May 6, 2009

Olá!!
HAPPY MOTHER`S DAY mom, and sisters, and all other wonderful mothers reading this! I am in my first area! It is called Novo Osasco...as if that means anything to anyone...not even me yet but it will very soon! I got here today and met my trainor today...her name is Sister Correia. She is so sweet and seems great! She doesn´t speak any Engish which means I better learn Portuguese really fast. She also wants to learn English so we are going to help each other out! It feels so good to be out of the CTM and walking around...my feet need to create some calusus after sitting for two months...ha but all in good time. It is also a little overwhelming but exciting. Oh and now that I´m in the field our mission rule is I can receive emails from anyone but respond only to family so friends if you want to email me the address is chelsea_dawn@myldsmail.net...:). Sweetness! So this week I had to say goodbye to my companions and district from the CTM. It was sad...we had really bonded! But it was time to get out of there. Yesterday my mission president and his wife took me and the other new Elder out to lunch to a really nice and delicious resturaunt!! Apparently it´s like rodisio grill but better, the real deal ya know :). It was so good! I love my both President Cooley and his wife a lot! They are very warm and loving and open! They shared there love story with us which was hilarious! And we pretty much just laughed all through lunch. After lunch I went and taught with some sisters in that area. It was awesome to just jump into the work however I mostly just prayed and bore my testimony and tried really hard to understand what else was going on. I can usually catch the general idea of the conversation but sometimes I miss key things and then I am totally lost. I just need to focus on what I can understand and realize that it will come. The Lord will provide! I am excited to be here! I love you all and hope you have a great week! This is an awesome work and I am excited to share the gospel...even if it must be in very broken Portuguese at first :).
Muito amor!
Sister Richins