Week 2

This week was amazing!! I really love it here! the "investigator" we were teaching last week became our teacher and he is awesome!!! he hardly speaks any english, but the other day we caught him singing alejandro by lady gaga to himself we were all cracking up ahahahah. We are really busy!! we teach about two lessons a day and the rest of the time we are either preparing lessons, in a portuguese lesson or studying more. i am picking up portuguese so fast!!! it is really amazing. the gift of tongues is real! 

i LOVE my calling!!! i felt really inadequate and unsure about it earlier this week, but after praying about it, i got the answer to just love the sisters! thats really all i need to focus on. Im so glad that my mom was such an amazing example to me as young womens president now i know exactly how to make people feel loved and find out what their needs are. I am LOVING getting to know the new sisters and some more are coming in today! being a sister training leader has been the most amazing experience!!

our brazilian roommates left last night and i am so sad!!! i loved them so much we had so much fun together! we even had inside jokes with them hahah. they would always laugh at us because whenever they say something to us and we dont understand we just go "tudo bem!" which pretty much means "its all good" and can be used in almost any situation. everytime they see us they go "tudo bemmmmmm!" and then we all crack up hahah. the night before they left they were lecturing us about learing more words than tudo bem ahaha. I LOVE BRAZILIANS!!! they are so fun and happy and whenever i talk to one it makes me 10x happier! it is so cool having friends from all over the world here, argentina, peru, england, africa, etc. i will never have an expericence like this again so i am trying to really appreciate it!!

i LOVE MY DISTRICT so much!!! we have gotten so close! we are already bestfriends. there is so much love in our classroom. at the leadership meeting this week, our branch president said that the second he walked into our classroom, he could feel the spirit so strongly and knew that we had so much love for eachother!! we are all so different and balance eachother out perfectly! about a week ago i had us start doing a positive circle every night and it has helped us so much!!! it is the elders favorite part of the day! hahah its so cute they get SO excited about it hahaha. Shoutout to Brian and Dirk for teaching me to end the day on a positive note it is making a difference all across the world! hahah 

I feel Gods love for me so much every single day! it is amazing! i know that this is exactly where i am supposed to be and i have honsetly never been happier! it brings me so much peace to know that i am doing what God wants of me and the blessigns are AMAZING!! i have never felt so much love in  my life! 

my birthday was on monday and it was also dia de crenças (childrens day) and it was so fun!! we walked into breakfast and there were huge balloons EVERYWHERE and the cooks were dressed up as clowns and giving out bala (candy) and wearing neon afros it was HILARIOUS they were so into it and so happpy!!! we were all joking that it was my birthday party hahaha 

i was feeling so loved! the elders wrote me the nicest note!! and i got lots of love. it is amazing how many true friends i have made in such a short time.

I LOVE BRAZIL AND THE CTM AND MISSIONARY WORK!!! never forget how much got loves you and wants you to ask for His help! He will always be with you if you keep a prayer in your heart. 

con amor, 

Sister Jones