May 13, 2009

Oi!
How is everyone? Family it was so good to talk to those of you that I was able to talk to on Sunday thanks for your words of wisdom and encouragment! :) I´m glad to hear you are doing well...I love you all! Thanks everyone for the letters and emails!! Carly you are hilarious seriously I was laughing so hard at your email! Mom I hope you had an awesome Mother´s Day!! This week was great! It´s great to be in Brazil because people are warm and pretty receptive to missionaries wanting to share a message about Christ with them! We taught a lot of lessons this week which was great for my Portuguese and I feel like I´m starting to understand a lot more too. We had a baptism on Saturday...it was great. I only was able to teach him one lesson but it was so great to be a small part of it and see how happy he and his family are. His wife has been a member for awhile but was inactive and when the missionaries visited her she was excited and her husband was receptive so they started going to church and he decided to get baptised as well. On May 23rd he is going to baptise two of his sons one is 8 and one is 11. Our area is awesome it´s like a city built in the middle of a mountain range all of the roads are very hilly and we walk up and down hills and stairs all day it´s great! I´m in awe at the use of space here people live in the smallest cracks in the wall all concrete and hardly any room it´s kinda crazy! They are great people! My companion is so patient and helpful with Portuguese and we have fun together! Today p-day has been great...marking my first week in the field. We had an activity with our zone at the church we had cake and ice cream to celebrate some Elders birthdays and we played uno and some soccer and our President let us watch Mobsters and Mormons which was kinda funny...it was fun and a nice break but it already felt kinda weird to me to feel unproductive. Well I am excited to be here. I love you all! Have a great week!!
Muito amor!
Sister Chelsea Dawn