We Moved! (Week 46) — Called to Serve in Cuiaba

Sup fools this week was full of just some very interesting things. First off we moved houses which was super good. Our new house is way bigger and so much better, but we found a centipede and a lot of spiders in here over these last couple days so were gonna have to get some poison to drink so that they won't wanna bite us because we'll have poison in our system.

The other companionship that lives here with us had a baptism of this chick named Camila that they've been teaching for a couple weeks. She's super rad and is gonna be such a rad member of the Church. Every once in a while Elder Soares and I go to do visits at her family's house with the other companionship and it's always super solid. I was doing her baptismal interview and at the end I asked her who she wants to baptize her and she thought for a sec and was like well could you baptize me: and I was kind of just taken a tiny skootch by surprise and was like absolutely hahah. So I had the opportunity to baptize her and it's always just really special to be the first person to see someone after they get all purified. Reminds me every time how real these things truly are. I can absolutely bear an honest testimony that I know that this Church is true, that it is the Church of Jesus Christ. It's so much more than just a once a week 2 hour commitment on Sunday morning, it's the true and only way to find lasting peace and confidence in your life, and I testify of that.

We had lunch at the District President's house this week and he came and picked us up from the chapel and had to go withdraw some money from the bank and he parked in a super illegal spot and the got out of the car running and he was like don't let the police give me a ticket and we were like we'll try our best and then he was like use the priesthood if you really need to hahahahaha!

Last Monday we were sitting there in the internet cafe and I had just ended a nice chitty chat with my lovely mother dear and my father and this lady just taps me on my shoulder and goes hey dudes I really need your help... I really need you guys to give my daughter a blessing. She goes I used to be a member and I was sealed in the temple but then my husband and I got separated and I just haven't been super well lately, but I really need my daughter to feel better. Can you guys give her a blessing even if I'm not an active member, and I was like heck yes we would absolutely love to. I stopped typing on the computer and started to talk to her for a sec and then she told us that the night before she had prayed to find some Elders, and when she walked in the internet cafe and saw like 8 Elders all talking to their family she was just overwhelmed. I stood and just told her I want you to know that you are never alone. That God still loves you so much and He cares about what you are worried about and He still cares about your life. He hasn't, and won't ever forget about you. It was just a super tender moment there in the computer lab. We had the opportunity to go to her house later that night and give her kid a blessing. She was the cutest little kid on the earth. In their house lives this little girl, her mother, her grandma and also her great grandma. We had the opportunity to give great grandma, mom, whose name is Sicilia, and Geovana who is the daughter a blessing, and it was a super rad experience to see the priesthood bless these people's lives. It really really made me feel so special to help someone feel God's love, and in specific help Sicilia realize that God never ever gives up on His children no matter what, and is always doing everything He can to help us come back to Him. Experiences like this are what make this mission worth it!

Sadly Elder Prado is getting transferred. It's all good tho because he'll be moving to Utah right around when I get home, but this week we got sushi and it was so delectable.