Week #58 - Mission Tour

Monday, March 1, 2021 

Sister "N" Silva (She is called that since there are so many "Silvas")

OI GENTE!!! Wow, another amazing week here in BRASIL!! This week was a really good week. I'll be honest with all of you, when I first got here I was nervous out of my mind. I was also feeling really homesick for Arizona. But... I don't feel that nervousness anymore. The only nervous feelings I feel is for the people we are teaching! But lots happened this week, so let's hop right into it...

What it looks like outside!

So, we started off the week kinda crazy, me and Sister N. Silva went to the sister training leaders area, because me and Sister Souza were going to be going up to Brasília to practice singing our song for Mission Tour that was on Wednesday. So we stayed with the STLs for those couple of days, and then me and Sister Souza would drive up in an uber and practice the song! We sang Este é o Cristo (this is the christ). And it went suuuuper good! While we were in the uber's, we taught the Restoration, Plan of Salvation, and the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the uber drivers! Hahaha gotta love ubers. 

But then we had mission tour, and I got to meet almost all the mission!! My brain hurt really bad afterwards trying to understand everything they were saying... but it was all good hahaha! Elder and Sister Koch were the ones speaking to us, and they were awesome. It also hurt my head to try and understand everything hahaha. 

Here's my update with portuguese: let me just start off by saying the the gift of tongues is real... when I was here last year, I had the hardest time understanding. Well, I can understand a good amount now! I understand everything Sister N. Silva is saying which is nice hahaha. But once I understand what people are saying, we are on talking about the next thing. So I'm just a little slower right now hahaha. The hard part now is knowing what to say, to form the sentences. And then it's hard as well with training because I am helping Sister N. Silva with teaching skills. Pretty much it's like she is my trainer hahaha. 

But me and Sister N. Silva are doing awesome. I am teaching her English and she loves it. Her English is already sooooo good! She just needs the confidence to speak it :) speaking of english, me and Sister N. Silva are going to be starting english classes online! We already have 30 people that want to participate... so we aren't too sure how that is going to work hahaha. 

Now for the people in Ceilândia we are teaching...

First is Francisca, she is awesome. We went over to her house and introduced the Book of Mormon to her! She thought that I was a Sister that used to teach her, but I've never met her before hahaha. She was literally convinced. She even ended up coming to church with us! I was going to ask her if we could take a selfie, but she ran out of the church building suuuuper fast. But she is awesome.

We are also teaching Felipe Salomão and he is super cool! He is more to himself and shy, but still doing good. We have some good fellowship with him. He is catholic though and helps out at his church every week the same we have ours... so hopefully he will come one day and feel the spirit there! But he's reading the Book of Mormon a lot! 

We have another guy we started talking to, his name is Daniel. He is a referral from a member in a different ward. He is soooo cool and has a Book of Mormon already, and is really wanting to learn more!

I love being here in Brasil. I still can't understand what a blessing it is that I am here!! Today is also my 14 month mark.... which means I don't have too much time left eeeek! Pray for Sister Guilott to have the gift of tongues!!

Alma 26:3 "And this is the blessing which hath been bestowed upon us, that we have been made instruments in the hands of God to bring about this great work."

Alma 26:3 "E esta é a bênção que nos foi concedida: que fomos transformados em instrumentos nas mãos de Deus, para realizar esta grande obra."

♡Sister Guilott♡

Sister Hernandez (who I arrived with on 2/11)

The members bring us food and give us treats!