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Hey guys - glad you all had such an amazing week. 

Sorry I don't have a lot of time today, but I'm good and alive. 

I'll talk to you all next week! love you bunches!!!

Sister Moss

 

 

 

 

Sick Again!

Ok so this week I was sick AGAIN!!!! I don't know what's happening with my body ahah but everything will be alright! With transfers and everything it was super crazy this week! So as it happens to all of us, Sister L. Gui went home last week... Man its always so sad to say goodbye to such amazing people! I miss her so much already but I know that I will see her again soon and that we'll keep in contact! My new companion is Sister Feitosa and she's from São Paulo, São Carlos! She has one year on the mission and is crazy crazy crazy! Love her tons! Super super excited to work along side her this transfer, I know we'll see tons of miracles continue to happen here in Panatis!

Beyond being sick we didn't do a whole lot. We left to work just enough to teach and help Diomédis (the dad/husband of the 2 that got baptized last week). Everything worked out perfect and he too was baptized this week! Man it's been such a blessing teaching them all! Their story is crazy and really just proves how much God really prepares people for just the right moment! They've been in contact with the missionaries for 2 years now, and it took their daughter to leave on her mission for them to realize that this is something they need in their whole family! Its a golden family! I feel so beyond blessed to have gotten to know them and love them! They're my family here, and don't want to leave them! 

Love you guys so so much! 

Sister Moss 

Ok, então esta semana eu estava doente novamente !!!! Eu não sei o que está acontecendo com meu corpo ahah mas tudo ficará bem! Com transferências e tudo foi super louco esta semana! Então, como acontece com todos nós, a Sister L. Gui foi para casa na semana passada ... Cara, é sempre tão triste dizer adeus a pessoas tão incríveis! Eu já sinto muita falta dela, mas sei que a verei em breve e que manteremos contato! Minha nova companheira é a Sister Feitosa e ela é de São Paulo, São Carlos! Ela tem um ano na missão e é doida doida doida! A amo com força! Super super animado para trabalhar ao lado dela esta transferência, eu sei que vamos ver milhões de milagres continuam a acontecer aqui em Panatis!

Além de estar doente nós não fizemos muito. Nós saímos para trabalhar o suficiente para ensinar e ajudar Diomédis (o pai / marido dos 2 que foram batizados na semana passada). Tudo deu certo e ele também foi batizado esta semana! Cara, tem sido uma bênção ensinar todos eles! Sua história é louca e realmente prova o quanto Deus realmente prepara as pessoas para o momento certo! Eles estão em contato com os missionários há 2 anos, e foi por causa de sua filha para saindo pela missão para eles perceberem que isso é algo que eles precisam em toda a sua família! É uma família de ouro! Eu me sinto tão abençoado por ter chegado a conhecê-los e amá-los! Eles são minha família aqui, e não querem deixá-los!

Amo muito vocês!

Sister Moss

 

 

Esse não é a pessoa que estávamos ensinando!

Oiiii queridos amigos e querida família!! Então esta semana foi cheia de mudanças, Maxwell e milagres!

Primeiramente! as mudanças! Então, na quarta feira tive uma divisão com Sister Bradshaw. Ela é de Florida e essa é primeira transferência dela! Grande mudança para mim, para ter uma companheira com menos tempo que eu. Eu tive muito medo sobre essa divisão, me senti muito insuficiente. Mas naquela dia recebi uma bênção de Presidente Colleoni ( por causa de meu medo ). E de verdade essa bênção me ajudou muito! Divisão foi ótima!!! Geralmente (mais recentemente) tenho muito medo de falar com as pessoas e convidar-los para ser batizado. Mas na divisão com Sister Bradshaw, conseguimos alguns bons contatos e tivemos algumas lições boas. E com essas lições conseguimos convidar 4 pessoas para ser batizado!!! Todo mundo aceitou batismo por dia 17 de Dezembro. Infelizmente só uma pessoa foi por igreja esta semana, e agora precisamos remarcar as outros batismos por dia 24! Mas vai dar tudo certo!

Agora, Maxwell. Também a gente estava ensinando Maxwell, a rapaz com 14 anos. Ele é eleito com força!!! Maxwell, encontraremos 2 semanas atrás fechando padrão Domingo a noite. Ele foi a última pessoa que falarmos. Convidarmos por igreja, e marcarmos uma dia de voltar e ensinar. Bem curta, ele cumpriu todos os compromissos, foi para seminário sozinho e realmente é um eleito! Sábado a gente foi à casa dele e chagarmos lá e percebemos que ele tinha pintado o cabelo loiro!! LOIRO!!!! Ave maria esse menino é doido! Cara Sister N. Souza quase matou-lo! Esse não é o mesmo pessoa que estávamos ensinando!

Mas o MILAGRE, ontem tivemos batismo dele! Cara foi ótimo!!! Um recém converso batizou Maxwell e ele esqueceu de tapar o nariz antes de emergê-lo na água. E Maxwell quase caiu! kkk foi engraçada demais! Estou muito feliz por ele e decisão dele para ser batizada! Ele ama igreja e já falou para nos que ele quer ser um missionário também! Cara gente, ele é bom demais! Muito top! E um outro milagre tivemos, que um outro pesquisador foi por igreja ontem também! Não achávamos que ele vai mas uma surpresa para nos, ele foi! Espero que ele vai ser batizado esta semana ou ao próxima! Borá ver né?

Cara a semana foi ótima! E eu sei que esta é igreja de Cristo, que Ele é a cabeça dela! Que Ele é nosso Salvador e é sempre está conosco! Estou muito feliz para ser uma instrumento na mãos dele neste trabalho! "É o trabalho de Deus. Eu sou como um ... lápis em sua mão. ... Ele faz o pensamento. Ele faz a escrita. O lápis não tem nada a ver com isso. O lápis só deve ser usado."

Amo muito vocês!!!! Boa semana por todos!!!

Com amor e carinho,

Sister Moss

The Google Translate version of Sister Moss's letter...

Oiiii dear friends and dear family !! So this week was full of changes, Maxwell and miracles!

First! the changes! So on Wednesday I had a split with Sister Bradshaw. She's from Florida and this is her first transfer! Big change for me, to have a mate with less time than me. I was very scared about this division, I felt very inadequate. But that day I received a blessing from President Colleoni (because of my fear). And this blessing really helped me a lot! Division was great !!! Generally (more recently) I am too afraid to talk to people and invite them to be baptized. But in the division with Sister Bradshaw, we got some good contacts and we had some good lessons. And with these lessons we were able to invite 4 people to be baptized !!! Everyone accepted baptism on December 17th. Unfortunately only one person went to church this week, and now we need to reschedule the other baptisms by the 24th! But it will be all right!

Now, Maxwell. We were also teaching Maxwell, the boy at the age of fourteen. He is elected with force !!! Maxwell, we'll find you 2 weeks ago closing standard Sunday night. He was the last person we talked to. Invite them to church, and mark a day of coming back and teaching. Very short, he fulfilled all the commitments, went to seminary alone and really is an elected! Saturday we went to his house and we got there and realized that he had painted his blond hair !! BLOND!!!! Hail Mary, this boy is crazy! Dear Sister N. Souza almost killed him! This is not the same person we were teaching!

But the MIRACLE, we had his baptism yesterday! Dude it was great !!! A new convert named Maxwell and he forgot to cover his nose before he emerged into the water. And Maxwell almost fell! lol it was too funny! I am very happy for him and his decision to be baptized! He loves church and has already told us that he wants to be a missionary too! Dear folks, he's too good! Very cool! And another miracle we had, that another researcher went by church yesterday too! We did not think he would but a surprise for us, he was! I hope he will be baptized this week or next! See you, right?

Dude the week was great! And I know that this is Christ's church, that He is the head of it! That He is our Savior and is always with us! I am very happy to be an instrument in his hands on this job! "It's God's work.I'm like a ... pencil in his hand .... He does the thinking.He does the writing.The pencil has nothing to do with it.The pencil should only be used.

Love you so much!!!! Good week for everyone !!!

With love and affection,

Sister Moss

Sister Moss's letter to Mom...

oiiii mamãe!!!!

caramba!!! HUMP DAY ALREADY???? No I dont believe it, not a single bit!!! Oh man, this is crazy to say and to think that I have 9 months here in Brazil and only 8 months until I get to hug you and never let go again!!! Super excited to see you here in 2 weeks! That should get me through until Mothers day, and than until you're here in Brazil with me!!!! Man oh man I dont believe this!!! 

Maiya is 3????? Man I forgot her birthday!!!! que freaking!!! give her loves for me please!! and i saw the video, man she is too perfect!!!! 

Dont think my packages have arrived yet, but I dont know. Generally they dont contact us if we have something. its kind of just a surprise when we show up at the mission office haha!

So we do lots of small meals for dinner. Or sometimes we dont eat dinner. Generally throughout the day recent converts give us food, they love to feed us. So when we get home we aren't super hungry haha. Dont worry I'm eating tons!! No no one comes monthly to see our house. usually if something is wrong we tell Sister Colleoni and she takes care of it within the week. Shes amazing!! There's not a whole lot of american food here in the stores. Basically just spaghetti or chicken haha.

--My health is good, I went back to the doctor for my ear and he explained that I need surgery, but its not urgent. He said dont worry too much about it. Its because the bone for my ear is supposed to have spots to allow air in and out but its just bone. Donts have the space or spots for air to enter. so it needs to be repaired. But its not urgent dont need surgery right now! It can wait! -- trading clothes is super normal. I've left some of my clothes that are super big in other houses so other sisters can use them or give them to recent converts. I think I have one dress that I bought and all the others I traded with sisters. 

This week was super good!! We had a BAPTISM!!! Cara, it was perfect!! He is such a great kid and will do so many great things in the church. He already says he wants to go on a mission!! Man super happy for him!! Also, the fears and troubles I was having I feel like have gone away. We had splits this week and I got put with Sister Bradshaw, shes from Florida and this is her first transfer. I really didnt have a choice but to grow up and get over my fears this day working with her. Because I speak more portuguese than she does and things like that so it was basically a day to grow up and get over the little things! The day with Sister Bradshaw went super well! we made some good contacts, good lessons and in the end of it all we invited 4 people to be baptized and everyone accepted!!!! Super super excited!! hopefully they continue to progress and have the desire to be baptized into the only true church on earth and enter into the straight and narrow path home! Super excited to see how this week turns out, see if we will have another baptism this week!!! 

I promise you mommy, I love this work and enjoy it more and more everyday!!!

Love you so so much!!!

Choral, ou Não

Hello my people!!! So this week had its ups and downs, but over all I'd consider this week amazing!! To start off, I went to the doctors again and need to go back again to see another specialist. Vai dar certo! I hit 8 months in my mission and to celebrate we went out for açai with the Elders. Haha it was super funny!!

The following day we had our first district meeting with the new district. Theres 4 sisters and 6 Elders in my district, and seriously this is the funnest (I know this isn't a word) district so far! After the district meeting 6 of us received money for lunch so we decided to go to lunch together. haha its so fun getting to hang out with the other missionaries! After lunch we wanted soda, but it was a huge rip off at the resturant so we went to the store and bought a thing of coke to share amongst the 6 of us. Went to find somewhere to sit and ended up in front of our apartment complex. haha it was super fun!! Then we all left and got to work (dont worry we are still working)! Later that night we had been invited to sing with a small group of missionaries for a fireside for the youth. Well long story short, we took the wrong bus twice and missed our chance to sing (sorry mom!) seriously it was so crazy! We were super sad that we missed our chance to sing but we got to see some people that we havent seen in a while, so that was cool! 

Everyday this week we were working to visit our investigator who is ready for baptism and finally on friday we caught her at home! Wooo! we taught her the last lesson that she needed and invited her to be baptized again. She accepted!!! Come Sunday, and her mom said no. So now we will have to work a bit more with her mom. But she is an amazing kid and I know she is ready for this next step! 

On saturday we (my companion, Elder Leite and Elder M. Alves) decided to climb the dunes behind our apartments! guys it was sooooo cool!!!! so pretty and so fun!!! After the dunes we went back home and got ready for the day. Worked until 4 and then went to Nova Parnamirim (my last area) because Elizete, one of the investigators I was teaching with sister soares was getting baptized!! Guys I dont think I've been to a baptism where I have felt the spirit as strongly as I did for Elizete! I know without a doubt that she was ready and prepared for this day for years!!! 

This week was super super good, regardless of its downs! I know that this is the gospel of Jesus Christ, that he is at the head of this church! I know that my calling as a representative of Jesus Christ is to find the 1, to leave the 99 to find the one who needs to come home! That as his servant he is always on my side and will never leave me! I am so happy to be a servant of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! 

Love you all!!

Sister Moss

Português 

Olá, minha gente !!! Então, esta semana teve seus dificuldades e bênçãos, consideraria esta semana incrível! Para começar, fui aos médicos novamente e preciso voltar para ver outro especialista. Vai funcionar! Acabei 8 meses na minha missão e comemoramos que saímos para Açaí com os Anciãos. Haha foi super engraçado !!

No dia seguinte, tivemos a nossa primeira reunião distrital com o novo distrito. Existem 4 irmãs e 6 idosos no meu distrito, e, sério, esta é a zona mais divertida (eu sei disso não é uma palavra) até agora! Após a reunião do distrito 6, recebemos dinheiro para o almoço, então decidimos ir almoçar juntos. haha é tão divertido sair com os outros missionários! Após o almoço, queríamos refrigerante, mas era um grande roubo no restaurante, então fomos à loja e compramos algo de coca para compartilhar entre nós 6. Acessou encontrar um lugar para se sentar e acabou em frente ao nosso complexo de apartamentos. haha foi super divertido !! Então todos nós partimos e conseguimos trabalhar (não se preocupe, ainda estamos funcionando)! Mais tarde, naquela noite, fomos convidados a cantar com um pequeno grupo de missionários por uma fogueira para a juventude. Uma longa história bem curta, pegamos o ônibus errado duas vezes e perdemos a chance de cantar (desculpe, mãe!) Sério, era tão louco! Estávamos super tristes que perdemos nossa chance de cantar, mas temos que ver algumas pessoas que não vimos há algum tempo, então foi legal!

Todos os dias esta semana estávamos trabalhando para visitar nosso investigador que está pronto para o batismo e, finalmente, na sexta-feira, a gente a pegou em casa! Wooo! nós ensinamos a ela a última lição que ela precisava e a convidou para ser batizada novamente. Ela aceitou!!! Venha o domingo, e sua mãe disse que não. Então, agora teremos que trabalhar um pouco mais com a mãe dela. Mas ela é uma criança incrível e eu sei que ela está pronta para este próximo passo!

No sábado, nós (meu companheiro Elder Leite e Elder M. Alves) decidiram escalar as dunas atrás de nossos apartamentos! caras, foi tão legal !!!! tão bonito e tão divertido! Depois das dunas, voltamos para casa e nos preparamos para o dia. Trabalhou até 4 e depois foi para Nova Parnamirim (minha última área) porque Elizete, um dos pesquisadores que eu estava ensinando com a irmã Soares estava sendo batizado !! Caras, eu não acho que estive em um batismo onde senti o espírito tão forte como fiz para Elizete! Eu sei sem dúvida que ela estava pronta e preparada para este dia há anos !!!

Esta semana foi super super boa, independentemente das suas baixas! Eu sei que este é o evangelho de Jesus Cristo, que ele está na cabeça desta igreja! Eu sei que meu chamado é um representante de Jesus Cristo é encontrar o 1, deixar o 99 para encontrar aquele que precisa voltar para casa! Esse é o criado dele, ele está sempre do meu lado e ele nunca vai me deixar! Estou tão feliz por ser um servo de nosso Senhor e Salvador Jesus Cristo!

Amo todos vocês !!

Sister Moss

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

End of a Transfer...

Hey everyone!! I hope everyone enjoyed the 4th of July! I know I did! Sister Velasco and I celebrated by singing the National Anthem to the sisters in our house and having a mini BBQ!!! Woohoo!

so I am beyond sad to be ending this transfer, I feel like it just started. I need more time with Sister Velasco, and with training! I'm not ready to not be in training!!! It's basically a 90% chance that I get transferred now that I am done with my training but I will find out for sure tomorrow! 

Buuuut, I couldn't have asked for a better way to end this transfer! Yesterday we had a baptism!!!! Wooooo! Super super good! It was a baptism for F e L (mother and son). It was a real miracle that we had both of them there. During the week we found out that L would be at his dad's house on Sunday and that his dad wasn't going to let him get baptized because the "mormon church is satanic". so we were completely bummed. But still really excited for F. We went to go pick her up for church and she walks around the corner with her 1 year old son J. Super ecstatic!!! and 5 seconds later L popped around the corner!!! Sister Velasco turns to me and we both instantly high five each other and whisper "milagre!!" Uggh super awesome!! 

The baptism was really really good. It was the first baptism at the church since the church has been under construction. Sister Velasco and I spent the 2nd and 3rd hour of church cleaning the font because the workers didn't clean it before they left. But we got it done! It was funny because when F got baptized the water was still too low. so she sat on the ground in the font and basically just lied down in the water! Kind of funny! Never seen it done that way but hey, it works!! 

Other than that not much has really happened, we were really focusing on making sure they were both ready for the baptism and did a lot of contacting this week. I'm getting better at inviting people to be baptized while we are contacting. Its actually kind of fun! 

Anyway, that's basically my week, not super super crazy. But really really good!! 

Eu sei que este igreja é na igreja de Jesus Cristo, e que ele estableceu este igreja aqui na terra. sei que Joseph Smith foi um profeta de Deus e que ele restaurou na igreja aqui para nós em esse últimos dias. sei que o Livro de Mórmon é palavra de Deus e pelo poder de Deus Joseph Smith traduziu este maravilhosa livro. eu sei que Jesus Cristo é meu irmão e Salvador do mundo. Que ele sofrou para cada um de nós. E que nós temos uma oportunidade a viver e crescer mais perto de nossa Salvador e Pai Celestial. Eu sei que este igreja é único caminho para nós a viver com nossa Pai Celestial de novo depois desta vida. Sei que Ele conhece todos nós pessoalmente e nós ama pessoalmente. Eu estou muito feliz para servir meu Senhor e ajudar na obras dele. Eu amo este evangelho e muito grata por meu conhecimento de o plano de Deus em minha vida! Eu amo vocês com todos meu coração! 

Boa semana pra vocês!

Com amor,

Síster Moss