High Tide or Low Tide Oct 7, 2024

 

Song of the Week - high tide or low tide by Bob Marley give my guy a listen this song has been stuck in my head for this past week. 

https://photos.app.goo.gl/3XbRZ9tgSZpoDPZz9 Photos 

Also happy birthday to my built in best friend, my amazing not so little brother Ryder.  he's the sweetest, funniest, most athletic kid I know!! Definition of a stud = Ryder Zangger Tebbs . He's such an amazing example to me in so many ways. I love you so much and I hope you have the most amazing day pookie!! ( today is literally his bday!) 

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Weekly run down   

 Transfers week.... and WE SURVIVED ME AND SISTER ROCHA ARE STAYING ️ but we are getting 2 new sisters that are gonna be living with us, which is gonna be crazy ahaha so pray it all works out!!! This week was super busy, everyone please pray for my friend Ian, he really wants to get baptized but he cant stop smoking... pray for his health. Also we met these two really cool dudes, and they were so interested in our message so that was awesome!! Ahah as we are walking away from the lesson sister Rocha goes 

Sis Rocha : we need to start teaching more women we only got men. 

Me : well... we are fishers of men  

Matthew 4: 19

We had a good laugh about that!! Also had our first disagreement........ i don't know if I can recover, she hates country music and Im just now finding out about it. I was singing Kenny Chesney and she's like who is that and I was like... you don't know Kenny Chesney??? She said no then I asked her if she knew Morgan Wallen? Or Luke combs or Alan Jackson, Chris Stapleton or Zach Bryan.. she only heard of Zach Bryan. Then she expressed to me "I Hate Country Music...... " so i dedicated the next 15-20 minutes singing to her all the classic country songs I knew. And welp we ended that discussion with her hating country more then ever.  Any whoooo, remember the homeless family that we were teaching that randomly left?! Well we FOUND them in the new neighborhood that we have been working in! turns out after talking to them for a bit, asking why they left, they told us they like to move place to place and that they choose to live like that because they feel houses are prisons and would rather live outside and use the resources the earth has given them and they also expressed to us that they considered themselves Gypsys and this is apart of there lifestyle.... personally I respect it, little werid but I get it. I too wish to live that nomadic lifestyle at times,  ( I obviously would not be living in a make shift bamboo tent) could be dope, Actually I just wanna move to Hawaii, or on a beach somewhere. One day.  I honestly don't really know what a Gypsy intells, I thought it was more like fortune telling stuff. I guess not though  idk, if someone could inform me that would be great. 

Oh we also prayed over dead bodies, for there well being in the after life..... so one of our investigator calls us early Saturday morning and said her dad died last night and if we can say the prayer for his funeral and bless him in his spiritual journey. So we went because we wanted to show support, well we get to this catholic church... ..Brazilians funerals wild.  As soon as the person dies THE NEXT DAY is the funeral. There was a hall way of probably 10-20 small rooms full of dead bodies and you have so many people everywhere going in and out of the place crying, screaming, chanting, freaking bands playing music and people dancing. I felt like I was at a farmers market but instead of goodies in the rooms It was dead people.. so we finally found our friends room and she stands on a chair and yells at everyone to be quiet so we can say a prayer for her dad. So we are right up next to her dead dad, praying.....  All I could think about during the prayer was the scene from Nacho Libre where he goes over to the house to go pray for the dead guy   Well after the prayer we had people dragging us to say more prayers for everyone else in the church who's loved one passed. It was honestly really sad, these people have no real faith or understanding of what happens after death, and it was just such a humbling experience. Also super good teaching opportunity for us as well. 

General conference 

General conference was such a tender mercy, never in my whole life have I been so excited to watch conference. However, I missed waking up and not having my mom's Orange/cinnamon rolls freshly made and ready for me to eat on the table.... but ALL good because Açai is just as good 

Conference was simply amazing, like whoa the  church is true. Like genuinely its real, and it is all true. The spirit was basically THRIVING threw me the whole conference. Like throw me into the Lions den, I'm ready  It was just a much needed spiritual high. So many of my prayers were answered, these truly are Gods elected representatives and I have no doubt angels and Jesus and even god himself speaks to them. My love for prophets and Apostles has deepened so much, like come on CAN WE TALK ABOUT HOW INCREDIBLE AND INTENTIONAL AND APPLICABLE EACH TALK WAS??!?? we truly are in the last days. Now is OUR TIMEEEEE    I would like to challenge you all to feast upon the words of Christ and ponder in your hearts what changes you can make in your lives to come closer to him. To make his will our will.  The joy we feel has little to do with the circumstances of our lives and everything to do with the focus of our lives - president Nelson

 I can testify that I have never felt more joy, and the love god has for me and his children then I have now, and I know its because I've turned my focus to him. Jesus Christ is the ultimate source of peace, and joy. Our afflictions will be swallowed up in the joy of Christ - President Nelson 

Testimony 

My beloved friends and family, 

I have never known more in my life that god lives and is aware of us then I do now. I know that Jesus is the Christ and that he died for me. He is MY savior. He's OUR savior. We are never out of reach from his tender love and mercy. I am a personal witness of this. Im so grateful for this gospel, I know it to be true. I have seen it change my life. I have never felt more love in my heart for this church then I do now, I love this work and I love my savior, In the name of Jesus Christ amen. 

Highlights 

☆ receiving friends and family's emails / voice memos throughout the week and on Pday. This helps me so much you have no Idea. Like genuinely helps me get threw the week. When im down Ill just take a minute to listen or read one of your guys emails and it gives me the motivation I need to stay positive and to keep pushing!!! Thank you so much to all of you who take time out of there day to think of me and send me something 

☆ I get asked the weirdest things all the time, but strangest thing I got asked this week was if I was a Viking... lol my hair was in braids and I'm a

 " big tall girl..." nothing makes you feel more beautiful then getting called a big Viking  

Take note boys ^^

☆ got proposed too at least 3 times at the funeral and one guy even offered me and my family his land and 6 cows... super temping offer told my mom about it and she said and I QUOTE 

" I guess if you don't end up getting married here, I'll just send you to brazil and you will be married in a day!!! " ..... loved this response  

☆ I'm becoming a master Ukulele player thanks to elder Gooch for sending a bunch of sheet music.. playing the Ukulele at night has brought me so much joy ahaha ... its the little things guys 

☆ I started a Mission Pyramid chart with Our investigators like in dance mom's. It was very fun to me, gonna continue doing it. 

☆ Seeing the joy And the smiles on the members faces while watching conference 

☆ Everyday me and Hermana Clark post a song of the day on our Facebook notes... and it brings us both a lot of joy to wake up each day and see what we added lol  our music taste = 

☆ Açai 

☆ First bug bites   

☆ we have pet lizards in our apartments. I say pets because it makes me feel better about the fact they are everywhere, but bonus they eat all the big spiders so WIN they can stay. 

☆ saw my first monkey outside my window.. was trying to get it to come inside my apartment for a solid 15 minutes. It didn't work  

☆ sister Rocha turns to talk to me while during our studying and her whole chair broke when she moved and she face planted onto the floor. Was hilarious