WHHOOOOOOO!! THE WORLD CUP! LESS THAN ONE MONTH! =D

 

 

look what i found.... =] hahaha

 

happy one year Sister Sequeira!! =]

 

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 é?? =] hahaha

monday, may 26, 2014

Our 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?? hahah

(272) Whoooooooo!!! Rudge Ramos!!

May 19, 2014


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!

      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 be so awesome!

    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... =]

     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 =]

     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 so and will totally send pictures!

     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

   Love you all so much and thank you so much for all the support and prayers!

 

-Sister Rice

our last picture together!! =] (sister dabelko)

 

 

at transfers!! =]

 

 

me and sister cozzens at transfers! =] also can i just point out that you cannot see the end of my hair in this picture... booyahhh

 

 

the view from one of our windows in the morning... it´s much better in person... haha

 

 

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!! =]

(265) Rudge Ramos!!!!!!

 May 5, 2014


 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
     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!
     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!
     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!
     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. =]
     But yeah sorry I dont have much to say this week! Hopefully this coming week will be more eventful! Love you all! Beijos!

-Sister Rice

( 258) Transfers!!

April 28, 2014

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!
     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!
     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
       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!

-Sister Rice

(251) THE BLOG IS BACK!

April 22, 2014

 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.
     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
     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!!
     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...
     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...
     But I hope that ya´ll have had a wonderful week! A wonderful Easter! I love you all!

-Sister Rice