Get the map out because I am in a new
city!! It's called Pombal. It is in the state Paraiba and close to the
city of Souza. It is only a couple hours away from Caicó, but across the
border in a different state. I think I am meant to serve in super
small, super hot, super humble cities. It is good here so far, I am
excited to be in a new place. My new companion is Sister Salazar. She is
American and from Sacramento, California. It is fun to be with an
American. There is one branch in the city with about 70 members and we
serve here with another companionship of elders. They are both American
too so our district is a little American gang. The elders are both from
Washington I think.
This week was crazy with all the changes. Sunday
night at 2 a.m. we left Caicó for a mission conference with everyone in
João Pessoa. Elder Christensen and Elder Mazzagardi of the Seventy spoke
and Pres. and Sis. Hall. It was SUPER good. My favorite thing that I
can remember right now because I was talking about it with my comp. this morning
during study is when Elder Christensen explained that we can recognize
when our thoughts are from the Holy Ghost because they will be confirmed
with a feeling in our heart. Sister Salazar teaches really well with
the Spirit. I am super excited to learn from her how to recognize the
needs of our investigators and teach more specifically to the individual
people. This transfer is going to be good. It is only 4 weeks though!
She is almost finishing her mission though so I might stay here with her
until she finishes her mission in April. Anyways, after the conference I
got my suitcases and headed to Pombal. There is a senior couple who is
serving in Souza so 4 of us sisters in this zone rode in the car with
them. It wasn't super comfortable, but better than the bus or van. We
also stopped at Subway for lunch. YES SUBWAY! I was in heaven. I felt
like I was in America again. I have been secluded in rural nothingness
for a long time, it was such a great lunch. Now I am in rural
nothingness again, but it is good here. We have some really great
families that my comp. and her previous comp. were teaching and this
area baptizes a lot more than Caicó so it will be good to help people
who actually have a desire to accept the gospel.
The
following pictures I attached are the fruit salad Sister Matos and I made, super
delicious. And a coconut man in Caicó that I always walked by and
finally took a picture, AND me eating some delicious fried chicken
things we made with one of our investigators.
At the conference they said that Brazil would be
opening up new missions, but I don't know where. Maybe our mission will
be divided between the two states!! Who knows?! Our mission president
will change in July and we are going to have a lot more sisters in the
mission then.
They didn't bring the keyboard back again... I
wasn't too sad. Haha. The church here has a piano though. The church
building is about the same quality as Caicó, but a little bigger.
Definitely not a chapel, just a building that used to be a market. Good
thing the Spirit is the same even in low quality buildings.
The only video we use here is the 20 minute
Restoration that we watch with investigators sometimes. We don't have
fancy technology here like computers or DVD's to watch videos.
I think that Pombal is a little bit cooler than Caicó, thank heavens. It is still hot
though, but it rained the first day I was here so everyone was super
happy, but then the power went out in the city for the whole next day
because of the storm. I haven't even used the fan at night because there
is a cool breeze the comes in from the window. I think I just got used
to sweating all the time so it has hardly been an adjustment to be here.
That's all for this week! Love you all! You're always in my prayers!
Sister Udy
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