First Week

 

Hello everyone, my first week has been amazing but also very crazy and chaotic but, I still love it. 

 

ZONE CONFRENCE 

So, this week we had zone conference where a bunch of missionaries meet together to discuss progress and goals. It was all in Portuguese, so I had a very hard time with knowing what was going on, but it was still so fun. There were about 50 missionaries there and all from around the world. Everyone was so happy to see each other, it was like a big reunion, and it happens every 6 weeks but throughout the whole mission there are 3 different conferences depending on where your area is. 

 

SICKNESS AND PAIN

This week all 3 of us had something wrong with us at different times. We took a trip to the hospital for Elder Bangerter because he had super bad allergies and couldn't breathe so the doctor helped him and gave him some medicine. Elder Paz then had a fever 2 days after, and we spent most of the day studying while he rested. Then through all of this I had an allergic reaction to something that bit me on my ankle, and it was swollen for 3 days straight, and I was back to hobbling around while we did visits. 

 

TEACHING AND LEARNING

The people here are amazing, and I love the culture so much. Everyone is so nice and very inviting and understanding. I often feel bad that I don’t know the language and can’t communicate with the people here and it’s super hard to teach people when you can’t speak their language but all the people, we meet are just happy that I can say anything at all. (Only after we mention it's my first week) But I am also learning so much about the language but also about the gospel there was so much I didn't know about and learning about everything has been great and I absolutely love it. 

 

MIRACLES

This week we had amazing miracles this week. So, every Thursday they have a family night at the church where we teach a lesson then we eat dessert and this week before it started and when everyone was getting to the church one of the members had an epileptic seizure. At first I was very startled and worried but they said it had happened before and they knew what to do so we gave him a blessing and right after we did he stopped shaking and fell asleep so it was just crazy that right as we finished he was ok and it was definitely the help of the blessing. 

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