part two- Aug 26-- Love and Miss you guys

I unfortunately can't call you guys, I'm so sorry. But know I love and miss you both so much! Mission life has been pretty crazy and quite the adjustment!!  

My area in Brazil is WILD ! AHAH read my weekly email and look at my google photos to see what I mean. 

Pray for Diogo, he will most likely be my first Baptism!!!! He's a super cool guy we met in the praça ( plaza) . He reached out to us and has just been doing really good with all the lesson, and loves the book of Mormon and the gospel. He believes God knows him and has a purpose for him. It's been amazing working with him. He speaks pretty good English too which has been such a BLESSING! Bc what I can't say In Portuguese I can say in English and he understands me! This has been my biggest struggle on the mission yet. hardest thing for me right now is feeling connected to the people we are teaching. I am feeling useless because I don't know what I'm doing. Idk what people are saying to me or what's going on. So i have to rely on my trainer so much and she's amazing so I'm SO grateful for that. Like we get along so well.  I just feel bad because I feel like I'm not adding at all. I'm just the dumb American. And bc of that its been really hard to feel joy, and be happy bc i just feel so like useless. And bc i cant speak i feel my personality starting to dwindle away and getting Suppressed. Bc i cant be myself because idk how to talk and connect with people because idk what's being said. I've been trying to smile a lot, say the words I know, and just help out the best I can. Which for now is all I can really do.  

But back to Diogo.. he's the first person I felt a connection with here and have actually helped and invested Time. And its been so cool to see his faith and for him to ACT on it! He's a DJ and so he drives to somewhat far cities to help throw these parties and no matter how late, he somehow always makes it to church on time!!!  It made me So happy! He came for his 3rd Sunday in a row, and has met and kept all his commitments!! according to sister Rocha my trainer, and he got to sit by us at church and you can just feel the spirit he has! So pray pray pray for him!!! He's SOOO CLOSE!! 

Anywho, love you both so much, think about you guys a lot! Hope all is well! And grandma ( Vovó) I love your weekly emails, please keep sending them!!!    you too grandpa (Vovô) love your mission presidents advice emails! They always give me such good insights on what I need and can do better on! 

Anywho, tachu tachu Eu Te amo! 

Diogo picture 1- he sent us this photo!! 

Me walking in the ( Bairro ) slang for Getto Neighborhood. 

Me in front of the church building.... you don't see it in this Pic but we have 3 homeless people living in front of our church living in these HUGE cardboard boxed homes

My companion is from Vegas the exact place Abby is serving in right now. She pulled up a picture of Abby idk how she had it but it had Abby and all the missionaries in her area. I'm assuming her family had them over or there was some activity. But sister Rocha, is full Brazilian along with her family, they speak Portuguese and born in Brazil. They still have majority of there family here in Brazil.  But sister Rocha was born in the US. But she has lived and visited her family here in Brazil many times. She knows her way around and how people do things here. I feel very safe, even though I'm in a crazy area. It's chill in the day, you just don't wanna be out at night so we get home around 730/8 . 

The homeless people LEFT! We visit them bc they are on our way to this members house and so it's public and it's just a single mom with 4 little kids. But today we went to pick them up for church and they were gone. The whole camp and everything gone.. idk what happened!! 

Sister Rocha pushes me to speak lots of Portuguese  its been good but also hard!!!! 

Anywho! Love you grandma