sister gruwell

hello all! Maybe all my subject lines will have to do with Simon and Garfunkel songs. Let's just hope next week´s isn't "Homeward Bound." Unless we have a baptism and I'm talking about how our new convert is homeward bound to his heavenly home. Actually that would be great, let's pray for that.  The work is so good here and I am still loving every minute.  Sometimes to get to our lunches with the members we have to cross this huge bridge. I'll take a picture of it sometime. You take an elevator up one side, walk across this huge glass enclosure, and take an elevator back down to the bottom of the other side. It's easy, simple, and pretty. Usually The other sisters were with us and the four of us got into the elevator like usual. It let us out and we went to the bathroom. The water wasn't running so we left to find other ones. The part with the elevator and bathrooms is about a half floor below where the bridge part is. We walk up...

óla! literally another week in paradise! Lots of meeting new people and teaching about the restoration this week, nothing new but all very good. I had kind of cough this week. It's the kind that makes you sound pretty bad but actually doesn't affect how you feel. Because of this I'd clear my through a lot which made people think I had something to say. Jokes on them because I didn't have anything to say and was usually a little lost in the conversation. I was definitely given more than my share of silence this week that I usually just filled with a smile. All is well.  Sometimes instead of lunch, the members give us money to eat out. It's way fun trying the restaurants here. Food is also crazy cheap here. I'm usually not (actually never) the type of person to take a picture of my food but all the food we got was only R$10 which is barely $3 USD. It's even more food that it looks like and it was so good. Rice, beans, two types of meat, these sweet po...

Guess what? Still loving this missionary thing. Sister Patrini and I are both new to the area so we’ve mostly just been trying to find the people who are ready to hear the gospel.  You’ve probably heard it before, but everyone has gates around their houses he so instead of knocking on the door, we stand outside and clap.  I was already a pretty proficient clapper before the mission, but I’m definitely already better after these first two weeks. I am actually scared to find out what kind of clapping skills I will have at the end of this thing. Guess we will wait and see. Pdays are way fun. mostly we just go hang out on the beach and work on our farmer's tans, email our families, and clean our house (although for mopping we just take this wet and kind of dirty towel and put it on this stick and push it around the house haha). Our mission president also lets up sleep in on Pdays and we can watch Disney and church movies. Sister Patrini and I found this tourist map so w...