Holy my moly i can't believe i'm already writing you another letter. The weeks just seem to go by faster and faster!! Glad you got the card mom. everyone LOVED the muddy buddies and crack. In fact, they have requested more. I don't know if you will be able to send contacts super easily to Portugal but i only have enough til like september. So whatever you want to do for that. But other than that i am more than good! Thanks so so so much for all of the sweet packages you send and the letters. Shoutout to maren for writing me tons of dear elders. I love hearing all the little stories. Y'all can only write me dear elders for like 2 ish more weeks so i would jump on the opportunity! Also thanks to aunt linda and the reber fam for their sweet package, we loved the candy!! And shoutout to uncle tim for sending me letters and giving me awesome quotes!!
ALRIGHTY!! lets get into what this week has been like. First of all last monday night, we had a TRC with a native brazillian. We only understood about like 10 words so sis morey and I came out just cracking up but had to pull it together real quick to go teach another lesson. HAHA even though we didn't understand much, we still could totally feel the spirit and that's what is important. Then Tuesdee night we had a devotional focused on how we come to know the lord in our extremeties, and it's a pleasure! They talked about the pioneers and Joseph smith. It was awesome and I would totally invite you all to read sections 121 and 122 in D&C to learn a little more about it! those are some of my faves. On wednesday we got to host!!! I was so excited that i boxed out, threw some elbows and ran up to the first girl I could! She was super sweet. She was an i pad missionary though and so we had to go get it all set up and she happened to have this big problem with it so it took like 2 hours!! But tudo bem because I got to know her pretty well. At that point hosting was almost over so i ran to snatch one more girl to help! I literally did run into the street and almost got hit by a car but I got another girl!! She was the sweetest thing and i'm very excited for her. Anyways, it was just a super fun opportunity! I was SO tired after it though! I slept so well that night. The MTC is SOSO crowded right now, which is probs a good problem to have. The lines for food are like the rides at disneyland. But i'm happy to see so many people wanting to serve the Lord!
Our lessons are going pretty good with our investigators. We taught one (actually, the spirit totally taught it) about the promises of the book of mormon. It was funny because we had planned a lesson about commandments but just talked about the book of mormon, It was super spiritual. I know the Lord blesses us when we prepare. He will send the spirit to guide! We are planning on teaching this week the word of wisdom to our other investigator so ive been trying to learn the words for that. I now know drugs, beer, alcohol, etc! That should be very useful. Also sometime this week I was talking with my teacher Irmao Read. He is the bomb. Somehow i brought up 1nephi 3:7. We studied it and he cross referenced it to the scripture in john that says that Christ is the way. nephi talks about how the Lord provides a way to keep his commandments, we both had a cool aha moment of the Atonement being the way to accomplish everything the Lord wants us to. Through the spirit, the Atonement changes our hearts! ooo it was awesome. Sunday was SO awesome. Me and sister morey showed up super early to church bc we were the greeters and we wanted to be sure to greet everyone! It was going great and then the branch president walked up and was like hey so thanks for doing this but we are going to release you. I was pretty sad to get fired. But then he explained how me and sister Morey are assigned now to be the Sister Training Leaders for our zone. Im super excited for the opportunity to serve and I know the Lord will help me with it. Although i'm only slightly salty about not greeting, that was like the best calling eva. We had a GREAT devotional last night. They showed us the character of christ talk which I love. Then at the end someone started playing the organ and told everyone to stand up. THEN ELDER BEDNAR WALKS IN!!!!! he did a question and answer with his wife. I had so many questions i didn't even know I had answered. One of my favorites was that he talked about charity is something we become. I want to strive for that. HIs sweet wife bore testimony as well. I felt the spirit SO strongly! Also as he was bearing testimony and leaving an apostolic blessing (SO COOL!) i received such a strong witness that he is a man called of God. Which means that I too am called of god because it was an apostle that assigned me! OO and yesterday in choir I found out that the nashville tribute band it coming for a big 24th of july celebration. We get to sing like 3 songs with them (one of them i was born!!) It was so fun to practice them. I was sitting by Sister Li'ava'a (a hawaiin sista from my zone) and she was cracking me up. She was throwing in hallelujah's and practically jumping out of her seat she was so excited. Then we were just talking and i was asking her if she wore makeup and she just told me" Oh sister the Lord is ok with fresh faces". She also told me she was excited to lose weight in Cape Verde because there are no mcdonalds. I told her i understand the struggle. haha nuggs.
This morning we got to go to the temple and we did initiatories. I loved it! I will def. miss the temple for the next 18 months! well i guess only like 17 now!! OH man so caleb is famous!!!! I'm not even surprised. He is so gosh darn cute. If you feel like it send some pics!! I'm glad Eli is doing well. I pray for him all the time! and for all of you! so happy to hear you're doing well. I've seen Jenna Cook, Rachel Crabb and Laramy. I love seeing so many familiar faces!! I love you guys! Eu se que Jesus Cristo e nosso salvador e nos temos um pai celestial! Deus ama nos!
Tchau Tchau
Sister Hulsey
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