February 24, 2014
My dearest Family and Friends,
I think we will finally move into our new house this week. After 2
months of living in my suitcase I am really excited to unpack and air
our my clothing. On Thursday Sister Tanner called us and asked us if we
were available to go out to shop for our house. Uh yeah! Of course! We
bought curtains, blankets, iron, blender, etc. It was so much fun to be
able to spend some time with Sister Tanner. For those who don´t know
Sister Tanner is my mission president´s wife. Every mission in the world
has a couple than overseas and takes care of the missionaries. When I
got my mission call to teh Brazil São Paulo South Mission I was so
excited because my dream calling is to be Young Women´s President and
Sister Susan W. Tanner used to be the General Young Women´s President.
Coolest thing ever!
Last week I told you about our new investigator named Paula. She is
amazing. We taught her the Plan of Salvation this week and she loved it.
She has been loving the Book of Mormon. She reads it during her lunch
break at work, while she waits for the bus, as she rides the bus, etc.
She loves it! It is so awesome to see how happy she is about the things
she has been learning. The other day she quoted a scripture from the
Book of Mormon and my jaw dropped to the ground. The Book of Mormon is
so wonderful. It has to power to fill us with the spirit, erase our
doubts, answer questions, give us comfort, light and it can change our
lives for the better. We were able to teach her kids for the first time
last night and they are amazing too. They love that I can speak spanish
so they had me pray in Spanish (hardest thing I ever did because it was
mixed with so much portuguese). They are excited to be baptized like
Jesus Christ was baptized. We are going to teach her husband this week
on his day off so we are really excited. They didn´t go to church
because they thought church was at nighttime like the church they
currently attend!! However, they are excited to go to church next week
as a family.
Marcia and Samanta are doing great! Marcia has a lot of things in her
past but she feels a special peace entering into her life. We taught her
about keeping the Sabbath Day holy this week and she accepted to live
it. She has also stopped drinking coffee!!
I received a marvelous miracle this week. I bought new shoes and had
pieces of tire glued to the bottom so that they wouldn´t get worn out
fast. However, this made the bottom of my shoes really hard and my feet
felt like they were dying (I bought in-soles today so we are all good).
Saturday night I had had enough and I was dreading the 40 minute walk
home. I didn´t think I was going to make it but as I got up from our
last lesson of the day my feet felt good. They didn´t hurt and I was
able to walk home just fine. I knew that Heavenly Father had given me a
miracle!!!! Mom and Dad..don´t worry...my feet are fine ;)
Hmm..funny sotry for the week. Yesterday we saw a man riding a
motorcycle wearing a knight´s helmet...probably the coolest thing ever.
and dangerous too.
I love you all! As my dad would say since he is a Star trek fan--live long and prosper.
I am reaching the halfway point of my mission and it makes me sad to see
how fast time is passing. I truly do love being a missionary. An
investigator asked me how I have felt thus far about my mission and I
said happy. I am happy. I love the Lord. I love being a full-time
servant and being able to take the truth to the ends of the world! (or
at least Brazil!) I know that Jesus Christ is our Savior. He is the
light, the life and the way. If we follow Him with all we have we will
never have any reason to fear.
I love you!
Love, Sister Rose
