Well I have been pretty TRUNKY this week becasue in one year and a couple days I will be back in my house. Gee time has flown sooo fast. I mean I still have a year but I also have almost 6 months under my belt. I think that is so weird because I am still in my training...Which sometimes I think was a bad thing that I had to start over with that when I came to Brazil. But hey, I still have a whole year! :D That is lots of time to do lots of things!
This week was another strange week. But I think all of my weeks are strange. I mean I wake up in Brazil everyday...so. BUT the weird stuff first. I have had weird dreams that I dont remember but one night I was REALLY mad in my dream and when I woke up I was REALLY mad for no reason...which was sad becasue I did not understand and then last night I had one of those dreams where you are falling and then you jerk awake. Well I almost fell out of my hammick when I woke up. So if you have any advice on how to fix bad dreams...or just weird dreams please let me know. Becasue missionary life without sleep is HORRIBLE!
We also had lots of apointments and firm investigators that DROPED this week. And I realized a couple things. One is that when the church is starting out everything is fragile. But it is a lot different than in my city where it has been there for YEARS. I have learned that everyone makes mistakes. But none of us are perfect. This is the church of Jesus Christ. Not the church of the bishop, the missionaries, the gospel doctrine teacher. And leaders will make mistakes. Sometimes small and other times grande. But that is why we have the atonement of Jesus Christ. It is for me just as much as for the president of our stake and the people that I am teaching. It is for everyone. And the only time that is too late is tomorrow. Because if we keep putting it off we will never get anywhere. I was able to see this in my ward yesterday. We had a meeting and I dont remember what was said. I dont remember pretty much anything. But it was a beginning of something great in Currais Novos. The leaders were working together to build the church here. And I am so excited to pass another transfer here. I am praying every day to pass another transfer here. And although we did not have any investigators in the church. And we really dont have and firm investigators right now. I was able to spend this hour with the Parque Dourado Ramo and help them grow closer. And then I spent the rest of the week BAWLING becasue everyone else dropped us.
Still dont have a camera but I am headed to Caicó this week to look for someone to fix it. But it is really sad becasue right now the moon is SO beautiful at night.
BUT there was a really cool story shared about hymns in sacrament meeting yesterday. A single mother when she was a child remembered singing I am a Child of God with other people in the ward. Doing what I think was a little primary program. And when she had her son she would sing this song to him. But then she went through a lot of hard times. And when her son was able to talk he started singing I am a Child of God to his mother. Now he is only 4 or 5. But they are back coming to chuch and she bore a strong testimony of the Spirit of Hymns. And the importance of singing them.
MIss you all! Love you a bunch!
Até Proxima Semana!
Amo Vocês
Sister Thomson
This week was another strange week. But I think all of my weeks are strange. I mean I wake up in Brazil everyday...so. BUT the weird stuff first. I have had weird dreams that I dont remember but one night I was REALLY mad in my dream and when I woke up I was REALLY mad for no reason...which was sad becasue I did not understand and then last night I had one of those dreams where you are falling and then you jerk awake. Well I almost fell out of my hammick when I woke up. So if you have any advice on how to fix bad dreams...or just weird dreams please let me know. Becasue missionary life without sleep is HORRIBLE!
We also had lots of apointments and firm investigators that DROPED this week. And I realized a couple things. One is that when the church is starting out everything is fragile. But it is a lot different than in my city where it has been there for YEARS. I have learned that everyone makes mistakes. But none of us are perfect. This is the church of Jesus Christ. Not the church of the bishop, the missionaries, the gospel doctrine teacher. And leaders will make mistakes. Sometimes small and other times grande. But that is why we have the atonement of Jesus Christ. It is for me just as much as for the president of our stake and the people that I am teaching. It is for everyone. And the only time that is too late is tomorrow. Because if we keep putting it off we will never get anywhere. I was able to see this in my ward yesterday. We had a meeting and I dont remember what was said. I dont remember pretty much anything. But it was a beginning of something great in Currais Novos. The leaders were working together to build the church here. And I am so excited to pass another transfer here. I am praying every day to pass another transfer here. And although we did not have any investigators in the church. And we really dont have and firm investigators right now. I was able to spend this hour with the Parque Dourado Ramo and help them grow closer. And then I spent the rest of the week BAWLING becasue everyone else dropped us.
Still dont have a camera but I am headed to Caicó this week to look for someone to fix it. But it is really sad becasue right now the moon is SO beautiful at night.
BUT there was a really cool story shared about hymns in sacrament meeting yesterday. A single mother when she was a child remembered singing I am a Child of God with other people in the ward. Doing what I think was a little primary program. And when she had her son she would sing this song to him. But then she went through a lot of hard times. And when her son was able to talk he started singing I am a Child of God to his mother. Now he is only 4 or 5. But they are back coming to chuch and she bore a strong testimony of the Spirit of Hymns. And the importance of singing them.
MIss you all! Love you a bunch!
Até Proxima Semana!
Amo Vocês
Sister Thomson