It is a light in my life and an anchor in my testimony. I love you all and look forward to 10 months when I will be back with you all.
Love, Kat
September 26, 2011
Hello my wonderful family. First off I want to tell you all how much I love you all. I miss you all. Today marks 8 months on the mission. 10 more months to prove my self to the Lord that I will be obedient during my life and it certainly is a test. I am learning so much and the more I learn the more I see I need to do better. I am learning that nothing happens if I don't apply these things in my life. Life is so much more than a routine. I love the gospel and I am SO terribly excited about conference this week! It is going to be so good, I have 3 questions for the Lord that I have been praying and thinking about and I am excited to see how they will be answered. The seminary teacher at CHS challanged us to do this one time, and it totally works. Everytime I have done it I always get answered.
New things, Robson went to church yesterday!!! He loved it. I love seeing the gospel make such a difference in his life. Claudia is still closed off to changing anything in her life, but he went and he is feeling the importance of the gospel in his life. Last week was a Gaucho holiday and the whole city shut down and we went to the parade and then stopped by Claudia e rRobsons house in the afternoon for a little bit. I love this family!!!!
As a mission presidente, Ribeiro decided that on the 3rd saturday of every month will be a white saturday, where the whole mission will baptize. He is worried about the Sisters not baptizing enough but I don't know what is lacking. He said I could write him if I have any ideas. He said if the Sisters don't baptize on this day then he will have a meeting with just the sisters. So I am feeling pretty motivated to baptzse a lot that day! I love our Presidente, he is very special to me.
Some pictures! They should be in this order,
One way to do a chohassco.
Little kids dressed gaucho in the parade.
Traditional gaucha dresses.
Robson and Daví after the parade.
Love you all and I am so excited about going to General Conference!! I LOVE EACH OF YOU!!!
Love Always,
Kat
September 19, 2011
The man that we found last week went to church on Sunday last week and was baptised Saturday!!!!!!! Rock on! It was pretty neat.
Claudia e Robson are basically the same. We have to go back and teach the restoration because all of their questions make it or break it with the restoration. Can I just tell you guys how much I love this family. We were teaching about families the other day and she was like we are great, we don't need to change anything in our family it's just the disagreement about churches. He was like really, you really think so? There is always something to do better. Just go to church with me and then she starts with this whole, but it's complicated for me because I was already baptized ect, ect. But I love them. We stopped by the other day and were talking to him (he reminds me a lot of steve brown) and I asked how he was feeling with prayers. He said he prays every day, several times a day. I asked if he was praying specifically to know and he said he prays to have the Lord illuminate his path. (I have explained specific prayers like five times for him) Then I asked how he feels when he reads the Book of Mormon, he said he feels peace. TADA!! So I showed him the scripture in Galations (Galatas in Portugese, I don't remember exactly how it is in English) when it talks about the fruit of the spirit is peace, joy and love. I explained he will get an answer from the Spirit. Then I asked if he believes he has received an answer from God and he got really quiet and a little emotional and said he was going to go put something away and I know he knows. But he still has this issue of rodeo and getting himself in church. He wants to go as a family and she doesn't want to go. We are going to teach restoration again, specifically for her and we are going to fast for her this week. Why can't the families I love the most just get baptized!!!!!
After our lesson we started talking about the gaucho holiday which is tomorrow and how we want to spend a little time with them because he is SOOO gaucho. He dresses it everyday!! Then I started to talk about how I want to buy gaucha clothes, so I tried on a pair of her pants and I have DEFINATELY gained weight. It's pretty sad. They fit they were just really tight! So then he has a pair that he said are a little tight (he is not a small man by any means) and they told me to try them on to see what number I need to buy and I said no they will definately fall off. So I go to try them on and they don't fall off!!!! They were a tiny tiny bit on the big side, as in they fit perfectly. (In self defense he wears the very open legged style she wears the very tight kind.) Anyway, so then he found some boots and a hat and a neck tie and I was all gaucho and they took pictures and then he gave me the pants and the boots!!!! I couldn't believe it. I am falling more and more in love with the gaucho culture and it's going to break my heart when I leave at the end of the mission.
I love you all. The gospel is true and Jesus Cristo lives. He is always there to guide us, but with out us doing our parF nothing happens. from the most basic to most complicated situations in our lives, he will help and comfort us.
Love you all.
Love, Kat
September 12, 2011
This week I showed the family calender to that family that I love and they said how beautiful our family is, I said I know........ really I did!
I am learning so much about me and about the gospel and about the scriptures and about our Savior and Heavenly Father. So much about the importance of putting into practice the things we learn and what it really means to become perfect in Christ and building Zion where we stand. We can always do more to help the kingdom grow and it's usually through little things like getting to know people, being nice, and changing our lives.
We had churrasco (Brazilian BBQ) the other day! Wow nothing in the US compares. I'll learn how to do it and then I'll do it for you all when I get back but we will have to build a little fire pit, hopefully everyone is ok with that!!! ITS SO GOOD!!!!!!!!
We have 6 missionaries in our ward, 3 duplas and we usually have our lunches together!!! Imagine cooking for your family and 6 missionaries. We eat a lot...but it's good. I am learning how to make feijao; I'll bring home a pan to cook it in but it's simple and good. I like it.
We met a man on Saturday, taught a lesson and he went to church all by himself Sunday. At the end he said "and now I need to wai until next Sunday right?"
We are going to baptize him :) Well I hope but it was really good. But of course he lives alone and we can't teach him alone so we will have a lot of lessons with members.
I was feeling kind of down but I am better, the spirit makes all the difference.
Love you all.
Love, Kat
I am learning so much about me and about the gospel and about the scriptures and about our Savior and Heavenly Father. So much about the importance of putting into practice the things we learn and what it really means to become perfect in Christ and building Zion where we stand. We can always do more to help the kingdom grow and it's usually through little things like getting to know people, being nice, and changing our lives.
We had churrasco (Brazilian BBQ) the other day! Wow nothing in the US compares. I'll learn how to do it and then I'll do it for you all when I get back but we will have to build a little fire pit, hopefully everyone is ok with that!!! ITS SO GOOD!!!!!!!!
We have 6 missionaries in our ward, 3 duplas and we usually have our lunches together!!! Imagine cooking for your family and 6 missionaries. We eat a lot...but it's good. I am learning how to make feijao; I'll bring home a pan to cook it in but it's simple and good. I like it.
We met a man on Saturday, taught a lesson and he went to church all by himself Sunday. At the end he said "and now I need to wai until next Sunday right?"
We are going to baptize him :) Well I hope but it was really good. But of course he lives alone and we can't teach him alone so we will have a lot of lessons with members.
I was feeling kind of down but I am better, the spirit makes all the difference.
Love you all.
Love, Kat
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