Last Missionary Post!

Well, this is the strangest email I have yet to write. Tomorrow I am on the plane headed home but I still don´t really feel like this is for reals. Let see if it hits me in the airport. I love Brasil with all my heart, and more then that I have loved my mission and love this gospel. I have watched it change the lives of so many people and families in the last year and a half! There really aren´t words that adequately describe this time I have spent. I have learned so much about the love that God has for us and the great plan that has been prepared for our eternities. 

​These last two weeks have been going without a break. I don´t even remember sleeping ha. Everyday we had so much to do and so many people to go and see and teach. First of all, I LOVE my companions. In these last three weeks we have not stopped laughing, I think that is why time went so quickly. We have been so blessed with the families and investigators that we have been finding. Natal is a great time for us because everyone is more willing to talk, listen and share about Christ. It has been even more cool with the campaign that the church has "Ele é O Presente"  (It should be like He is the Present or something in English). Now, when we are doing contacts in the streets we have been finding people who have already watched the video or seen something on YouTube. It makes it easier to start a conversation and helps people be more willing to listen to our message. Also, it seems like the gospel is much easier for our investigators and members to share so we have been getting lots more referrals from members, and teaching much more families together. We are focusing a lot also in helping the members help us in the work. We have been doing our meetings Noite Familiares every 2 weeks of ward missionary work. This last week we watched the ancient first vision. Irmão Claudio has one of those old projectors so we watched it in style! Then we also had our Ward Christmas Party, which was actually just a dinner but it was really yummy so we can´t complain. 

It is cool to see how the gospel comes to people in many ways to help them be prepared to receive the missionaries. This week we had a cool experience finding with the Elders. These last few weeks we have been teaching a really awesome family that we found while we were showing the elders around their area. We had passed by to introduce them to an investigator at her mercadinho that she has in the favela in the elders area. While we were there the Elders started talking to her friend, Edna, who was visiting with her and it turned out that she lives in our area. After her friend started telling her about how our visits were changing her life, she agreed to let us visit her and we marked an appointment. Since the very first lesson, we knew this family was special. She gathered everyone to here the message and we taught literally the entire family (grandkids, son in law, everyone). She lives with her husband, Manuel and her son Igor, but whenever we are there he calls his son and daughter, Vitor and Taína (who live with their mom most of the time in the favela of the elders) to listen as well, so we have been teaching them all these last few weeks and it has been great. This weekend we decided to go to their house (where they live with their mom) to invite them to the ward dinner because they weren´t at ednas when we called. Since we were entering the their area, the elders decided that they wanted to come with us so the whole gang went and hunted down Vitor and Taína´s house. When we got there Taína invited us in and we met her mom and sat and began to talk to them a bit. In the corner of their living room I saw that there was a little Christmas tree. The tree was plainly decorated, with just balls and in the middle  of the tree was a picture of Christ. As I looked closer I realized that it was one of our pass-along cards! As we talked with her I tried my hardest to remember if we had given Taína and Vitor a card but I couldn´t remember ever doing so. Then we asked if we could leave a Christmas message with her, which she accepted. We used her cell phone to pull up "Ele é O Presente," the Christmas video the church released. When the video started playing she said that she had already seen the video, a friend had passed it on to her and she and she had loved it. As we watched it together again a special spirit filled the room. After the video she said, " I had no idea this was your church" I decided to ask her where she had gotten the pass along card and she said that she had found it in her purse. She had been searching for the perfect topper and had come across this one and thought it was just right because it wasn´t a Christmas tree without Christ. Em fim, the Elders marked a return appointment to start teaching her and I can feel that she is going to progress rapido. It is pretty amazing sometimes how Heavenly Father sets up the timing just right, and sets the scene just perfect so that His children receive the gospel in just the right moment that they are needing it and are also ready to accept it. It seems like through out the year she has had lots of contact, without even knowing it, with church so that when we arrived in her home this weekend she was prepared to hear our message and accept our invitation. I know that this is the Lord´s work.

 We had an awesome p-day de zona last week, churrasco and volei and other sports. (That's why I didn´t have time to write a big email last week.) Then ​we had our activities this week too. I am a little tired of writing haha so I will just talk to ya´ll during the week:)  I love you so so so much. Have a good week. See you soon!

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Oi!

Boa tarde! There is so much to write about and so little time, I will try to tell you about the most important things that happened this week. 

First: Transfers! My new companions are Sister Durães (I already knew about her) and Sister T. Souza. Sister Durães was born in the Bahia  (the nordeste) and raised here in the interior of the state São Paulo and Sister T. Souza was born in raised in the Bahia and then with 18 years came to live in the interior of São Paulo as well. It is funny because sometimes we tell people that we are all from the Bahia and no one even doubts a little bit. Then I start talking haha and they figure out that something isn´t quite right. This transfer is going to be so good I can already tell! They both Samba ridiculously well (Sis T. Souza professionally) and so they are teaching me ha.  I already loved Sister Durães because we have spent the last two transfers together here in SA 4. With Sister T Souza here it is almost too fun to be fair. We have spent the last week dying laughing every day. We also received two new Elders in our ward (they took over Sister Durães´old area): Elder Andrade from Manaus and Elder Martins from Recife. They are pretty cool which is lucky because we have to eat with them every day haha. Elder Martins arrived right now in the mission so he is all fresh and new and we make him do everything.. not really but we joke about it. It has finally started to rain here and oh man is it coming down! About two weeks ago all of the church in all of Brasil did a fast for a solution to the water problems that the country is having. Well the prayers and fasting are being answered and it is coming down in bucket! So we have spent a lot of time jumping in puddles.... and working of course! Which brings me to the best news of the week Irmão Rafael got BAPTIZED!!!!!!! It really was a huge surprise and an even huger miracle. 

We started teaching him about 4 months ago when I arrived in the area but he had already been coming to church weekly for more then 3 years! His wife is a faithful member of 24 years and his daughter, who is 9, was baptized last year. He has been for sure one of the hardest investigators that I have had during all of my mission. Many times we felt lost, like we had no idea how to help him. He is one of the most prayed for people during my time here. These last weeks we had all but given up.. only following up about once a week and more to help his family stay strong. 

Last week we had a lesson on Sunday so that Sister V could say goodbye. I felt that we needed to invite him to be interviewed for baptism again. This time he agreed but as more of a chance to talk to other missionaries to see if they knew what was best to do next. Wednesday we had the interview with the Zone Leaders. It lasted 2 and a half hours but when he came out, Elder Freeman said that he could be baptized if/when he wanted. Rafael said he would pray about it. The next night we went back to their house to follow up and he said he knew he would be baptized but wanted to wait for more of an answer. Sunday, when we got to the church he said that he was still feeling reserved. This week the ward had a baptism of 4 children in the primary, so the font was being filled during the meetings. We decided to take him into the room with the font to invite him one last time. When we got there we talked about Christ and had him look at a painting of Christ´s baptism. Then we showed him the baptismal jump suit that would be his and talked about the purity that he would have. Lastly we all knelt together and said a prayer asking for Heavenly Father to take away his fear and help him make this important decision. We read one last scripture and then without saying anything else went to Sacrament meeting. At the end of the meeting the Elders went to ask him if he was going to participate in the baptism and if he would like some help getting ready. He looked at us, then his wife, then the Elders and said "Eu vou" (I will). I was done for! Never had I imagined that it would happen like that, but we made it and he was baptized! His daughter cried and jumped into his arms when she saw him in white and didn´t let him go for like 5 minutes. It was such a beautiful and wonderful day! I know that Heavenly Father hears our prayers and responds to our fasts! We could have never ever had this baptism if it wasn´t for the promptings of the Spirit that we received. I am sure that when we have the faith, miracles happen. And when we don´t have the faith necessary we can ask for it!

I am out of time. I love you all so much. Have a great week! 

Beijos,

Sister Seagraves

Last Transfer!

Oi! Tudo Bem!!

TRANSFERS

It has been a great week but full of goodbyes. We have transfers tomorrow and we knew that someone was leaving for sure this week so we have been working in extra force to strengthen the investigators that we have and prepare them for the changes that were coming up. We got the calls for transfers this Saturday. The news is... Sister Lazelle is going home after 18 months of hard work :) My companion, Sister Vasconcelos is leaving the area. Sister Durães (who has been serving in the same ward as me but in the other companionship) will come and be my companion!!!! and we are getting one more sister.. yay trios again haha. And lastly, they are closing Sister Durãe​s area for sisters and will be sending two elders to work with us in the ward instead. Lots of changes! It will be sad to see the Sisters go but we are also super excited because Sister Durães already knows a lot of our investigators so the transition will be easier. Now for what we have been up to for the last few weeks.

An update on our recent converts, Sheila and Edson. They are both doing great spiritually! Haven´t missed a Sunday since they were baptized. Edson is getting ready to move so he will probably have to leave our ward, but we aren´t too worried. I think that he will be strong where ever he goes. He has been more of a blessing to us then we have to him. For his firmness in the faith he is being very blessed. Last week he received the priesthood and is he sticks around we will try to have him baptize the next convert :) Sheila is doing well as well. She has been getting more comfortable with the people at church which is so cool to see. She has started making comments and sharing testimonies that bring such a special spirit to the classes. It makes me tears when I see the strength of those we teach helping others. Sometimes I feel like a proud mother watching her children grow, even though these people we teach are all much older then me haha.

This week we had our second ward mission activity. We are trying to do one at least every two weeks to help the people in the ward get more excited. So far, I think it is really working. This week was a `bolo macho.`Which means that the men in the ward make cakes and the people eat them and vote on the best decorated, yummiest etc. It was pretty fun. Kids ate wayyy too much cake haha, but we aren´t their parents so we just kept serving. Less people came then we would have hoped but those that were there had a good time! For our message we talked about how just as every bolo (cake) has basic ingredients to make for a successful, yummy cake, every life has basic things we need to do to make for a successful, strong testimony. We compared these basic ingredients to things like prayer, scripture study... etc. And then we talked about how after the basics we don´t have to stop. We keep adding good things in our lifes according to what talents we have or what things we like to do to make for a happy life. It was pretty awesome if you ask me ;)

There is a family here that I love that we teach during family home evenings every week. The mom, Giani, has been a member for 5 years and the dad, Alé was just baptized this year. About a month ago Alé lost his job, and although Giani works selling Mary Kay it is not nearly enough to support their family. This brought a huge problem of stress in their lives but what has happened with them in the last month has been one of my favorite miracles in my mission. We had a family night with them a few days after he lost his job and instead of the crazy anxiety that we expected to find, they were mostly calm. A little worried but, as Giani put it, there was just a peace in their home that everything was going to be alright.

Over the month we did our weekly visits, following up with them and always praying for the Lord to help them. Every week they told us about how they had passed the last week. Together they fasted weekly and prayed for a solution. They had already been trying to sell their house because of debt and so the prayed harder that someone would come to look at it. They dedicated themselves to studying the scriptures and words of the prophets. They were already a good family, sempre trying to do what is best and unite their family more in the gospel but over this month their as their efforts increased so did their faith and in turn their home really became a place of spiritual safety for them. It has been amazing to watch them transform and learn to really trust in the Lord when everything was up in the air. And of course with their faith that Heavenly Father would help them, they did their part. Alé had interview after interview; some seemed to go well, some not as well but he kept working and searching and did not give up, not for a second. After a month, Alé found a job that is much better then the one he lost. What a huge blessing for them! Everything ended up falling in place and because of the money he received when he got let go from the other job, they will be able to keep their home. The best part of all of this, the job, the house, of all of the blessings they have received is the stronger spiritual unity that their family now has... the roots of faith they have grown in the last month can not be replaced for any worldly wealth. It is a miracle de verdade, we can feel and see the difference that this experience has made in who they are.

Something so beautiful about this gospel is that these spiritual blessings can be received by anyone at anytime. It doesn´t have to take losing a job to feel the need to get closer to our Heavenly Father. He wants to help us with whatever problem that we have, big or small. The more that we work to feel His peace and His grace in our lives, the more that we will feel it! It is that simple, the formula is that easy. I am so grateful to see the difference the gospel makes everyday. I know that the things that we teach are true. I know that this is the Lord´s work and that He wants us to know how to navigate through our dificuldades.
Okay I ran out of time. I hope that you are all doing well. I love you all and hope that you have a great week. Até Mais!

te amo, beijos

Sister Seagraves 

Bom Dia!

There has been so much that has happened in this last transfer but I never know what to write. I am sorry that I haven´t kept you all updated at all. I think that the last time that I actually wrote something was before the baptism of Sheila and Edson. Well as you can see, they were baptized. It was such a great day! We ended up having to walk about 3 hours to find a church building that had a baptismal dress for Sheila because we decided that would be the easiest. Sunday was wonderful, almost no problems, almost ha. When it was Sheila´s turn to be baptized she got super nervous. The Bishop and another brother in the ward were in the font with her to help secure her. They ended up having to baptize her 2 times because when they went to submerge her, her hands went flying all over haha but the second time was much calmer and all went very well. They were both confirmed two weeks later because of conference and then this week Edson received the priesthood. It is great to see them both progressing so well.

 

We have been searching diligently as always trying really hard to find people who will listen. We have a few that are promising and that we are excited to keep teaching.

 

One of them is a woman named Rosa, she is senhora já and is the sweetest person ever. I remember when we met her for the first time in the road she was way nicer then the normal person here in São Paulo so we were pretty excited to be go and see her. We started teaching her last week or so and just brightens up our day. She has been through a lot in the 2 years. She found out that she had cancer and almost died. She was able overcome but when she left the hospital she was super sickly and weighed only 85 pounds. From there she went on fighting, and is so much better today. She has a colostomy bag that she has had since she left the hospital the first time. She is just waiting for them to call her any hour to take it out. She has her bag all packed and ready to go and the beacon and call of the hospital. Whenever we go to teach her she calls us her flowers haha. I love her!

This week I had a health miracle. I have made it up until this time in my mission without ever falling, despite rain, ice and snow, so I knew it was bound to happen at some point ha. This weekend we were sitting down to do our estudos and the truck of trash passed by. We had forgotten to take out the trash and Sister V was in the bathroom so I jumped up super fast and ran to grab the trash and then run up the stairs to throw it out on the sidewalk. About half way up the stairs I fell and I fell hard. I am not even sure how I landed but it hurt. We put ice on it and kept studying and then left to walk to almoço. By the time we got to the members house I had a nice sized golf ball forming where I hit my foot and then by the time we finished eating it had doubled again. We went to the hospital to take an x-ray and luckily it wasn´t broken. The doctor said that it would continue to get worse for the day and then hurt alot for the week and that I would need to stay off it for a while. Well that doesn´t exactly fly with our line of work so I said thanks and we went home. After talking to President, we ended up staying in for the rest of the day. I prayed and prayed that the swelling would go down but it just kept growning. By the time we went to bed it had doubled again and I couldn´t double my ankle at all. That night was painful to sleep and I would wake up and then say another pray and go back to sleep. When we woke up for church the next day I looked down at my ankle and the swelling was almost all gone. There isn´t even much of a bruise despite the fact that the day before it was completely discolored. Today it is already practically gone and I didn´t even take a picture haha. I know that it is a simple thing, but I know that Heavenly Father blessed me so that I would able to keep working. We have so much to do and so little time to do it, there is no way we can afford to spend days just sitting in house.

In these last weeks we have made a lot of progress with our work with the members in the ward. They are so importante to everything that we do! I wish it wasn´t so hard to get everyone involved but I guess if everything was easy about mission work, well it would be easy and we wouldn´t learn half as much. we had a really cool activity about the Plan of Salvation that we put together for a missionary family home evening night. It turned out so legal. We will have to do one when I get home. 

This week I found out about a super cool app that there is now that is to help with studying of the scripture. It´s called Citation lds or something to that effect. It takes everything the apostles have ever said about scriptures in all of the standard works and separates it by verse. I don´t know how long this has existed, maybe a while, but it is a novidade for me! I am just amazed more and more with all of the resources that we have today to help us better understand the plans that Heavenly Father has for us. Really we are so very blessed to live in this day and age when we have access to so much, so quickly and easily. Of course everything that comes as a blessing has opposition, that is an eternal principle. It is our responsibility to choose. If we choose to use the technology that we now have to better our lives and the lives around us, to enrich our understanding and strengthen our minds, we will become people much better prepared for the challenges ahead of us. That is a promise that we have received. I read this conference article recently and thought it was awesome. It is from the priesthood session a couple of conferences ago. If you have the chance to look at it, I would highly recommend.

 

I´ve got to go já, mas eu amo vocês MUITO. Eu tenho muito saudades de vocês mas eu sei que Deus está com vocês. Continua fazendo as coisas certas e eu vou escrever mais a próxima semana. 

beijos!

Sister Seagraves

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Sapos e Baratas (Frogs and Roaches)

What a week we have had! First I will tell update you on a few people and then if there is time I will tell you about the sapos e baratas haha.

So finally Sheila has been feeling better this week. I think the springtime is just what she needed. We were able to go and teach her a couple of times this week and she was up and back to her sunshiny self, which is such a relief to see. We have to delay her baptism just a little because she hasn´t been able to go to church but her testimony grows stronger everyday. We have had some of the most spiritual lessons with her this week. We talked about the trials she has faced in her life and she told us that the best thing she ever did in her life was sit outside of her door the day the missionaries past by. She shared with us the feelings that she has been having and told us that she feels her Savior closer to her now then ever before. These are the blessings of the gospel. There is really nothing sweeter then the moments when people really start to understand what we are teaching. That we have a Heavenly Father who loves us so much that He did not leave us alone, directionless in these crazy days that we are living. That there really is safety for the soul and peace for the heart found through His Son´s sacrifice, and that now, because of the restoration of the priesthood power through a modern day prophet, we have full access to that peace. I wish everyone understood the way that she does. 

We are also teaching a man named Edison who has been coming to church for the last month all on his own. Last week we taught him the first lesson and gave him a Book of Mormon. We were a little worried about leaving a whole week without contact but he could only meet with us on Sunday so we prayed a lot. Yesterday we had our second lesson with him and it was so awesome! He not only read the chapter we left for him but read like the first 300 pages of the Book of Mormon and marked everything up making connections between passages and everything. Every blank space in his copy of the Book of Mormon is filled with notes that he took. He is a perfect example of the real intention, faith and sincere heart that is required to receive a testimony from God that what we are teaching is true! Because of his diligence, he receive a very strong and clear answer. When we asked him if he felt he had received an answer that the Book of Mormon was true he said "Not only is it true, but it holds all the answers to the things that we are missing in the gospel. If everyone would read this they could make sense of the things we need to do to reach God."  I think we could have died in that very moment. He is so prepared it is amazing. We have a meeting with the bishop to figure out how his baptism will work with the elections and conference on this upcoming Sunday but we are so excited.  

It really is amazing because we are struggling so much right now to find new investigators but Heavenly Father isn´t letting that stop the miracles we see. What we lack in quantity He makes up with quality. The few people that we are teaching are better prepared and are searching more sincerely then any investigator I have ever had. I know that God sees our labors and blesses us accordingly, even if at the same time He is sending trials to test our faith. 

Okay, so for the sapos are baratas. First let me tell you that my companion is literally afraid of everything. I have never met someone who says be careful so much ahah. She cracks me up every time we cross the street or see a dog withing a block from us she gets nervous and grabs my arm and says 'Ai Sister, be careful" So on Tuesday night we did our planning like usual and then I went to go to the bathroom. While I was there I hear Sister Vasconcelos making a bunch of noise in the kitchen. I leave the bathroom to tell her to be quiet because Irmão Claudio (who lives in the house behind ours but in the same yard.) and his family are sleeping. I enter from one side of the kitchen to see her on the other side pointing to the sink, now screaming "Ai Sister!!! BARATA!". I look to see what it was and I see a HUGE cockroach run across the counter. So, what do I do? I stand on my side of the kitchen and start screaming too, of course haha. So the both of us stand there screaming for a good 3 minutes and then decide that we have to kill it. She grabs some insect killer but while she was getting it the cockroach disappeared under the sink where we keep all of our pots and pans. We grab a mop and a broom and try to move things around without getting to close, but can´t find the stupid bug. Neither of us wanted to get close but we had to take the pans out because there was no way we were sleeping until it died. So with the broom and mop we start pulling the dishes out of the cupboard and letting them fall crashing to the ground and then attacking them with insecticide. I think we were both secretly hoping that Imrão Claudio would hear the noise and save us but he never came. Finally, after ever pan has been pulled out we find and kill her along with a baby one. We sweep out the area and spray it down and then start putting all of the pots and pans into alcohol to soak because of the insecticide. While Sister V is at the sink she starts screaming again and I look to see that two more cockroaches appeared. After another half hour of screaming we managed to kill them too. And then we loaded up the kitchen with insecticide. All and all we spent 2 and a half hours trying to kill 4 bugs. I am a little ashamed, but hey, at least we did it. 

Then about three days later we wake up in the morning and start our regular morning routine. I was just finishing my morning prayer when I hear "Ai Sister! Vem aqui, Rapido! um sapo!" (come here quickly, a frog) I go to the bathroom to tell her to be quiet because it is early and Irmão Claudio and his family are sleeping and see a huge frog somehow had made its way through the laundry room, kitchen, down the hall and into our bathroom. So she started screaming again and I grabbed a bucket to put over him so that he didn´t run away. This time I didn´t scream but he was a big guy, and super ugly looking. And he was strong so he kept trying to jump and hit the bucket away. Finally I got the bucket over him and put another bucket of water on top of him so that he wouldn´t escape. Then we went together and got Irmão Claudio haha there was no way I was touching that thing. So Irmão Claudio came to save us with a dust pan and broom and box but the frog got loose in the bathroom so we just saw the door stuck and then laughed as we listened to Irmão battling with the frog. After a couple minutes Irmão came out victorious and took away the frog. Also well that ends well but if we find another creature in our house I think Sister V will ask for an emergency transfer haha.

Anyways, I am out of time. I love you all! I hope you have a great week and receive tons of inspiration from General Conference this weekend!

This Week Here

Oi Tudo Mundo! 

Things are going well here in Santo André 4. As I said in my last email, my companion is an angel, and that is still true. It´s kind of been a saving grace because this is a super tough area. We talk to everyone and mark tons of appointments but almost never is the person actually there. So we have been doing a ton of walking. This area is more wealthy than my last which means that there are a lot more apartment buildings which make it a little more difficult and absolutely everyone works. Despite all of the hard parts about this area though I am loving every second here. 

I got news from Consorcio (my old area) today that Pedrina was baptized on Sunday! It is a little pang to the heart to know that I couldn´t be there but it is the best news ever to know that she continued progressing and was able to receive the blessings of that covenant.

We are still teaching Sheila, almost everyday now, to help her prepare for her baptism on the 28th of this month. She is so excited to be baptized and even asked us if she can serve a mission too. This week we have been really worried about her though because her health has taken a turn for the worst. Two days that we passed this week we just sang and prayed with her because she was so weak and sick. This week she will have a meeting with her heart and head doctor to see when and if she is strong enough to operate. We are praying that everything will be okay. Even though she is passing through such hard times she has the most grateful and faithful heart I have seen in a long time. She has taught me so much about looking for the blessings that we have in everything that we do. 

Aside from Sheila we are stomping the pavement everyday. I don´t know yet where our pocket of success is but one thing I know for sure is that it is here. We aren´t sitting around waiting for the miracles to come to us, we are out trying to make them happen and because of that I can trust that Heavenly Father will provide. 

​Love Sister Seagraves​

New Area!

Transfer news!

So transfers finally came last week at 330pm. And the novidades.... We both left Consorcio! Crazy, I know but both Sister Rizo and I were transferred. We were pretty sad because we thought we would have at least one more transfer together and we were preparing Pedrina to be baptized next week AND we had an awesome temple trip planned with our recent converts.... BUT this is mission life and I will go where you want me to go dear Lord. So we went!

I am now serving in the Santo André 4th ward with Sister Vasconcelos. She is from Manaus and is really kind, clean and well organized. It´s going to be a really good transfer. There are 2 other sisters in our ward; Sister H. Sousa and Sister Durães. They are all Brazilian so I am pretty stoked. I will get this language down perfectly before the end of these 6 weeks, I just know it! Even though I miss the JD Consorcio people, I am excited to be working in Santo Andre. We have our work cut out for us but this area really has a lot of potential. Sister Vasconcelos is an angel so I am excited to be working with her. We have one solidly progressing investigator right now who is named Sheila. She is so sweet, about 65 years old. She is very excited to learn about the gospel and cried last night when we invited her to be baptized on the 5th and accepted the convite. She has really bad diabetes and had her legs removed about 7 years ago as a result of that. She is excited to have found the Church of Jesus Christ restored on the earth today and told us that she has been searching for this feeling for more then 20 years! It has been really amazing teaching her this week. She found out this week that she had a stroke about a month ago and now has to prepare for a head operation as well as heart surgery in the near future. She really wants to be baptized before all of this because the recovery will be long and the oportunity to be baptized after might have to be quite a while longer and she doesn´t want to wait. So we will be doing all that we can to help her be prepared to be baptized as soon as possible. We are hoping that the surgery will be after the next 3 weeks but we will find out more details about exactly what will happen after this week. Other than that we are finding and following up! This area is HUGE, and I was already serving in a pretty big area but I think this is at least twice the size... which means there are a lot of people which means that there are tons of elects just waiting to hear the truth!

AHHH times up already. I will get better at this timing thing, I swear. I love you all! I hope you have a great week. I sent out a ton of letters so look for those coming!

beijos!

Sister Seagraves