tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14139498265238347432024-03-05T05:39:44.238-08:00(500) Days of BrazilSister Sydney Ricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13314376890108516136noreply@blogger.comBlogger76125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1413949826523834743.post-71574113296328366062014-09-21T19:14:00.001-07:002014-09-21T19:14:08.225-07:00(411) hey y'all<span style="background-color: #660000;">September 15</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #660000;">So this past week was pretty good! We had some really good lessons and people in church and whooo! it was good. annnnnd to top itall off we're going to the temple tomorrow! whooooohooo! I love the temple! I love the temple! and after the temple we are going to the Zoo! I'm super excited!</span></div>
<span style="background-color: #660000;"> But lets see what else happened this past week... Oh! We had a miracle happen! A lady stopped US on the street and asked US how she can study with us and when... we're going to teach her tonight!! Whooooo! Milagres!</span></div>
<span style="background-color: #660000;"> Also we made cookies this past week! They were great! It was Larissa's 14th Birthday so we made her American Cookies! She loved them! Annnd I loved them... they didnt taste exactly like cookies at home... they just had this little bit of ... brasil... in them but they were delicious! =D</span></div>
<span style="background-color: #660000;"> Also I dont know if I've ever told you guys about funk...but the favelinha next to our house had this HUGE rave dance party saturday so i figured I'd talk about it now... It's this type of music here... funk.... but yeah everybody loves to drive around in their car with their tricked up bases hanging out of their trunks and funk spewing from their speakers, setting off car alarms and other classy things like that... its fun at 230 in the morning... haah but i am so totally going to be looking it up for you guys at least once when i get home so y'all can hear it it's ridiculous!... but kind of a little awesome too... they've got some really sick beats... and my dubstep roots sometimes just make it so all i really want to do is break it down right then and there in the middle of the street... haha buuuuut i dont. Dont worry momma... I am respectable... most of the time... haahh =] </span></div>
<span style="background-color: #660000;"> Buuuut yeah that was a pointless story but now y'all know a little bit more about brasil! whoooo! buuut now i kind of have to go!... I love you all so much! thank you so much for all the prayers and support!<br /></span></div>
<span style="background-color: #660000;">Te Amo!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #660000;"> So we had transfers this past week and I stayed here in Jardim Climax and minha companheira Sister S. Silva was transfered to Santo Andre and I got a new companion! Sister Shell! She is from Atlanta, Georgia and is a redhead! Whooooo! hahah She's really funny and awesome and we are gonna baptize todo mundo aqui em Jardim Climax!! Whooo =DD</span></div>
<span style="background-color: #660000;"> Buuut yeah this past week was interesting and quite honestly a little rough buuuuut whats new?? hahah We still have 3 people on date, Larissa and Lysa, and Ana Cristina and we are working really hard with them and are really excited! </span></div>
<span style="background-color: #660000;"> Sorry about the no pictures still... these computers are really lame lame lame apparently... but i promise that i am taking them! </span></div>
<span style="background-color: #660000;"> Also I am on chapter 11 of the BoM in portugues! I am really excited to finish it again before the end of the year! </span></div>
<span style="background-color: #660000;"> Alright, time for a story! So it was last transfer, before Sister S. Silva left, but we were at a member's house eating lunch and there was a little boy there. about 5 years old, and he was showing us how he is learning how to write, and Sister S. Silva told him he should write her name and that it was here on her tag ( is that the name for it... i cant remember the word in english...) and so he gets started... and i'm watching as he slowly writes out a J... and i'm thinking "J?? why J? There's no J in Sister S. Silva... whatever tudo bem"... But slowly he writes out the E and then the S and the U and I get it... She told him that her name is on her nametag (there we go... thats the word) and the name he saw was Jesus Cristo... and it really just kind of hit me that that really is the name that we are trying to have... We have his name here over our hearts every single day... and it really is our goal to take on the name of Christ everyday. It's the name that we will be called by when He comes again... and it is our responsiblity to know Him enough that we will respond... Read Mosiah chapter 5... it's my favorite chapter in the BOM and talks alot about it...</span></div>
<span style="background-color: #660000;"> Buuuuut I'm out of time! I love you guys!<br /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #990000; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"> Sooo no pictures today... Sorry! Buuuuuut How are y'all doing?? Good? I hope so. I'm doing great! The area is finally picking up! It was slow going and a little rough for a while but we finally have two solid people on date and we are so excited!! =D</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #990000;"> Also apparently little ol' Missouri made it into the news even down here in Brasil because of all the rioting... I would be proud if it wasnt for something so horrible... hahah </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #990000;"> Let's see what else?? We had three investigators and 3 menos ativos in church yesturday! Which is a miracle! I am so happy to finally have people coming to church again! It feels like it's been forever! And hopefully in these next couple of weeks we'll be having a couple a baptisms! Whoooooo!!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #990000;"> Oh and on a more random note... i cut my hair... hahahaha ok not really. My compy comp just cut off the ends cuz they were all dead and ugly and blah blahblah... i may or may not have cried... buuuuut whatever... I have 4 more months to grow it all out again before y'all will see me... dont worry, I will have hippie hair when I come home!! </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #990000;"> And speaking on my hair I am officially never washing my hair with warm water again... seriosuly, washing your hair with icy, freezing water does miracles. I finally understand why my hair has been so dry and disgusting my whole life... hahah seriously, try it out. It is fantastic.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #990000;"> Also, i only have 20 more pages left in the Book of Mormon in portugues before I finish it! It's only taken me almost 9 months buuuuut I have finally done it! I plan on finishing it tongiht! And I really want to read it at least one more time before I come home... I think I can do it! =D</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #990000;"> Buuuuuuuuuuuuuut I'm out of things to talk about... I hope y'all are doing awesome though! Oh and here's this weeks quote from Unleashing the Dormant Spirit. Well actually the past two weeks since I didnt send an email last week....</span></div>
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Sister Sydney Ricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13314376890108516136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1413949826523834743.post-62623794295945536842014-09-21T18:57:00.003-07:002014-09-21T18:57:55.572-07:00(356) I don't like the fact that you all are back in school and work now...<span style="background-color: #660000;">August 11</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #660000;">No one talks to me anymore... =[ Buuuuuut that's ok i suppose... But yeah this week nothing really happened... Sister S. Silva was sick last Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday so we did like nothing... which sucked. I never expected that, before the mishh. That when you're stuck inside, for whatever reason, that it would not feel like a day off yay vacation party, but just really suck... hahah </span></div>
<span style="background-color: #660000;"> Buuuuuut yeah. really nothing happened. Other than I suppose I had a wonderful interview with President and Sister Broadbent Saturday and that I love them to death. oh and i'm super happy that you guys finally got my letter! =] hahah it looks like one of the stickers fell off the front though... which is sad... but whatevers... hahah i dont even remember what i wrote...</span></div>
<span style="background-color: #660000;"> And that picture is so funny!! Bahahahah I did a face mask in the MTC and sent that picture to Alicia... hahahah oh that is perfect! I am so happy that she put it up there! hahah =]</span></div>
<span style="background-color: #660000;"> But like I said theres not much to be said about this past week. I forgot my camera too so I cant even send pics.... sorry this is so lameeee. BUUUT I do have the next part of the talk "Unleashing the Dormant Spirit"! =]<br /></span></div>
<span style="background-color: #660000;"> "In your life there have to be challenges. They will either bring you closer to God and therefore make you stronger or they can destroy you. But you make the decision of which road you will take."<br /></span></div>
<span style="background-color: #660000;"> Love you all! Have an awesome week! =D<br /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #660000;"> Not a whooooooole lot happened this past week. I'm getting to know the area and members and investigators here a lot better so that's good!</span></div>
<span style="background-color: #660000;"> Oh! And we had Zone Conference this past Thursday! And guess who was there!!!!! SISTER RAY! WHOOOOOO! We finally found each other! =D It was amazing to finally see her again after almost a whole year! Sister Hauter was there as well and it was just a big wonderful spiritual party! =D hahah</span></div>
<span style="background-color: #660000;"> I also finally got my package! Peanut Butter! and Twizzlers! hahah Everyone here thinks that I am crazy to have asked for Twizzlers and none of the Brasilians liked them buuuuut I dont even care. They are perfect and my favorite. Ohand speaking of American food I had pancakes the other day too! With Maple Syrup!!!!!! I´ve had pancakes here before but it's always been without syrup cuz they dont have maple here... which has been kind of depressing. buuuuut last night we were at the house of a menos ativo and her son served a mission and in his last area he found maple extract in the fridge that some american missionary had left.... and so he made us pancakes with maple syrup! It was awesome! hahah</span></div>
<span style="background-color: #660000;"> But yeah I really don't have that much to say, not much happened this past week. I had a little bit of a cold and it's starting to get hot again here (which sucks cuz hello, can you say pathetic winter?? Seriously... shortest and hottest winter of my life... which is funny cuz all anyone talks about is how freezing it was all last winter... ofcourse it's still hot when I'm here...) </span></div>
<span style="background-color: #660000;"> But yeah... Oh! We might be having a baptism here soon too! I hope so! It's the nephew of the ward secretary. He came to church yesterday and it was great! =D </span></div>
<span style="background-color: #660000;"> Buuuuuuut remember how I said I was gonna put up quotes from that one talk, Unleashing the Dormant Spirit, every week and then only did it once...?? Well, we're starting back up again because really this talk is amazing and the tips/advice that he gives in it are wonderful. They´re ways that we can be under the influence of the Spirit more in our lives and seriously are wonderful. So here we go, week number two: ( I especially tried to remember this one this past week...)</span></div>
<span style="background-color: #660000;"> "When you are physically sick, tired, or in despair, stear your thoughts away from yourself, and direct them in gratitude and love towards God."<br /></span></div>
<span style="background-color: #660000;"> I love you all! Have a good week ok! Oh and the fotos are of me and Sister S. Silva, minha companheira, and of me and Sister Ray!!! =D<br /></span></div>
<span style="background-color: #660000;">Te Amo!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #660000; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Soooooo obviously we had transfers last week and I am now officially back in the actual city of São Paulo in the Parque Bristol Stake, Jardim Climax Ward... I'm not gonna lie, I'm having mixed feelings so far about it. It's super interesting cuz it's like all straight up Favela (I have no idea how to spell this word dont judge me) aka the slums... i guess... i actually don´t know the translation for it... And ok it's not completely ALL favella buuut it's hard to go anywhere without at least being able to see one and compared to my last two areas here in Brasil that didnt have any favellas at all... that's pretty favella-y... hahah I feel like I was trying to see how many favellas I could fit into that sentence... But yeah so far the area has been good. super chill. just a little bit louder on Saturday nights... =] Annnd it's super small so that's nice. Shouldn't be too hard to learn my way around...</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #660000;"> But yeah we don't have a lot of investigators so we've been working a lot on getting novos and it's been going really good. Oh! And my companheira! haahahh I almost forgot! Her name is Sister S.Silva and she's from Brasil (there goes my streak of every companion being from a different country... =[ buuuuuuut tudo bem =] ) She's from the Nordeoste (once again I have absolutely no idea how to spell that... no judging please...) The northeast I think it is... which basically means the cool part with all the cool strange food that you hear about from Brasil... So that's cool. She's pretty cool. I like getting to only speak portugues again... it's super helpful...</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #660000;"> Let's see what else?? Oh! Did I tell you guys?? President changed the times of Pday on us... Pday officially starts at 9 now and goes until 5. And then at 5 is when we have distict/zone meetings until 630 and then it's back to work... It's a little weird but it's good cuz now we aren't loosing another morning of studying for meetings and such...</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #660000;"> OHMYGOODNESS! I haven't told you guys yet! hahahah I totally forgot that this was onyl last week! It feels like ages since I've been in Rudge... buuuuuut so pretty much the dvds here in brasil are like the cheapest thing ever... and not even like the bootlegs but the actual DVDs... annnnd I may or may not have bought 3 last Pday for 20 bucks. 20 dollars!! And guess which ones they were?!?! Stinking Le Mis, The Amazing Spiderman, and The Dark Knight Rises... All for under 20 bucks... The Dark Knight Rises was only 5!!!... They stinkin had THE HOBBIT for 7 dollars!! I kind of had a heart attack... Ovbiously I am not watching them on the mishh, they're still all sealed up and packed away... But I'm just so excited about them for after the mishh! hahah Sister Robinson was dying laughing at me while I was just geeking out all over the place... =]</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #660000;"> hahah so uh yeah... that was cool... and obviously as y'all can tell i ovbiously havent changed too much... hahah but i've gotta go now! I love you all! Sorry I promise next week I will get the quotes up here but I'm out of time!!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #783f04;"> But this past week was really great! Saturday the ward had a Festa de Junina at the capela and it was awesome! Basically, it's just a big country party and everybody dresses up like hillbillies and eat bbq and corn and cake cake CAKE! It was great! And really funny actually. I never thought that I would go to a country themed party here in Brasil... hahah but it was a lot of fun! </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #783f04;"> Annnnnnnd our investigator came to the party! And brought his cousin and aunt with him! We found him the day before, Friday, and taught him about the Restuaration (I have no idea how to spell that in English anymore...) and gave him a baptism date (which he accepted!! whooooo!) and invited him to the party and he actually came! It's so awesome when people actually come to things! Annnnnd then he actually came to church too! And loved it! He is so golden and so going to get baptized! Sister Robinson has promised to keep me updated...</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #783f04;"> Buuuuuuuuut not much else happened this past week... or at least that I can remember... annnnd I may or may not have forgotten to bring the next part of the Unleashing the Dormant Spirit talk for this week... soooo next week will just have to have two in it.. =] </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #783f04;"> But I love you guys! Thanks so much for all the support and love and prayers! Oh and just look at the names on the pic of the bad bootleg of the twilight movie... it's hilarious. =] Até semana que vem!</span></div>
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<br />Sister Sydney Ricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13314376890108516136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1413949826523834743.post-14149468801669266502014-09-21T18:20:00.002-07:002014-09-21T18:25:38.494-07:00(328) HAPPY ONE YEAR TO ME! HAPPPPPPPY ONNNNNE YEEARRR SEEEES<span style="background-color: black;">July 14</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;">Um yeah. One year. ONE YEAR! On Thursday! How does that even happen?? It literally feels like just a couple weeks that we were baking up a storm for my mission farewell and icing out those brasilian flag cookies of death and packing up my bags and putting me on a plane... I feel like I was just puking out my guts in my Mission President's House in New Mexico on my first day in the field last week... hahaha and how on earth have I been here in Brasil for almost 8 months now?? Seriously the time moves so fast and so much has happened...</span></div>
<span style="background-color: black;"> Buuuuuuut as for this past week the big news of the week would be the slaughter of Brasil by Germany last Tuesday... one to seven. It was horrible. hahahaha seriously after the 4th goal everyone was wishing that they would just stop the game and just let them win without putting Brasil through more humiliation... but yeah, we actually ended up having to go home after the first half... thank goodness! hahah </span></div>
<span style="background-color: black;"> Oh and we totally had permission to watch the Final yesterday! But we decided to spend it studying... aren't we righteous?? hahah jk. rowling.</span></div>
<span style="background-color: black;"> Um let's see what else... The Bakerys here in Brasil are super fancy. Um I got the Hobbit postcard that Abby sent me and I loved it! I'm really happy that y'all finally watched His Grace is Sufficient. See??? I know what I am talking about.</span></div>
<span style="background-color: black;"> Oh and speaking of amazing talks that change lives another one that I love is Unleashing the Dormant Spirit. I can't remember who it is by but it was given at BYU in the 90s I think and it is up there with His Grace is Sufficient. He talks about how the greatest accomplishment we can have in this life is to be under the complete influence of the Spirit at all times. And then he gives a couple of tips/advice thingys that him and his family use in their lives to have the spirit more and be better people. And I am telling you just mastering one of these things would make me 10000x better than I am now. But I thought that I would start sharing them with you. One every week. I am currently trying to memorize them all and honestly they are amazing and I am super excited to share them with y'all! So here we go! Week One:</span></div>
<span style="background-color: black;"> "Embrace this day with an enthusiastic welcome, no matter how it looks. The covenant to which you are true enables you to become enlightened by Him, and nothing is impossible for you."</span></div>
<span style="background-color: black;">Have a great week y'all! I love you all and can't wait to talk to you next week!</span></div>
<span style="background-color: black;">Te Amo.</span></div>
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<br />Sister Sydney Ricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13314376890108516136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1413949826523834743.post-25822528842184089402014-08-10T13:24:00.002-07:002014-08-10T13:24:45.332-07:00(321) Vai Lá Brasil!!!July 7, 2014<br />
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Sooooooo this past week has been really good! We started teaching a couple new families that really have a lot of potential and we are super excited about them! Also as y'all know this past Friday was 4th of July! We sang the American Anthem for comp study and I studied in my 4th of July tshirt...I almost bought American flag leggings here while i was in Mirandoplois... but I ran out of time... =[<br />
But theeeeennn it was goodbye US and heeelllllloooo Brasil!! They played in the Quarter Finals Fridat against Colombia and of course it was amazing! Not as nerve wracking as the last game but still awesome! I'm a little nervous for tomorrow but I know they're gonna win! =]<br />
Let's see what else...I'm more than half way through the book of mormon in Portuguese now! I've only been reading it since January... hahaha at this rate I'll finish it just in time to come home! haha No I think I'll finish it before then... it was really slow going for awhile there but it is so much easier now... I would only have to look up a couple of words for every page now if I wasn't too lazy and still doing that now! hahaha but I'm super excited to finish it!<br />
But yeah I don't have that much left to say.. or I'm sure I do but just can't remember it... Thanks for all the love and prayers! I love you all! Have a great week! Beijos!<br />
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-Sister RiceSister Sydney Ricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13314376890108516136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1413949826523834743.post-71314235333268574762014-07-01T09:35:00.001-07:002014-07-01T09:36:51.594-07:00(314) BRASILLLLLLLLL! =] June 30, 2014<br />
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So this past week was crazy!! We went to the temple Tuesday, which was
amazing! I love going to the temple! But it was also exhausting... Spending the
whole day in São Paulo transito is never peaceful... but i´m super glad we got
to go! It´s always nice.<br />
And then Saturday we had a mission wide
conference to meet the new mission president! President and Sister Tanner left
Friday night and Saturday morning the whole mission went to the São Judas Capela
to meet President and Sister Broadbent! It was so cool! And I love President and
Sister Broadbent already! It was really neat, the second I saw them I was just
hit with this overwhelming confirmation that he really is our President now and
that he was called by God to lead this mission and I love them already! It was
funny. He told us about when they got their call back in October and how that
day they had had the missionaries over for dinner and he had just been released
as Bishop and was home early for the first time in forever and they were going
to go see a movie together but then he checked his phone and he had a message
from the secretary of Elder Tom L. Perry.... needless to say they did not go out
to see a movie that night... hahah But I am really really excited that they are
here and to work with them these next 6 and a half months! (not that anyones
counting or anything... hahah)<br />
Alllsoo Saturday was the first game
of the set of games before the quarter finals of the World Cup.... hahah
obviously i know a bunch about futebol... but it was between Brasil and Chile
and we totally got to watch it!! It was so awesome! Well, actually we only made
it in time to watch the second half... and the 15 mintue ovetime, and the 2nd 15
mintue overtime... and then the penalty kicks... It was horribly intense! It
came down to being tied up in the penalty kicks all depending on the last save
by the Brasilian goalie... I´m pretty sure all of Brasil was dying! I also
officially have a favorite brasilian futebol player! HULK!! (hull-kee)
Definitely my fave...and no it has nothing to do with his name... ok maybe just
a little bit haha really i just feel cool for knowing any of their names to be
honest... but he´s deff the fave. <br />
But yeah I hope that y'all are
doing awesome! I miss and love you guys a bunch! Have a great
week!<br />
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Last picture with President and Sister Tanner at the temple! Aren´t they cute??
=] Also, please ignore the horrible tanline i´ve got going on on my legs... it´s
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Peace Man. Peeeeeeaccce. Also, a great shot of my ugly sister missionary
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<br />Sister Sydney Ricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13314376890108516136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1413949826523834743.post-84612746247081240172014-07-01T09:07:00.000-07:002014-07-01T09:07:58.438-07:00(300) My new compy comp!!June 16, 2014<br />
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So we had transfers last week! Annnnnnnnnd I have minha nova companheira!!
Whoooooo! Her name is Sister Robinson, she´s 24, and she´s from New Zealand!!!
that´s right. New Zealand. NEW ZEALAND. As in middle earth! MIDDLE EARTH! I have
been dying all week because of it. She has skiied down mount doom. MOUNT DOOM! I
told her that I am for sure coming to visit her and that i am carrying her up
Mount Doom on my back so we can ski down it... or more likely roll down it, but
that´s not important! hahah Seriously I am stoked. I am so excited. hahah It´s
actually really funny. We´ve been wanting to be companions for like 3 or 4
transfers now and every tranfser that we are both there we´re always both just
like "this is it! this is the transfer!" and then it doesnt happen. And so this
past Tuesday at transfers again we were both just like it is totally 100%
happening again, we even stood by each other and everything. And slowly
everyone else was getting called and my anxiety was slowly getting worse and
worse and we´re both just like "oh my goodness it´s not going to happen! NO!
It´s going to happen! No it´s not!" hahah but then all of a sudden she was
hugging the crap out of me and we were companheiras! Whoooo! It´s a Christmas
Miracle! hahah But yeah she´s awesome and it´s pretty cool having her as an
companion. She´s teaching me british english and how to hula and the haka and
it´s gonna be great! hahah<br />
But yeah so that´s great and I love
her and also the World Cup started this past week! The first game between Brasil
and someone else (who knows, all anyone down here cares about is Brasil) was on
Thursday and the next one for Brasil is tomorrow. It´s actually pretty cool!
Everyone get super excited and happy and all dressed up in yellow and green and
drive around waving flags and honking horns and it´s just a big festa. We
stayed in and studied during the actual game and then went out and worked and it
was super calm so that was pretty good. It´ll probably get crazier the longer it
goes on but it was still really cool! I remember 4 years ago being out at school
and watching videos and stuff about all the excitement of the world cup and
thinking about how cool it would be to be from a country that LOVES soccer or
even just be in a country during the world cup and.... BOOM. here I am. It´s
pretty funny how it all worked out. hahah<br />
Let´s see what else...
We´re going to the temple next week! Super excited! We´re going on tuesday so I
wont be emailing until tuesday so dont freak out when I dont email monday...
also It´s the last time we´ll see President and Sister Tannner! PResident and
Sister Braodbent get here on the 26th or the 27th and then BOOM it´s them! We´re
gonna have a big getting to know you conference with the whole mission so that
should be pretty cool! I´m excited!<br />
OH! Also! Sister Ray is
finally coming! I don´t know if I told you that last week! Sorry if I did but
she´s coming and I´m so excited and also Elder Starr and I´m so excited!
AAHHHHH! <br />
Well, that´s all i´ve got for this week... I hope y'all
are doing good! I´m doing great! Loving my companion, loving my area, lovin the
mishh! (Oh and it´s 11 months tomorrow... make a cake tonight with the
elders....=] ) LOVE Y'ALL.<br />
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I cannot believe that it is transfers again already! This has literally been the
fastest transfer of my mission life! It feels like yesterday I was emailing you
guys telling you about my new area Rudge Ramos! Is is going by as quickly for
you guys??<br /> So yeah, transfers tomorrow! I will be staying and my
compy comp Sister Sequeira will be leaving... It´ll be hard, she´s been here for
4 or 5 transfers already and it´s hard to leave after that... and I´m gonna miss
my companion from Africa! =[ but it will be good and a fantastic
transfer!<br /> And speaking of this transfer, SO MUCH is going to
happen this transfer! The two biggest being that President and Sister Tanner are
leaving the end of this month and THE WORLD CUP starts next week! I don´t know
whether to be excited or scared! hahah It will definitely bring a change to the
work here but it´ll still be cool to be here during something so big!
<br /> Also! I think that Sister Ray (my mtc companion) got her visa!!!
FINALLY! I am so excited to see her! It´s been almost a year already! It´s going
to be so awesome to have her here though!<br /> We had stake conference
this past weekend also! It was really cool! The Saturday night Adult session the
Stake President invited all the missionaries and it was all about missionary
work and how the members can be more involved and it was really cool! He had us
the missionaries do a couple roleplays of members talking to their friends and
neighbors and then had everybody there do a couple roleplays as well!! It was so
awesome! And they had a special satalite transmission here from salt lake of m.
russell ballard and richard g scott for all of Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro! It
was so cool! And kind of weird to hear Richard G. Scott speaking portugues!
hahah I kept expecting it to be english! But it was really cool to actually hear
his voice! That´s one thing that I dont really like about not listening to
things in english, you don´t actually get to listen to the prophet´s voice... =[
but it was really cool and I understood pretty much everything! whooo hooooo!
hahah<br /> And I really liked what you wrote about your guys stake
conference in your email momma! What President Selzak said about weaknesses.
It´s really funny that he spoke about that cuz I´ve actually been thinking
about that a lot and how it really is true that the more you are aware of your
weaknesses the closer to Heavenly Father you are... which is kind of the
opposite of what people want or expect... but it´s true. If you read Ether
12:27 it says ( and sorry this is paraphrasing... i only have my portugues
scriptures with me right now...) "If men come onto me, I will show unto them
their weaknesses..." Come unto me is the invitation that Christ extends for all
of us, and is something that all of us to one extent or another want... but i
dont think that I know one person who actually really wants to be shown their
weaknesses... no one likes that... if i had my way i would hide them all away
and only think about rainbows and Doctor Who all day... J/k j/k not Doctor
Who... I mean the scriptures of course... =] haha no but seriously it feels like
lately all I can see is my weaknesses continuously stewn out before me... I
guess this is just cuz I am SUPER close to the Lord =]... hahahaha once again,
j/k. sorry I don´t ever get to be sassy or sarcastic in Portugues so it´s nice
to get it all out... even if it is just in writing! =]<br /> But
yeah.... I don´t really have anything else to say at the moment.... other than
that I love you all and hope that y'all are having a fabulous June so far! Love
love love love love love e amor!<br /><br />-Sister RiceSister Sydney Ricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13314376890108516136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1413949826523834743.post-55128687952995650822014-07-01T08:22:00.003-07:002014-07-01T08:26:03.458-07:00(286) Oi Oi Oi!!June 2, 2014<br />
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How was y'all's weeks?? Mine was great!!! We had a baptism! WHOOOOO! It was so
amazing! Leticia!!! She is so wonderful and I am so happy for her! <br />
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it was super cool. The baptism was this past Saturday, the 31st of May. aka
exactly one year since I went through the temple for the first time! It was kind
of surreal when I realized that... sitting in a chapel in the middle a baptism
in the middle of Brasil... One year ago I had no idea what to expect of my
mission and now all of a sudden I am one month away from having a year on the
mishh. Sometimes missions are hard (well, really all the time) and sometimes you
feel like you really aren´t making a difference in the lives of these people
that you love so much. But sitting there at the baptism of one of my
investigators, I remembered sitting in the temple and how hopeful I was for the
next 18 months of my life, trying to picture all the people that I would meet
and come to love and things that would happen. And it was a nice reminder that
I really am helping here, and not just bumbling around Brasil trying to speak
português, but really helping. =]<br />
We also had Zone Conference
this past week! It´s the last Zone Conference with President and Sister Tanner!
They´re leaving the end of this month and I know that we are all going to miss
them so much! They have been so wonderful and have helped me so much! And I
really am going to miss them, but I know that President and Sister Broadbent are
called of God for this mission and that I will love them just as much! They sent
a video to President and Sister Tanner for them to show to us, just talking and
to let us get to see them! And it was really cool! They are going to do great
here!<br />
But um yeah... i have a bunch of other things to write
from this week and last week that I didnt write but I´m almost out of time! I
love you all so much! Thank you so much for all the prayers! Have a good week
ok? =] Talk to ya next week! <br />
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thousands of real life ones here and I told them how i´ve always had a secret
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it´s been freezing here in our apartment... this is how i study in the
mornings... =] hahaha i think i could be on the cover of national geografic nao
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<br />Sister Sydney Ricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13314376890108516136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1413949826523834743.post-69162037726955582532014-07-01T07:42:00.001-07:002014-07-01T07:42:44.914-07:00monday, may 26, 2014Our sacrament meeting is at 11 aka the same time as yours... i spent the whole time just
thinking about you guys and dad being called as bishop. i don´t even remember what
was said during my meeting hahahaha i was so nervous and excited... i might as
well have been there with you guys... i kept looking at the clock and thinking
ok... they are starting now, and now this and this and this and by now he´s been
called... hahaha and that´s so cool about his counselors!! hahaha madison
emailed me this morning and was just like remember that time your dad was called
as bishop and my dad as first counselor?? hahahSister Sydney Ricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13314376890108516136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1413949826523834743.post-37704989253116601242014-07-01T07:26:00.002-07:002014-07-01T08:23:18.835-07:00(272) Whoooooooo!!! Rudge Ramos!!May 19, 2014<br />
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Hahaaha yeah I didn´t really have anything else to say up there so yeahhhh...
but sorry about not emailing last week I didn´t really have very much to say...
=[ Buuuuuut this week I have a bunch! So yay!
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Let´s see... first things first! We are going to see Elder Anderson
on Wednesday! He´s coming to visit and talk with us and the Interlagos mission
and we are all so excited! haha Sister Sequeira won´t stop talking about it! I
will tell you all about it next week! Oh and I´m super excited because I´m gonna
get to see the sisters from my MTC District who are in Interlagos! It´s going to
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Also... trying to explain baseball in portugues to Brazilians who don´t
even understand the basics is a nightmare... escpecially when you are me and
don´t really care about baseball... But seriously, just picture that for a
moment when you want a laugh... =]</div>
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Let´s see... Oh! We also have an English class here in Rudge Ramos and
this past week we taught people about food... and a large section was focused on
Hamburgers..... I taught people english using "I want to buy a Hamburger"... it
was hilarious... and no one else got it but that´s ok. I also taught them about
double bacon cheeseburgers and how they are gifts straight from heaven...
especially if they have green chilies and are from Blake´s =]</div>
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The work here is good, could be better but good! The people here are
so much more receptive! We´ve only had to knock doors once for like 5
minutes! It´s so awesome! We also might be having a baptism soon! I really hope
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So yeah... this wasn´t exactly the big huge email that I promised last
week but... I love you all! And get excited for next week cuz I´m sure my email
next week will be full of all the wonderful spiritual insights that I´m going to
have during our time with Elder Anderson! =D</div>
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Love you all so much and thank you so much for all the support and
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me and sister cozzens at transfers! =] also can i just point out that you cannot
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the view from one of our windows in the morning... it´s much better in person...
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it´s a horrible and goofy picture but it´s the only one i have of the both of us
at the moment... me and sister sequeira!! =]</div>
<br />Sister Sydney Ricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13314376890108516136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1413949826523834743.post-74490364261421264412014-07-01T07:12:00.002-07:002014-07-01T07:13:06.330-07:00(265) Rudge Ramos!!!!!! May 5, 2014<br />
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Sooo transfers happened and I am now in the Rudge Ramos (Whoooo-Geee
Haaaa-Mos) São Bernardo 1st ward! Whooooo! My new companheira is Sister
Sequiera! She´s from Africa!! Cabo Verde! She´s so cool and speaks like perfect
portugues (they study it there in school) and no english so it´s been great! =D
<br />
I am really loving the ward so far! I haven´t met everyone yet,
but the people I have met I love! There is also two sets of Sisters here so
that´s fun! We have out lunches together everyday and it´s cool being in a ward
where there is enough work for two sets of missionaries! <br />
The
people here in this area are so different than in my last area! They actually
stop and talk with you and give you their address and want you to come back and
talk with them! hahah It´s pretty awesome and I´m super excited!<br />
My portugues is IMPROVING a CRAZY amount too! Seriously only being able to speak
portugues is helping so much! Some night´s I can´t even write in my journal cuz
I cannot manage to put english on the paper... and it's only been a week! hahah
I am so excited!<br />
Oh and also I found out the other week that my
return date has been moved up a week... I´m now officially leaving Janurary
6th... instead of the 13th... Sooooo basically y'all can´t celebrate Christmas
or my Birthday until I get back... Just save everything. =] <br />
But
yeah sorry I dont have much to say this week! Hopefully this coming week will be
more eventful! Love you all! Beijos!<br />
<br />
-Sister RiceSister Sydney Ricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13314376890108516136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1413949826523834743.post-80626960068668316392014-06-30T09:28:00.001-07:002014-06-30T09:28:22.546-07:00( 258) Transfers!!April 28, 2014<br />
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So tomorrow is transfers again annnnnnnnnd I am being transfered! I won't know
where to until tomorrow during the transfer meeting but yeah... It wasn´t much
of a surprise. I´ve been here 4 transfers/5 months and Presidente practically
told me during interviews that I was leaving... I´m a little sad. I love these
people here so much and I really really don´t want to leave them at all, but I´m
also a little excited to get to know a different area in the mission. But I do
not like goodbyes so that was hard to go through and I still have some left
today but that´s just part of the mission I guess! <br /> But yeah this
week has been pretty good. Oh! Some things I forgot to write last week! Abby! I
got your card! It was wonderful! I loved it so much! I actually ended up opening
it up at the mission office and all the elders who work in there gathered round
to hear the secret of life and got really into it and it was great! And I can´t
believe that I forgot that they are making The Giver into a movie! That is so
exciting!<br /> Also the other week for District/Zone Meeting I decided
to make a cake for everyone... guess what type of cake I made???? Rice cake!!
hahahah It was great! An investigator´s mom made it for us one time and we got
the recipe and hello it´s the perfect cake for me to make for everyone! hahah it
was actually disgusting. It was the first time I´ve baked anything down here in
Brasil and it turned out really... weird. BUT none of that really matters! What
matters is that Sister Rice brought a rice cake and I thought it was the
greatest thing ever! hahaha<br /> But yeah sorry this email is so
short and lame this week... I had other things to write but I can´t remember any
of them... but yeah... I hope that y'all have a fabulous week! Hey! Did you ever
listen to His Grace is Sufficent by Brad Wilcox??? Cuz if so I have more talks
that I´m waiting to give you guys! =] Love you!<br /><br />-Sister RiceSister Sydney Ricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13314376890108516136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1413949826523834743.post-312596249095505312014-06-30T09:23:00.003-07:002014-06-30T09:23:54.503-07:00(251) THE BLOG IS BACK!April 22, 2014<br />
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Yay!!! I get to do my blog again! =D We had interviews with Presidente this
past Thursday and he said I could do it again! YAY! It was kind of awkward/funny
though... I guess apparently he read my blog (!) and couldn´t find anything
particularly wrong with it (obviously... i try really hard to not send
questionable things obviously) and said that I could continue! But he also said
that I was a really good writer... a really good writer... the President of the
BYU English Department thinks that I am a really good writer... after only
reading the crazy random rushed rambling emails that I send home to yall every
week!! BDLDFIHGFOHFJVNHOIJFDVOSIHGPWEJKCGUFIKALHRUGAHFJH!!! Boom. dead.
<br /> But yeah... that was a pretty delightful highlight of the week.
Let´s see what else happened... I went on exchanges with Sister Cozzens this
past week! It was wonderful! I forgot how crazy she is and how much I love her!
It´s kind of weird to have her as my Sister Trainer Leader thingy but it´s
nice... hahah I don´t know what I am going to do after she leaves in August!
She´s been a part of my whole mission practically! hahah<br /> And
ohmygoodness! May is practically here! How did that happen??? I was just talking
to you guys and now somehow it´s happening again! How does time keep going by so
quickly?! But I am super excited to talk with you guys in a couple of
weeks!!<br /> Also. I had a pretty cool experience this past week.
Sister Dabelko and I were visiting an older lady in our ward who lives alone and
she was having a pretty rough day and was pretty upset and discouraged when we
showed up... usually we just sing with her and share a message real quick, but
this time we knew that it was not going to be a quick visit. We couldn´t leave
her alone again with her still so upset, so we sang and read a Liahona article
with her and then we just talked with her. Just about anything. I remembered
that her grandparents had been Italian and that she had only spoken italian
until she was about 13 and so I asked her about that and about her family and we
just talked with her and ended up sharing some of our family stories as well. I
ended up telling her about... I think it was Grampy Nothum´s mom (right????) who
came over from from Romania with her 5 boys and pregnant and didn´t know any
english and only had a sewing machine.... (that was her right?? But yeah I just told her about her and how special and really honestly
powerful she was and almost as soon as I was finished talking I was just hit by
this GRANDE wave of the spirit and of love to the point where I almost just
burst out in tears... and I felt... I guess... pressure almost... on my
shoulders... And I knew in that moment that she was there with me... and that
she knew me and loved me... This woman that quite honestly I know almost nothing
about, (just this one story about her... I honestly couldnt even tell you her
name right now) but she knows me and she loves me. This random little great
granddaughter... she was there with me. I listened to a talk about a month or
so ago and the guy talked about how Heavenly Father really does send angels to
come and protect us and to be with us and help us, and that more often than not
those angels are our family members and loved ones that have passed on before
us... I one hundred percent believe it now. One hundred percent. We are NEVER
alone. We have Heavenly Father with us always, and really we have a whole legion
of loved ones behind us and pulling for us and with us at every moment. We are
never ever alone. And I cannot wait to get back and start to know all of them as
well as they know me right now...<br /> But yeah... that was my
experience... and it was pretty cool.... =] I also ate oreos this week... they
were disgusting. One they were not double stuffed... I can´t remember the last
time i ate anything but a double stuffed oreo ( can you say entitled
americana... hahah) but it tasted like just a regular cracker disguised as a
oreo with a little nothing in the middle... it was really weird... They just
can´t get ameerican food right down here... Some things yes... the snickers are
perfect... but other things heck no. hahah It´s weird...<br /> But I
hope that ya´ll have had a wonderful week! A wonderful Easter! I love you
all!<br /><br />-Sister RiceSister Sydney Ricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13314376890108516136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1413949826523834743.post-77066273319933587542014-06-30T09:04:00.001-07:002014-06-30T09:04:14.545-07:00( 244) OHHHHH I´M HALFWAY THERE!! OHHHHHHOOO LIVING ON A PRAYER!April 14, 2014<br />
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No I have not been waiting since my 2nd day in the MTC to use that when I hit 9
months... =D But seriously! I hit nine months on Thursday! Can yall believe it!
I definitely cannot. It´s actually incredibly weird... especially since I still
feel like i have no idea what I am doing half the time still. hah
=]<br /> But um yeah... This is officially going to be the lamest email
ever in the history of emailing cuz I dont have anything to write about really,
other than hitting nine months... Um... I´m almost done with the Book of Mormon
again in english and am almost halfway through 2nd Nephi in Portugues... We´re
having house inspections and interviews with President this Thursday... ummm no
one in my zone has gotten a letter in the past 3 weeks... which is weird
especially since we have the mission office in our zone... aka we always get our
mail first... We had 5 less actives/inactives in church yesterday. That was
pretty awesome. The world cup is starting in like a month... or maybe two... i
cant remember... It´s almost mother´s day! (what??! how did that happen.. I was
just talking to you guys...) I might be sending yall a package soon...ish. dont
get too excited. =]/ if yall are planning on sending a package anytime soon a
camera and twizlers would be appreciated... also razers... those things cost an
arm and a leg here. hahah It´s so funny the things that they had behind the cash
registers for protection here in grocery stores... In almost every single store
it´s a combo of alchool (understandable), chocolate (a little stange...) and
hygine products like toothbrushes and razors and deordorant (what the heck??)
All they all cost a ridiculous amount. haha it´s so funny.. <br /> BUUUUUT
yeah. Sorry this week is so lame. I loved the pictures. I love hearing from all
yall! Love you so much!<br /><br />-Sister Rice<br />
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