The Adventures of Sister Guilott: Week #8 - O que você disse? (What did you say?)

Monday, February 24, 2020

Lago Sul - Learning our way around the city!

Hello friends!!!

Crazy that I've been here in Brasilia for two weeks. Also crazy because I UNDERSTAND NOTHING!! Holy cow, that has definitely been the hardest thing for me here... but every time we go and eat with members, they always want me to pray (since I'm the American that doesn't know Portuguese) and they always are surprised that my Portuguese is actually pretty good haha. I love speaking it and can say a few things, but I just never understand it.

This week was a crazy one. My companion got some sad news about her nephew (a baby) being in the hospital and he almost didn't make it. That was super hard for her so we were not able to go out and teach while while he was so critical and she processed that information. He is doing so much better now. It was hard for me because we didn't go out and teach and that's all I wanted to do. But I guess it was good to have that breather to get organized and ready to work hard. The best day this week was Friday and Saturday.

Friday:

We went to lunch with some members and then afterwards were waiting at a bus stop and realized half an hour later it was the wrong bus stop... right when we were about to leave a lady came up to us and was saying how pretty we were and then saw our missionary name tags and went on and on how much she loves missionaries and wants to learn more. Then all of a sudden her bus was coming, and really fast she told us her name and where she worked and told us to come find her and teach her. So we did exactly that the next day: We went and found her and her work, talked to her and she was so receptive and excited, and she wants to learn more!! Talk about miracles.

Food!

A member taught me to make pastels, my new favorite food!

We took an Uber home later that day and the Uber driver told us he wanted to learn more. So we had that contact. We went and ate food at a cute restaurant and a worker there told us she wants to take the missionary lessons. We kind of taught a lesson to a lady named Ruth, and we also gave her a Book of Mormon. I was able (in Portuguese) to testify to her about it and she understood me! She said she would read it!! Literally so many miracles that day.

On the bus - trying not to get lost!

Saturday:

Saturday even we felt like we needed to go and visit this one family, the Barros. We got on the bus and started our journey (remember we are both new to the area, so its hard to find our way around). All of a sudden I look out the window and realize we are not in our area at all and were in the middle of Brasilia--lost. (We reported it to the Zone Leaders so they could know as we are supposed to do.) We ended up finally getting to the right bus and eventually got to the stop we really needed. We were still pretty lost then, our phone was dying, and it was raining and pitch black dark outside... so we finally found the houses where the Barros lived, but didn't know which house was their house. Then we looked through one of the windows and there on the fridge was a picture of the Sao Paulo temple! We knew we had found their house! We later found out that the lady who lives there, never opens her curtains to the room that we could see into where we saw the picture of the temple. But that day, the lady noticed that her mom was acting so lonely and felt like that day they needed to open the curtains to let in the light and have her mom be able to see outside. And that was what allowed us to find them! It was such an awesome experience to follow the spirit like that!

Our Chapel in Lago Sul

Lago Sul is definitely super hard, but it is so amazing here and I love being able to feel the spirit so strongly here. I hope this week you all are able to feel the spirit in anyway!!

Eu amo sendo uma missionaria e falando português! Eu não entendo nada mas eu amo ouvir outro pessoas falam português. Português é difícil e eu preciso paciência! Eu te amo!

Love you all!

Sister Guilott :)