May 2011

Dear Blog:

 

Transfers again! Thank goodness I’m staying here in Aracruz for at least another transfer!

But my dear companion Sister Barbosa is heading home. And Sister Felizardo, another sister who lives with us, is going home too. But Sister Dias and I are staying here together and we”ll be getting at least one brand new sister in our house and maybe another sister or two too! This next transfer will be fantastico!

 

I”m so so grateful that the Lord guided Sister Barbosa and I to the two elect souls that baptized April 30. And I’m so so grateful he put another one of the elect in our path this week. Her name is Fernanda and in our first lesson with her she said she had no doubt that all we taught was true.

 

Aaaand, as we were walkign to church on Sunday, she was saying how she’s looking for a religion and wants to get baptized, so yes. I followed a nice little prompting and invited her to get baptized in the church of Jesus Christ, and she’s getting baptized May 28th! TWill be most excellent!

 

I just love all of this so much and am so glad I’ve got another 11 months here to save souls. This is the best thing ever! This is the best day ever!

 

Love you peeps muitos. Tchau!

Dearest Peeps,

I love skype. Yesterday was Mother’s Day and I got to skype with the fam and it was so so good! Oh families are the best. Thank goodness we can be together forever!

 

I’m just so so grateful for so many things. Yesterday we had a nice little angel old man in our path who gave us a ride to church. Que bênção! Sundays sometimes are coo coo for cocoa puffs. Sister Barbosa and I left our house yesterday morning, walked 45 minutes to get some peeps to walk to church with us, and everyone was sleeping or ran away or was just too lazy and no one was coming with us. So after waiting and trying to get them to come to church with us, we just decided to leave and walk to church because we were already 10 minutes late and had to go another 30 minutes to walk to church.

So… enter angel man. Elizio is a nice little old man the always wears a cowboy hat. We taught him once, but he just likes to talk a lot. We saw him on the street the other day and he gave us some yummy candy. Sunday morning, he drives by in his little white car and asks if we want a ride to church. Tempting, but since it was just us two sisters, kind of against mission rules, so we said no. He said if we change our minds, the offer is still open.

So we continue walking in the nice hot morning sun, and run into our recent converts, who also didn’t have a ride to church! So… we go back and ask Senhor Elizio for a ride to church and and hoooray! All is well and we were only 15 minutes late for church. Oh I just love the people the Lord puts in our paths.

 

We had zone conference this week and it was fantastico!!! SO good to see the other sisters and elders and the Picketts. Oh it was so so sooooo good. And I got to go back to Jardim da Penha for the day and saw some lovely Soneghets and it was soooo good!

 

The mission is so wonderful. Just learning so much and life is full of blessings every single day!!

 

Com amor, Sister Owens

 

Wowza this week went by speedy quick. Twas a fantastico week! Because…. dois batismos!

 

A few weeks ago we found some of the elect, and the got baptized on saturday! Twas glorious! And then sunday they got the gift of the holy ghost and the boy received the preisthood already! Such joy! Yay! So happy and they are so wonderful. Rayane e Adriano, eleitos.

 

It’s so fantastic how the Lord puts people in our paths, and all the things I learn from these wonderful people here, from each lesson and each contact, something to learn from everybody.

 

As Sister Barbosa (who is so wonderful) and I were taking a nice little ice cream break one evening, a man yelled, “Jesus te ama!” to us, telling us that Jesus loves us. He is a funny man named Eduardo. We had a nice little prayer with him and some of his friends.

 

Still eating lots of popsicles and açaí. And I finally ate a kinder egg this week too. Yummmmo! I love Brasil.

 

And… Mother’s day is sunday, which means 40 m inute skype session with ym dearest family!

Muito obrigada for the love and prayers and everything. Jesus te ama!!

 

PS I get to see my dear brasilian family today!