July 29, 2009

Family are friends!Oi! Tudo bem?! How are you all this week? I hope you are happy and well and know that I love you all! Thanks for the emails and support! So it was a good week in the mission field! We had a baptism last week the senhor I wrote about and a little girl...adorable!! And we have another coming up this week, two older men that live together. They are seriously elect of the elect. Our only job as missionaries was to teach the principle and the spirit testified and they accepted. We have been teaching them for a little over a month and the ward has also been very involved which is great and has helped a lot since we couldn´t visit their house alone we always had a memeber to help and testify. What a blessing to see the hand of the Lord directly in this work, leading us directly to those that are prepared! I am so grateful to be here! I also witnessed a miracle in my Portuguese progression this week that I am so excited about. I can understand way more and converse way more then just last week. It was like almost over night and I already feel more like myself...not that I like to talk or anything ;). But really it is a blessing! Transfers were today but my companion and I will be staying in our area for at least one more...we were both way excited about that! Life is good! Missionary work is the best! I am so grateful for you all, for your examples, testimonies, love, etc! MUITO OBRIGADA! I love you!
Beijos,
Sister Richins