Week 3 :)

Answers to moms questions:

We had Sister Joy D. Jones come this Tuesday! She was amazing and said everything I needed to hear. I will talk more about her later in the email! Then yesterday Brother Richard Heaton. He is hilarious, but he was amazing. More about him later too!

 

I am definitely getting better at the Portuguese:) Still not super good though haha. We get breakzinhos and we just go to the bathroom, but when we have personal, companion, and language study time we go walk around outside and quiz each other, or we take our scriptures outside and study. It is soo nice! We did an English fast the other day... it didn't last too long hahaha. In class we just speak Portuguese or try to:)

 I have done some running:) my knee aches sometimes. This week Sister Kunz and Sister Mavy have been sick... So they have been having a rough time. So for exercise time we haven't been able to go run or do anything too extreme.

 

We get to go to the temple every Monday:) 

 

About our teachers, Irma (sister) Schill. She is our first teacher.  She is amazing and served in Portugal! She has taught 6 other districts.   She only talks to us in Portuguese and our class consists of coaching, which is where they teach us how to be a better missionary and teach us things from PMG. Then we have grammar, which is where we learn more Portuguese.

 

Our other teacher is Irmao (brother) Lynn. He is also awesome! He served his mission in Mosabique! This is his first time teaching.

This week!

Spiritual:

Sister Joy D Jones came and spoke to us. She said everything I needed to hear, which was SMILE! I may be struggling with Portuguese and not that great at it, but I just need to remember to smile because I have the happiest message! And when I am in Portugal and not yet a pro at the language I can remember to smile because I have the Gospel! And smiling means the same thing in all languages:) So remember to smile because we know our purpose and we know we are all children of God:)

Something I learned for myself this week is to rely on the spirit. Brother Richard Heaton came to speak to us on Sunday. He talked about how we need to rely on the spirit and how sometimes we don't always recognize that the Lord is guiding us, but He is as long as we are doing what is right. Sometimes we don't see how the Holy Ghost prompted us to do something until after we do it. Something that my Branch President talked about on Sunday is we are promised that we will have the spirit to be with us when we are baptized or when we take the Sacrament, but what we have to remember is we are always making mistakes and so we have to remember to invite the spirit to be with us. We have to give him the invitation by our actions. Then Sister Dansie (the branch presidents wife) talked about how we need to show are gratitude by acting on the promptings of the Holy Ghost. I loved that. 

This week while I was teaching a lesson I felt prompted to share a personal experience. When I started to share the experience I was able to teach and say what I needed in Portuguese. It came out of my mouth and I didn't even really realize what I was saying. The spirit was so strong and my investigator started to cry because it was what she needed to hear. It taught me that my Portuguese may not be perfect, but the Spirit is perfect and will get the point across that is needed. All I need to do is trust in him:) 

Silly:

We were playing Volleyball and Elder Kartchner had this genius idea to slam dunk the volleyball on the other side of the net.  In the processes he ran straight into the net and got clothes lined. It was hilarious! He landed on his back and his sunglasses went flying! He is always keeping our district laughing.

That is all for this week! Remember to SMILE because we have the happiest news:) Remember to trust in the Lord! He is always guiding us:)

Love,

Sister Sampson