I have found out the reason why woman arent neccesarily encouraged to serve missions. Because the prophet knows we will return much uglier and ths never marry and thus ruins the whole plan. Im joking, sort of. But I know my feet will never be the same. My toes especially. I know my skin will never be the same. (dont worry mom, im using sunscreen!) and I know that due to the heightened rate smokers (of all kinds of things) here in sao paulo there is a good chance ill get lung cancer.
But no worries because the effects are short trm as well. I have finally conquered curling my hair with a straightner! Thanks to the help of the RS pres here. But just moments later it is COMPLETLY straight again. This morning my hair looked like Taylor swifts, I put on makeup choosed an outfit and looked in the mirror and I had straight hair again.IlovethemissionIlovethemission. Then to add insult to injury it was garuando (rain that is like a thick fog) so I i cursed the air and threw my hair in an ugly old aunt jemimah bun. And 7 months with the same clothes. My District leader called me "fresca" (prissy) and maybe hes right. Its just frustrating when you can never look pretty. Never. We tried so hard on saturday to look nice for the baptism and we even got a ride there. but then we sacrificed our ride and walked 40 min in the fog rain. I showed up and shook my hair and all the elders laughed at me.
TUDO BEM!
We had a baptism this week- it was great! And hopefully we have another this saturday! I like this area!
I was thinking while in our District Meeting today about the difference between the church back home and here. One main difference is here the wards are a bit weaker, very few people go out of there way to get to know or help others. Its hard to work with the wards because everyone has good intentions and even better excuses. Back home the wards are stronger and everyone is ready to help, to be the first to lift a helping hand. (yes this is all generalzation but stay with me here). But here in Brasil no one is too shy to pass on a reference to us, or to bring a friend to church. The problem is will they stay. back home I fee like we are super afraid to invite our friends and open our mouths which is a shame because we know that our wards are strong and we know that these people will stay in the church because theyll have a home teacher and a calling and on and on. So heres my theory, lets cut the negatives of these two cultures and apply the good. Easier said than done right? And im a missionary, living a bit of an idealistic situation. But still, just food for thought. We know what we have is awesome, what are we doing to share it?
Sometimes We think about the spirit world after this and we know well be missionaries there and everyone accepts this and thinks its great but remember that we will be there what we are here.
Ok, my weekly rant is through.
My week was great. All the elders from our zone came to knock doors in our area and now we have lots of people to visit! they are great. Sister Ribeiro got really sick but all is well now. Were really excited for the temple this week, 3 months without the temple feels like an eternity! I am grateful im serving in a mission where we get to go to the temple!
I love you all I miss you all. I know there is a lot im forgetting to write but I cant remember now. I have lots of good pictures to send but im without my camera at the moment!
Tchau!!!
kensie
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