This past week was really good! Surprisingly, it's warmed up a bit! Today I'm just in a sweater and no big coat-it's about 40 degrees too! I would rather have it be cold than hot any day though. So I've finally completed my first week in the field. It has been really fun out here.
We spend a lot of time right now planning because we are new Sisters to the area and are just starting to get to know people and build trust with the members. So, we have dinner appointments with families in the ward everyday pretty much and we are starting to rack up appointments with investigators and less actives. We've only taught about 2 lessons so far to investigator's but I'm so pumped every time we leave the appointment. I always think they'll get baptized.
Everyone still calls me greenie and makes fun of how long I've been out in the field because I'm the newest one in our area. Haha it makes me laugh because it's true! I learn so much from my companion and the other missionaries everyday. It's crazy how much I've grown and how much knowledge I've attained already.
This week we ate dinner at 2 Portuguese families houses who are from Brazil. They are really fun families and they have really loud voices and children. Every time we eat fried bananas! Apparently it's really popular in Brazil.
We laugh a lot and Portuguese sounds like drunk, chopped up Spanish. But we understand a lot of it because it is seriously so similar to Spanish!
Sister Laudie and I are trying to learn Port. now...we'll see how it goes. I'm excited because it will be really easy to learn!
We are teaching Jose who is the husband of a recent convert Christina. She's really small and cute and has 2 little boys. They are fun to teach and they really love church. They are usually in their underwear and love playing with iphones. But you can feel the spirit in their house-Christina is a really active member and already wants to share the gospel with everyone because she knows it's true.
I was able to go to the Boston Temple this Saturday. We thought we were only going to watch baptisms but we were able to do a session. We were really excited about that and the Boston Temple is beautiful.
FUNNY STORY 1:
When we were leaving someone's house with our Elders on Saturday, Elder Blackburn was holding the door open and I was turned around talking to Hermana Laudie and Elder Treseder. When I turned to leave, I smacked the door with my forehead so hard, everyone burst into laughter. I was dying. To be honest, it didn't even hurt. The Elders kept telling me I'd wake up with a huge bruise but NO ONE WORRY! I'm okay.
FUNNY STORY 2:
We were taking bookshelves and apartment decor from our other Sister's cars to bring into our apartment one night. Hermana Laudie was trying to get a bookshelf out of the back of the seat all by herself. We tried to help her but she insisted on doing it alone. As we watched her struggle, she finally got the bookshelf out, turned around, stepped into the snow (knee deep) and fell face first into the snow bank...with the bookshelf. After all that time of struggling in the car she finally gets the bookshelf out and falls into the snow!
Well, have a great week everyone! I love you all! :)
Love,
Hermana Sutherland
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