What a week! Sorry I didn’t write much last week, we didn’t
have much time to email. This week was so fast that it is hard to remember what
even happened! This week was filled with love and change. One of my favorite
things about the mission is helping people make changes in their lives. We
teach so many people and honestly the majority of them are lazy and do not want
to change, but when we finally help someone make changes for the better, the
joy is priceless. For example, Irmã
Idelcina and Irmão Silva. They are finally getting married after seven years of
working with missionaries. All of their children are members of the church and
one already served a mission! We have been working with their family a ton and
now they are getting married, two of their children are as well and then on
November 9th they are getting baptized :) it is so exciting because the new
church building will be dedicated right before the baptism, so the mission
president and basically the whole stake will be present for this baptism. I
love this family so much and am so excited for them. I am so excited for them
to begin this wonderful journey in the gospel of Jesus Christ. We are already
making plans for them to go to the temple in one year to be sealed for time and
all eternity. It is moments like this that drive me to serve even harder here
in the mission. I am blessed to watch people change and accept our savior Jesus
Christ and am so honored to be serving the people here in Capanema another
transfer with Sister De Lima.
I have learned a lot in the first chapter of my
mission. I have truly learned how to love people and how to serve. Many times
is life we start to become focused on ourselves and our own
struggles/weaknesses. It is during these times that we need to forget ourselves
and put others first. We are blessed with so many luxuries in this life and
need to remember to serve and more importantly, to love. I have felt my heart
expand here in Brazil and cannot help but feel an overwhelming love for those I
meet every day. The people here are now a part of me. They are part of my
family and I am so grateful for the power of love. Especially Christ-like
love.
I hope you all have a wonderful week and feel of my love
and prayers for each of you. Thank you for your thoughts and prayers!!!
Love Always,
Sister Sender
Cultural Things:
- When a person passes away they have an open casket
service... people touch and kiss the body, or hold the hand of the dead
person.
- they drink soda (can) and juice with two straws because
it is faster
- children run around in their underwear/or nothing and
it is completely normal (0-about 12 years of age)
-it is normal to drink hot chocolate with crackers at
night before bed (80+ degrees)
- They eat pizza with ketchup, fork and knife
- salad is a mix of cabbage and lettuce thinly slices
with cucumbers and tomato slices. They dont use dressing. They use salt and
olive oil or vinegar
- food is packed with
salt....so much salt.
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