Another one in the Books
WEEKLY 
Travel plans.... 
Everyone mark the date I will be flying into Beautiful Sunny, St.George, Utah at 2:40pm!
Crackheads are my Bestfriend 
Had an oddly tender, spiritual experience with the Neighborhood crackhead. Her name is Ana Paula. We were walking to go catch the bus home, and we see this lady Start SPRINTING at us screaming Portuguese me and my Brazilian comp can't even understand. She gets in front of us and falls on top of me. And starts bawling..... So I am left holding this women in my arms as she is crying. Then she looks up at us and asks for a prayer...
Silva started praying for her and I am still holding this lady in my arms,.....genuinely never felt so much love, for this women. The imagine that came into my head in this moment was Jesus Christ holding the women.. in this moment I was acting as a representative of him. I just felt the spirit so strong, testify to me I am where I need to be. Was happy to help the forgotten feel seen and loved 
THE FIELD IS WHITEEEEEEEEEEE
This week was just crazy packed with Miracles and blessings. Literally we marked 7 people on date to be baptized. Insane number for me and for this mission in general lol. Juiz de fora, for some reason is one of the LOWEST baptizing missions in all of Brazil... we are 3nd to last 
Looking past that, god really is preparing people and the work here is SOOO BUSY. So i could not be more thankful!
PLEASE PLEASE PRAY FOR
- MAYSA
- JOÃO VITOR
- JOÃO GABRIEL
- ERIKKSON
- THAYS
- ELOA
- SOFIA
God teaching us lessons...
The elders stole one of our SUPER promising crazy cool baptism dates. We were very very mad. Long story short. I had the spirit literally smack me in the face and basically tell me to stop being prideful and think of her. I was so worried and mad about the fact that I wouldn't be the one teaching her. That I wouldn't get to say she's "my" baptism.. what really matters is that we are helping someone come unto Christ and receiving the promised blessings of baptism. So I looked at silva and said we need to say a prayer and repent and thank god for all the wonderful blessings we have been receiving and stop focusing on the negative and look past ourselves. Was a moment of pure humility for me and Silva. I think this was hands down one of the most powerful prayers I have said during my mission. Top 5 moment. The spirit was just so present and so strong. Thankful for the many lessons I am learning on the mission. Despite all the hard, I wouldn't trade what I am learning for anything....
My heart is with The Members 
There are some EXTREMELY powerful members in this ward and there love and testimony's of the gospel will forever be burned in my heart. They always say you are assigned to serve where the people need you..... Im here to say I was put here because I needed them... 
I wanna share the story of what Irmã Valéria told me this Saturday..
She grew up VERY poor in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro. Her dad left them due to gangs and she never heard of, seen, or spoke of him. Her mom, was left with 3 kids and worked 3 jobs, just to try and get enough money for the single square house they lived in. She said she grew up eating scraps of French bread from the bakery that was down the street, they would give her family the week old leftovers. They would eat that everyday with watery beans. She said one day she woke up to her mom crying.. shutting all the windows and filling the cracks of the door and Windows with towels so no air would get out. She then watched her mom go to the gas line and release the hose to let the Carbon Dioxide out....... Her mom was so depressed watching her kids starve, she thought it would be better to sleep and never wake up. Irmã Valéria then said after her mom went back to bed she turn it off. She prayed that night asking for god to help them. The missionary later came into her life and baptized her. Years later she said her life was more stable and she had her own family and was living Good. But she randomly received the prompting she needed to leave to Juiz de fora. She prayed about it some more and god made it very clear to her she needed to leave. They left ( her, her husband and her kids) heartbroken to leave the rest of the family in Rio. A week later got a call from one of the members in her homeward who owns a pastel truck in Rio said " The gangs are planning to kill your brother and sisters family..... your brother made a bad deal, one of the guys pasted by the truck and were talking about it. I heard your families name. Valéria they got the order to leave no witness...". Valéria and her husband quickly drove within the hour to Rio and picked up the family... except her brother who unfortunately died due to the gang. She cried and bore the strongest testimony of how important the gospel of Jesus Christ is to her and the power of prayer. How god knows his children. How if she didn't trust the missionary and learned about the gospel and learn the voice of the spirit... her and her family would not be here today. She ended in tears saying " No one can ever take away my faith and my knowledge of the gospel. I know it to all be true. I will never deny what I know to be true, despite what the world and what people tell me... because I know god knows me, and I know he has protected me and my family, and I know his church is true".
Literally was just left in goosebumps. I love her and her family so much. 
TRANSFERSSSSSS..... 
I am staying in Manchester with Sister silva! Will be finishing her training..... ( been going little rough. Plz keep me and her in your prayers 
) but I'm so excited but also very heartbroken. The elders will be leaving the area... We all became super close this transfer. Was super fun and we all learned ALOT!!! But could not be more excited because sister ROTH WILL BE COMING and replacing them and she will be training also!!! Will be a hype transfer. Super Excited to be staying here 
Love you all have an amazing week! Feel free to always reach out!!! I do my best to respond!!!
Love, Sister Hallee Tebbs 
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