Weekly Run down

 

Song of the week - Into Yesterday by Sugar Ray 

ask me my favorite kid movie. hands down im gonna say surfs ups....  

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 kinda boring email this week, your a real one if you actually read it 

Weekly run down ‍‍

Pday and threw out the week we have been MOBBING threw our apartment to get ready for the new sisters to arrive, want to make it clear me and sister Rocha are not slobs, but just had a lot of random projects to get done and things to fix and clean out. Like our sink is broken, washer, we found out we have another bathroom... wasn't just a random closet like we thought lol only lived in this place for a month now, but don't worry that's broken too . little frustrated because the house of sec elders were just like " figure it out " when we called them 2 weeks ago about it. My response was " Um sorry IM JUST A GIRL.. I'am not a plumber..." anywho they said they would send someone to come look at it in the next 2-3 weeks..... Lol we also found all these left over clothes from the elders that used to lived here. It was such a lovely surprise to open up boxes of rotten, yellow/gray looking, holely garments. Some even had some tire tracks left over in it.....  forever Scared. Like why would they keep them??  We threw everything out but A suit coat. We kept that Because we think its funny. 

Tuesday/Wednesday sister Rocha was on her death bed sick so i was stuck in the house all day. My ADHD kepted me very entertained don't worry, did a lot of random somewhat productive stuff. 

Will say tho, imma make a fantastic health care provider in the future  i gave her top of the line care, shout out to Utah health Scholars and UT and my internship for teaching me everything i know  amazing feeling when you actually apply what you learned in school to a real life situation. Like I called my dad to ask for his medical professional advice if I should do more, and if I gave her the right medicines ( mission doctors/ presidents weren't answering, until literally we get a call at 7pm..) and basically everything he said i did. It was a proud moment for us both. Catch Sister Tebbs working straight off the mission 

New sisters got here late Friday afternoon! And really we just spent the rest of the weekend doing blitz showing them the area a bit, and introducing them to our members! They are chill, our personalities don't really mesh perfectly like both of them are polar opposites to me in every way possible but they are clean and they are nice so it will workout just fine, will be a good learning opportunity for me! I am genuinely Enthusiastic about Getting to know them. Both are Americans so that means I have to be extra diligent about speaking Portuguese.... everyone please pray for me, To say that I suck at speaking/ understanding is an understatement. Like I'll be so blunt, it has been so hard for me. Everyone basically laughs at me and doesn't take me serious in the slightest. Not to mention the new sister that just got here speaks better Portuguese then me, and makes it a point to rub it in my face whenever she can so that feels great...... but be so proud because I haven't bitten her head off yet! Im choosing to be Christ like lol  taking everything in me. Also trying to give myself grace she went to the Brazil MTC so she got a better head start then me but still its the competitive side of me coming out which is terrible. I know I shouldn't compare. Moral of the story extra prayers would be greatly appreciated, because im starting to lose faith that me learning Portuguese is possible 

My Noble birthright 

This week ngl has been such an incredibly hard week for me. Just lots of new changes to the mission, was stuck in the house, some family stuff been happening that's making me want to be home with them, mean sister reminding me how bad I speak constantly, and overall just not feeling confident and having a lot of self doubts about the mission. But strangely enough, something that has honestly helped me so much is remembering my great family heritage, and reading their stories on family search, thanks to my grandma Mitzie! She has dedicated so much time to family history work . She is an incredible example to me on how important family history and temple work/ordinances are. But I remember from being super young clear up till now her telling me stories about our noble pioneer ancestors. My family were some of the frist Mormon settlers that took part in the journey to settle Utah. My great, great, great, great grandfather after arriving in SLC was instructed to travel with a small compy and settled St geroge utah with his family. And later played a pivotal role in building the stg temple. 

However, the trials and hardships my ancestors went threw are simply just not comprehendible. Everything that could have gone wrong did, people dying from illness left and right, no food, left everything behind... his mother wanted to get baptized but she was super sick and the only water at the time was frozen over, and they knew if they were to baptize her she would die. But she persisted and they baptized her and a few days later she died...... basically just imagine 17 miracles or Ephraim's recuse and that just gives you an Idea of what they went threw  

The amount of faith, and hope and DEDICATION they had is so admirable to me. Not to mention what great example my own parents are to me. They are the greatest examples to me on how to overcome incredibly hard things. My family has gone threw alot of very hard/ challenging things and never once have I ever heard my parents doubt there faith, or complain about the cards they have been delt, nor give up. Threw my ancestors and family's example to me it helps me draw the strength, and confidence I need to persevere, and look past my own difficulties and keep moving forward. And genuinely I have felt the power of angels watching over me this week. And im so thankful for my family on both sides of the veil. 

Highlights 

☆ I turned 3!!!! Only 15 more months.... 

☆ that im still here smiling  

☆ sister Rocha TURNED 2000!!!!! WHOOOOT 

We actually both cried lol, like why are we so old, why is growing up a thing, and we miss our moms lol  and birthday on the mission sucks. Thankfully I am  not 20 for a LONG time but still so sad to witness. And she was sick in bed all day.... poor thing.

☆ woke up to heavy down pours of rain on Thursday, and Friday night that was incredible. Hoping that means my water isn't brown anymore for a while a 

And my Plaqueta got plenty of rain on it. So future hubby gonna be a dream boat 

☆ we found a house that spray painted " Mormóns por favor não chamar " meaning please go away. I thought it was pretty funny 

☆ talking to my friends and family 

☆ We bought this new fan for our room, bc it gets so hot at night. And it was GAME CHANGER. Thank you mãe ( mom) !!