Oi!

Sister Seagraves and Sister Oliviera

Bom Dia!!! 

Okay I am going to apologize now for any spelling or grammar errors.. my mind is so mixed up right now it is a miracle if I remember my name!

So I am here in the field in Brazil and I LOVE it!

 

We left the CTM Tuesday and met our new trainers. We get to go through the 12 week program again which is nice because that is more time to practice the lessons and such. My trainer is Sister Oliveira from Cabo Verde Africa. She is awesome, and patient which is good because I am sure that I say some weird things. Also she doesn´t speak a lick of  english. It is super cool though because we share an apartment with sisters from the other ward in our building and one of the other sisters is Sister Wilcox! My companion from the Provo MTC. It´s been nice to have a familiar face here. Anyways we dropped off my bags at the apartment and went back out to work. The first day was not easy but I made it through. I kinda felt like a lost puppy though because everthing just feels crazy here. Especially the streets, nossa! The way people drive here... it is a miracle and a half that we don't see crashes on every corner. I have to like sprint across the road because nobody stops haha. The people though, are so awesome. Seriously, like every person we talk to is kind and we make so many appointments that we literally never have a down moment.

 

The language is so so. I can already feel an improvement though and that is good! I can understand most people from São Paulo but if they are from the north...I´m pretty sure they speak a whole different language. What is really amazing though is the power of the Spirit. It is so true that when Heavenly Father needs something He will make it happen. Multiple times I have been sitting in a lesson, understanding some but not being able to think of any words to say and then boom! I will have an impression to share something and all of the sudden the words are there. Then, afterwards, I can´t think again and it´s hard for me to say the most simple things like goodbye haha. We are very blessed in the work despite my shaky ability to communicate. We are teaching some pretty elect people right now. 

First is João,he is soooo prepared. We have had to do basically nothing, the Spirit takes care of it all. We met him my first day here, he was actually the first person that I ever contacted  and he accepted our invitation to learn so we went to his home Wednesday to teach him. Since that day we have taught him every day, he has come to a ward activity, a baptism and all ours of church. He is so anxious to apply the gospel and so humble. He can´t read so we read from the Book of Mormon with him everyday before our lesson and pray about it and I think it was the 3rd day that we did that, that he told us that he had received an answer and was positive that he wanted to be baptized. He has his interview this wed and will be baptized on sunday! 

Another family we are teaching is Selma and her two children Miriãm and Apardicido. (I think I spelled that wrong). The sisters had taught her before but nothing really came from it. We were in her area though and decided to stop by. At first she didn´t want to let us in so we asked if we could sing a hymn and leave her with a prayer. As we were singing though she changed her mind and invited us in. We retaught the restoration and she accepted the baptismal invitation. We have taught her almost all the lessons and now we are going to finish teaching her two children and the whole family will be baptized on June 7th.

 It is a little crazy to me how fast everything moves here. I think it will take some getting used to because the work is completely different. I just trust though that everything will work out. It is true in all areas of life that if we are obedient, have faith, pray and work hard, everything else will fall into place. I know that is true with every fiber of my being. It is such a blessing to be able to see so many miracles as we labor to bring the restored truths to the people here. The church is true in Brazil too! :) I love you very much, I hope you have a great week!

Sister Seagraves