this week has been so short!!! i cant believe i have already been here for 3 weeks!! im halfway done with my time at the CTM!!! i am learning SO much portuguese it is amazing. sister madarani and i dont even need to look at our notes really when we are teaching a lesson!! especially the past few days i have been noticing God´s help with portuguese. in my lessons the investigator will ask me something and somehow i understand and am able to respond clearly. it amazes me every time! i never know how much portuguese i really know until i am teaching a lesson! i dont know how this would be possible at all without God helping me along. yesterday sister madarani and i did an english fast. we went the whole day without speaking english!! (except we took a break at dinner for our own sanity haha) it was EXHAUSTING!!! it is so draining to have to think so hard about every single sentence you say. it is worth it though because speaking the language is the best way to learn it! i have seen so many blessings for hard work. I am so thankful for prayer, and the strength that comes from it because it is really HARD work here!!!
this morning we went to the campinas temple and it was BEAUTIFUL!!! except the bus driver got VERY LOST on the way there and it ended up taking over 3 hours for a 90 minute drive hahah. i took a nap in the begginning and woke up to the bus driver completely stopped on the freeway, then he started BACKING UP because he missed the exit he was supposed to take hahahha it was unreal. everything is very different here!!!
the temple was so worth it though!! i am so thankful for the peaceful spirit there. i feel Gods love so strongly. the temple is one of the best parts of the week! when we drove back to the CTM the whole drive was through jungle it was so cool!! I LOVE BRAZIL!!!
on the fourth week at the CTM you go proselyting on the actual streets of são paulo just you and your companion and it totally snuck up on me we are going in TWO DAYS!!! I am freaking out!!! i m excited and really nervous.
this week has been a rollercoaster! mostly good!! the hardest thing is my companion has been having a really hard time. i have been trying to keep the mood positive but it is really difficult!! i am so thankful for all of the advice dad gave me from his mission. i know that being christ like is my first priority, when i do that everything works out.
Every day here gets better and better and i am SO excited to get to salvador and start teaching people about the good news of the Gospel of Jesus Christ!!! i CANT wait to meet the people in salvador i have heard amazing things about them already!! I LOVE IT HERE!!! i have truly never been happier in my life.
com amor,
Sister Jones
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