TIME IS ALREADY UP OH MY GOODNESS

maybe i should start sending letters i no longer have time to write emails with lots of things NO ONE WAS BEING OBEDIENT AND PRESIDENT CUT OUR TIME AGAIN THERE IS NO TIME TO DO ANYTHING EVER NOW. ok bye next week i PROMISE I WILL WRITE AN OUTLINE BEFORE HAND AND I WILL TELL YOU GUYS ALL THE THINGS

but for now be satisfied with the fact that plot twist im not NEAR teh presidents ward, im IN IT. so thats fun. he lives close by. terrifying. pray for me.

YOU CAN SEE MIRACLES IF YOU BELIEVE

is that how that music goes? I don't remember. That music from that animated film about moses?? You know what I'm talking about.

SO. EVERYTHING I WANT TO TELL YOU TODAY HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH OUR AREA

I AM VERY EXCITED

REMEMBER JESSICA? DOES ANYONE REMEMBER JESSICA? THE GIRL IN SANTOS DUMONT THAT I SAID WAS THE PERFECT INVESTIGATOR EVER???

ALRight well she's that girl that we found because of the whole Rafael mess, which was hilarious, and me and sister ganuza were heartbroken when her mom didnt let her be baptized. Like, when we came back after we gave her a book of mormon, she'd already read A TON and it was all highlighted and she said "I was marking the things that were most touching but i ended up marking everything because everything is so good!!" and all of a sudden she was happy and healthy and stopped doing things that 14 year old girls should not do and it was insane because we had barely even taught her anything and she just started CHANGING.

Basically, that was when I learned that the book of mormon changes people better than anything else.

AND I HEARD SHE GOT BAPTIZED. HER MOM LET HER. LITERALLY I CRIED I WAS SO HAPPY.

Literally this is all I have to say (also our time got cut AGAIN so I'm almost out of time and still have to write president)

Do I look like a Trump fan?

Alriiiight. This week I don't have much to say like, spiritual or cool stories or teaching because we literally did not work this week. #lifeofanassasin (when your companion ends their mission you're their assasin you kill them and they die)

BUT I got transfered to Jardim do Horto (the chiquest ward there ever was im so afraid also idk the word chique like...fancy? no. its not fancy...idk.) with a girl who just barely finished training SO DUDE ARE WE GONNA WORK HARD THIS TRANSFER. ok. But I actually have no idea who is my companion. Either its an american who was already in the area, or its a brazillian who was not....so i might be opening the area #yikes #whereislunchidk #thiswillbeanadventure

BUT ok. What else can I say? I heard some things about my country oH WAIT LOTS OF THINGS ITS ALL I FREAKING HEAR ABOUT THIS WEEK. I've started telling people I'm Italian just so they stop asking me if I like Donald Trump and stop showing me the American Horror Story Donald Trump memes. Literally. Every single member has asked me what I think of Donald Trump and as a missionary, we're not supposed to talk about politics (I learned why when I almost started a fight with an american elder who is a super trump fan, jk i didnt start a fight but like we definitely argued for a good half hour during our district meeting on whether or not trump is an idiot...which was then followed byl my lz saying "wow steele, i could have sworn you were a trump fan, you look like the kind of person that would vote for trump" and I was just like ???

I think I'm not supposed to talk about politics in my emails either but like, I'm making an exception today because this entire situation is hilarious and also horrible. Clearly the 2nd coming is on its way because I think this election was a sign of the times.

anyway. what else happened this week? I got really good at solitaire while my companion packed her bags and went on a tour of the area to say goodbye to everyone...i bought all new shirts because I'm heading to an area super close to the president's area and its a chique area (what is this word i swear im not kidding) and all of my shirts were so ugly they all turned orange from sun screen SO yeah.

We painted a house this week! the three of us and our dl and his companion and it was of course, hilarious. How Thamires trusted us to paint her house I'll never know, but it all worked out. But the baby painted himself when we werent looking...

also plot twist this transfer the assistants to the president aRE SISTERS. This literally does not happen. Sister Mazetto (my 1st companion in santos dumont) is assistant to the president. what the heck??? there is also assistants elders. so. like. this is weird. but lots of things happened this transfer and i think president was like "oh my gosh im so done with all of you people im changing everything" because the lidership changed, and like almost everyone was transfered EVERYONE which is not normal and on top of it all, SISTER ASSISTANTS???? unheard of.

I think thats it. This was my week....woohoo....

Alright gente. I have 0 idea what to write to you guys this week.

Like, I've started this email like 7 times. 

This always happens. I always forget everything that we did this week.

BUT THERES ONE THING ok so miracles happened and THREE PEOPLE WERE BAPTIZED THIS WEEK. WOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOO. Two of them were just waiting for work stuff to work out so they could go on sunday again, and the other showed up out of no where on sunday after a while of not going and decided to be baptized. Truly everything happens in the timing of the lord. we cannot push anyone into the font, we can just lay down the path and hand them the towel.

I'll send pictures and stuff next week. And I'll say more things ( I say this every week I know) BUT THIS TIME REALLY I WILL. ILL MAKE AN OUTLINE. I've just been lazy and thought "oh I'll remember" and then I never do. I PROMISE. 

I FORGOT TO WRITE but its ok i wrote my parents thats what counts. THIS IS PAY BACK NO ONE WROTE ME TODAY THATS WHY IM NOT WRITING YOU actually its because I spent forever writing president but whatever. its carma. WRITE ME. WHEN YOU GUYS-my siblings and few friends that still might go-ARE ON YOUR MISSIONS YOU WILL REMEMBER ME

Noah's party boat

Oh my goodness this week. So first off, as always, we cut a tooooonnn of people this week. This is Sister Monteiro's last transfer so we're really feeling the pressure to work hard and BAPTIZE this transfer, so we just don't have time for people who haven't made up their minds yet. so we're doing a lot of like, leaving tons of people, then after a week going back and seeing if they missed us and yeah.  unfortunately lots of people dont seem to miss us. BUT Nayara brought us to a few friends of hers and they all seem SUPER INTERESTED and loooooved hearing about the restoration. And now that we're working thE ENTIRE CITY (its a tiny city so whatever, I thought it was big because its divided into like 30 parts but each part is like 2 streets so its cool) it's gotten a little easier to talk to people. Our part was the part below-no. the low part? the short part? idk the part that isnt on the top of a hill. and it has a lot of commercial stuff and not a lot of people. but now we're working in the high part too WHICH HAS PEOPLE OH GLORIA. I am enjoying my "new area" which is not in fact a different area.

But anyway. So. we had so many plans sunday morning to bring TONS OF PEOPLE  to church TO HEAR THE GOOD WORD OF GOD, you know, as you do, and then SATAN had to go and ruin it all (just kidding i think this one was not satan, but you know, you never know). On Sunday a very hilarious thing happened and by hilarious I mean horrible. You see, our washing machine doesnt drain like a normall washing machine does-with a tube that goes right into the thing where water goes idk how this works. Ours, we just stuck the tube in the sink and the water goes out into the sink, right? just that overnight while our stuff was washing, a washcloth fell into the sink and blocked the drain. so. all of the water ended up in our house instead of in the sink where it should be. So we woke up at 6:30 am with freaking Noah's ark in a sea of all our stuff. My bible went swimming!! 

Thankfully the water didnt reach our suitcases or any electronics or our very limited supply of book of mormons. But it did kill several letters, the latest liahona (a church magazine), and temporarily took out of commission ALL OF OUR BAGS so on sunday we went proselyting with nothing because everything we owned was full of water. Why.

Thank goodness we dont have carpet.

BUT anyway. Other than the great flood here in our horrible house in Sao Miguel Dos Campos, our life is pretty good. We're trying to use those two general conference talks about missionary work to help the members help us more, and it's going pretty well. I love the prophet and apostles. Thanks for helping me out, guys!

Yesterday was cool. We held a family home evening in a member's home and watched Joseph Smith: prophet of the restoration. I highly reccomend this movie, I love it. Seeing the process of the restoration and all the challenges that the early saints infronted, it becomes a little more real. Then everyone talked about their experience with how they got their answer, and the spirit was super strong! I hope our investigator felt it too! 

Anyone who doesn't know if they know if the church is true, if the book of mormon is the word of god, STUDY ABOUT THE APOSTASY AND RESTORATION AND PRAY ABOUT IT. It's the best way. I've been thinking about this so much lately-as my emails have shown. So often we focus on like, deep doctrine, or on the stuff that we don't "agree with" and we start thinking that we don't believe in the church, but NONE OF THAT MATTERS. What matters is if Joseph was a prophet. He was? Alright then the rest is true.

We're teaching some recent converts that have their doubts about lots of things, and think that in order to get an answer you need to like, fulfill a bunch of requirements and go on a scavenger hunt and that's not it at all! you just gotta ask.

GO WATCH GENERAL CONFERENCE ALL OF YOU. there were several talks about this!!

love you all!

pray that we get to move pls i hate this house

go watch movies about the restoration its a good time (not just because thats all we can watch)

a long overdue email

Alright. Let me tell you things.

First of all, I realized that I never told you guys about how sucky our house is, which is hilarious. It REAKS (is that how you spell that?) of dog pee because the lady that lives under us does not clean ever aparently, and like, everything only kind of works, you know? So it already was horrible-with our shower that sprayed mist that was so hot it burned and a bathroom that the light didnt work and our oven that doesnt have the shelve things inside so we have to cook everything right in the fire (cookies dont turn out that great like that btw) and then, to make matters worse, our ceiling fell. that was a great day. Literally, everyone was so done like, the four of us came out and just stared, and there was a good 30 seconds of silence before we all just sighed and left the house anyway.

So then someone came to fix everything and we had the best week of our life, taking warm showers with slight water pressure and we all felt so clean and so happy

And then the shower broke again. Now we take cold showers with like, one stream of water. Awesome. Actually we're heating up water in the microwave and taking showers with a cup and a bucket. #thisisthelife

BUT we found a new house and President already approved it! So if I stay here next week (transfers already...I'll probably never see this house) we're moving to THE BEST MISSIONARY HOME I HAVE EVER SEEN. Big, well ventilated, WITH A BALCONY (it took me so long to remember this word , president made fun of me a lot)

so. yeah. Then there's the political situation in São Miguel. In brazil, the election for mayor is like, a huge thing? All the canditates have their own music which is ALWAYS PLAYING REALLY LOUD IN THE STREET ALL THE TIME. I don't even know how to explain this to you guys but its like a WAR OF THE MAYORS. Every day during our study freaking jó clemente parks in front of our house with his speakers on max playing "jó clemente é 12, jó clemente é 12, eu também sou 12 todo mundo aqui é 12!" and it could not be more annoying. Thank goodness the election is this week. His face is everywhere. Its terrifying.

We're trying a million new things this week to find investigators. Since there are like 2 members living in our area, its really hard for the ward to help us and talking to people in the street is just not working, like, they all already know us and hide because all of them are very strong members of the Assembly of God (is that a real church in the us, I'm translating the name but like, someone told me they served a mission for the assembly in the us? idk I've never heard of this church before brazil but its EVERYWHERE HERE)

I think thats it? This week was rather uneventful. Actually this month as a whole. But yeah. love you all?