Oi Familia!
The last two days were
torturous because I knew that Jacob had already received his mission call but I
wouldn't be able to find out till today.
I think I really bugged my new companion, Sister Olla, a bunch because I
kept talking about Jakey. She was really patient with me though, which I am
really grateful for. Wow. My baby brother is going to be Elder Dyer and
he is going to be a BATIZADOR in CA Riverside speaking mandarin!!!!! Parabems meu irmão!!!
I am now officially serving in
Urikk Graff II of the Costa Silva Zone in Mossoro (pronounced ooreekee
graffee). Everyone told me that Mossoro
is the hottest zone in our mission, but my first two days here were ABSOLUTELY
FREEZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We had thunderstorms since the day I arrived. It was raining a bunch. We
basically took baths in water. Our
clothes were soaked. The streets were flooded and we had water up past our ankles. I was smart enough to use my crocs for the
first few days. It was quite an awesome
experience. Maybe it was 30 degrees Celsius but it was FREEZING!
I think it's going to be
really cold wherever I go when I leave Brazil. (Technically it is officially
winter here though) I already get cold whenever I am anywhere that has air
conditioning (including the church and buses). As we walked in the rain, Sister
Olla started singing the Portuguese version of the primary song "I like to
look for rainbows", which starts off with "as aguas do
batismo" ("the waters of
baptism") "I know when I am
baptized my sins are washed away, and I can be forgiven and renew myself each
day. I want my life to be as clean as
earth right after rain. I want to be the
best I can to live with God again."
We actually did see a rainbow
the other day. I think we will see a lot
of batismos here! (I guess I also
officially bring rain with me wherever I go.
Sister Acosta said that it never rained in Sousa until I got there. Well I brought rain with me to Mossoro as
well.)
Sister Olla and I have had an
awesome week. Sister Olla was born in El
Salvador, but has lived in Texas for most of her life. Although our four baptisms this week cairam
(fell/didn't end up happening), we have a lot of awesome investigators, most of
which are men. Sister Olla recently baptized three men who live together in
what I would almost call a "fraternity" of men from Siera who all
work here in Mossoro. Whenever we go visit them we say we are going to visit
"Os homems" ("The
men"). lol.
We have at least one firm
baptism for Sunday!!!! [The
investigator] lives in a similar "fraternity" and has family who are
members of the Church in Siera. Sister
Olla talked to [his] brother, who is a member, on the phone yesterday and he
was so excited to speak with the missionaries who are teaching his
brother. He asked Sister Olla where she
was from and asked where I was from and what my name is. It is so wonderful to see families being
baptized.
I have been enjoying the
animals here. Although there are not as
many dog packs and farm animals here as there were in Sousa, we were lucky
enough to see a family of three soim monkeys in the caju trees in the yard of
one of our investigators this week. They
are so cute and fluffy. I wasn't able to
take pictures because I didn't have my cameral.
I think that I won't take as my pictures here in Mossoro seeing that we
are more likely to get assaulted here.
No worries though. "Os
homems" also brought out an armadillo they found the other day. It was really interesting and not exactly
what I expected an armadillo to look like.
But it was cool to hold it and study it.
I love y’all a bunch minha
familia!
Love,
Sister Dyer
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