"I am very grace for grateful"

^yes, the subject header is a real quote from my talk yesterday about grace in sacrament meeting. So you could pretty much say that I NAILED IT.

Update: due to that 5 year old boy in our ward that is probably my boyfriend who thinks i am alice in wonderland, most of the members actually think that my first name is alice now. HA sometimes I think its funnier that way, so I dont correct them. And in a few months they'll try to find me on Facebook as "alice lipps" and I will think its funny.

Everyone says that when you only have 2 months left on the mission, you started to get worn out, BUT THAT IS A LIE! I havent had more energy in my whole mission than i have right now, I wake up BEFORE our alarm goes off because Im not tired anymore, and its been over a month since ive accidently fallen asleep in a lesson. WOOHOO FOR BLESSINGS!

We had a "Master Chef" activity in our ward, so I decided to participate and I made banana bread. HA i lost so hard. I thought it was good, but everyone else made pizza and chocolate cake, so was it really a fair fight? also we are poor and i only made banana bread because my bananas were almost rotting, cool right?

Other events: We had our zone conference this week and Presidente Louza called us all to repentance because of our work with members, and it was great because this week we worked really hard to gain their confidence, gain the bishop´s trust, and now (our plan) they are all going to do visits with us and give us referalls!!

Love you all,

Sister Lipps 

Pictures:

GIANT XIS LAST P-DAY!

Our zone conference!!

Sister Bahmad and I (she goes home next month :( )

Me and minha filha wearing matching clothes because Im her trainer and I love color coordinating

Me and the assistants HA they are cool 

Me and my favorite family from Alegrete, Robinson and Tati! 

MASTERCHEF!

sister freire´s 1 month-aversary!

Our capeta wall (capeta=little devil, used with misbehaved children HA)

Me and my bombacha bermuda (didnt buy it though because it was too big) 

taking care of my newborn

TRAINING IS THE BEST THING IN THE WHOLE WORLD!! everyone always told me its the worst thing to train when you are finishing your mission because you're not focused and you're tired, but that was a bunch of lies because I LOVE IT!! Its making me feeling like I am learning everything all over again, and I am so busy being worried about my companion and trying to teach her every second of every day, that I feel mroe focused on missionary work then ever! Going home? QUE NADA.

It also helps that my companion is literally an angel. She came to the mission SO prepared, and so willing to learn everything, its been a breeze. Her name is Sister Freire, she is 19 and from São Paulo! (her accent is so cute, I die) (she probably thinks the same thing about me haha). But really, she is amazing, and answer to my prayers, we get along SUPER GREAT and i hope i can stay with their until the end to finish all her training!

Also Heavenly Father blessed me alot, because I kind of had a hard time accepting the fact that I was going to stay in Uruguaiana forever, but we havnt gotten lost in our new area (yet) and we have already (in 3 days) found 5 new investigators with a lot of potencial. SO okay if no one came to church (yet), whats important is that we are on fire and we are going to remain happy and positive and full of energy all day every day :)

other thing: Everyone in the ward has already started calling me "alice" from alice in wonderland because on sunday i curled my hair and used a blue ribbon hahahaha. This 5 year old boy ran and sat next to me and said "wow you are so pretty, like a beautiful princess, im going to give you a kiss" and then he kissed my cheek and i almost died. and at the end of sacrament meeting, his mom came to get him and he started crying and said "NO, I WANT TO STAY HERE WITH ALICE" AHHHHH my life is so funny.

OTHER OTHER THING: I went to santa maria on tuesday, picked up sister freire wednesday, and we had to catch the bus thursday at 12:30. But due to the fact that we lost the keys of our apartment for a few minutes, we ran REALLY LATE and got to the bus station (after asking a taxi to frive 60 in a 25 zone) at 12:32, without our bags that got mixed up in another taxi with some other sisters, and in conclusion, we spent 5 minutes sprinting inside of the bus station trying to buy our tickets, get our right bags, get to the right bus, and basically sister freire with never ever forget her first real day with me as a trainer. 

Other things i learned this week:

PRAYER IS REAL. EVEN WITH THE LITTLE THINGS. IT HELPED US THIS WEEK FIND LOST KEYS, LOST IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS, NOT GET BITTEN BY DOGS, FIND AWESOME INVESTIGATORS, EVERYTHING.

So just pray about the little little littlest things and you all will see little miracles too :) 

Talk to read: "improving our prayers" by joseph b. wirthlin.

Okay i love y'all!

amor,

sister alice 

1. Meeting my daughter!!!! (sister freire)

2. Me and elder campos freaking out because we only have TWO transfers left

3. HAHAHA I love sister Bahmad, we were comps for like 20 hours waiting to pick up our new comps

4. Sister Freire's first sunday! 

"transfers" <--- joke

MY LAST WEEK HERE IN URUGUAIANA (PSYCHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH)

I was 40000% sure i was going to be transferred because duh ive been here for 6 months.

and i was transferred.

To another ward here in uruguaiana.

AY AY AY YOU GUYS GOD IS TESTING MY FAITH. 

but its all good because im going to be a MOM (aka im going to train woohoo im kind of freaking out. ask sister de oliveira how many times this week i said "do you think she is going to hate me?") so tomorrow im going to santa maria to pick her up! 

other events of the week:

Sister de oliveira turned 26 and we had another mini dance party. This time i was lady gaga and i taped a few mini hamburger patties on me hahahaha

I made mexican food for Miriam and Roni and their whole family and they LOVED it and told me im allowed to get married now.

AAAAND RONI'S SISTER WAS BAPTIZED IN THE DARK BECAUSE THERE WAS A STORM AND A BLACK OUT AT THE CHURCH BUILDING BUT IT WAS A NIGHT OF MIRACLES!!

okay thats all i have time for BYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Love, sister lipps 

patricia's baptism!!!! (insert that episode of spongebob "at night")

 

 

I few pictures of our beloved zone and i few missionaries that were leaving. also we found a castel!!!!!!!!!!!!

ZONA URUGUAIANA (eternal)