Do a ticktok Dance

 

Song of the Week- A Good Day by Spawnbreeze

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Weekly updates / points / Thoughts / Feelings 

Tiktok dance 

The girls in my ward came running up to me and yelled " DO A TIKTOK DANCE , WE WANNA SEE AN AMERICAN TIKTOK ". So I showed them my skills  they now call me Sister Addison Rae. 

Goodbye Sandin 

I think I said one of the hardest goodbyes on my mission yet. This one hit me different. My dearest compy Sandin.. my Uraguan. She taught me so many important lessons this transfer and she helped me threw and overcome some huge mental blocks this transfer. She genuinely changed me. I love her with my whole heart. Hard to put it all into words. But, It was most likely the last time I will see her, shes in a different zone and I dont have many transfers left. It all kinda hit me. Its so sad you become BFFS with someone ( literally you turn into a married couple) then you just leave them, and unfortunately serving in a different country majority of my comps here aren't from the US. It finally all just hit me at once. I thought about my other comps, and that here soon, I am also gonna have to leave my brasil family one day too, and I am just not ready for that.   every transfer I fall more in love with brasil and the people. 

New sisters and new comp  

We recevied 3 new sisters in the mission, all american, this last week. They were the absolute cutest people. I spend the night answering every question they had and getting to know them and it was SO FUN. There excitment about the mission, made me excited about the mission again. It made me realize how much I do actually appreciate my mission. Was a fun for me to reflect on my mission and to feel happy about it. I am actually so sad that I am not training. Espesically this group. I never, never wanted to train but after talking to them, I went to bed praying to be a trainer to an american next transfer .  My new Companion Is sister May, she is from Idaho Falls, she is very nice! She just has one transfer ahead of me. Its been a learning experience these last few days.   but we get along just fine 

Sister rocha 

We are soooo backkk.... 

Literally been a MIRACLE, having rocha live with me. Like it has been so nice and good for me mentally. I love her so much. It also is super cool, full circle moment. This same time last year me and her were together in training. here we are now a year later all big and Seasoned missionarys with a few months left on the mission! 

Weekly work efforts / tender mercies 

The start of this week was just very crazy. I wasn't looking forward to it. Everything that we planned just fell threw ( usually always happens but never to this extreme) All the stress kinda just was coming on top of me. My area is super hard, me and sandin have WORKED the area and I already know it like the back of my hand, so Its hard for me to get out of my head and think that "there is more work for me to do that I haven't done". I genuinely feel I have done everything. So when our plans fell threw, It was just the cherry on top. I have just been struggling little with some emofional stuff about the mission. I told sis may, I need a mintued and I walked to the bathroom ( the only place I am be alone lol )  and just cried. Then after a mintue, I just got on my knees and said a prayer. Probably the frist prayer I have said for myself in a long time that was truly sincere. I went with a broken heart, very humbly calling on divine help.  In that moment I felt a overwhelming sense of peace.  I left and was able to make a new plan for the week. I lead the week and god provided. I was able Met my finding goal. I had alot of tender little mercies happen this week that followed after I said that prayer. Truly everyday on the mission I feel the divine power of christ helping me get threw day by day!! 

Sunday  ( storyy time ) 

Sunday was just so good. Take out the weekly planning and sundays are my favorite day on the mission outside of pday ( of course ). Testimony meeting this sunday was just so powerful. The members here are all just so amazing. I felt the spirit so strong. Little story time. I am sitting there and the Bispo is eye bawling me, like giving me the death stare " tebbs get up here and speak". I look up and basically tell him no. I can't give a testimony unless I feel prompted by the Spirit. So I just sat there and then he starts texting me. I was like bruhhhhhh noo. But then I was like ok Ill go, and as im sitting there I am stressing bc I have no idea what I was gonna say, I just accept that it was either gonna be really bad or really profound. #justtrustingthespirittoguide 

I think thats one of the coolest things I have noticed on my mission is how the spirit really clutchs up my teachings/ testimonys. The spirit is truly the one the teaches. Welp I go up there and I literally still had no idea what I was gonna say, but I just started testify. The spirit just took over, I was speaking so fluent and fast I don't even remember fully everything I said super well, but I will never forget how I felt in that moment. Just OVERCOME and over powered with the spirit. The meeting went slient too ( which is NOT normal) it scared me a little but there was just such a powerful, peaceful stillness. I felt the pure love of chirst, the love he had for each and every person in the scarament meeting, and  for his gospel. I testify with my whole might and strength. It was one of the strongest moments I think I had on my mission. Everyone was crying. I sat down and afterwards the frist counseler of the bishop went up and said " it felt like I just heard the words of an aposle or prophet "  ( very high Praise) 

then after him the bishop said  " when you revecie a missionary you are reciecing our savior jesus christ.."  Our missionaries are the cloest things we have to feelings our savior here on the earth. They literally walk with him everyday. " we all felt the power sister tebbs left with us today.." 

I leaned over to rocha without even looking at her and asked ... wait so what I said actually made sense?! She looked at me crying and was like " sister tebbs I am so proud of you. Your so fluent and so strong with the spirit". 

Would like to end with one of my favorite scriptures, it is the scripture that is on my mission plack 

Alma 26:12 

Yea, I know that I am nothing; as to my strength I am weak; therefore I will not boast of myself, but I will boast of my God, for in his strength I can do all things; yea, behold, many mighty miracles we have wrought in this land, for which we will praise his name forever.

I would not be who I am or the person I am today if it wasn't for my heavenly father or my savior jesus christ and his Atonement. He can turn weak, stubborn, prideful, doubtful, ect.. things become strong, he turns us into " Intrusments in ths hands of god". I know this is the true church of christ. I know he has a great work for each of us. I know threw the power of the atonement of jesus christ we each of the divine power to obtain forgiveness, overcome ourselves , and most importantly become tools in the hand of god. In the name of jesus christ amen. 

Love you all. Please reach out if you have time! Love hearing from you all! Have an amazing week  

Also happy birthday to Elder Tebbs this week....he's killing it in Cali, #represent thankful I have an amazing example! See you here pretty soon  #tebbscuztrip2026

Love Sister Tebbs