hey fam! hi hi hi, i love you all and miss the stinkin crap out of
you! today is a cloudy cool day in sao paulo and we just got in from
running a few errands around the city! thanks for the address tay! i
will send you and M a letter today with pics yay! get excited baby
girl!! ok so this week...whew it seems like i was just emailing you
yesterday but lets see..
i got a letter from greg and his girlfriend bre! and from darren
and staci! i am writing them back today so let them know! their letters
were so great! i loved them and it really made my day when i received
them! darren's letter was so dang funny- so proud of him and staci for
getting to speak in sacrament meeting! you guys rock! love you forever!!
tell randi and mason hi for me. i love her and constantly tell stories
about her and i to my district! so many good memories!
so my roommates- they are angels! seriously so sweet! i learned so
funny stuff about them this week. sister m. silvia is from bajia...i
dont know how to spell it but it is where sister boone is going to
serve...everyone from bajia is really really dark skinned, so sister m.
silvia is standing at like 4'10'' at the most and she is just packed
full of sassy attitude and speaks portuguese 78million words a minute.
anyway...she wears this doorag thing to bed that holds her hair in place
so it doesn't get crazy while she sleeps...i always ask her about it
because i am so intrigued by that dang thing! haha so one night she said
sister- and waived me over...she doesnt speak any english...so i go
over to her...and she starts putting the doorag on me. i had to get on
my knees and she was just talking in portguese and wrapping my massive
amount of hair all around my head and strapping it all under this
doorag...i told her eu tenho muito cabeça grande!! i have a fat head!!
haha she laughed and laughed, cuz she knew it was true!! anyway this
sweet little woman puts her doorag on my head and told me that i could
use it and so i did. i slept the whole night in that thing and it was
cutting my circulation off the whole time. haha but i didn´t have the
heart to take it off. she is just a doll! she is a convert and one of
very few members in her family.
my other roommate sister paiva speaks a little english and she
helps me learn a lot of portuguese...she is so sweet and this week we
were talking about her family. she is the only member and has dois
irmãos...two brothers like me! anyway-she was telling me their names and
she asked if i knew what her name was. i said no..she said janet
jackson. and i was like what??!! and she showed me her i.d. and honest
to goodness her full name is janet jackson nascimento paiva. and guess
what else...her brother is named michael. she said she hated her name
and that her dad loves the jackson so he named them all after them...but
guess what? her dad left their family or something because he isnt even
around anymore and just left her with that name! i think it fits her in
a way...veyr ironically. because she is very timid and shy and lovely.
and i dont know...i just like that that is her name.
so there was an awesome talk that we listened to in class this
week. it was about the atonement by jeffrey r. holland. it was a talk
given to missionary presidents and somehow my teacher had a clip of it.
something so important that he said was that many days on our missions
we will ask ourselves- why is this so hard? why is the language so hard?
why is missionary work so hard? and he said that all doctrine put aside
and based only on his opinion- that this life, and work is so hard
because salvation is not a cheap experience. life was never easy for
Jesus Christ- so why would we ever for a second think that doing His
work would be easy? his words really put the Saviors atonement into
perspective for me...i learn more and more everyday about my Savior and
the work that he had put in for me- now i have a chance to return one
tiny tiny bit of the favor. Holland also said- that on those days when
we feel the most beaten down, and when no one will listen, and when we
are just wanting to throw in the towel- we will get just one tiny tiny
little bit of what Christ had to suffer for us. He said that when we
feel that- we can begin to realize what the Savior did for all of
us. Christ has done the work, he has paid the price, now it is jsut up
to us to accept it, and become 100% converted to Him.
every time i learn something new, or get to teach a lesson with
sister boone i think man- this sounds good! this gospel studd is really
cool! and i think man i want this in my life! and then i think
again...oh wait...i already have it in my life! i have had it all my
life! haha and it is the best best feeling, to know that i have
happiness, i know the truth, and my job is just to find others that want
it- and pass it along to them.
p.s. i got taken at the beauty store today...the lady working there
just kept piling stuff in my basket and i wasnt exactly sure how to not
buy it all- so ugh...i just bought it. i didnt want to be rude ya know?
haha...oh man. bless my heart.
p.s.s. myers forever!! love you! talk to you nest week! (my last pday in the ctm) weird!!!
xoxo
sister myers
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