Overstaying my welcome, all day err day

Did you guys know that being a missionary is so awesome because you invite yourselves into peoples houses and then overstay your welcome? :-)))

Seriously, we do anything to get people to let us in "WE JUST WANT TO SAY A PRAYER WITH YOU GUYS!" and then we sing a hymn and say a prayer and theyre like "alright, thanks, nice  meet you guys" and before they can finish we just start talking and start teaching and talk about the restoration of the gospel for an hour, and then invite them to be baptized and mark another visit and we leave and the second we are out the door they probably all think "what the heck just happened? that was a lot more than just a prayer" and it is THE BEST!

OKAY HOLY GUACAMOLE SO MUCH HAPPENED THIS WEEK I WANT TO TELL YOU GUYS.

okay so starting off, I went to Santa Maria on monday because tuesday morning we had our Mission Counsel (i think thats what it is in English, haha who knows) and guess who picked me up from the bus station? SISTER CHAVES! MY BELOVED TRAINER AND MOM WHO I HADNT SEEN FOR 6 MONTHS! Ugh it was awesome. And she gave me our "sister hood of the travelling shirt" that started with the trainer of her trainer who became Sister Training Leader, and then passed to her trainer, and then passed to Sister Chaves, and now I have it!! #love

Tuesday we had an AWESOME training about how we have to have alot of love but also high expectations, and with those two things, we will have MIRACLES in our mission! and then Presidente Louza was talking about rules, because Presidente Parrela haf 1769028 rules about every LITTLE detail, and Presidente Louza was like "The only necessary rules we have are what is written in Preach My Gospel and our White Bible" and we were like "PRESIDENTE!!!! THAT'S A RULE!!! WE ARENT ALLOWED TO CALL THE MISSIONARY HANDBOOK 'WHITE BIBLE'!!" HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA It was the funniest thing in the world

MY NEW COMPANION IS AWESOME! SIster Vera, my third companion from PERU (Pai Celestial really wants me to learn Spanish lol) and she is literally one of the happiest péople I have ever met, and with us two together, or companionship is this little ball of sunshine and jumping up and down when something good happens. I LOVE IT! And our first night together she plucked my eyebrows so now we are eternally bonded, right?

Also she always says "freaking" in the middle of her portuguese sentences and its my favorite thing. 

Also Im addicted to saying "MAS QUE BABARIDADE TCHÊ" and I cant even give you guys a good translation........................like "thats ridiculous" or something like that haha

Best prayer of our investigator of the week:

"heavenly father,

please help me forgive the sisters because its 7:30 and they told me they would be here at 1 pm.

Amen"

HAHAH shes 10, but yeah it was totally OUR BAD. 

OH HEY IM A SCREWUP AND MISTYPED MY ADDRESS LAST WEEK:

Caixa Postal 179

Uruguaiana-RS

97501-970

Brasil

so yeah life is good and im happy and weve already found lots of miracles in our path :) 

Spiritual Homework:

1 Corinthions 13:2

If we do things, but we dont do them with love, its not even worth anything!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SO EVERYONE LOVE EVERYONE, OKAY?

LOVE Y'ALL,

SISTER LIPPS 

Pictures:

At the bus station saying goodbye to my peeps from Alegrete!

ME and Sister Vera tried to take a cute picture under a pretty tree, and the other sisters were taking in, and there were cars passing in the street and they were like "hurry up, you guys are embarrassing us" and we started laughing, but in the picture it looks like we were throwing up. ENJOY :)

 

 

I DIDNT SLEEP AT ALL THIS WEEK :-)

I DIDNT SURVIVE TRANSFERS YOU GUYS!!!!!!!!!! WHY DOES MY PRESIDENT LIKE TO MAKE ME SWITCH AREA EVERY 12 WEEKS? IT'S PRETTY SUCKY.

So yeah, IM GOING TO URUGUAIANA!!! Im actually REALLY excited because Ive already gone on exchanges in that area and its awesome, AND I got called to be Sister Training Leader, which I guess means that Heavenly Father thinks Ive got this whole mission thing figured out enough to help the other sisters figure out this mission thing too!!!!! WOOHOO ITS GONNA BE AWESOME! Getting to do exchanges and hang out with more sisters so I can help them :)

IMPORTANT THING: 

my new mailing address:

Caixa Postal 179

Uruguaiana- RS

97501-976

Brasil 

So yeah, in 3 hours im on a bus going to santa maria for a meeting tomorrow morning, and then tomorrow at 8 o'clock at night ill have arrived in my new area!

SO, as the last week before a transfer always goes, I spent a stupid amount of time just crying my face off because I hate saying goodbye to people. I GOT SO ATTACHED TO THIS PLACE, I HATE IT. yesterday after church was the literal WORST because I had to say bye to our convert and one of my favorite people on the planet, Nelson, and we BOTH balled our eyes out and then it ruined my face for all the pictures after. (and i accidentally (intentioally) hugged him and didnt regret it) 

And then last night we were at our investigator Isac and Glaucia's house and we were about to start teaching and then someone knocked at the door and in waltzed all my favorite members and best friends carrying plates of food and drink and THEY THREW ME A FREAKING SURPRISE FAREWELL PARTY. and then they all went around saying stupid nice things about me and all that I did for them and I just sat there crying like a dumb head and I hated (loved) it.

SO yeah that was my week in a nutshell..............

OKAY SPIRITUAL THOUGHT TIME:

so these past few weeks everyone and their mother has just been watching the olympics right?

okay so we were teaching Nelson about the Plan of Salvation again, and at the end we asked him why he things it is important to know this plan, and what kind of motivation it gives us. and his response WAS SO PERFECT IT SHOULD BE IN A CONFERENCE TALK.

He said "you know in the olympics when the team or person that wins goes to their family and their coaches and the crowd goes crazy, and every applauds and cheers and the winner feels so loved? I think that if we follow this plan, that'll happen with us and Heavenly Father and our family when we get to the Celestial Kingdom"

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH YOU GUYS IT IS SO TRUE!!!!!!!!!!! Its so simple. If we follow this plan, we'll get the Gold. and God will be so proud of us, and all our family and friends on the other side of the veil with cheer with us and run with us until we finish and until we win. But the difference is that, MORE THAN ONE PERSON CAN GET THE GOLD! WE CAN ALL WIN!

ugh this gospel is so perfect I literally cant even.

I know that Christ lives, and loves us, and he is ROOTING FOR US!!!

I love being a missionary

Love, Sister Lipps

Pictures:

my suprise party :) 

Pictures of my week/crying in public saying bye to people

 

 

 

TRUE STORY: EVER SINCE THE CTM MY DREAM WAS TO FIND A BABY SHEEP AND TAKE A PICTURE LIKE THE COVER OF THE RESTORATION PAMPHLET. AND THIS WEEK MY DREAM CAME TRUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.

I WAS ON FREAKING CLOUD 9 YOU GUYS.

I LOVE BRASIL

 

 

 

Pictures of my week/crying in public saying bye to people

 

 

 

TRUE STORY: EVER SINCE THE CTM MY DREAM WAS TO FIND A BABY SHEEP AND TAKE A PICTURE LIKE THE COVER OF THE RESTORATION PAMPHLET. AND THIS WEEK MY DREAM CAME TRUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.

I WAS ON FREAKING CLOUD 9 YOU GUYS.

I LOVE BRASIL

 

My Camera Roll

So this week was good and a little uneventful and I already told my family all the good things yesterday so here are my pictures of the week:

Pictures:

we are the most fotogenic companionship you've ever seen 

opening my birthday package that arrived early and I was going to wait until my birthday to open it and that idea lasted for about 10 days until my patience wore out WOOHOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I bought a pizza for Sister Carriels missiaversary because Im a good companion :)

Me being blinded by the sun yesterday after church :-)))))))))

TALKING TO MY FAMILY BECAUSE I SERVE IN THE BEST MISSION IN THE WORLD THAT LET US SYKPE ON BRASIL'S FATHERS DAY!!!!!!!!!!!! boutta make this years christmas card

shoutout to roseville girls camp for sending me letters!!

Love, Sister Lipps 

 

Pictures:

ZONE P-DAY!! We played volleyball and it was a grande old time :)

Us giving our district leader a chocolate bar because he had a miracle baptismal interview last week with Irmão Nelson :) 

 

I fell asleep standing up this week

Literally just had this old man ask me on a date in the internet house?? I gave him a fake email??? Is that a sin??? I dont know what just happened.

THIS WEEK WAS SO AWESOME AND ALSO KIND OF SUPER STRESSFUL! But the best weeks are always the most stressful amright?

Shout out to my awesome companion Sister Carriel for always be there  for me to rub the stress knots out of my back. 

Me at 8:30 in the street last night: Our plans fell through and we had been knocking doors and no one let us in or even said we could come back another day and I was so tired that I started laughing super hard and then I started crying and it was pretty dark and the streets arent paved and I stepped in a whole and tripped and fell as I was laugh crying and Sister Carriel picked me up and anyone who didnt know me I think 100% thought that I was drunk. What a life, né?

This week I was able to see how much Ive grown spiritually. In the beginning, I was so worried that I never knew what to say, but now, when I open my mouth, its not even ME talking, its filled by the Spirit to tell that specific person what God wants them to know. BEING A SERVANT OF THE LORD IS INCREDIBLE. 

Our beloved Presidente and Sister Louza visited us this week! We made tea and cake and it was lovely and I love them SO MUCH. I also had a little interview with President and he helped me SO much with some things that had been on my mind, distracting me. Basically the cousel he gave me works for anything situation: you have to make a plan with the Lord. Ive started praying, like "Hey Pai Celestial, this has been distracting me lately, this is my plan to be better, wanna help me?" And every since thursday, I has been marvelous and I feel so much closer to my Father In Heaven :)

Final reason this week rocked (and stressed me out): BAPTISM! A man, Nelson who is 75 and SUPER AWESOME! Our experience with him was super up and down and required alot of fasting and praying to overcome doubts and struggles and to fight against Satan getting into his head and EVERYONE made sacrifices and in the end, all our prayers were answered and he was baptized on Saturday, Confirmed on Sunday, and Ive never seen him happier!!

ALSO I GOT A CALL TODAY THAT NOÉ FROM SÃO GABRIEL RECEIVED THE MELCEZEDEK PRIESTHOOD YESTERDAY AND IS GOING TO THE TEMPLE NEXT WEEK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#felicidade

I love being a missionary. straight up.

Love

SISTER LIPPS 

Pictures:

baptism of Irmão Nelson!!!!!

When you are in the middle of teaching the restoration and satan calls and your investigator walks out of the room to make coffee so you and your comp take selfies while you wait.

MY MOM AND DAD FOR THE NEXT 9 MONTHS (they are so freaking cute)  

If one more person tells me i look like im 15, im going to flip a brick

Usually the conversation goes like this: "wow how did your mom let you leave home for so long to come to a different country?"

"oh well she knows how important the work im doing is, and supported my decision!"

"but, youre so young"

"i turn 20 in setember"

"oh, your face looks 15"

"OH COOL" "wanna come to church sunday or what?"

brief summary of the week: everyone and their mother was asking us for marriage advice. I was like "bruh I dont know, but read this article that the prophet wrote"

weird fact: I dont really cry anymore. People who know me, know that im a cryer, with everything. But I think having so many people crying to us everyday about their problems, Heavenly Father turned me into a tough nut so I could bear it all and be emotional stable enough to help them.

We have a less active who has SERIOUS financial troubles. Her house is a tiny wood shack, and shes had a month without light or water because she cant work because she's 70 and has alot of back problems. This week she told us she qualified for help from the government and will start getting an income to pay some of her bills!!!!!!!! but then she said "girls, im going to need your guys help with something" and we sais "what is it?" and she said "can you teach me how to fill out the tithing slip when i get my money?" and then i almost did cry because her faith is so strong. UGH I LOVE THE PEOPLE HERE. 

Homework this week: In praise of those who save- Presidente uchtdorf

Its the talk im using to help all these people help their families haha

BOA SEMANA PARA TODO MUNDO!!

Love, Sister Lipps 

Pictures:

one of our activities this week at the church!

We made cute little cards to leave for the members after lunch :)

I love sister carriel so much because our weirdness really clicks 

another family home evening with investigators!!

Sunday morning, going to be annoying and wake people up for church :) 

Things I lost this week: half of my mission, my daily planner, my cool

Everything thats happening in my life right now can be explained by Jacob 7:26

"the time passed away with us, and also ourlives passed away like as it were unto us a dream" 

My mission and my days are passing so fast, as if they were dreams. I have dreams sometimes that Im home and in my dreams all I want to do is come back to Brasil. True story;

This week my newborn arrives! (aka I complete 9 months) Pictures to come next week....

Im the least organized person with the greatest desire to be organized, so I HAVE to write EVERYTHING down in my planner or else i will forget it ALL, and then this week we were in uruguinana on exchanges and I FORGOT MY PLANNER THERE and i almost cried/started questioning my whole life because I cant function without my planner. So that was interesting. This week the sisters are going to send it to me, so until then im kind of coping. 

I LOST MY COOL IN A LESSON SO HARD YESTERDAY. Seriously, usually Im pretty good and trying to be patient and stay calm when people reject everything I believe in, but YESTERDAY we had a lesson with this 20 year old guy we met, and it wasnt going very good just because he kind of wanted to tell us the whole time why the igreja de graça is perfect and whatever. BUT I have ridiculous trust in the power of the scripture Moroni 10:3-5 to bring the spirit and invite them to pray and if they pray I KNOW THEYLL GET AN ANSWER. So the whole time I was just thinking "okay we just need to get to the book of mormon, lets get to moroni and he´ll be humbled and itll all be good" and then we got to the part of the lesson, and I read him this scripture and it was AWESOME until I asked him what he understood and he said "God is god" or something like that that didnt have anything to do with it, and i said "Okay yeah buddy thats true,but ACTUALLY this scripture invites us to pray. do ou want me to read it again?" and he said "no, it didnt even pray attention the first time because I dont believe in anything it says in that book of the mormons" 

OH YOU GUYS, SOMETHING HIT ME IN THAT MOMENT, AND IT WASNT PATIENCE. I literally could FEEL the anger rush through my whole body and heat up my face because I could believe he said that and didnt even listen to the scripture, and I pretty much exploded and said/yelled "OH REALLY? YOU THINK PRAYER IS A LIE? BECAUSE THIS SCRIPTURE SAYS WE NEED TO PRAY, I DIDNT KNOW YOU DIDNT BELIEVE IN THAT" and then he said "oh whoa okay obnviously prayer is important" and i was like "YEAH OBVIOUSLY IT IS AND OBVIOUSLY ITS TRUE AND OBVIOUSLY YOU NEED TO STOP DENYING GOD AND DENYING THIS BOOK YOUVE NEVER EVEN READ" and then i said very loudly some other things I dont remember in the heat (literally) of the moment and at the end looked at sister carriel and said "ok im done, you can finish talking to him now" 

and the funniest part was that we were with a member, a 17 year old girl from our ward, and she kind of burned him too. But hey, it was a learning experience.And I think thats the most angry ive ever gotten with one person in one moment in my entire life. Amen.

The best part of the week was my personal study this morning and I found an article in the Liahona called "being weak is not a sin" and it was WRITTEN EXACTLY FOR ME. Seriously, I had all this confusion because of all my weaknesses and had convinced myself that I was done for because Im not a perfect person, and this article completely calmed my heart and answered all my questions and now I know that we dont have to repent for our imperfections, we rely on gods grace to be humble and faithful and be bette everyday! (so everyone go read it, april 2015 liahona)

I STILL LOVE BEING A SISTER 

SISTER lippsies

pictures:

Family home evening

district meeting 

me and sister gibson!

all the sisters in urugiana

my dinner lol

me and this dog that looks SO MEAN but is the chillest ever

heart lollipops :)