8/27/18 - Dia dos Apóstolos!

Fabio and Francisca are still hanging on. We've set so many dates with them to go to the cartorio and get them hitched but Satainas always has a way of messing with our plan. We've heard it all, "The dog is sick", "I hurt my knee", "Family is visiting". BUT last night I gave them a calssic Emma Barlow pep talk and got them all pumped to get married tomorrow and be baptized on Satruday. I HAVE FAITH THIS WILL BE THE WEEK! 

Some of you may be familiar with the M.I.L.K. song most young women sing at girls camp. In my Inglês class this week we talked about groceries so I taught them that song actions and all. We had a lot of fun. I'l include pictures below. 

A 6 year old girl asked Sister Jales and I if we were twins this week... Obviously we are. 

Dia dos Apóstolos we took a 2 hour bus ride to the chapel next to the São Paulo temple and I forgot how many homies I had here in Brasil with me. I saw Sister Emma Loftus from elementary school and Sister Kailey Black from middle school along with all my peeps from the CTM. Small world! 

Elder Soares and his wife spoke to us in Portuguese! They're so cute and humble and were actually giddy to be with us in Brasil. I found out Elder Soares bapized my mission president on his mission. Too cool! He talked about how we are called to do what the Savior would do if He were on the earth. The Savior didn't let one opportunity pass to invite people to follow Him. We shouldn't either. Elder Ballard shared a lot of stuff that I felt were answers to my prayers. He talked about how on our missions we need to working on getting our faith from our heads into our hearts becasue when we do that we become fearless in our service. He told us to "Call on the power of heaven and walk with Him as His missioanaries". I truly believe that when we have real faith in Christ, true faith, we discover the magnitude of our message and better understand its eternal significance. This drives us to be better finders, teachers and proclaimers of this great message. We don't ever give up because we understand that He is fighting this battle with us and that more happiness than we can undstand is just around the corner if we truly try our best. 

Elder Ballard got here late (Sao Paulo traffic is nuts) and he wanted to shake all of our hands so he raised his right hand and asked us to do the same and all 700 missionaries in São Paulo shook his hand at the same time. Que fofo.

D&C 33: 8-10 

1) Chicé Jales and I ready to listen to the Apostles

2) MILK song in Inglês class

3) Visited Parque das Aguas to celebrate my 5 month mark today whoot! 

4) We thought this sign said "24 dia feriado dos Apóstolos" at second glance we realized we were wrong haha!