Fechou!!!

Ok, so these past 2 weeks have been crazy busy!!! we had transfers and everything changed again! so Sister Castro and I closed Potengi for the Sisters and we both got transferred. Sister Castro is in Alecrim and I'm now here in Panatis (10 mins away from Potengi). My new companion is Sister L. Guimarães (Sister L. Gui) and shes amazing!!! Love her so much! since I met her at the end of my second transfer I wanted to be her companion and now I am!!! its awesome!!! super happy here!!! Unfortunately though, shes going home at the end of this transfer... Ughhhh! so sad....

But this week was awesome and super crazy with transfers and everything. But we were able to have baptism on Saturday!! Man it was sooo good! We helped a 13 year old YW be baptized and now are working lots with her mom and her sisters! I think in the next few weeks they will be baptized too! super super exctied! This area has lots more people in the street which is such a blessing!!! thingss are going great so far!! Loving everything!!! 

Not much to tell you all this week but hope you all have an amazing week!! and congrats to all the people opening their mission calls!! Y'all will kill it in your missionss!!!

Love you all!!!

Sister Moss

Ok, então estas últimas duas semanas foram bem corridas!!! nós tivemos transferências e tudo mudou novamente! então a sister Castro e eu fechamos o Potengi pelas Sisteres e as duas fomos transferidas. sister Castro está em Alecrim e eu estou agora aqui em Panatis (10 minutos  de Potengi). Minha nova companheira é a Sister L. Guimarães (Sister L. Gui) e ela é incrível !!! Amo muito ela! desde que eu a conheci no final da minha segunda transferência eu queria ser sua companheira e agora eu sou !!! é incrivel!!! super feliz aqui !!! Infelizmente, porém, ela está indo para casa no final desta transferência ... Ughhhh! tão triste....

Mas esta semana foi incrível e super louca com transferências e tudo mais. Mas nós conseguimos de ter um batismo no sábado !! Cara, foi tão bom! Ajudamos uma moça de 13 anos a ser batizada e agora estamos trabalhando muito com sua mãe e suas irmãs! Eu acho que nas próximas semanas eles serão batizados também! super super excitado! Esta área tem muito mais gente na rua que é uma benção !!! coisas estão indo muito bem até agora !! Amando tudo !!!

Não há muito a lhes dizer esta semana, mas espero que todos tenham uma semana incrível !! e parabéns a todas as pessoas que abriram seus chamados de missão !! Vocês vão amar e fazer tão bom em suas missões!!!

com amor,

Sister Moss

 

 

 

A couple of pictures...

Out and about...

Made for me, by a friend...

Cheia de Milagres!!

Hey guys!! Another week, another story!!! 

so for those of you who missed the last few emails I'm sure I've explained a bit that this area is really difficult, its super small and theres not a whole lot of people. the people we meet in the street have already heard of the church and its not been things real good that they've heard. Lots of people talk really bad about the church here. Theres even some other churches that have a class, A CLASS to talk bad about other churches!!! Like what?! Real Christ-like right??? Anyway, the best part about the area is that even though its tough its still full of miracles!!

This week we met the most amazing man! ele é eleito com força!!! It was actually pretty funny, we were teaching his little brother for almost 3 weeks. Not really progressing... So we almost cut him, when we decided that we'd give him one more chance. We saw him at the store one day and asked if he had read the Book of Mormon and prayed. By our surprise he said yes and that he was reading with his older brother. We marked to teach him and his brother that same day and when we got there he had left.. But his brother was there! So we took the chance we had and taught him the Restoration. Man when we gave him a BOM and asked him to pray to know if all of it was true, he said he already had his answer!!! Like what?! So we asked what he meant, and he said hes catholic but lately has been having a rough time with his faith, and was praying for something that would help him strengthen his faith. And he said when we arrived to teach his brother he took that as a sign that it was something he had to investigate.. Guys it was so awesome!!! We marked his baptism for this upcoming week and he accepted! Then came Sunday, we went to pick him up for church and no one answered the door.. so we went to pick up another investigator, who also wasnt at home. so we headed back and passed by his house one more time. His grandma answered the door and said he had just left... we were so sad!! After we went to church and when we got there he was sitting in the bunk all alone!!!!! MIRACLE!!! ughh guys it was too perfect!!! He said after church that he loved loved loved church and the lessons we had today!!! ELEITO COM FORÇA!!!! Hopefully we have a baptism this week to end the transfer well!!! 

This week was a little difficult but went really well!! Love and missing you all so much and hope you all an awesome week!!!

With love, 

Sister Moss

Ei pessoal!! Outra semana, outra história!!!

então, para aqueles de vocês que perderam os últimos e-mails, tenho certeza de ter explicado um pouco que esta área é realmente difícil, é super pequena e não há muitas pessoas. as pessoas que nos encontramos na rua já ouviram falar da igreja e não foram coisas boas que tenham ouvido. Muitas pessoas falam muito mal sobre a igreja aqui. Há mesmo algumas outras igrejas que têm uma classe, A CLASS para falar mal sobre outras igrejas !!! Como o quê?! Realmente parecido com o Cristo? De qualquer forma, a melhor parte da área é que, embora seja difícil ainda está cheio de milagres!!

Esta semana conhecemos o homem mais incrível! ele é eleito com força!!! Na verdade, era muito engraçado, estávamos ensinando seu irmãozinho por quase 3 semanas. Na verdade, não progredimos ... Então quase o cortamos, quando decidimos que lhe daríamos mais uma chance. Nós o vimos na loja um dia e perguntamos se ele havia lido o Livro de Mórmon e orado. Por nossa surpresa, ele disse que sim e que estava lendo com seu irmão mais velho. Marcamos para ensinar a ele e a seu irmão no mesmo dia e quando chegamos lá, ele tinha ido ... Mas o irmão dele estava lá! Então, aproveitamos a chance e nos ensinamos a Restauração. Homem quando lhe demos uma BOM e pedimos que ele orasse para saber se tudo era verdade, ele disse que já tinha sua resposta !!! Como o quê?! Então, perguntamos o que ele quis dizer, e ele disse que é católico, mas ultimamente tem tido um tempo difícil com sua fé e estava orando por algo que o ajudasse a fortalecer sua fé. E ele disse que quando chegamos para ensinar seu irmão, ele tomou isso como um sinal de que era algo que ele tinha que investigar. Pessoal era tão incrível! Marcamos seu batismo para a próxima semana e ele aceitou! Então, veio domingo, fomos buscá-lo para a igreja e ninguém respondeu a porta ... então fomos buscar outro investigador, que também não estava em casa. então voltamos e passamos por sua casa mais uma vez. Sua avó respondeu a porta e disse que acabava de sair ... estávamos tão tristes! Depois de irmos à igreja e quando chegamos lá, ele estava sentado no beliche sozinho!!!!! MILAGRE !!! ughh pessoal foi muito perfeito !!! Ele disse depois da igreja que ele amou a igreja amada amada e as lições que tivemos hoje! ELEITO COM FORÇA!!!! Espero que tenhamos um batismo esta semana para terminar a transferência bem!!!

Esta semana foi um pouco difícil, mas foi muito bem!! Ame e perca todos vocês e espero que você seja uma semana maravilhosa!!!

 

With love, 

Sister Moss

 

 

It's sooo HOT, we sat in the fridge!

Pronto, então esta semana foi ótima mas foi difícil (normal não é?) mas faz parte! Aqui em Potengi estamos com dificuldades de fazer novos bons. Estamos renovando nossa grupo de ensino literalmente cada semana... O trabalho aqui é realmente difícil, a área é muito pequena e é um pouco perigosa aqui, então não trabalhamos o dia inteiro. geralmente chegamos em casa às 7 ou 7:30 para evitar ser assaltadas. é difícil, mas estamos trabalhando duro para encontrar novas pessoas. que também é muito difícil. Há muitas pessoas na rua durante a maior parte do dia e quando nos encontramos com alguém na rua já ouviram falar da igreja e não querem nada com isso. Também o batismo que tínhamos caído ... ele estava pronto para ser batizado e decidiu que queria permissão de sua mãe, o que é ótimo se ele fosse adolescente, mas ele é um adulto! Ele tem 46 anos de idade e quer permissão de sua mãe, ugh! e infelizmente sua mãe é uma das pessoas que já ouviu falar sobre a igreja e não quer nada com isso ... ughhh !! mas estamos trabalhando muito com os jovens aqui e até agora eles são realmente ótimos, mas não querem ir à igreja kkk nós tivemos pessoas na igreja, mas são o que chamamos de pesquisadores eternos ... é difícil ... mas vai dar tudo certo!!

também esta semana foi muito muito quente!!! estávamos com tanto calor que chegamos em casa tiramos tudo na geladeira e sentamos em dentro!!! kkk foi muito engraçada!!

não temos muitos novidades alem disso mas estou bem, muito bem e estamos esperando nossa milagre por esta transferência! vamos fazer que ele acontece!!!

com todo meu amor,

Sister Moss

 

 Google Translate version...

 

Okay, so this week was great but it was hard (normal is not it?) But it's part of it! Here in Potengi we are having a hard time making new ones. We are renovating our teaching group literally every week ... The work here is really difficult, the area is very small and it is a bit dangerous here, so we do not work all day. usually we arrive home at 7 or 7:30 to avoid being robbed. It's difficult, but we're working hard to find new people. which is also very difficult. There are many people on the street for most of the day and when we meet someone on the street they have heard of the church and they do not want anything to do with it. Also the baptism that we had fallen ... he was ready to be baptized and decided that he wanted his mother's permission, which is great if he were a teenager, but he is an adult! He is 46 years old and wants his mother's permission, ugh! and unfortunately your mother is one of the people who has heard of the church and does not want anything to do with it ... ughhh !! but we're working a lot with the young people here and so far they're really great but they do not want to go to church lol we had people in church, but they're what we call eternal researchers ... it's hard ... but it's going to be all right !!

 

 also this week was very very hot !!! we were so hot that we got home we took everything in the fridge and sat inside !!! lol it was very funny !!

 

 we do not have many news besides this but I am well, very well and we are waiting for our miracle by this transference! let's make it happen !!!

 

with all my love,

Sister Moss

 

 

Week Two - CTM - Blessing

Oi Everyone!!!

Okay so I'm so sorry I didn't get to finish telling you about last week. Basically, Sundays are the greatest days ever!! With sacrament, class, and devotionals it's so insanely spiritual. I was super sad to see some really awesome Sisters leave this week, but I know they're going to be amazing! They've been like the big sisters of the CTM for me! It's crazy how close you can come to some people in just a super short amount of time.

I have restarted reading the Book of Mormon, I'm determined to read it front to back in both English and Portuguese (an apostle once promised that if you read the Book of Mormon front to back in English and mission language you will become fluent in the language. So I thought I'd give it a try.) Um, this week has been kind of stressful and difficult. I feel like after p-day we all kind of were unfocused. I've struggled a lot with understanding the language. I know that if I knew what they were saying I'd be able to respond.

But I got a blessing yesterday from Elder Kozlowski. He's incredible, and he said something that really stuck out to me. He said that I need to be patient with the gift of tongues and that through my faith it will work out. I really needed to hear that. I'm glad to have such amazing elders in my district that are so in tune with the spirit that they can tell me everything I need to hear.

Other than that its really just been the same stuff. Classes all day. Lots of studying. I really love the Book of Mormon. It's such an amazing book.

Eu sei que o livro de mormon es verdade. eu sei que Joseph Smith es o profeta de Deus.

It's short and sweet but I know this is the true church. There are so many things in my life that prove that to be true. I love Brazil and I miss you all so much!

Until next week.... much love everyone!

Sister Moss

PS. Temple was great - we went to Sao Paulo today. It's absolutely gorgeous!!!
 

Week One - CTM

Okay so I'm going to type really super fast so, Mom, if things are typed wrong please fix them before you post it ;) oh and everything is from what I write in my notes at night. <Mom Note...I think Sister Moss forgot how to use capital letters! Even with her typing so fast to get everything in, I still only needed to fix her capitalization trouble! Oh and a few apostrophes!>

Tuesday- Today was such a good, but really long day. We technically threw 2 days together and just called it 1. Flew out of PHX to Atlanta and then took a 9 hour flight to São Paulo. We arrived early this morning and were welcomed by a bunch of elders speaking Portuguese at us. Kind of intimidating. I share a room with Sister Barney, Sister Goodrich, and Sister Kearns. They're all incredible, I love them so much already. We kind of had a chill day, other missionaries told us to take advantage of the free time we had so I took a nap!! Then we had choir and I kind of sang to A Child's Prayer. It's way harder to sing in Portuguese. But after singing it a few times I feel like I caught on to the words. It's so cool to hear so many praising God through song in a whole new language. We had a really good devotional too! (but looking at my notes I didn't write a whole lot down, oops).

Wednesday- we started all our classes today and needless to say, it was super stressful. We had orientation and President Snyder said something that was in my patriarchal blessing, super cool! We had our first "investigator" today, it was so cool, we shared the time with Kadie's district and it was so spiritual. Portuguese is intimidating when you first hear it, try to speak it, read it, or write it. Actually all the time. Slowly but surely getting better. 

Thursday- most of our day was spent learning and throwing ourself into the language..which isn't bad, just super stressful and exhausting. We had service and got to help in the laundry room for bedding and stuff. We had so much fun! And then we had physical activity, we played volleyball (we, as in my district and Kadie's district). We really don't have the most athletic group but it was still super fun to bond with them all. Honestly they're all so fun and cool people. We had our first real lesson today, all in Portuguese, waaaay hard. I can teach in English, I know the doctrine. but when I need to change the language it's sooo much harder. It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be though. Maybe because Sister Barney was there. She's so much better with the language than I am. She basically answers all the questions. But I can give a very simple prayer, bear a very simple testimony. So at least I'm progressing. 

Friday- I was so done today. My brain didn't work at all today. We studied all day and I feel like I didn't figure anything out and nothing was sinking in. I feel so far behind in the language compared to my district... I'm studying every day and every night, I don't know why I'm not getting it. Not much else happened today. 

Saturday- Elder Barraza is our district leader and is spiritually strong. He shared a devotional (we do one every night) and he shared about how he came to know that this is where the Lord needs him. He shared some scriptures D&C 18:10, 15-16 I really love these verses. They helped me to know my purpose here, and made me even more excited to get out into the field. 

Sunday- (I have 5 mins left, I'll try and hurry) but Sundays are definitely my favorite day in the CTM. Sacrament meeting was in English, minus the speakers who decided to practice their Portuguese more, but I understood some of what they were saying. I met some really awesome sisters,S ister Kapp, Sister Driggs, Sister Colton, and Sister Westover (unfortunately went home for health issues) but they are so incredible.Sister Westover taught relief society and spoke about the priesthood, I already knew the priesthood was amazing but I think I kind of took it for granted and didn't take advantage of it as much as I should/could have. I'm sorry! But it was so good! 

I'm out of time but I'll be sure to write about the rest of my week next time. It's truly so spiritual here all the time and I love it so much. Brazil is gorgeous and I'm already in love with it. I love you all and miss you tons!!!! 

My District

Elder Barraza

Elder Goodwin

Elder Bates

Elder Kozlowski

Sister Kearns

Sister Barney

Sister Goodrich

Sister Southwick

Sister Skelton

LOVE THEM!!!!