So this week was pretty cray cray because of transfers and
everything but IM SO HAPPY I REALLY LIKE BEING A MISSIONARY ITS KINDA
RIDICULOUS.
Estou na santa terra de ALEGRETE!
Im just this week getting to know the area, getting to know everyone
here, including my companion lol. Sister Neves is from MANAUS so thatsd
pretty legit because its straight amazon all up in there. She has 4 1/2
months on the mission, but shes a POWERFUL missionary, she's so
awesome!! She's kind of a big dork but she's hilarious and sometimes
tells me what to do because her personality is like that but I just let
her always get her opinion out and then we decide together what we're
going to do and it works out just grande! We live by ourselves because
were the only sisters in our zone, so that's kind of lame but we make
the best of it by being weirdos and jumping up and down in the morning
to get eachother pumped! Lol yesterday we accidentally flooded the
apartment (well it wasnt us, it was the toilet) SO THAT WAS FUN But we
got it all sorted out so yeah thats life.
The
people here are REALLY COLD. (literally, its cold here), but yeah theyre
a harsher group of people here, not every opens their door for us and
it takes everything I have sometimes to not call people out on their
blatant lies when we try to do contacts and they make up something, or
reject us straight up. BUT IM BUILDING CHARACTER AMIRIGHT. Lol but were
working REALLY HARD and managing to teach and yesterday we had a miracle
sunday because we had SIX INVESTIGATORS at church!!! (for those who
dont know, thats a lot for me. most sundays in São Gabriel we had zero
lol life is rough) SO were already super duper blessed.
We
had our mission conference this week and it was the last conference of
Presidente and SIster Parrela because theyre leaving this month to go
home! So it was pretty sentimental but SUPER spiritual. Presidente
talked to us alot of happiness, and the difference between being happy
in every moment, and being a happy person. Its not possible for us to be
happy ALL the time, because thats just life and emotions and its hard.
But, we can CHOOSE to live happily every day! It was super awesome,
everyone read 2 Nephi 5:27, everyone CHOOSE to be happy.
I
love you all, sorry its kind of short this week, my email time was
interrupted by a phone call from PRESIDENTE PARRELA, which is heart
attack in a box but im alive, he didnt yell at me, were all good!!
AMOR PARA TODOS VOCÊS!
sister lipps
pictures:
MINHA COMPANHERIA SISTER NEVES
Pictures from our mission conference, and i got to see me beloved Sister Barbosa, my bff from the CTM.
IM TURNED 7 MONTHS OLD THIS WEEK! feeling old
Pictures from last week:
Dear Em,
ReplyDeleteGreat pic's as always! Your smile outshines them all!
Keep loving what you are doing and enjoy the ride!
Love & hugs, Grandpa & Phyllis