Halster in Brazil

L ots of good stories for the week so don't be lame and not read my email.... i promise i do my best to make these engaging. But if you wanna just skip to the pics link to my google photos is at the end of the email!  Also PLEASE REACH OUT TO ME! WOULD LOVE TO HEAR FROM YALL!!! ( feels nice to talk to the outside world)  This week was immersion and oh boy. Portuguese really is teaching me patience. Ahaha but no worries i can kinda understand what's going on.    forgot to mention in my last email me and sister hoover joined the choir.......... yes we did make it into the choir and No there were no tryouts.  After a few girls in front of us turned around and told us " you guys are really good " while laughing. we decided to sing reallly really quite.  And to make things even better the webcam zoomed in on me and sister hoover singing during the devotional with the area seventy there. it took everything in us to not laugh but the demons won and unfortunately w...

  first week done at actual MTC. I'm stuck in Provo for the next 5-6 weeks..... Brazil MTC was full so they sent my district to Provo. I was so mad at first but it has truly been the greatest blessing ever!!! Saying goodbye to my family was WAY harder then i was expecting it to be. butt no worries they put us right to work so there was no time to feel sad lol. #thanksIguess  also the MTC is just the coolest and also the weirdest concept to me.. like just a bunch of kids trapped in a space learning about god to go all over the world to teach. Sounds like some fever dream to me saying it out loud.  Also so fun there are so many of my friends that's I've ran into this week and love them and grateful for there examples!!     This week has been so long but so incredibly fast. we start early and end late. I have class from 8am-9pm we go to class, eat, personal study, workshops, class, then language, then if we don't have  class then we have a devotional. I d...

  OLÁ, tudobem todos!!  Those are probably the only three words as of right now that are memorized that I can pronounce correctly!  This week has flown by, which I'm not sad about hahaha. I've just been stuck doing home MTC so my days consist of just sitting at a desk staring at a computer for hours on end. IT has been a grind. I had at least 5-7 classes a day and would end around 9 pm. Which of course isn't late but it feels SO late after doing that all day. Despite me fighting demons trying to stay awake the majority of the time, or trying to not burst out in laughter from my comp SISTER HOOVER (she's genuinely amazing ). I've learned so many things about the gospel during this short time. Which has honestly been kinda fun to learn. I've enjoyed reading and studying the bible because I haven't ever spent time there if I'm being honest, but there are SO MANY GOOD doctrine and insights.  The last t...

Good morning brothers and sisters, I would just like to start off by saying thank you to everyone who has come to support me today. I've had friends and family that have traveled to be here and that means a lot to me! Thank you! I would like to thank Hallie Hoopes for that beautiful song. When I read the words of that song, I knew that's the message I wanted to share today. Thank you, Aunt Lisha, on the piano. I would like to thank this ward, you have become a family to me and I have loved growing up surrounded by all of you. I'm thankful for each and every one of you! You have loved me and my family and carried us through many good and hard times, I'm so thankful for our amazing bishopric. I love each of you and consider each of you my friend! And shout out to B-wents I love you! You have all played an important part in my life. Fun fact I haven't spoken in church since I was a beehive, so bear with me this could get wild! I'm excited and very nervous t...