The Adventures of Sister Guilott: Week #3 - Half-Way through the "CTM"

This is Louiza, one of the many incredible miracles of my mission so far:
Story was in last week's post, but I didn't have time to download the picture!

Oi!

Holy cow how has it been 3 weeks already? I feel like I have been here for months, but at the same time I and also feel like I have been here for 3 days. It is so fun to see all my friends from back home here in Brazil learning the language like me. This week I saw Natalie Gustavenson, Tyler Ashby, two of my friends from summer term (Oliver Zaug and Cole Hunter), Sara Rutter my friend from work--her brother is here, two of my friends from my BYU Book of Mormon class, Kaden Genta, and all the people I met online before I came here. It's so awesome after talking about coming here, we are all finally here!

So fun to have "Elder Ashby" in the CTM
(a good friend from HS and my stake in Pleasant Grove!)

This week was crazy filled with classes and learning Portuguese. Our instructors are starting to talk faster in Portuguese and only in Portuguese. They sometimes ignore us if we talk in English and only listen to us if we speak in Portuguese. My district is really good at understanding Portuguese, but we need to speak it more. So this week are trying to only speak Portuguese and if we don't know what to say, we look it up in our dictionary. Today we all went to the Sao Paulo Temple again. I love it there!

Sister Anderson, Sister De Mille, and Me!
Sao Paulo Temple

So last week I told you guys about TRC's (I don't even know what it stands for) but we had another one on Saturday and we taught Pedro about the atonements and our life here on earth. Sister Anderson was talking about the Atonement and all of a sudden Pedro asked us (in Portuguese) "How can I be saved?" I responded saying, "Baptism." Then there was some silence, and then Sister Anderson asked him "Will you follow the example of Jesus Christ and be baptized?" And he said... YES! Before we went in we were planning what to respond with when he would say no to that question, but he said yes. So we kind of paused and then just went on. Even though he is a member in real life, I still felt the spirit so strongly.

On Tuesday, I was outside with my district studying during class and all of sudden we were walking back inside and we saw... A LIZARD! So with me being my father's daughter what did I do? I went and picked it up and everyone was so scared I did that. We took some pictures of it that I will attach.

I am my father's daughter!

Today (pday) We got to go to the Sao Paulo temple again and it was amazing. On the drive there, I was sitting by some girls who didn't know English, so I asked them where they were from, and one of them said she was from Santa Cruz Bolivia! I told her that my cousin, Sage, served there and she got so excited and started talking about how nice the missionaries are there. And she told me this in Portuguese! I am understanding a lot more Portuguese, until they start talking fast, but it is fun to be able to understand. I am thankful for my sisters, Emily and Nicole and cousins Anna and Sage, who were such awesome missionaries!

I love being a missionary. It is so fun and I wouldn't want to be anywhere else.

Tell people to email me: caroline.guilott@missionary.org. I would love to hear from everyone. I need the love from back home!

Eu Te Amo!

Sister Guilott

Note from mom: In her first post from Brazil, Caroline mentioned being asked to sing on day five of her CTM stay. She said it was fun to practice with this awesome Brazilian Elder and then a lady asked if she could film Caroline while Caroline sang; Caroline said yes, and the lady filmed right up close. Well, that video appeared today and it has had over 5,800 views, 150 shares (most are in Brazil) and its so fun that Caroline has no idea!

Click on link to view her singing on FB: Video