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