Oi minha Familia! Feliz Pascoa!
Easter this year didn't
involve a lot of eggs and bunnies but was still great. The center of Easter here is Jesus Christ,
which is good. However, the way that
people demonstrate their love for our Savior is a bit strange. Easter weekend there were many parades of
people following mannequins of Jesus Christ and Mary that they made. Sister Acosta said that one of the mannequins
of Christ looked exactly like "Edward Mãos de Tesoura" (Edward
Scissor Hands), which wasn't all that pretty.
There were also many mannequins of Judas Iscariot hanging from trees,
which wasn't all that pretty
either. Everyone was drinking wine that
week. It was interesting.
On Easter, Sister Acosta and I
went with the Mossas (Young Women) to visit an orphanage and give the children
chocolate eggs. Sister Acosta shared a message about Jesus Christ with the
children and then we gave them their eggs which they liked a lot. The orphanage reminded me of Starfish Foster
Home in Xi’an. There were children of
all ages, some of whom were brothers and sisters. There was also a four month old baby
there. HIs mother had given birth to him
and they left the hospital after telling the staff that she didn't want the
baby. Que triste!
This week, I found out that
suco de maracuja (passion fruit juice) makes you sleepy. After drinking four
cups at lunch on Tuesday, I am really sorry to say that I had a really hard
time staying awake during lessons (I was with Sister Souza and Sister Mercileno
after Sister Acosta left, so it was nice to have both of them there to teach
their investigators). My eyes were literally watering because I was so
tired. Passion fruit juice is awesome,
but I will have to be careful next time we have it during lunch.
It was really hard to say
goodbye to Sister Acosta (minha Mainha) this week, but she is now training
minha irmainha Sister Young, my first companion at the MTC. I hope to see her soon! We talked on the phone the other day, which
was really exciting!
My new companion, Sister
Adriane arrived on Wednesday. I already
love her. She is from Santa Katarina in Southern Brazil, near Argentina, and is
a convert who was baptized in 2008. She has been serving in our mission for 11
months. We have taught many awesome lessons together already and we both love
to laugh. She has already trained and been
companions with many Americans and her English has really improved since
then. She also loves Japanese anime and
wants me to teach her Chinese. I think
that we will both help each other become fluent in multiple languages.
My companionship (Sister
Acosta/Sister Adriane and I) hasn't been able to help anyone enter the waters
of baptism for 4 weeks, if I remember correctly, which isn't so great (in fact
it's really bad). But Sister Adriane and I found two awesome families to teach
this week as well as some other great investigators so we hope to feel the joy
of watching some of the people we teach make a covenant with our Heavenly
Father soon. This week, one of the
Elder's investigators was baptized. We
brought one of our investigators to watch and I felt the Spirit so
strongly. It was wonderful feeling that
sensation of peace and comfort and was just what I needed, seeing that I have
been feeling kind of down seeing that we have not been able to see any of our
investigators be baptized in a while. As
we waited for the batizador and person who was baptized to get changed, we had
a testimony meeting. I was really
excited for the opportunity to go up and bear my testimony as my heart was
filled with the warm sensation of the Spirit testifying to me that the baptism
I had just seen was true.
I miss and love y’all a bunch!
Te Amo!
Sister Dyer
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