5/6/19 - My area just doubled in size

Oi friends! Just another great week in Santana! 

Just a laugh for you all. At lunch one day Matias was talking about an American president who was corrupt and she was like, "oh his name is Hinkley or something..." I told her Hinkley was the prophet and she got super embarrassed. Later that day I said something about WWII and she said, "THAT'S IT!" She thought Hitler was from the USA and she mixed him up with Hinkley.

Gorete is a reference we got from a member in Jardim Modelo. She's pretty much one of the most elect people I know. She showed up to our second lesson with the restoration phamplet all marked up with annotations and questions. She's read a huge chunk of O Livro de Mormon and she is always asking us for more "homework". She has a baptismal date and I love her! MILAGES!

We had a less active of 20+ years show up at church out of nowhere and the ward sent us to go vist them because when the Elders were here they didn't accept visits but they wanted to see if us being Sisters made any differene. They let us in and we taught the whole family. It was amazing. Goes to show that it's like my dad always told me growing up: Sisters are the Lord's secret weapons. Haha! 

Sister Gamarano went home and so Almedia has been with out a companion all week. We've been in a trio with her most days splitting up our time between Tucuruvi and Santana. My area just doubled in size. A few weeks ago a member in Santana gave us a refrence and Matias and I went to go teach her. After the first lesson we gave her to Tucuruvi because she technically lived in their area. I got to teach her a few other times during divisions and then this week in our trio we got to see her baptized! Team work makes the dream work! Sadly we weren't able to be at her baptism on Sunday becasue she was baptized at the same time as our sacerment meeting in the other chapel.

Sunday I asked Sister Matais to put a Book of Mormon in her bag because mine was super full. She asked me why and I told her I didn't know why I just felt like we needed to take one today. No one came to church after we were running all over to get people. Big bummer. When we got there not even Maria was there to be confirmed. Ah. We felt like such failures. At the end of the meeting Bishop Games gets up and announces the confirmation of Maria. WHAT?! We found out that she woke up at 6am to make almoço for us and lost track of time and arrived a little late and snuck in the back. It was a huge miracle! We had lunch with her family. Her family is usually really cold with us but yesterday we joked and had fun with them and at the end of lunch the whole family was interested in learning more and visiting the chruch. Bea's boyfriend was really interested in the Book of Mormon and knew we were prompted to bring one with us because we needed to give it to him. We told them that transfers are coming up and Maria's daughter Bea was like, "No! I'll talk to your pastor and tell him that you guys have taught my mom and are now going to teach me." haha! If only it worked like that. I have faith that one day this family will be sealed. All this from following a prompting and clapping doors. 

Have the best week friends! Beijos!

Sister Barbie

1) On Wednesdays we wear pink. TRIOOOOOO

2) Photo booth photos

3) Almoço com Maria