This week was AMAZING! In just one day I had six dates and two proposals. That is six baptisimal dates and two marriage proposals. Haha, two different crazy old men asked if I was married or not and offered to take the position. It was pretty hilarious. Don't worry though, I didn't accept their offers ;)
So on Tuesday we had zone conference out in Varginha. And this week we will have our Christmas conference in Juiz de Fora... So a lot of travel and not as much time in our area as I would like! But it is good. The conference was really good this past week. I learned a lot of thing that need to improve on and got a nice spiritual boost. President and sister Cascardi are both amazing! On Wednesday Sister Malta and I stayed in Varginha to go on splits with the Sister Training leaders. I was really nervous about this... they report on how you do to the President! Haha, I know, a classic Emma moment ;) In spite of my nerves though, it was an amazing day. I actually think that was one of the funnest days I have had on my mission yet! Sister Rico (who I was on splits with) has a totally different personality and teaching style than Sister Malta. I think we fit together better personality wise. Sister Malta is always very serious in our lessons and work. This isn' a bad thing at all, but with Sister Rico we were laughing and joking around all day. It was a completely differnt experience to be in lessons and have investigators laughing with us and feeling more like friends than stuents. I think I have been focused so hard on trying to copy everything that Sister Malta does that I lost a little bit of myself. It was really good for me to be with another companion and remeber that I need to be myself! There are so many differnt ways to teach and each way will reach different people. So I need to be myself becase there are people out there that only i will be able to reach! I think that as I progress in the language I am better able to let my personality through too. When you can't say much it is hard to have much of a personality ;) The language is coming though. With all the travel a lot of my language study time gets cut. I don't like that, but it's alright. Each day I think I get a little better. I love how after I study a new concept in the morning I then notice it everywhere I go that day. There is so much to learn still! One Amercan sister i met at the zone conference has been out for just over a year now. She speaks English with a major accent and doesn't remember some words. Haha, I hope that I can reach that point where Portuguese is so natural. I haven't had any portugues dreams yet I don't think. I don't really know though, I never remember my dreams!
This week I also tried Açai for the first time. Oh. My. Goodness. It is amazing! It is kind of like a super thick fruit smoothie/ frozen yogurt. When Sister Rico found out i had never tried it she insisted that we get some. Apparently it is something you can only get in Brazil. I got mine swirled with soft serve vanilla ice cream in a cone coated with Nutella. Enough said. It was beautiful and delicious. I wish I had had my camera with me so I could show you all.
I had a lesson this week with a boy who is 14 and his parents. Two of the boys friends are members and came to the lesson with us. They bore such strong testimonies of the Book of Mormon and the gospel of Jesus Christ. I think their simple testimonies were more powerful than anything we could say as missionaries. I hope you guys share the gospel with your friends and take the opportunity to help missionaries teach now. You guys don't have to wait to have a black name tag to share the gospel!
We have been having a ton of rain here. It rains nearly every night. On Friday night though we had a crazy rainstorm. I am talking full out down pour. It was like entire swimming pools of water were being dropped out of the sky. The streets literally turned into rivers. In some places there were even some pretty intense looking rapids. Needless to say, Sister Malta and I were soaked! Though when you run through the rain and huddle under overhangs with random strangers for a bit it is easy to strike up conversation, make them laugh about the crazy weather and then get their address so you can visit them later with a lesson ;) I have to admit though, every time I saw a car driving down the street I was worried that it would be swept away by all the water! I couldn't help but remember our favorite scout safety phrase- "turn around, don't drown!" Haha, I was cracking up and I couldn't manage to explain to sister Malta what was so funny in portuguese. Haha, she probably thinks I am crazy, but that's okay. Oh, there was also this crazy lightning. It wasn't bolts of lightning, but rather the entire sky glowed. And in different colors too! Blue, green, purple... It was really cool.
Sister Emma Maxwell
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