End of an Era

Song of the week- Nobody Gets Me By SZA

This song is dedicated to my mission mom... Rip sister Rocha my incredible trainer/ compy

🙏🏼 💔 don't hmu.... ( but actually do hmu bc I’m in a depressive state and would love the entertainment 😗✌🏼)

Spiritual insights ( poetry edition )

So, if these sucks do me a favor and pretend you never read it. Lol!!! But I had this idea during sacrament meeting about being a true disciple of Jesus Christ!

The path to discipleship

To feel him is to see him

To see him is to love him

To love him is to serve him

To serve him is to walk with him

To walk with him is to learn of him

To learn of him is to speak of him

To speak of him is to stand by him

To stand by him is to believe in him

To believe in him is to trust him

To trust him is to follow him

Weekly

Nothing to crazy to report this week except we had TRANSFER news! I will be staying in the wonderful boonie city of Lavras for another transfer. however, sister Rocha is leaving to Rio which means I got a new comp sister Pinheiro she's from são paulo....no English 🥲 I heard she cooks really good so we should get along just fine!!! I’ll be united with her on Tuesday, Updates will come next week. I’m excited to push myself more with my Portuguese! But also please pray for me 😅🫶🏽

Rest of the week consisted of Lots and lots of rain, which has been a nice break from the heat! We also had some super cool lessons 😎 we finally found an ELECT person. WHOOT we get to her house for the lesson and she already had a book of Mormon she bought online and was ready with all these questions to ask us and we had a super powerful lesson with her! She also came to church and really enjoyed it!! Something that we have been pushing this week is inviting literally everyone to come to church, and guess what guys the begging and bargaining finally paid off! 🥳🥂💃🏽We had 8 PEOPLE PULL UP TO CHURCH ON SUNDAY! We usually only get one if not zero. 🥲 very hard to get people to come to church here, but turns out everyone wants to come when you’re the one speaking... 😅🥲 I actually gave a really powerful talk about the atonement, and probably spoke the clearest Portuguese yet! Still by no means fluent but my reading has gotten WAY better :)

Highlights 🔆

♡ Ate a whole plate of fish and shrimp without throwing it up. Was a big win for me. I absolutely HATE seafood.

♡ not to mention one of the members fed us literally pig noses.... Did not have the courage to try that. Sorry to disappoint 😅

♡ sister Rocha saving me from eating banana pudding... i also hate bananas 🤢🙌🏼 was a bad week for food for me

♡ Sunday I was blessed to have my FIRST EVER BRAZILIAN CHURRASCO ❤️ was my favorite day on the mission yet, we ate at my favorite members house and had lots of music and dancing 💃🏽

♡ saw my first ever firefly’s....was so cool actually I felt like a piece of my life was just completed 😌

♡ we volunteered at this school that specializes in teaching English and all the kids there were OBESSED with us. It was actually the cutest / sweetest thing ever! 

♡ one of the kids from the school said I look like AMANDA SEYFRIED ( which for those that are not educated on the topic, the main girl that plays Sophie in momma mia or Karen from mean girls ) truly the best compliment I have ever received ever.. 🥰✨️💓 my love for momma mia runs deep. 1# fan. It’s not an obsession it’s a lifestyle.

♡ one of our investigators bought me a dress because she saw it and thought of me... like come on sweetest lady ever!! I love Brazilians. 

♡ we told our investigator Simone that our hair has been falling out like crazy ( which if your a sister on a mission and this has been happening to you plz hmu on what has been helping you!!) she felt so bad for us she immediately ran to her room and grabbed her vail and knelt down in prayer and started doing her chanting prayer and ask god to bless each pore of our heads with good hair growth.. what an angle she is 🥰✨️ hope the chant works 🤞🏽

♡ Funnest / weirdest experience on the mission yet...

We were sitting on a crib waiting for the other sisters to come to the church to give us the keys so we could get in and so I could teach English class, and out of nowhere this guy sits next to me and starts asking about the bible, then idk how it then lead to him handing his phone to sister Rocha and played this song and then did a sign language retoue and started singing to sister Rocha.... I could NOT HOLD MYSELF TOGETHER. It was the funniest thing I have ever witnessed.

( Video in google photos ) 📸

LOVE YOU ALL! - SISTER TEBBS